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♂ Louis Wesley Heard
aliasLou Heard
Record
26742 · 3140

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 80%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 4 1 5
Birth 8 March 1909 → 115 years + 2 months ago
Lived 77 years + 11 months
First mandate 17 August 1948 → 75 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 39 years + 5 months
Death 27 February 1987 → 37 years + 2 months ago
Exit → Death 15 years + 5 months after 29 August 1971
Special notes
None
 
Louis Wesley Heard (1909–1987)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Alberta — Public domain
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 16 1 26 Z

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 6  
9 documented challengers
⊖ Clayton Adams  m 
⊖ Ivor G. Dent  m 
⊖ Ernest Manning  m 
⊖ J. Harper Prowse  m 
⊖ Elmer E. Roper  m 
 		 ⊕ Barrie Chivers  m 
⊖ Bill Diachuk  m 
⊖ Percy Page  m 
⊖ Neil Reimer  m 
 
Eligible: 84,391 Votes: 47,276 Participation: 56.02% Candidacies: 16
Provincial
11		 Alberta
17 August 1948
General
Single trans. vote (5)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27963(F) — 17 Oct 2021 20:19 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
39
SC
 2/16 890 1.93% -1,833 Loser:
INDM
 2,723 5.90% J. Percy Page

Service: 3 years 11 months 18 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 108,424 Votes: 57,256 Participation: 52.81% Candidacies: 29
Provincial
12		 Alberta
5 August 1952
General
Single trans. vote (7)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28014(F) — 29 Oct 2022 21:36 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
43		 Successor:
LIB
 875 1.68% Harold E. Tanner
Eligible: 17,868 Votes: 10,017 Participation: 56.06% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
14		 Alberta
18 June 1959
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28165(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 → Returned to this legislature after hiatus
Age
50
SC
 1/5 4,960 49.82% +2,571 Loser:
PC
 2,389 24.00% Allan Welsh

Service: 3 years 11 months 29 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 19,640 Votes: 9,430 Participation: 48.01% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
15		 Alberta
17 June 1963
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28198(F) — 17 Oct 2021 18:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
54
SC
 1/4 4,023 42.72% +1,434 Loser:
NDP
 2,589 27.49% C. Neil Reimer

Service: 3 years 11 months 5 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 26,563 Votes: 14,428 Participation: 54.32% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
16		 Alberta
23 May 1967
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 13138(F) — 17 Oct 2021 18:31 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
58
SC
 1/4 5,052 35.18% +776 Loser:
NDP
 4,276 29.77% Ivor G. Dent

Service: 4 years 3 months 6 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 15,591 Votes: 10,535 Participation: 67.57% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
17		 Alberta
30 August 1971
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 13058(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
62
SC
 2/4 3,050 29.12% -1,421 Winner:
PC
 4,471 42.68% Bill W. Diachuk

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Dr. Louis W. Heard		  5 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Lou Heard		  5 May 2024

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