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♂ L. Petrie Meston
aliasL. Petrie Meston
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
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Alberta 1 0 1
Birth 20 March 1916 → 108 years + 1 month ago
Lived 47 years + 8 months
First mandate 17 June 1963 → 60 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 47 years + 2 months
Death 22 November 1963 → 60 years + 5 months ago
Died in office Yes
Special notes
None
 

L. Petrie Meston (1916–1963)
No photo available
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Meston handily won the new riding of Three Hills for the Alberta Social Credit in the 1963 general election, but he died five months later — before the assembly's first session.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Alberta 0 5 5 Z

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
Documented challenger
None
 
 
Eligible: 7,887 Votes: 5,399 Participation: 68.45% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
15		 Alberta
17 June 1963
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28237(F) — 7 Mar 2022 15:09 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
47
SC
 1/3 3,385 63.04% +1,657 Loser:
LIB
 1,728 32.18% James A. Lore
After his election:
22 Nov 1963 47
SC
 →
Vac.
 Died in office
Service: 5 months 5 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 7,887 Votes: 4,360 Participation: 55.28% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
15		 Alberta
20 January 1964
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28240(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
—
 Deceased
Age
47		 Successor:
SC
 2,229 51.12% Roy L. Davidson

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
EN Find a Grave
Lewis "Petrie" Meston		 18 Dec 2023
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
L. Petrie Meston		 18 Dec 2023
EN Wikipedia
Petrie Meston		 18 Dec 2023

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