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♂ Edgar Henry Gerhart
aliasEdgar Gerhart
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 83%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 5 1 6
Birth 18 December 1923 → 100 years + 4 months ago
Lived 68 years + 5 months
First mandate 5 August 1952 → 71 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age 28 years + 7 months
Death 23 May 1992 → 31 years + 11 months ago
Exit → Death 20 years + 8 months after 29 August 1971
Special notes
None
 
Edgar Henry Gerhart (1923–1992)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Alberta — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
⊖ Clarence E. Gerhart (1897–1965) Father
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Alberta 19 0 19 Z

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 6  
16 documented challengers
⊖ Gerard J.T. van Amerongen  m 
⊖ Thomas W. Chambers  m 
⊖ Anthony Hlynka  m 
⊖ Floyd A. Johnson  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Ernest C. Manning  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ W. Grant Notley  m 
⊖ J. Harper Prowse  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ J. Donovan Ross  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Cora T. Casselman  f 
⊖ Ivor G. Dent  m 
⊖ Ambrose A. Holowach  m 
⊖ Marcel J.A. Lambert  m 
⊖ Abe W. Miller  m 
⊖ J. Percy Page  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Elmer E. Roper  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Harold E. Tanner  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: 108,424 Votes: 57,256 Participation: 52.81% Candidacies: 29
Provincial
12		 Alberta
5 August 1952
General
Single trans. vote (7)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28014(F) — 29 Oct 2022 21:36 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
28
SC
 5/29 769 1.48% -612 Loser:
SC
 1,381 2.65% Ambrose A. Holowach

Service: 2 years 10 months 23 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 127,069 Votes: 82,792 Participation: 65.16% Candidacies: 30
Provincial
13		 Alberta
29 June 1955
General
Single trans. vote (7)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28066(F) — 17 Oct 2021 20:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
31
SC
 7/30 1,320 1.72% -3,124 Loser:
CCF
 4,444 5.81% Elmer E. Roper

Service: 3 years 11 months 19 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 19,258 Votes: 11,313 Participation: 58.74% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
14		 Alberta
18 June 1959
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28166(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
35
SC
 1/4 4,823 42.72% +1,574 Loser:
PC
 3,249 28.78% Ned Feehan

Service: 3 years 11 months 29 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 19,695 Votes: 9,504 Participation: 48.26% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
15		 Alberta
17 June 1963
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28199(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
39
SC
 1/4 4,369 46.03% +2,491 Loser:
PC
 1,878 19.79% Ned Feehan

Service: 3 years 11 months 5 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 20,424 Votes: 12,946 Participation: 63.39% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
16		 Alberta
23 May 1967
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 13141(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
43
SC
 1/5 4,674 36.22% +469 Loser:
PC
 4,205 32.59% Paul Norris

Service: 4 years 3 months 6 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 15,744 Votes: 11,404 Participation: 72.43% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
17		 Alberta
30 August 1971
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 13059(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
47
SC
 2/3 3,653 32.17% -2,278 Winner:
PC
 5,931 52.23% Thomas W. Chambers

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Edgar H. Gerhart		 04 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Edgar Gerhart		 04 May 2024

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