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♀ Louise Crummy McKinney
aliasLouise McKinney

Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate

Deceased

Performance: 50%

	✓	✗	∑
Alberta	1	1	2

Birth	22 September 1868 → 155 years + 7 months ago
Lived	62 years + 9 months
First mandate	7 June 1917 → 106 years + 10 months ago ↳ at age 48 years + 8 months
Death	10 July 1931 → 92 years + 9 months ago
Exit → Death	9 years + 11 months after 17 July 1921

Special notes
None
Louise Crummy McKinney (1868–1931) © Photo 1917 — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
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Well that's interesting!
McKinney was the first woman elected to a legislature in the British Empire. She served as the independant Alberta MLA in Claresholm (1917–1921), being narrowly defeated when she ran under the banner of the United Farmers of Alberta in 1921.

Legislature	years	months	days	years	months	days	years	months	days
Legislature	Total			Government			Opposition
Alberta	4	1	9	Z

Races	2
Path points	2

2 documented challengers
⊖ Thomas C. Milnes m	⊖ William Moffat m

Claresholm Details: Claresholm

Eligible:

1,884

Votes:

1,509

Participation:

80.10%

Candidacies:

Provincial 4	Alberta 7 June 1917 General First-past-the-post
Gov't	LIB
ID: 27542(F) — 29 Oct 2022 08:41 ET

✓	→ New to this legislature
Age 48	NPL	1/2	839	55.60%	+169	Loser:	LIB	670	44.40%	William Moffat
Service: 4 years 1 month 10 days (Oppo.)