Linda Johnson (politician)

Linda Johnson

MLA for Calgary-Glenmore
In office April 23, 2012 – May 5, 2015
Preceded by	Paul Hinman
Succeeded by	Anam Kazim

Personal details
Born	1958/1959 (age 58–59)^[1] Halifax, Nova Scotia
Political party	Progressive Conservative
Residence	Calgary, Alberta

Linda Johnson (born c. 1959) is a Canadian politician who was an elected member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, representing the electoral district of Calgary-Glenmore, from 2012 to 2015.^[2]^[3]

Her interest in politics began during her high school days when she became active with the Progressive Conservative party. Her first involvement was as a volunteer for former MLA Dennis Anderson. She worked in Ottawa as an assistant to Harvie Andre, MP for Calgary-Centre. She returned to Calgary becoming constituency assistant for Jim Hawkes, MP for Calgary-West.

Electoral record

Alberta general election, 2015: Calgary-Glenmore
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Anam Kazim	7,021	33.2
	Progressive Conservative	Linda Johnson	7,015	33.2
	Wildrose	Chris Kemp-Jackson	5,058	23.9
	Liberal	David Waddington	1,345	6.4
	Alberta Party	Terry Lo	719	3.4
Total valid votes			21,158	100.0
Rejected, spoiled and declined			134
Turnout			21,292	57.4
Eligible voters			37,109
Source: Elections Alberta^[4]

Alberta general election, 2012: Calgary-Glenmore
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Linda Johnson	8,408	48.95%
	Wildrose	Paul Hinman	6,472	37.68%
	Liberal	Dan MacAulay	1,227	7.14%
	New Democratic	Richard Collier	1,071	6.23%

References

↑ Van, Jason (2012-04-25). "Selling Tupperware helped Linda Johnson gain success in Calgary-Glenmore". Canada.com. Retrieved 2015-03-08.
↑ Alberta Election 2012: Riding-by-riding results. The Globe and Mail, April 23, 2012.
↑ "Legislative Assembly of Alberta". assembly.ab.ca. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
↑ "2015 Provincial General Election Results". Elections Alberta. Archived from the original on 2017-07-30. Retrieved 2017-07-30.

Current members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
New Democratic	Notley S. Anderson Babcock Bilous Carlier Carson Ceci Connolly Coolahan Cortes-Vargas Dach Dang Drever Eggen Feehan Fitzpatrick Ganley Goehring Gray Hinkley Hoffman Horne Jabbour Jansen Kazim Kleinsteuber Larivee Littlewood Loyola Luff Malkinson Mason McCuaig-Boyd McKitrick McLean McPherson Miller Miranda Nielsen Payne Phillips Piquette Renaud Rosendahl Sabir Schmidt Schreiner Shepherd Sigurdson Sucha Sweet Turner Wanner Westhead Woollard
United Conservative	Cooper Aheer W. Anderson Barnes Cyr Drysdale Ellis Fraser Gill Gotfried Hanson Hunter Jean Loewen MacIntyre McIver Nixon Orr Panda Pitt Rodney Schneider Smith Stier Strankman Taylor van Dijken Yao
Progressive Conservative	Starke
Liberal	Swann
Alberta Party	Clark
No affiliation	Fildebrandt

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