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♂ Herman Harold Rolfes
aliasHerman Rolfes
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 83%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Saskatchewan 5 1 6
Birth 13 July 1936
Age 87 years + 11 months
First mandate 23 June 1971 → 52 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age 34 years + 11 months
 
Mandate ended 28 years + 11 months ago (20 June 1995)
Special notes
None
 

Herman Harold Rolfes (1936– )
No image available
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Saskatchewan 19 5 29 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. SK 22
NDP
 1 Speaker 55–58 02 Dec 1991 — 23 May 1995 3 5 21

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 7  
3 documented challengers
⊖ W. Austin Forsyth  m 
⊖ Robert E.W. Myers  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊕ Bill Lane  m 
 
Eligible: 11,972 Votes: 10,049 Participation: 83.94% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
17		 Saskatchewan
23 June 1971
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NPD  Majority
ID: 13298(F) — 25 Jul 2021 11:15 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
34
NPD
 1/2 5,260 52.34% +471 Loser:
LIB
 4,789 47.66% W. Austin Forsyth

Service: 3 years 11 months 18 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 9,027 Votes: 7,465 Participation: 82.70% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
18		 Saskatchewan
11 June 1975
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NPD  Majority
ID: 9102(F) — 25 Jul 2021 11:15 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
38
NPD
 1/3 2,720 36.51% +233 Loser:
LIB
 2,487 33.39% Barry Korchinski

Service: 3 years 4 months 6 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 8,952 Votes: 7,410 Participation: 82.77% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
19		 Saskatchewan
18 October 1978
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NPD  Majority
ID: 9162(F) — 25 Jul 2021 11:15 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
42
NPD
 1/3 3,786 51.16% +1,443 Loser:
PC
 2,343 31.66% Reg Schafer

Service: 3 years 6 months 7 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 9,699 Votes: 8,474 Participation: 87.37% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
20		 Saskatchewan
26 April 1982
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 10699(F) — 25 Jul 2021 11:15 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
45
NDP
 2/5 3,221 38.06% -1,390 Winner:
PC
 4,611 54.49% Robert E.W. Myers
Eligible: 9,435 Votes: 8,269 Participation: 87.64% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
21		 Saskatchewan
20 October 1986
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 10765(F) — 25 Jul 2021 11:15 ET
✓
 → Returned to this legislature after hiatus
Age
50
NDP
 1/3 3,735 45.23% +424 Loser:
PC
 3,311 40.09% Robert E.W. Myers

Service: 5 years (Oppo.)
Eligible: 11,710 Votes: 9,808 Participation: 83.76% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
22		 Saskatchewan
21 October 1991
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 13423(F) — 25 Jul 2021 11:15 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
55
NDP
 1/3 5,452 55.84% +2,404 Loser:
LIB
 3,048 31.22% Shirley Khan

Service: 3 years 7 months 30 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 11,558 Votes: 6,824 Participation: 59.04% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
23		 Saskatchewan
21 June 1995
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 13488(F) — 25 Jul 2021 11:15 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
58		 Successor:
NDP
 4,396 64.82% Patricia Atkinson

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
EN Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan, SELD: Members of the Legislative Assembly
Rolfes, Herman Harold 1936 –  (p. 32)		 11 Jun 2024
EN Wikipedia
Herman Rolfes		 11 Jun 2024
FR Wikipédia
Herman Rolfes		 11 Jun 2024

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