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♂ Ernest Shilston Watkins
aliasErnest Watkins
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 2 0 2
Birth 18 June 1902 → 121 years + 10 months ago
Lived 80 years + 3 months
First mandate 2 October 1957 → 66 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 55 years + 3 months
Death 20 September 1982 → 41 years + 7 months ago
Exit → Death 19 years + 3 months after 16 June 1963
Special notes
None
 
Ernest Shilston Watkins (1902–1982)
© 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 5 8 12 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. AB 14
PC
 1 ✓ Party leader 57–60 01 Jul 1959 — 05 Oct 1962 3 3 4

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
Documented challenger
None
 
 
Eligible: 106,609 Votes: 40,207 Participation: 37.71% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
13		 Alberta
2 October 1957
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28103(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
55
CONS
 1/5 17,565 43.69% +2,555 Loser:
SC
 15,010 37.33% S.J. Helman

Service: 1 year 8 months 15 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 21,113 Votes: 11,536 Participation: 54.64% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
14		 Alberta
18 June 1959
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28157(F) — 7 Mar 2022 14:44 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
57
PC
 1/3 4,893 42.58% +212 Loser:
SC
 4,681 40.74% A. Ross Lawson

Service: 3 years 11 months 29 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 25,327 Votes: 13,592 Participation: 53.67% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
15		 Alberta
17 June 1963
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28184(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
60		 Successor:
LIB
 6,037 44.49% William D. Dickie

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
EN Find a Grave
Ernest Shilston Watkins		  5 May 2024
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Ernest S. Watkins QC		  5 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Ernest Watkins		  5 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  5 May 2024 22:50 (but data presented dynamically)

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