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♂ Robert Keith Alexander
aliasKeith Alexander
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
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Alberta 1 0 1
Birth 30 July 1930 → 93 years + 9 months ago
Lived 84 years + 3 months
First mandate 2 November 1982 → 41 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age 52 years + 3 months
Death 12 November 2014 → 9 years + 5 months ago
Exit → Death 29 years + 7 days after 5 November 1985
Special notes
None
 
Robert Keith Alexander (1930–2014)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Alberta — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Alexander, an Alberta Progressive Conservative MLA from 1982 to 1985, died one day after his wife Vanessa. Coincidence or broken heart?
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Alberta 3 0 3 Z

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
Documented challenger
None
 
 
Eligible: 27,925 Votes: 18,136 Participation: 64.95% Candidacies: 6
Provincial
20		 Alberta
2 November 1982
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 12838(F) — 8 Mar 2022 07:54 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
52
PC
 1/6 10,696 59.05% +5,812 Loser:
NDP
 4,884 26.97% Leslie Bella
After his election:
5 Nov 1985 55
PC
 →
Vac.
 To vacate the seat for someone else
Service: 3 years 3 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 27,925 Votes: 9,900 Participation: 35.45% Candidacies: 6
Provincial
20		 Alberta
5 November 1985
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 13190(F) — 8 Mar 2022 12:46 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
55		 Successor:
PC
 5,955 60.15% Donald R. Getty

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
R. Keith Alexander		 02 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Robert Keith Alexander		 02 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  2 May 2024 23:17 (but data presented dynamically)

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