Edward Allan (Al) Horning (born 11 June 1939 in Regina,

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) is a

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politician. His career included real estate, shipping, business and orchards. Horning attended secondary school at

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then studied at the

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. In 1980, he became an alderman for the

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, where he remained until 1988. He was elected to the

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in the 1988 federal election at the Okanagan Centre

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for the Progressive Conservative party. He served in the

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but lost to

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of the Reform Party in the 1993 federal election. He made another unsuccessful bid to return to federal Parliament in the 1997 federal election at the Kelowna riding. In 2002, he returned to Kelowna City Council as a councillor. In the 2005 provincial election in British Columbia, Horning was elected to the

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, representing Kelowna-Lake Country as a member of the

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. He did not run for re-election in the 2009 election.

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* 1939 births British Columbia Liberal Party MLAs Kelowna city councillors Living people Members of the House of Commons of Canada from British Columbia Politicians from Regina, Saskatchewan Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs University of British Columbia alumni 21st-century Canadian politicians {{BritishColumbia-MLA-stub