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♂ Charles C. Cockroft
aliasCharles Cockroft
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 1 0 1
Birth 20 March 1887 → 137 years + 1 month ago
Lived 83 years + 6 months
First mandate 22 August 1935 → 88 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age 48 years + 5 months
Death 16 October 1970 → 53 years + 6 months ago
Exit → Death 30 years + 6 months after 20 March 1940
Special notes
None
 
Charles C. Cockroft (1887–1970)
© 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 4 6 28 Z

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
1 documented challenger
⊖ Albert L. Sanders  m 
 
 
Eligible: 6,000 Votes: 5,392 Participation: 89.87% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
8		 Alberta
22 August 1935
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27820(F) — 25 Oct 2023 06:04 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
48
SC
 1/4 3,603 68.26% +2,721 Loser:
LIB
 882 16.71% M.J. Brennan
After his election:
8 Feb 1940 52
SC
 →
IPRO
 Changed allegiance (joined opposition)
Service: 4 years 6 months 27 days (Gov't & Oppo.)
Eligible: 6,994 Votes: 5,490 Participation: 78.50% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
9		 Alberta
21 March 1940
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27880(F) — 6 Mar 2022 15:20 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
53		 Successor:
SC
 2,668 50.31% Chester A. Reynolds

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Charles C. Cockroft		 03 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Charles Cockroft		 03 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  3 May 2024 19:09 (but data presented dynamically)

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