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♂ Roy Alexander Farran
aliasRoy Farran
Record
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Irish-Canadian    Roman Catholic   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 2 1 3
Birth 2 January 1921 → 103 years + 4 months ago
Lived 85 years + 5 months
First mandate 30 August 1971 → 52 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age 50 years + 7 months
Death 2 June 2006 → 17 years + 11 months ago
Exit → Death 27 years + 2 months after 13 March 1979
Special notes
None
 
Roy Alexander Farran (1921–2006)
© 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 7 6 11 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
3 documented challengers
⊖ Lorne Leavitt  m 
⊖ Robert Simpson  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Barry Pashak  m 
 
Eligible: 16,569 Votes: 9,054 Participation: 54.64% Candidacies: 6
Provincial
15		 Alberta
17 June 1963
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28186(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
42
IND
 3/6 1,469 16.28% -2,894 Winner:
SC
 4,363 48.34% Lorne L. Leavitt
Eligible: 16,080 Votes: 11,427 Participation: 71.06% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
17		 Alberta
30 August 1971
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 13048(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
50
PC
 1/4 4,961 43.81% +61 Loser:
SC
 4,900 43.27% Robert A. Simpson

Service: 3 years 6 months 25 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 15,357 Votes: 9,464 Participation: 61.63% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
18		 Alberta
26 March 1975
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 12971(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
54
PC
 1/5 6,673 70.96% +5,309 Loser:
SC
 1,364 14.50% Robert A. Simpson

Service: 3 years 11 months 15 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 19,782 Votes: 9,426 Participation: 47.65% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
19		 Alberta
14 March 1979
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 12891(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
58		 Successor:
PC
 5,141 54.88% Stanley A. Kushner

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Roy A. Farran		  6 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Roy Farran		  6 May 2024

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