Doug Faulkner
| Doug Faulkner | |
|---|---|
| Mayor of Wood Buffalo, Alberta | |
| In office 1997–2004 | |
| Preceded by | Guy Boutilier |
| Succeeded by | Melissa Blake |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Scotland |
| Residence | Fort McMurray, Alberta |
Doug Faulkner is a Canadian politician, who served as mayor of the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Alberta from 1997 to 2004.[1]
Born in Scotland and raised in Bishops Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador, Faulkner worked in the materials and services department for Syncrude prior to his election as mayor.[2]
Faulkner has also run for federal and provincial office. He ran as a Progressive Conservative candidate in Athabasca in the 2000 election, but switched his affiliation to the Liberal Party in the 2004 election following the merger of the Progressive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance into the contemporary Conservative Party. In the 2012 provincial election in Alberta, he ran as a Wildrose Party candidate in the electoral district of Fort McMurray-Conklin.
Electoral record
| 2012 Alberta general election | Turnout % | Swing | ||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | Party | Personal | |
| Progressive Conservative | Don Scott | 2,591 | 49.00% | * | ||
| Wildrose | Doug Faulkner | 2,121 | 40.11% | * | ||
| NDP | Paul Pomerleau | 419 | 7.92% | * | ||
| Liberal | Ted Remenda | 157 | 2.97% | * | ||
| Total | ' | 100% | ||||
| Rejected, Spoiled and Declined | ' | |||||
| Eligible Electors | ||||||
| Swing % | ||||||
| Canadian federal election, 2004 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Brian Jean | 17,942 | 60.3 | -6.40 | $84,096 | |||
| Liberal | Doug Faulkner | 7,158 | 24.05 | -4.35 | $52,713 | |||
| New Democratic | Robert Cree | 3,115 | 10.46 | +7.94 | $4,942 | |||
| Green | Ian Hopfe | 1,542 | 5.18 | +4.18 | $112 | |||
| Total valid votes | 29,757 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 112 | 0.37 | +0.07 | |||||
| Turnout | 29,869 | 47.85 | -8.43 | |||||
| Canadian federal election, 2000 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | Expenditures | |||
| Alliance | David Chatters | 18,775 | 54.45 | -0.16 | $34,623 | |||
| Liberal | Harold Cardinal | 9,793 | 28.40 | -1.62 | $66,236 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Doug Faulkner | 4,224 | 12.25 | +3.10 | $26,660 | |||
| New Democratic | Alysia Erickson | 872 | 2.52 | -2.17 | ||||
| Marijuana | Reginald Normore | 469 | 1.36 | – | ||||
| Green | Harvey Alex Scott | 345 | 1.00 | -0.50 | $194 | |||
| Total valid votes | 34,478 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 104 | 0.30 | +0.03 | |||||
| Turnout | 34,582 | 56.28 | +6.86 | |||||
References
- ↑ "Former mayor Faulkner runs for Wildrose". mymcmurray.com, January 12, 2012.
- ↑ "Candidate profile: Doug Faulkner, Wildrose". Fort McMurray Today, April 12, 2012.