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♂ Dean Edward Smith
aliasEd Smith
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
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British Columbia 4 0 4
Birth 21 October 1928 → 95 years + 6 months ago
Lived 81 years + 6 months
First mandate 12 September 1966 → 57 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 37 years + 10 months
Death 28 April 2010 → 14 years ago
Exit → Death 30 years + 11 months after 9 May 1979
Special notes
None
 
Dean Edward (Ed) Smith (1928–2010)
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Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Smith was the Social Credit member of the British Columbia legislature for North Peace River from 1966 to 1979. He was the speaker of the house from March 1976 but was forced to resign from that position in March 1978, when he was criticized following the appointment of his former secretary, Barbara Pennock, to the auditor general's office. He married Miss Pennock the following August.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
British Columbia 12 7 23 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. BC 31
SC
 1 Speaker 47–49 17 Mar 1976 — 29 Mar 1978 2 0 12

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
1 documented challenger
⊖ Jacob F. Huhn  m 
 
 
Eligible: 5,790 Votes: 3,749 Participation: 64.75% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
28		 British Columbia
12 September 1966
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 29985(F) — 30 Jul 2021 23:22 ET
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 → New to this legislature
Age
37
SC
 1/5 1,799 48.44% +1,216 Loser:
IND
 583 15.70% Jacob F. Huhn

Service: 2 years 11 months 14 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 9,190 Votes: 5,343 Participation: 58.14% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
29		 British Columbia
27 August 1969
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 30041(F) — 30 Jul 2021 23:22 ET
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 Re-elected incumbent
Age
40
SC
 1/3 3,877 73.23% +2,944 Loser:
NDP
 933 17.62% Douglas G. Pomeroy

Service: 3 years 2 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 11,038 Votes: 6,615 Participation: 59.93% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
30		 British Columbia
30 August 1972
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 30089(F) — 30 Jul 2021 23:22 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
43
SC
 1/4 3,004 46.02% +1,305 Loser:
NDP
 1,699 26.03% Dennis W. Nelson

Service: 3 years 3 months 10 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 11,604 Votes: 7,534 Participation: 64.93% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
31		 British Columbia
11 December 1975
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 30139(F) — 30 Jul 2021 23:22 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
47
SC
 1/3 5,048 67.87% +2,909 Loser:
NDP
 2,139 28.76% Andrew P. Schuck

Service: 3 years 4 months 28 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 12,678 Votes: 8,826 Participation: 69.62% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
32		 British Columbia
10 May 1979
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 30189(F) — 30 Jul 2021 23:22 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
50		 Successor:
SC
 6,598 76.02% Anthony J. Brummet

Online biographical reference

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EN Wikipedia
Ed Smith (Canadian politician)		 27 Apr 2024

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