Gordon Wells Shrake is a former municipal and provincial level politician from Alberta

Alberta

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, Canada

Canada

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. He first served as a City of Calgary

Calgary

Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...

 Alderman from 1971 until 1982 when he was elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

Legislative Assembly of Alberta

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, serving from 1982 to 1993.

Alderman

Shrake was first elected to Calgary city council on October 25, 1971. He served as a municipal councilor until resigning after winning a seat in the provincial legislature in 1982.

MLA

While still serving as an Alderman for the City of Calgary, Shrake ran as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the 1982 Alberta general election

Alberta general election, 1982

The Alberta general election of 1982 was the twentieth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. It was held on November 2, 1982 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta....

. He won the electoral district of Calgary Millican

Calgary Millican

Calgary Millican was a historical Alberta provincial electoral district in the central east part of Calgary, Alberta.The district was created in 1971 out of part of Calgary East and Calgary South.It existed until 1993 when it was split...

 defeating New Democrat candidate David Swann

David Swann

David Swann, MLA is a medical doctor and Alberta Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary Mountain View. He was until recently the leader of the Alberta Liberal Party and Leader of the Opposition in the Alberta Legislature....

 by a wide margin. He would run for his second term in office in the 1986 Alberta general election

Alberta general election, 1986

The Alberta general election of 1986 was the twenty-first general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. It was held on May 8, 1986 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta....

. This race proved to be a lot closer for Shrake as his popular vote was cut in half from 1982. Swann ran against him for the second time doubling his popular vote, but not gaining enough support to win. Shrake would run for a third and final term in the 1989 Alberta general election

Alberta general election, 1989

The Alberta general election of 1989 was the twenty-second general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. It was held on March 20, 1989 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta....

. He would gain enough popular support to defeat New Democrat candidate Bill Flookes by just over 100 votes. Shrake retired from provincial politics at dissolution of the Assembly in 1993.

External links

• Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing