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♂ Kenneth Sweigard
aliasKenneth Sweigard
Record
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☆   Pentecostal   
Type of record
Elected candidate
Known but unelected candidate ✓
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 0%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 0 2 2
Birth 21 September 1919 → 104 years + 7 months ago
Lived 85 years + 9 months
First run 18 February 1980 → 44 years + 2 months ago
↳ at age 60 years + 4 months
Death 11 July 2005 → 18 years + 9 months ago
 
Special notes
None
 
Kenneth Sweigard (1919–2005)
© Photo Natrice Rese — licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Sweigard became the leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada in 1983, after Martin Hattersley had resigned over the party's decision to reinstate James Keegstra. For his part, Sweigard, a Pentecostal preacher, referred to Keegstra as a "fine Christian gentleman."
 

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. CA 32–33
SC
 1 Party leader 63–66 15 Jul 1983 — 21 Jun 1986 2 11 6

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
2 documented challengers
⊕ Albert G. Cooper  m 
 		 ⊕ John A.F. MacDougall  m 
 
Eligible: 55,620 Votes: 32,015 Participation: 57.56% Candidacies: 6
Federal
32		 Alberta
18 February 1980
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 4052(F) — 6 Sep 2021 21:46 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
60
SC
 5/6 462 1.45% -18,491 Winner:
PC
 18,953 59.35% Albert G. Cooper
Eligible: 38,322 Votes: 28,631 Participation: 74.71% Candidacies: 4
Federal
33		 Ontario
4 September 1984
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 3927(F) — 6 Sep 2021 21:46 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament (Party leader)
Age
64
SC
 4/4 151 0.53% -15,208 Winner:
PC
 15,359 53.89% John A.F. MacDougall

Online biographical reference

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EN Wikipedia
Ken Sweigard		 09 Mar 2024

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