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Biography
Ronald James Nelson Orr (born 1954) is a Canadian politician from Alberta. Orr was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for the electoral district of Lacombe-Ponoka from 2015 until 2023. Orr served as a member of Executive Council of Alberta in the cabinet of Jason Kenney holding the position of Minister of Culture, Multiculturalism and Status of Women from 2021 to 2022.
Political life
Orr was elected in the 2015 Alberta general election to represent the electoral district of Lacombe-Ponoka in the 29th Alberta Legislature as a member of the Wildrose Party. Orr was re-elected in the 2019 Alberta general election to the 30th Alberta Legislature.
Orr was appointed to the Cabinet of Jason Kenney as the Minister of Culture on 8 July 2021.
During the 2022 United Conservative Party leadership election, Orr endorsed the campaign of Travis Toews. Following Danielle Smith's selection as United Conservative Party leader, Orr was not selected to join Danielle Smith's Cabinet. On 25 October 2022, Orr announced he wouldn't seek re-election in 2023. He was succeeded by Jennifer Johnson.
Electoral history
2015 general election
| 2015 Alberta general election: Lacombe-Ponoka | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Wildrose | Ron Orr | 6,502 | 35.71% | -8.26% | ||||
| New Democratic | Doug Hart | 5,481 | 30.10% | 20.21% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Peter Dewit | 5,018 | 27.56% | -8.31% | ||||
| Alberta Party | Tony Jeglum | 1,206 | 6.62% | 1.40% | ||||
| Total | 18,207 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 83 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 30,827 | 59.33% | 2.52% | |||||
| Wildrose hold | Swing | -1.24% | ||||||
Source(s) Source: "66 - Lacombe-Ponoka, 2015 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved 21 May 2020. | ||||||||
2019 general election
| 2019 Alberta general election: Lacombe-Ponoka | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Ron Orr | 17,379 | 71.31 | +8.03 | ||||
| New Democratic | Doug Hart | 3,639 | 14.93 | -15.17 | ||||
| Alberta Party | Myles Chykerda | 2,520 | 10.34 | +3.72 | ||||
| Freedom Conservative | Keith Parrill | 328 | 1.35 | – | ||||
| Alberta Independence | Tessa Szwagierczak | 279 | 1.14 | – | ||||
| Advantage | Shawn Tylke | 227 | 0.93 | – | ||||
| Total | 24,372 | 99.26 | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 181 | 0.74 | +0.28 | |||||
| Turnout | 24,553 | 75.07 | +15.74 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 32,706 | |||||||
| United Conservative notional hold | Swing | +11.60 | ||||||
Source(s) Source: "68 - Lacombe-Ponoka, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved 21 May 2020. | ||||||||
