Wayne Anderson
Canadian politician
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| Intro | Canadian politician | |
| Places | Canada | |
| is | Politician | |
| Work field | Politics | |
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| Birth | Winnipeg, Winnipeg Metropolitan Region, Manitoba, Canada | |
| Politics: | United Conservative Party |
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Biography
Andrew Wayne Anderson (born 1953) is a Canadian politician who was elected in the 2015 Alberta general election to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the electoral district of Highwood.
Highwood had previously been held by Danielle Smith, the leader of the Wildrose before her defection to the Progressive Conservatives in December 2014. Smith was defeated for the PC nomination by Okotoks councillor Carrie Fischer, who was defeated in the general election by Anderson.
Anderson was defeated in his UCP nomination race in 2018 to RJ Sigurdson.
Electoral history
| 2012 Alberta general election: Calgary-Hays | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Ric McIver | 8,621 | 55.09 | +0.86 | ||||
| Wildrose | Wayne Anderson | 5,670 | 36.23 | +25.60 | ||||
| Liberal | Brian MacPhee | 898 | 5.74 | -22.17 | ||||
| New Democratic | Regina Vergara | 461 | 2.95 | +0.10 | ||||
| Total | 15,650 | |||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | ||||||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | % | |||||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | -12.37 | ||||||
2015 general election
| 2015 Alberta general election: Highwood | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Wildrose | Wayne Anderson | 8,508 | 41.1% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Carrie Fischer | 6,825 | 33.0% | |||||
| New Democratic | Leslie Mahoney | 3,937 | 19.0% | |||||
| Alberta Party | Joel Windsor | 892 | 4.3% | |||||
| Green | Martin Blake | 360 | 1.7% | |||||
| Social Credit | Jeremy Fraser | 187 | 0.9% | |||||