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♂ Peter Hanson
aliasSwede Hanson
Record
25914 · 7089

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Yukon 1 1 2
Birth 22 August 1925 → 98 years + 8 months ago
Lived 61 years
First mandate 20 November 1978 → 45 years + 5 months ago
↳ at age 53 years + 2 months
Death 17 September 1986 → 37 years + 7 months ago
Exit → Death 4 years + 3 months after 6 June 1982
Special notes
None
 
Peter (Swede) Hanson (1925–1986)
© Photo 1979 Legislative Assembly, Yukon — 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
Yukon 3 6 15 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
2 documented challengers
⊕ Piers McDonald  m 
 		 ⊖ Gordon A. McIntyre  m 
 
Eligible: 458 Votes: 354 Participation: 77.29% Candidacies: 4
Territorial
24		 Yukon
20 November 1978
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 27124(F) — 21 Jul 2021 13:43 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
53
PC
 1/4 95 27.46% +10 Loser:
IND
 85 24.57% David Harwood

Service: 3 years 6 months 17 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 551 Votes: 440 Participation: 79.85% Candidacies: 3
Territorial
25		 Yukon
7 June 1982
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 27142(F) — 21 Jul 2021 13:43 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
56
PC
 2/3 173 39.50% -57 Winner:
NDP
 230 52.51% Piers McDonald

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Non-standard link
Archives Society of Alberta, Alberta On Record: Hanson, Peter "Swede", 1925-1986		 24 Apr 2024
EN Yukon Legislature Speaks
Peter (Swede) Hanson		 24 Apr 2024

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