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About Harry Shafransky
- Harry Shafransky (September 4, 1930 – September 10, 1986) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.
- He served as a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1969 to 1977.Born in Poland, he came to Canada while still young and grew up on a farm near Roblin, Manitoba.
- Shafransky was educated at the University of Manitoba.
- He worked as a teacher in northern British Columbia and then Winnipeg before entering politics.
- He ran for the House of Commons of Canada in the federal election of 1965, finishing a relatively strong third in the Winnipeg riding of St.
- Boniface.
- His first venture into provincial politics was not as successful; he challenged Liberal leader Gildas Molgat in Ste.
- Rose in the 1966 election, and finished a distant fourth with only 86 votes. He ran for federal office again in the 1968 election, and placed a more respectable second while still finishing well behind Liberal Joseph-P.
- Guay, the winner.Shafransky was finally elected to office in the 1969 provincial election, scoring a fairly easy victory in the northeast Winnipeg riding of Radisson.
- He was re-elected over Progressive Conservative challenge Abe Kovnats in the 1973 election.Shafransky did not serve in the cabinet of Edward Schreyer.
- He was defeated by Kovnats in the 1977 election, and did not seek a political comeback thereafter.After leaving politics, he worked in the Manitoba departments of Highways and Transportation, Environment and Natural Resources.
- Shafransky died in Winnipeg at the age of 56 of a heart attack.
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