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♂ Walter Alexander Buck
aliasWalt Buck
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 6 0 6
Birth 16 December 1930 → 93 years + 5 months ago
Lived 82 years + 2 months
First mandate 23 May 1967 → 56 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age 36 years + 5 months
Death 14 March 2013 → 11 years + 2 months ago
Exit → Death 23 years + 11 months after 19 March 1989
Special notes
None
 
Walter Alexander Buck (1930–2013)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Alberta — Fair trade
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
Alberta 21 9 21 Z

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 7  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Muriel Abdurahman  f 
 		 ⊖ Daniel Hollands  m 
 
Eligible: 11,979 Votes: 7,987 Participation: 66.68% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
16		 Alberta
23 May 1967
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 13127(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
36
SC
 1/4 4,101 51.53% +1,886 Loser:
PC
 2,215 27.83% Daniel F. Hollands

Service: 4 years 3 months 6 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 11,532 Votes: 8,271 Participation: 71.72% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
17		 Alberta
30 August 1971
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 13052(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
40
SC
 1/3 4,041 49.01% +573 Loser:
PC
 3,468 42.06% J. Devereux

Service: 3 years 6 months 25 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 14,341 Votes: 9,382 Participation: 65.42% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
18		 Alberta
26 March 1975
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 12977(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
44
SC
 1/4 5,151 55.04% +1,940 Loser:
PC
 3,211 34.31% Murray Finnerty

Service: 3 years 11 months 15 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 16,985 Votes: 11,308 Participation: 66.58% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
19		 Alberta
14 March 1979
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 12898(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
48
SC
 1/4 6,033 53.42% +2,086 Loser:
PC
 3,947 34.95% C.G. (Butch) Thomlinson

Service: 3 years 7 months 18 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 20,859 Votes: 15,232 Participation: 73.02% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
20		 Alberta
2 November 1982
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 12817(F) — 26 Oct 2023 08:06 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
51
IND
 1/4 6,312 41.49% +878 Loser:
PC
 5,434 35.72% Sten Berg
After his election:
7 Jan 1985 54
IND
 →
RPA
 Changed allegiance (remained in opposition)
Service: 3 years 6 months 5 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 16,705 Votes: 10,145 Participation: 60.73% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
21		 Alberta
8 May 1986
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 12734(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
55
RPA
 1/4 4,795 47.31% +1,984 Loser:
PC
 2,811 27.74% Muriel R. Abdurahman

Service: 2 years 10 months 11 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 17,175 Votes: 10,766 Participation: 62.68% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
22		 Alberta
20 March 1989
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 12652(F) — 26 Oct 2023 08:09 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
58		 Successor:
PC
 3,717 34.56% Kurt Gesell

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Dr. Walter A. Buck		  4 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Walt Buck		  4 May 2024

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