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♂ Hugh John MacDonald
aliasHugh MacDonald
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 3 0 3
Birth 11 April 1911 → 113 years + 1 month ago
Lived 87 years + 2 months
First mandate 17 August 1948 → 75 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 37 years + 4 months
Death 24 June 1998 → 25 years + 10 months ago
Exit → Death 39 years + 7 days after 17 June 1959
Special notes
None
 
Hugh John MacDonald (1911–1998)
© 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 10 9 27 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
11 documented challengers
⊖ Paul Brecken  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Arthur Dixon  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Howard Macdonald  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Melvin Shannon  m 
⊖ Loftus Ward  m 
⊖ Arthur Wray  m 
 		 ⊖ Frederick C. Colborne  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Aylmer Liesemer  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Grant MacEwan  m 
⊖ Arthur Smith Jr.  m 
⊖ Rose Wilkinson  f  (3 runoffs)
 
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
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
37
LIB
 4/22 1,977 5.06% -1,602 Loser:
LAB
 3,579 9.15% Peter N.R. Morrison

Service: 3 years 11 months 18 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 91,289 Votes: 43,367 Participation: 47.51% Candidacies: 25
Provincial
12		 Alberta
5 August 1952
General
Single trans. vote (6)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28007(F) — 28 Jul 2023 19:08 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
41
LIB
 6/25 2,711 6.51% -216 Loser:
ILAB
 2,927 7.02% D.F. McIntosh

Service: 2 years 10 months 23 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 106,609 Votes: 64,660 Participation: 60.65% Candidacies: 23
Provincial
13		 Alberta
29 June 1955
General
Single trans. vote (6)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28059(F) — 28 Jul 2023 19:08 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
44
LIB
 2/23 7,501 12.00% +2,467 Loser:
CONS
 5,034 8.06% Paul R. Brecken

Service: 3 years 11 months 19 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 16,884 Votes: 8,985 Participation: 53.22% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
14		 Alberta
18 June 1959
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28156(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
48		 Successor:
SC
 4,824 53.79% Frederick C. Colborne

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Hugh J. MacDonald QC		  4 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Hugh John MacDonald (Alberta politician)		  4 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  4 May 2024 21:30 (but data presented dynamically)

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