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♂ Marlin Schmidt
aliasMarlin Schmidt
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 In office
Alberta
Opposition
 Performance: 75%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 3 1 4
Birth 16 October 1978
Age 45 years + 6 months
First mandate 5 May 2015 → 8 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age 36 years + 6 months
 
 
Special notes
None
 
Marlin Schmidt (1978– )
© Photo 2015 Dave Cournoyer — licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Schmidt, Alberta NDP MLA for Edmonton-Gold Bar, got himself in hot water when opposing the United Conservative Party's proposal to change the referendum law, which he said that even the late British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, would have opposed. But where he might have gone too far is when he added that he "count[ed] on enjoying the fact that Margaret Thatcher is still dead" and regretted she had died "probably 30 years too late."
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Alberta 8 11 23 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 4  
2 documented challengers
⊕ David C. Dorward  m  (3 runoffs)
 		 ⊕ David J. Parker  m 
 
Eligible: 32,868 Votes: 20,490 Participation: 62.34% Candidacies: 6
Provincial
28		 Alberta
23 April 2012
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 8898(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
33
NDP
 2/6 5,836 28.71% -865 Winner:
PC
 6,701 32.97% David C. Dorward
Eligible: 36,688 Votes: 22,394 Participation: 61.04% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
29		 Alberta
5 May 2015
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9015(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
36
NDP
 1/5 15,349 68.89% +11,202 Loser:
PC
 4,147 18.61% David C. Dorward

Service: 3 years 11 months 10 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 37,328 Votes: 24,589 Participation: 65.87% Candidacies: 6
Provincial
30		 Alberta
16 April 2019
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  UCP  Majority
ID: 26695(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
40
NDP
 1/6 14,562 59.48% +7,388 Loser:
UCP
 7,174 29.30% David C. Dorward

Service: 4 years 1 month 12 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 35,481 Votes: 22,594 Participation: 63.68% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
31		 Alberta
29 May 2023
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  UCP  Majority
ID: 38961(F) — 9 Jun 2023 17:33 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
44
NDP
 1/4 15,508 69.48% +9,334 Loser:
UCP
 6,174 27.66% Miles Berry

Service: 11 months (Oppo.)

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Honourable Marlin Schmidt, ECA		 09 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Marlin Schmidt		 09 Feb 2024
FR Wikipédia
Marlin Schmidt		 09 Feb 2024

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Rev.:  9 Feb 2024 18:20 (but data presented dynamically)

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