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♂ Melvin Earl Shannon
aliasMelvin Shannon
Record
56167 · 7882

Type of record
Elected candidate
Known but unelected candidate ✓
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 0%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 0 1 1
Alberta 0 1 1
Total 0 2 2
Birth 22 March 1927 → 97 years + 1 month ago
Lived 89 years + 2 months
First run 5 August 1952 → 71 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 25 years + 4 months
Death 29 May 2016 → 7 years + 11 months ago
 
Special notes
None
 
Melvin Earl Shannon (1927–2016)
© Photo 2016 McInnis & Holloway Funeral Homes — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
8 documented challengers
⊖ Paul Brecken  m 
⊖ Arthur Dixon  m 
⊖ Howard Macdonald  m 
⊖ Arthur Smith Jr.  m 
 		 ⊖ Frederick C. Colborne  m 
⊖ Aylmer Liesemer  m 
⊖ Hugh MacDonald  m 
⊖ Rose Wilkinson  f 
 
Eligible: 91,289 Votes: 43,367 Participation: 47.51% Candidacies: 25
Provincial
12		 Alberta
5 August 1952
General
Single trans. vote (6)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28007(F) — 28 Jul 2023 19:08 ET
✗
 Failed to enter this legislature
Age
25
LIB
 12/25 857 2.06% -1,854 Winner:
LIB
 2,711 6.51% Hugh J. MacDonald
Eligible: 55,054 Votes: 41,821 Participation: 75.96% Candidacies: 4
Federal
24		 Alberta
31 March 1958
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 24225(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:28 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
31
LIB
 2/4 7,039 16.83% -22,443 Winner:
PC
 29,482 70.50% Arthur R. Smith

Online biographical reference

 Retrieved on
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Calgary Herald, Obituaries: Melvin Earl Shannon		 29 Apr 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 29 Apr 2024 23:03 (but data presented dynamically)

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