Donald Alfred Tannas (born April 25, 1938) is a former provincial politician from

Alberta Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...

, Canada. He served as a Member of the Alberta Legislature from 1989 until 2004. He was born in Marwayne, Alberta.

Political history

Tannas has a long history of being politically active. He ran for the Progressive Conservative nomination for Highwood in 1974 but lost to George Wolstenholme. He worked on the campaigns for Wolstenholme and later Harry Alger. He worked to fund-raise for the party and later served as President of the Highwood PC Association. After Alger announced his retirement, he ran for the PC nomination again in 1989 and won. Tannas was first elected to the Alberta Legislature in the

1989 Alberta general election The 1989 Alberta general election was held on March 20, 1989, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Many political observers were surprised by the early election call as less than three years had passed since the previous ele ...

. He won a comfortable majority holding the Highwood electoral district for the Progressive Conservatives over Don Dearle of the Liberals and Janice Belgum of the New Democrats. He won his second term with a landslide majority in the

1993 Alberta general election The 1993 Alberta general election was held on June 15, 1993, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. The Conservative government was re-elected, taking 51 seats out of 83 (61 percent of the seats) but only having support of 45 per ...

defeating three other candidates. Tannas improved his plurality to sweep into office for a third term in the

1997 Alberta general election The 1997 Alberta general election was held on March 11, 1997, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Ralph Klein's Conservatives were re-elected, with increased number of seats in the Legislature. Liberal Official Opposition los ...

. Tannas won the biggest plurality of his political career taking almost 80% of the vote in the 2001 Alberta general election. He served as Deputy Speaker in his fourth term. He retired at the dissolution of the Assembly in 2004. His son

Scott Tannas Scott Tannas (born February 25, 1962) is a Canadian senator and, since November 5, 2019, leader of the Canadian Senators Group, a parliamentary caucus. Tannas is the former President/CEO and founder of Western Financial Group (formerly Hi-Al ...

is currently an elected Senator for the province of Alberta.

References

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Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tannas, Don 1938 births Living people Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs 21st-century Canadian politicians