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♂ Roger Coles
aliasRoger Coles
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 33%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 0 1 1
Yukon 1 1 2
Total 1 2 3
Birth 19 September 1958 → 65 years + 7 months ago
Lived 54 years + 9 months
First mandate 13 May 1985 → 38 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age 26 years + 7 months
Death 28 June 2013 → 10 years + 10 months ago
Exit → Death 26 years + 7 months after 31 October 1986
Special notes
None
 
Roger Coles (1958–2013)
© Photo 1984 Whitehorse Star — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Leader of the Yukon Liberal Party, Coles had to resign his seat in the legislature after he pleaded guilty to cocaine trafficking, and was sentenced to three years in prison.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Yukon 1 5 18 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. YT 25–36
LIB
 1 Party leader 25–27 01 Feb 1984 — 09 May 1986 2 3 8

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
2 documented challengers
⊕ C. Anthony Abbott  m 
 		 ⊕ Howard Tracey  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: 362 Votes: 314 Participation: 86.74% Candidacies: 3
Territorial
25		 Yukon
7 June 1982
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 27144(F) — 21 Jul 2021 13:43 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
23
LIB
 2/3 103 33.23% -3 Winner:
PC
 106 34.19% Howard Tracey
Eligible: 399 Votes: 384 Participation: 96.24% Candidacies: 3
Territorial
26		 Yukon
13 May 1985
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Minority
ID: 27160(F) — 28 Feb 2022 10:28 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature (Party leader)
Age
26
LIB
 1/3 159 41.51% +28 Loser:
NDP
 131 34.20% Victor Mitander
After his election:
31 Oct 1986 28
LIB
 →
Vac.
 Amidst controversy
Service: 1 year 5 months 18 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 408 Votes: 362 Participation: 88.73% Candidacies: 4
Territorial
26		 Yukon
2 February 1987
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Minority
ID: 27170(F) — 21 Jul 2021 13:44 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
28		 Successor:
NDP
 149 41.39% Danny Joe
Eligible: 18,416 Votes: 11,236 Participation: 61.01% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
25		 Alberta
12 March 2001
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 8663(F) — 16 Apr 2022 15:56 ET
✗
 Failed to enter this legislature
Age
42
LIB
 2/4 2,229 19.87% -5,444 Winner:
PC
 7,673 68.39% C. Anthony Abbott

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
EN Non-standard link
Whitehore Daily Star (Jim Butler, June 28, 2013), Ex-Liberal leader rebuilt his life after scandal		 16 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Roger Coles		 16 Feb 2024
EN Yukon Legislature Speaks
Roger Coles		 16 Feb 2024

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