Einar Sigurjon Jonasson (June 17, 1887–July 8, 1935) was a politician in Manitoba

Manitoba

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, Canada

Canada

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. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba

Legislative Assembly of Manitoba

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 from 1932 to 1935, as a member of the Liberal-Progressive

Manitoba Liberal Party

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 Party.

Jonasson was born in Mountain

Mountain, North Dakota

As of the census of 2000, there were 133 people, 43 households, and 26 families residing in the city. The population density was 978.4 people per square mile . There were 55 housing units at an average density of 404.6 per square mile...

, North Dakota

North Dakota

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 to a family of Iceland

Iceland

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ic immigrants. His family moved to Canada in 1888, and he was educated at Vernon

Vernon, British Columbia

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, British Columbia

British Columbia

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 and Gimli

Gimli, Manitoba

Gimli is a a rural municipality located in the Interlake region of south-central Manitoba, Canada, on the western shore of Lake Winnipeg. It is about north of the provincial capital Winnipeg...

, Manitoba

Manitoba

Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...

. Jonasson served as chair of the Gimli school board from 1918 to 1923, and as mayor

Mayor

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 of the Town of Gimli from 1924 to 1926. He also became the secretary-treasurer of the Rural Municipality of Gimli in 1911, and continued to hold this office into his career in the legislature.

Jonasson first campaigned for the Manitoba legislature in the 1914 provincial election

Manitoba general election, 1914

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 as a Liberal

Manitoba Liberal Party

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 in the Gimli constituency, and lost to Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba

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 candidate Sveinn Thorvaldson

Sveinn Thorvaldson

Sveinn Thorvaldson was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1914 to 1915, as a member of the Conservative Party....

 by 584 votes. He was nominated again in the 1915 election

Manitoba general election, 1915

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, but withdrew before the vote. Jonasson campaigned a second time in the 1927 election

Manitoba general election, 1927

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, and lost to Ingimar Ingaldson

Ingimar Ingaldson

Ingmar Ingaldson was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1927 to 1932, as a member of the Progressive Party....

 of the Progressive Party

Progressive Party of Manitoba

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 by 225 votes.

In 1932, the governing Progressives formed an electoral alliance with the Liberals. Although he supported the alliance at the provincial level, Jonasson nonetheless challenged Ingaldson to represent the Gimli constituency in the 1932 election

Manitoba general election, 1932

Manitoba's general election of June 16, 1932 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.This was the second election in Manitoba where the single transferable ballot was used in all electoral divisions...

. He was successful on his third attempt, defeating Ingaldson by 271 votes.

Jonasson left the legislature in 1935, for reasons that are not clear.