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♂ David Milwyn Duggan
aliasDavid Milwyn Duggan
Record
17471 · 8315

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 4 0 4
Birth 5 May 1879 → 144 years + 11 months ago
Lived 62 years + 11 months
First mandate 28 June 1926 → 97 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 47 years + 1 month
Death 4 May 1942 → 82 years ago
Died in office Yes
Special notes
None
 
David Milwyn Duggan (1879–1942)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Alberta — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Election or appointment outside the scope of PoliCan

Pre-Conf. ✗
Canadian Senate ✗
Legis. Council ✗
✗
Deputy Minister ✗
Auto. Region ✗
Mayor/Reeve Edmonton, Alberta (1920–1923)
Mun./Co. Council ✗
School Board ✗
Blank/Vide ✗

Length of service in elected office within the scope of PoliCan

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Alberta 15 10 3 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. AB 6–9
CONS
 1 Party leader 50–62 11 Jan 1930 — 04 May 1942 12 3 23

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
26 documented challengers
⊖ William A. Atkinson  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ John C. Bowen  m 
⊖ Herbert H. Crawford  m 
⊖ C. Lionel Gibbs  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ William T. Henry  m 
⊖ Norman B. James  m 
⊖ Orvis A. Kennedy  m 
⊖ John W. Leedy  m 
⊖ Hugh J. Macdonald  m 
⊖ Walter Morrish  m 
⊖ C. Gerald O'Connor  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Warren W. Prevey  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ George H. Van Allen  m 
 		 ⊖ Samuel A.G. Barnes  m  (4 runoffs)
⊖ Joseph A. Clarke  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ John W. Findlay  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ William S. Hall  m 
⊖ William R. Howson  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Frederick C. Jamieson  m 
⊖ Jan Lakeman  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ John F. Lymburn  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Ernest C. Manning  m 
⊖ David B. Mullen  m 
⊖ J. Percy Page  m 
⊖ Elmer E. Roper  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Charles Y. Weaver  m  (2 runoffs)
 
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
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
47
CONS
 5/18 857 9.46% -322 Loser:
ILIB
 1,179 4.93% Joseph A. Clarke

Service: 3 years 11 months 21 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 39,209 Votes: 21,879 Participation: 55.80% Candidacies: 17
Provincial
7		 Alberta
19 June 1930
General
Single trans. vote (6)
Gov't  UFA  Majority
ID: 27732(F) — 29 Oct 2022 11:57 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
51
CONS
 2/17 2,665 12.58% +1,334 Loser:
LIB
 1,331 6.28% Warren W. Prevey

Service: 5 years 2 months 2 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 49,212 Votes: 38,052 Participation: 77.32% Candidacies: 27
Provincial
8		 Alberta
22 August 1935
General
Single trans. vote (6)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27792(F) — 13 Jan 2024 13:43 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
56
CONS
 4/27 1,466 3.93% -1,352 Loser:
SC
 2,818 7.56% William S. Hall

Service: 4 years 6 months 27 days (Oppo.)
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
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
60
INDM
 4/17 3,878 8.87% -94 Loser:
INDM
 3,972 9.08% C. Gerald O'Connor
After his election:
4 May 1942 62
INDM
 →
Vac.
 Died in office
Service: 2 years 1 month 13 days (Oppo.)
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
—
 Deceased
Age
62		 Successor:
CCF
 4,834 24.77% Elmer E. Roper

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
David M. Duggan		 19 Mar 2024
EN Wikipedia
David Milwyn Duggan		 19 Mar 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 19 Mar 2024 18:42 (but data presented dynamically)

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