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♂ Percy D. Wickman
aliasPercy D. Wickman
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
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Alberta 3 0 3
Birth 10 June 1941 → 82 years + 10 months ago
Lived 63 years
First mandate 20 March 1989 → 35 years + 1 month ago
↳ at age 47 years + 9 months
Death 3 July 2004 → 19 years + 9 months ago
Exit → Death 3 years + 3 months after 11 March 2001
Special notes
None
 
Percy D. Wickman (1941–2004)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Alberta — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Wickman, an Alberta Liberal, is remembered as the man who unseated the premier, Don Getty, who otherwise had secured the Progressive Conservatives' sixth con­sec­u­tive majority government.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Alberta 11 11 19 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
1 documented challenger
⊖ Donald R. Getty  m 
 
 
Eligible: 31,536 Votes: 18,496 Participation: 58.65% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
22		 Alberta
20 March 1989
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 12674(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
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 → New to this legislature
Age
47
LIB
 1/3 8,350 45.25% +345 Loser:
PC
 8,005 43.38% Donald R. Getty

Service: 4 years 2 months 25 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 23,309 Votes: 14,388 Participation: 61.73% Candidacies: 6
Provincial
23		 Alberta
15 June 1993
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 12590(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
52
LIB
 1/6 8,583 59.76% +4,300 Loser:
PC
 4,283 29.82% Brenda Platzer

Service: 3 years 8 months 23 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 22,002 Votes: 13,050 Participation: 59.31% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
24		 Alberta
11 March 1997
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 11039(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
55
LIB
 1/5 6,007 46.12% +929 Loser:
PC
 5,078 38.99% Brenda Platzer

Service: 4 years (Oppo.)
Eligible: 22,762 Votes: 12,838 Participation: 56.40% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
25		 Alberta
12 March 2001
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 8682(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
59		 Successor:
PC
 6,173 48.22% Ian G. McClelland

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Percy D. Wickman CM		 06 Mar 2024
EN Wikipedia
Percy Wickman		 06 Mar 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  6 Mar 2024 22:52 (but data presented dynamically)

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