Bob Turner (Canadian politician)
| Doctor Bob Turner MLA | |
|---|---|
 Turner in May 2015 | |
| Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Edmonton-Whitemud | |
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Assumed office May 5, 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Stephen Mandel |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Andrew Robert Turner June 23, 1948 Brandon, Manitoba |
| Political party | Alberta New Democratic Party |
| Residence | Edmonton, Alberta |
| Occupation | Medical doctor, professor |
Andrew Robert "Bob" Turner (born June 23, 1948) is a Canadian politician who was elected in the Alberta general election, 2015 to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the electoral district of Edmonton-Whitemud.[1] He won his seat with 12,803 votes, defeating incumbent Health Minister and former Mayor of Edmonton, Stephen Mandel by 5,622 votes, or around 57% of the vote to Mandel's 32%. Mandel had previously beaten Turner in an October, 2014 by-election after Mandel was appointed as an unelected minister by then-Premier Jim Prentice.[2][3]
Career
Turner is a hematologist/oncologist at the University of Alberta Hospital and Cross Cancer Institute and is Professor of Medicine and Oncology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He also serves Stanton Medical Clinic in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. He is a graduate of McGill University medical school and has training in Internal Medicine from Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Quebec and Hematology and Medical Oncology from the University of Pittsburgh.[4] He continues to practice medicine, with a special interest in blood disorders such as acute and chronic leukemias, lymphomas, myelodysplastic syndromes, myeloproliferative neoplasms, mast cell diseases and stem cell transplantation.[5] In the past, Turner was the Medical Director of the Canadian Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service Center in Edmonton and Director of the Division of Clinical Hematology of the University of Alberta. In 2007 he was selected as the Physician of the Year by the Edmonton Zone Medical Staff Association.
Electoral history
2014 by-election
| Alberta provincial by-election, October 27, 2014: Edmonton-Whitemud | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Stephen Mandel | 6,003 | 42.39 | -17.85 | ||||
| New Democratic | Bob Turner | 3,150 | 22.24 | 13.24 | ||||
| Wildrose | Tim Grover | 2,680 | 18.92 | 2.72 | ||||
| Liberal | Donna Wilson | 2,033 | 14.35 | 2.39 | ||||
| Alberta Party | Will Munsey | 202 | 1.43 | -0.92 | ||||
| Green | René Malenfant | 95 | 0.67 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 14,163 | |||||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | -15.54 | ||||||
| Elections Alberta.[6] | ||||||||
2015 general election
| Alberta general election, 2015: Edmonton-Whitemud | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
| New Democratic | Bob Turner | 12,805 | 57.45% | +35.21% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Stephen Mandel | 7,177 | 32.20% | -10.19% | ||||
| Wildrose | Chad Peters | 1,423 | 6.38% | -12.94 | ||||
| Liberal | Steven Townsend | 629 | 2.82% | -11.53 | ||||
| Green | Kathryn Jackson | 182 | 0.82% | +0.15% | ||||
| Independent | John Baloun | 73 | 0.33% | |||||
| Total | 22,289 | |||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 113 | |||||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | 37,018 | 60.4% | ||||||
| New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative | Swing | +22.70% | ||||||
References
- ↑ "Riding results: Edmonton-Whitemud". www.edmontonjournal.com.
- ↑ "Riding results: Edmonton-Whitemud". www.edmontonjournal.com.
- ↑ "Health Minister Stephen Mandel dethroned in Edmonton Whitemud". Metro.
- ↑ "Robert Turner - Department of Medicine - University of Alberta". ualberta.ca.
- ↑ "Medical Oncology". ualberta.ca.
- ↑ "Report on the October 27, 2014 By-elections" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Retrieved 19 May 2016.