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♂ Ernest George Hansell
aliasErnest Hansell
Record
25852 · 6568

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 88%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 6 1 7
Alberta 1 0 1
Total 7 1 8
Birth 14 May 1895 → 128 years + 11 months ago
Lived 70 years + 6 months
First mandate 14 October 1935 → 88 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age 40 years + 5 months
Death 9 December 1965 → 58 years + 4 months ago
Exit → Death 2 years + 5 months after 16 June 1963
Special notes
None
 
Ernest George Hansell (1895–1965)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Alberta — Public domain
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
Canada 22 5 10
Alberta 3 11 28 Z
TOTAL 26 5 8

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. BC 22–23
SC
 1 Party leader 56–57 27 Apr 1952 — 14 Jul 1952 0 2 17

Electoral history

Races 8  
Path points 9  
3 documented challengers
⊖ George G. Coote  m 
⊖ Lawrence E. Kindt  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Ross L. Ellis  m 
 
Eligible: 20,456 Votes: 14,466 Participation: 70.72% Candidacies: 4
Federal
18		 Alberta
14 October 1935
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 22597(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:28 ET
✓
 → New to Parliament
Age
40
SC
 1/4 7,028 48.58% +3,451 Loser:
CCF
 3,577 24.73% George G. Coote

Service: 4 years 5 months 11 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 23,293 Votes: 16,703 Participation: 71.71% Candidacies: 4
Federal
19		 Alberta
26 March 1940
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 22872(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:28 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
44
SC
 1/4 6,655 39.84% +1,826 Loser:
LIB
 4,829 28.91% Francis O. McKenna

Service: 5 years 2 months 15 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 21,956 Votes: 17,068 Participation: 77.74% Candidacies: 5
Federal
20		 Alberta
11 June 1945
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 23132(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:28 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
50
SC
 1/5 6,342 37.16% +2,418 Loser:
PC
 3,924 22.99% Stanley Wyatt

Service: 4 years 15 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 23,330 Votes: 16,648 Participation: 71.36% Candidacies: 4
Federal
21		 Alberta
27 June 1949
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 23393(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:28 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
54
SC
 1/4 7,411 45.08% +3,345 Loser:
LIB
 4,066 24.74% Alfred G. Lewis

Service: 4 years 1 month 13 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 26,992 Votes: 18,087 Participation: 67.01% Candidacies: 5
Federal
22		 Alberta
10 August 1953
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 23684(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:28 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
58
SC
 1/5 8,685 48.39% +4,387 Loser:
LIB
 4,298 23.95% John J. McIntyre

Service: 3 years 9 months 30 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 25,267 Votes: 19,383 Participation: 76.71% Candidacies: 4
Federal
23		 Alberta
10 June 1957
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 23965(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:28 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
62
SC
 1/4 8,411 43.67% +3,338 Loser:
PC
 5,073 26.34% Lawrence E. Kindt

Service: 9 months 20 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 25,267 Votes: 20,177 Participation: 79.86% Candidacies: 4
Federal
24		 Alberta
31 March 1958
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 24231(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:28 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
62
SC
 2/4 5,623 27.87% -6,288 Winner:
PC
 11,911 59.03% Lawrence E. Kindt
Eligible: 6,939 Votes: 5,138 Participation: 74.05% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
14		 Alberta
18 June 1959
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28133(F) — 6 Mar 2022 20:21 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
64
SC
 1/3 2,642 51.42% +1,215 Loser:
IND
 1,427 27.77% Ross L. Ellis

Service: 3 years 11 months 29 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 6,842 Votes: 4,493 Participation: 65.67% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
15		 Alberta
17 June 1963
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28215(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
68		 Successor:
SC
 2,361 52.70% Edward P. Benoit

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Dr. Ernest G. Hansell		 20 Apr 2024
EN Parliament of Canada (ParlInfo)
Rev. Ernest George Hansell		 20 Apr 2024
FR Parlement du Canada (ParlInfo)
Rév. Ernest George Hansell		 20 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Ernest George Hansell		 20 Apr 2024

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