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♂ Hans Enoch N. Wight
aliasHans Wight
Record
65202 · 8286

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 1 0 1
Birth 29 July 1889 → 134 years + 9 months ago
Lived 76 years + 2 months
First mandate 22 August 1935 → 88 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age 46 years
Death 12 October 1965 → 58 years + 7 months ago
Exit → Death 28 years + 28 days after 14 September 1937
Special notes
None
 
Hans Enoch N. Wight (1889–1965)
© Photo 1935 Provincial Archives of 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 2 0 23 Z

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Robert Barrowman  m 
 		 ⊖ Andrew Smeaton  m 
 
Eligible: 8,360 Votes: 6,823 Participation: 81.61% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
8		 Alberta
22 August 1935
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27803(F) — 29 Jul 2023 13:27 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
46
SC
 1/4 3,700 55.71% +1,754 Loser:
LIB
 1,946 29.30% Robert Barrowman
After his election:
14 Sep 1937 48
SC
 →
Vac.
 Left provincial politics
Service: 2 years 23 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 7,378 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
8		 Alberta
2 December 1937
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27836(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
48		 Successor:
INDM
 4,099 55.56% Peter M. Campbell

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Hans E.N. Wight		  4 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Hans Wight		  4 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  4 May 2024 18:09 (but data presented dynamically)

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