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♂ Harold Eaid Tanner
aliasHarold Eaid Tanner
Record
60117 · 8330

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 2 0 2
Birth 4 December 1892 → 131 years + 5 months ago
Lived 89 years + 6 months
First mandate 5 August 1952 → 71 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age 59 years + 8 months
Death 28 June 1982 → 41 years + 10 months ago
Exit → Death 23 years + 11 days after 17 June 1959
Special notes
None
 
Harold Eaid Tanner (1892–1982)
© 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 ✗
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Deputy Minister ✗
Auto. Region ✗
Mayor/Reeve ✗
Mun./Co. Council Edmonton, Alberta (1946–1955)
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 6 10 10 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
14 documented challengers
⊖ Gerard J.T. van Amerongen  m 
⊖ Ivor G. Dent  m 
⊖ Anthony Hlynka  m 
⊖ Floyd A. Johnson  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Ernest C. Manning  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ J. Percy Page  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Elmer E. Roper  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Cora T. Casselman  f 
⊖ Edgar H. Gerhart  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Ambrose A. Holowach  m 
⊖ Marcel J.A. Lambert  m 
⊖ Abe W. Miller  m 
⊖ J. Harper Prowse  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ J. Donovan Ross  m  (2 runoffs)
 
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
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
59
LIB
 7/29 875 1.68% -506 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
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
62
LIB
 4/30 1,604 2.10% -2,840 Loser:
CCF
 4,444 5.81% Elmer E. Roper

Service: 3 years 11 months 19 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 15,357 Votes: 8,408 Participation: 54.75% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
14		 Alberta
18 June 1959
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28119(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
66		 Successor:
SC
 3,912 46.74% Ambrose A. Holowach

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Harold E. Tanner		 19 Mar 2024
EN Wikipedia
Harold E. Tanner		 19 Mar 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 19 Mar 2024 19:27 (but data presented dynamically)

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