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♂ Roland David Bertram Cook
aliasRollie Cook
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 100%
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Alberta 2 0 2
Birth 22 March 1952
Age 72 years + 1 month
First mandate 14 March 1979 → 45 years + 1 month ago
↳ at age 26 years + 11 months
 
Mandate ended 37 years + 11 months ago (7 May 1986)
Special notes
None
 
Roland (Rollie) David Bertram Cook (1952– )
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Alberta — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Cook was a two-term Alberta Progressive Conservative MLA from 1979 to 1986. However, when he would work for campaigns in the United States, it would be for Democrats like Congressman Morris Udall and former president Jimmy Carter. That leads us to wonder if the Republicans were simply too conservative for his taste, or if the Democrats, once transposed back to the Canadian spectrum, were a bit like the equivalent of our "Red Tories" of that era.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Alberta 7 1 22 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
Documented challenger
None
 
 
Eligible: 15,055 Votes: 7,841 Participation: 52.08% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
19		 Alberta
14 March 1979
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 12907(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
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 → New to this legislature
Age
26
PC
 1/4 4,309 55.29% +2,820 Loser:
NDP
 1,489 19.10% David Stewart

Service: 3 years 7 months 18 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 16,441 Votes: 10,273 Participation: 62.48% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
20		 Alberta
2 November 1982
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 12827(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
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 Re-elected incumbent
Age
30
PC
 1/3 5,997 58.71% +2,816 Loser:
NDP
 3,181 31.14% Garth Stevenson

Service: 3 years 6 months 5 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 23,650 Votes: 10,550 Participation: 44.61% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
21		 Alberta
8 May 1986
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 12744(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
34		 Successor:
NDP
 5,371 51.02% John E. Younie

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Roland 'Rollie' D.B. Cook		 21 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Rollie Cook		 21 Apr 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 21 Apr 2024 12:57 (but data presented dynamically)

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