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♂ Gordon Ellwood Johnston
aliasGordon Johnston
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 4 0 4
Birth 15 October 1920 → 103 years + 8 months ago
Lived 85 years
First mandate 14 December 1962 → 61 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age 42 years + 1 month
Death 7 November 2005 → 18 years + 7 months ago
Exit → Death 28 years + 28 days after 10 October 1977
Special notes
None
 
Gordon Ellwood Johnston (1920–2005)
© Photo Legislative Library, Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Fair use
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Election or appointment outside the scope of PoliCan

Pre-Conf. ✗
Canadian Senate ✗
Legis. Council ✗
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Deputy Minister ✗
Auto. Region ✗
Mayor/Reeve ✗
Mun./Co. Council Portage la Prairie, Manitoba (1959–1962)
School Board ✗
Blank/Vide ✗

Length of service in elected office within the scope of PoliCan

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 14 9 23 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Jon Christianson  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ George Fairfield  m 
 
Eligible: 6,537 Votes: 4,829 Participation: 73.87% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
27		 Manitoba
14 December 1962
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 37784(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
42
LIB
 1/3 2,414 50.74% +290 Loser:
PC
 2,124 44.64% Jon A. Christianson

Service: 3 years 6 months 8 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 6,708 Votes: 5,059 Participation: 75.42% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
28		 Manitoba
23 June 1966
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 13849(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
45
LIB
 1/3 2,726 54.21% +735 Loser:
PC
 1,991 39.59% Jon A. Christianson

Service: 3 years 1 day (Oppo.)
Eligible: 8,145 Votes: 5,959 Participation: 73.16% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
29		 Manitoba
25 June 1969
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Minority
ID: 13906(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
48
LIB
 1/3 2,451 41.26% +11 Loser:
PC
 2,440 41.08% Harvey Carmichael

Service: 4 years 2 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 9,043 Votes: 7,199 Participation: 79.61% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
30		 Manitoba
28 June 1973
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9208(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
52
LIB
 1/3 2,628 36.74% +36 Loser:
PC
 2,592 36.24% George C. Fairfield

Service: 4 years 3 months 12 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 9,665 Votes: 7,537 Participation: 77.98% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
31		 Manitoba
11 October 1977
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 9265(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
56		 Successor:
PC
 3,552 47.28% Lloyd G. Hyde

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Johnston, Gordon Ellwood		 18 May 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Johnston, Gordon Ellwood		 18 May 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Gordon Ellwood Johnston (1920-2005)		 18 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Gordon Johnston (politician)		 18 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 18 May 2024 19:27 (but data presented dynamically)

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