Larry Ashmore
Alberta, Canada politician
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| Intro | Alberta, Canada politician | |
| Places | Canada | |
| is | Politician | |
| Work field | Politics | |
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Biography
Larry Ashmore is a construction renovator and activist in Southern Alberta. He was the interim leader of the Evergreen Party of Alberta, a green political party in Alberta, Canada. He has run as a Green candidate at both the provincial and federal levels, and was running for the Evergreens in Livingstone-Macleod in the 2012 provincial election.
Election results
Federal elections
| Canadian federal election, 2006: Macleod | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
| Conservative | Ted Menzies | 37,534 | 75.45 | +0.69 | ||||
| Liberal | Bernie Kennedy | 4,596 | 9.23 | −2.86 | ||||
| New Democratic | Joyce Thomas | 3,251 | 6.53 | +0.04 | ||||
| Green | Larry Ashmore | 3,075 | 6.18 | −0.46 | ||||
| Independent | Myron Wolf Child | 1,055 | 2.12 | – | ||||
| Canadian Action | Catherine Whelan Costen | 235 | 0.47 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 49,879 | 100.00 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 133 | 0.27 | +0.01 | |||||
| Turnout | 43,224 | 60.03 | 0.00 | |||||
Provincial elections
| Alberta general election, 2008: Foothills-Rocky View | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Ted Morton | 6,916 | 57.41% | −2.90% | ||||
| Liberal | Herb Coburn | 2,200 | 18.26% | 0.87% | ||||
| Wildrose Alliance | Joseph McMaster | 1,797 | 14.92% | 5.92% | ||||
| Green | Larry Ashmore | 937 | 7.78% | −2.78% | ||||
| New Democratic | Ricardo de Menzies | 196 | 1.63% | −0.43% | ||||
| Total | 12,046 | |||||||
| Rejected Ballots | 84 | |||||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | 26,701 | 45.43% | ||||||
| Source: The Report on the March 3, 2008 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-seventh Legislative Assembly. Elections Alberta. pp. 408–413. | ||||||||
| Alberta general election, 2012: Livingstone-Macleod | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Wildrose | Pat Stier | 8,565 | 47.97% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Evan Berger | 7,403 | 41.46% | |||||
| New Democratic | Matthew Halton | 944 | 5.29% | |||||
| Liberal | Alex Macdonald | 597 | 3.34% | |||||
| Evergreen | Larry Ashmore | 347 | 1.94% | |||||
As leader
| Party | Party leader | Number of candidates | Seats | Popular vote | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Dissol. | 2012 | % Change | #1 | % | Change (pp) | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Alison Redford | 87 | 72 | 66 | 61 | –7.85 | 567,060 | 43.95 | –8.77 | |
| Wildrose | Danielle Smith | 87 | — | 4 | 17 | +325 | 442,429 | 34.29 | +27.51 | |
| Liberal | Raj Sherman | 87 | 9 | 8 | 5 | –37.5 | 127,645 | 9.89 | –16.54 | |
| New Democratic | Brian Mason | 87 | 2 | 2 | 4 | +100 | 126,752 | 9.82 | +1.34 | |
| Alberta Party | Glenn Taylor | 38 | — | 1 | — | –100 | 17,172 | 1.33 | +1.32 | |
| Evergreen | Larry Ashmore | 25 | —2 | — | — | — | 5,082 | 0.394 | –4.162 | |
| Independent | 12 | — | 1 | — | –100 | 3,511 | 0.272 | –0.53 | ||
| Social Credit | Len Skowronski | 3 | — | — | — | — | 294 | 0.0228 | –0.19 | |
| Communist | Naomi Rankin | 2 | — | — | — | — | 210 | 0.0163 | +0.01 | |
| Separation | Bart Hampton3 | 13 | — | — | — | — | 68 | 0.00527 | 0.00 | |
| Vacant | 1 | |||||||||
| Total | 429 | 83 | 83 | 87 | +4.82 | 1,290,223 | 100.00% | |||
Notes:
- Results at the count.
- Results change is compared to the Alberta Greens in 2008.
- Elections Alberta lists Bart Hampton as leader of the Separation Party of Alberta, however the party's only candidate is party president Glen Dundas.
- "Nominated Candidates". Elections Alberta. Retrieved April 10, 2012.
- "Unofficial Results". Elections Alberta. Retrieved April 24, 2012.
- "Parties". Elections Alberta. Retrieved April 9, 2012.