Dianne Mirosh

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Dianne Mirosh is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. She served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1986 to 1997. During her time in office she served a number of cabinet portfolios in the Don Getty and Ralph Klein governments.

[edit] Political career

Mirosh was elected to the Alberta Legislature in the 1986 Alberta general election. She won the electoral district of Calgary Glenmore defeating three other candidates to hold it for the Progressive Conservatives. The race saw a strong challenge by Independent candidate Lois Cummings who finished a strong second.^[1] Mirosh was re-elected in the 1989 Alberta general election. She was nearly defeated by Liberal candidate Brendan Dunphy who about 500 votes behind Mirosh.^[2]

Dunphy and Mirosh would face each other again in the 1993 Alberta general election. Mirosh would win the hotly contested race with 7972 votes to Dunphys 7064. There were four other candidates on the ballot but they all trailed far behind in popularity.^[3] On September 15, 1994 Premier Ralph Klein would appoint Mirosh as the Minister of Science and Research to oversee the provincial governments Science and Research authority, that he had also just created.^[4]

Mirosh did not run for a fourth term in office and retired at dissolution of the Legislature in 1997.