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♂ Ashley Horace Cooper
aliasAshley Cooper
Record
12368 · 3174

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 80%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 4 1 5
Birth 6 February 1905 → 119 years + 3 months ago
Lived 76 years + 10 months
First mandate 18 June 1959 → 64 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 54 years + 4 months
Death 13 December 1981 → 42 years + 5 months ago
Exit → Death 6 years + 8 months after 25 March 1975
Special notes
None
 
Ashley Horace Cooper (1905–1981)
© 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 15 9 3 Z

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 6  
1 documented challenger
⊖ Russell Whitson  m  (2 runoffs)
 
 
Eligible: 6,692 Votes: 5,047 Participation: 75.42% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
13		 Alberta
29 June 1955
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28097(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
50
SC
 2/4 2,018 42.60% 290 Winner:
LIB
 1,728 36.48% Russell J. Whitson
Eligible: 6,162 Votes: 4,466 Participation: 72.48% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
14		 Alberta
18 June 1959
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28150(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
54
SC
 1/4 2,204 49.48% +980 Loser:
LIB
 1,224 27.48% Russell J. Whitson

Service: 3 years 11 months 29 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 6,605 Votes: 4,354 Participation: 65.92% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
15		 Alberta
17 June 1963
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28235(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
58
SC
 1/3 2,964 68.20% +2,127 Loser:
LIB
 837 19.26% Arthur W. Roland

Service: 3 years 11 months 5 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 6,398 Votes: 4,403 Participation: 68.82% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
16		 Alberta
23 May 1967
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 13178(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
62
SC
 1/3 2,545 58.03% +1,346 Loser:
PC
 1,199 27.34% Hilda Wilson

Service: 4 years 3 months 6 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 6,623 Votes: 5,184 Participation: 78.27% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
17		 Alberta
30 August 1971
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 13103(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
66
SC
 1/3 2,420 46.91% +188 Loser:
PC
 2,232 43.26% Tom Newcomb

Service: 3 years 6 months 25 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 6,630 Votes: 5,048 Participation: 76.14% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
18		 Alberta
26 March 1975
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 13028(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
70		 Successor:
PC
 2,731 54.36% Thomas F.L. Lysons

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Ashley H. Cooper		  4 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Ashley Cooper (politician)		  4 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
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