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♂ John Percy Page
aliasPercy Page
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 4 2 6
Birth 14 May 1887 → 137 years ago
Lived 86 years
First mandate 21 March 1940 → 84 years + 1 month ago
↳ at age 52 years + 10 months
Death 2 June 1973 → 50 years + 11 months ago
Exit → Death 13 years + 11 months after 17 June 1959
Special notes
None
 
John Percy Page (1887–1973)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Alberta — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Election or appointment outside the scope of PoliCan

Pre-Conf. ✗
Canadian Senate ✗
Legis. Council ✗
Governor Alberta (1959–1966)
Deputy Minister ✗
Auto. Region ✗
Mayor/Reeve ✗
Mun./Co. Council ✗
School Board ✗
Blank/Vide ✗

Length of service in elected office within the scope of PoliCan

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Alberta 15 3 4 Z

Leadership roles

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. AB 10
INDM
 1 Party leader 57–61 05 Jan 1945 — 31 Aug 1948 3 7 26
2. AB 10
INDM
 1 Opposition Leader 57–60 22 Feb 1945 — 31 Mar 1948 3 1 9
3. AB 11–13
CONS
 1 Party leader 65–71 01 Jun 1952 — 15 Aug 1958 6 2 14

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 6  
25 documented challengers
⊖ Clayton Adams  m 
⊖ Samuel Augustus Gordon Barnes  m 
⊖ Ivor G. Dent  m 
⊖ Edgar Gerhart  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Anthony Hlynka  m 
⊖ Norman James  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Floyd Johnson  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Jan Lakeman  m 
⊖ Hugh Macdonald  m 
⊖ Abe Miller  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ J. Harper Prowse  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Donovan Ross  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ William J. Williams  m 
 		 ⊖ Gerard J.T. van Amerongen  m 
⊖ Cora Taylor Casselman  f 
⊖ David Milwyn Duggan  m 
⊖ Lou Heard  m 
⊖ Ambrose Holowach  m 
⊖ Herbert Jamieson  m 
⊖ Orvis A. Kennedy  m 
⊖ Marcel Lambert  m 
⊖ Ernest Manning  m  (5 runoffs)
⊖ Gerald O'Connor  m 
⊖ Elmer E. Roper  m  (5 runoffs)
⊖ Harold Tanner  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: 59,685 Votes: 42,665 Participation: 75.30% Candidacies: 17
Provincial
9		 Alberta
21 March 1940
General
Single trans. vote (5)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27852(F) — 6 Mar 2022 15:10 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
52
INDM
 2/17 5,607 12.82% +1,635 Loser:
INDM
 3,972 9.08% C. Gerald O'Connor

Service: 4 years 4 months 17 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 65,651 Votes: 40,047 Participation: 61.00% Candidacies: 20
Provincial
10		 Alberta
8 August 1944
General
Single trans. vote (5)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27909(F) — 6 Mar 2022 16:56 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
57
INDM
 3/20 4,603 12.17% +3,203 Loser:
INDM
 1,400 3.70% Johnnie T. Caine

Service: 4 years 8 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 84,391 Votes: 47,276 Participation: 56.02% Candidacies: 16
Provincial
11		 Alberta
17 August 1948
General
Single trans. vote (5)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27963(F) — 17 Oct 2021 20:19 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent → (Party leader)
Age
61
INDM
 6/16 2,723 5.90% 1,777 Winner:
SC
 946 2.05% Clayton Adams
Eligible: 108,424 Votes: 57,256 Participation: 52.81% Candidacies: 29
Provincial
12		 Alberta
5 August 1952
General
Single trans. vote (7)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28014(F) — 29 Oct 2022 21:36 ET
✓
 → Returned to this legislature after hiatus
Age
65
CONS
 6/29 2,212 4.25% +831 Loser:
SC
 1,381 2.65% Ambrose A. Holowach

Service: 2 years 10 months 23 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 127,069 Votes: 82,792 Participation: 65.16% Candidacies: 30
Provincial
13		 Alberta
29 June 1955
General
Single trans. vote (7)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28066(F) — 17 Oct 2021 20:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
68
CONS
 6/30 4,086 5.34% -358 Loser:
CCF
 4,444 5.81% Elmer E. Roper

Service: 3 years 11 months 19 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 19,592 Votes: 12,416 Participation: 63.37% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
14		 Alberta
18 June 1959
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28167(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
72
PC
 2/3 4,507 36.54% -540 Winner:
SC
 5,047 40.91% R. Herbert Jamieson

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
The Honourable J. Percy Page		  4 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
John Percy Page		  4 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  4 May 2024 12:57 (but data presented dynamically)

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