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♂ Loftus Dudley Ward
aliasLoftus Ward
Record
63990 · 7973

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 1 1 2
Birth 7 November 1905 → 118 years + 6 months ago
Lived 74 years + 6 months
First mandate 20 January 1945 → 79 years + 3 months ago
↳ at age 39 years + 2 months
Death 24 May 1980 → 43 years + 11 months ago
Exit → Death 31 years + 9 months after 16 August 1948
Special notes
None
 
Loftus Dudley Ward (1905–1980)
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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 3 6 25 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
5 documented challengers
⊖ Frederick C. Colborne  m 
⊖ Howard Macdonald  m 
⊖ Rose Wilkinson  f 
 		 ⊖ Aylmer Liesemer  m 
⊖ Hugh MacDonald  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 653 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 3
Provincial
10		 Alberta
20 January 1945
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27947(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
39
CAF
 1/3 293 44.87% +102 Loser:
CAF
 191 29.25% John P. Dewis

Service: 3 years 6 months 27 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 76,939 Votes: 41,460 Participation: 53.89% Candidacies: 22
Provincial
11		 Alberta
17 August 1948
General
Single trans. vote (5)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27956(F) — 25 Oct 2023 06:20 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
42
LIB
 14/22 949 2.43% -1,526 Winner:
CCF
 2,475 6.33% Aylmer J.E. Liesemer

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
EN Find a Grave
Loftus Dudley Ward		  5 May 2024
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Loftus D. Ward		  5 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Loftus Dudley Ward		  5 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
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