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♂ Elmer E. Roper
aliasElmer E. Roper
Record
53690 · 8089

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 40%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 0 1 1
Alberta 4 5 9
Total 4 6 10
Birth 4 June 1893 → 130 years + 11 months ago
Lived 101 years + 5 months
First mandate 22 September 1942 → 81 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 49 years + 3 months
Death 12 November 1994 → 29 years + 5 months ago
Exit → Death 39 years + 4 months after 28 June 1955
Special notes
None
 
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© 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
Alberta 12 9 2 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. AB 9–12
CCF
 1 Party leader 49–62 01 Oct 1942 — 30 Jun 1955 12 8 29

Electoral history

Races 10  
Path points 10  
47 documented challengers
⊖ Joseph W. Adair  m 
⊖ Gerard J.T. van Amerongen  m 
⊖ Adéodat Boileau  m 
⊖ John R. Boyle  m 
⊖ Ambrose U.G. Bury  m 
⊖ Joseph A. Clarke  m 
⊖ Herbert H. Crawford  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ David M. Duggan  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ John W. Findlay  m 
⊖ C. Lionel Gibbs  m 
⊖ Louis W. Heard  m 
⊖ William T. Henry  m 
⊖ Ambrose A. Holowach  m 
⊖ Frederick C. Jamieson  m 
⊖ Orvis A. Kennedy  m 
⊖ Marcel J.A. Lambert  m 
⊖ John F. Lymburn  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Ernest C. Manning  m  (5 runoffs)
⊖ Andrew R. McLennan  m 
⊖ C. Gerald O'Connor  m 
⊖ Warren W. Prevey  m 
⊖ J. Donovan Ross  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Harold E. Tanner  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ William J. Williams  m 
 		 ⊖ Clayton Adams  m 
⊖ Samuel A.G. Barnes  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ John C. Bowen  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Ernest M. Brown  m 
⊖ Cora T. Casselman  f 
⊖ James K. Cornwall  m 
⊖ Ivor G. Dent  m 
⊖ Albert F. Ewing  m 
⊖ Edgar H. Gerhart  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ William S. Hall  m 
⊖ Jeremiah W. Heffernan  m 
⊖ Anthony Hlynka  m 
⊖ Norman B. James  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Floyd A. Johnson  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Jan Lakeman  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ John W. Leedy  m 
⊖ Hugh J. Macdonald  m 
⊖ Nellie L. McClung  f 
⊖ Abe W. Miller  m 
⊖ J. Percy Page  m  (5 runoffs)
⊖ J. Harper Prowse  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ William Short  m 
⊖ Charles Y. Weaver  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 75,758 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 26
Provincial
5		 Alberta
18 July 1921
General
Plurality-at-large (5)
Gov't  UFA  Majority
ID: 27610(F) — 29 Oct 2022 11:00 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
28
DLP
 13/26 2,515 16.60% -2,774 Winner:
LIB
 5,289 34.91% Jeremiah W. Heffernan
Eligible: 33,741 Votes: 18,721 Participation: 55.50% Candidacies: 18
Provincial
6		 Alberta
28 June 1926
General
Single trans. vote (5)
Gov't  UFA  Majority
ID: 27679(F) — 13 Jan 2024 13:43 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
33
DLP
 16/18 478 2.00% -379 Winner:
CONS
 857 9.46% David M. Duggan
Eligible: inc. Votes: 17,356 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
7		 Alberta
9 January 1931
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  UFA  Majority
ID: 27773(F) — 29 Oct 2022 10:35 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
37
DLP
 2/4 5,583 32.17% -2,443 Winner:
CONS
 8,026 46.24% Frederick C. Jamieson
Eligible: 24,956 Votes: 16,212 Participation: 64.96% Candidacies: 6
Federal
18		 Alberta
14 October 1935
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 22594(F) — 25 Jan 2022 21:27 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
42
CCF
 4/6 1,726 10.65% -3,995 Winner:
SC
 5,721 35.29% William S. Hall
Eligible: 59,685 Votes: 42,665 Participation: 75.30% Candidacies: 17
Provincial
9		 Alberta
21 March 1940
General
Single trans. vote (5)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27852(F) — 6 Mar 2022 15:10 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
46
CCF
 8/17 1,984 4.54% -2,144 Winner:
INDM
 4,128 9.44% Hugh J. Macdonald
Eligible: 59,685 Votes: 19,515 Participation: 32.70% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
9		 Alberta
22 September 1942
By-Election
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27893(F) — 29 Oct 2022 13:59 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
49
CCF
 1/5 4,834 24.77% +402 Loser:
SC
 4,432 22.71% J.B. Giles

Service: 1 year 10 months 16 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 65,651 Votes: 40,047 Participation: 61.00% Candidacies: 20
Provincial
10		 Alberta
8 August 1944
General
Single trans. vote (5)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27909(F) — 6 Mar 2022 16:56 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
51
CCF
 1/20 5,253 13.88% +3,853 Loser:
INDM
 1,400 3.70% Johnnie T. Caine

Service: 4 years 8 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 84,391 Votes: 47,276 Participation: 56.02% Candidacies: 16
Provincial
11		 Alberta
17 August 1948
General
Single trans. vote (5)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27963(F) — 17 Oct 2021 20:19 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
55
CCF
 1/16 6,511 14.11% +3,788 Loser:
INDM
 2,723 5.90% J. Percy Page

Service: 3 years 11 months 18 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 108,424 Votes: 57,256 Participation: 52.81% Candidacies: 29
Provincial
12		 Alberta
5 August 1952
General
Single trans. vote (7)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28014(F) — 29 Oct 2022 21:36 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
59
CCF
 3/29 6,632 12.74% +5,251 Loser:
SC
 1,381 2.65% Ambrose A. Holowach

Service: 2 years 10 months 23 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 127,069 Votes: 82,792 Participation: 65.16% Candidacies: 30
Provincial
13		 Alberta
29 June 1955
General
Single trans. vote (7)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28066(F) — 17 Oct 2021 20:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent → (Party leader)
Age
62
CCF
 8/30 4,444 5.81% 3,124 Winner:
SC
 1,320 1.72% Edgar H. Gerhart

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Elmer E. Roper		 13 Jan 2024
EN Wikipedia
Elmer Ernest Roper		 13 Jan 2024

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