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♀ Edith H. Gostick
aliasEdith H. Gostick
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 1 1 2
Birth 15 January 1894 → 130 years + 3 months ago
Lived 90 years + 5 months
First mandate 22 August 1935 → 88 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age 41 years + 7 months
Death 8 July 1984 → 39 years + 9 months ago
Exit → Death 44 years + 3 months after 20 March 1940
Special notes
None
 
Edith H. Gostick (1894–1984) 200x290
© Photo c.1935 — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
⊖ Ronald A. Gostick (1918–2005) Son  
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Alberta 4 6 28 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
13 documented challengers
⊖ William Aberhart  m 
⊖ John J. Bowlen  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Hugh C. Farthing  m 
⊖ John Irwin  m 
⊖ James C. Mahaffy  m 
⊖ Robert H. Parkyn  m 
⊖ Fred J. White  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Frederick Anderson  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Andrew Davison  m 
⊖ John W. Hugill  m 
⊖ Aylmer J.E. Liesemer  m 
⊖ Ernest C. Manning  m 
⊖ Joseph T. Shaw  m 
 
Eligible: 52,244 Votes: 42,001 Participation: 80.39% Candidacies: 20
Provincial
8		 Alberta
22 August 1935
General
Single trans. vote (6)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27783(F) — 29 Oct 2022 12:14 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
41
SC
 1/20 3,787 9.19% +755 Loser:
SC
 3,032 7.36% O.G. Devenish

Service: 4 years 6 months 27 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 59,338 Votes: 45,393 Participation: 78.69% Candidacies: 13
Provincial
9		 Alberta
21 March 1940
General
Single trans. vote (5)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27843(F) — 25 Oct 2023 06:05 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
46
SC
 8/13 1,605 3.50% -1,842 Winner:
INDM
 3,447 7.51% John J. Bowlen

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Edith H. Gostick		 26 Nov 2023
EN Wikipedia
Edith Gostick		 26 Nov 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 26 Nov 2023 17:08 (but data presented dynamically)

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