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♂ Robert Arnold Fischer
aliasButch Fischer
Record
19869 · 3068

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 6 0 6
Birth 9 June 1937 → 86 years + 10 months ago
Lived 83 years + 2 months
First mandate 2 November 1982 → 41 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age 45 years + 4 months
Death 9 August 2020 → 3 years + 8 months ago
Exit → Death 18 years + 7 months after 31 December 2001
Special notes
None
 
Robert Arnold (Butch) Fischer (1937–2020)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Alberta — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Alberta 19 1 23 Z

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 7  
Documented challenger
None
 
 
Eligible: 9,766 Votes: 7,440 Participation: 76.18% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
20		 Alberta
2 November 1982
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 12869(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
45
PC
 1/4 4,589 61.78% +2,444 Loser:
WCC
 2,145 28.88% Bill Veitch

Service: 3 years 6 months 5 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 11,100 Votes: 6,201 Participation: 55.86% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
21		 Alberta
8 May 1986
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 12786(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
48
PC
 1/4 4,244 68.56% +3,138 Loser:
NDP
 1,106 17.87% Willy Kelch

Service: 2 years 10 months 11 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 10,801 Votes: 5,936 Participation: 54.96% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
22		 Alberta
20 March 1989
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 12704(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
51
PC
 1/3 4,009 67.75% +2,827 Loser:
NDP
 1,182 19.98% Willy Kelch

Service: 4 years 2 months 25 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 15,882 Votes: 9,677 Participation: 60.93% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
23		 Alberta
15 June 1993
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 12621(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
56
PC
 1/4 5,294 54.80% +3,361 Loser:
LIB
 1,933 20.01% Evangéline Forcier

Service: 3 years 8 months 23 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 19,756 Votes: 11,845 Participation: 59.96% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
24		 Alberta
11 March 1997
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 11070(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
59
PC
 1/4 6,232 52.74% +2,884 Loser:
SC
 3,348 28.33% Jerry D. Barber

Service: 4 years (Gov't)
Eligible: 19,292 Votes: 10,877 Participation: 56.38% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
25		 Alberta
12 March 2001
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 8713(F) — 8 Mar 2022 12:56 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
63
PC
 1/5 6,910 63.62% +5,516 Loser:
AB1
 1,394 12.83% Jerry D. Barber
After his election:
31 Dec 2001 64
PC
 →
Vac.
 Amidst controversy
Service: 9 months 19 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 19,291 Votes: 6,552 Participation: 33.96% Candidacies: 6
Provincial
25		 Alberta
8 April 2002
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 11077(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
64		 Successor:
PC
 2,924 44.63% Douglas G. Griffiths

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Robert A. 'Butch' Fischer		 13 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Robert Fischer (Canadian politician)		 13 Apr 2024

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