Muriel Ross Abdurahman (April 29, 1938 – December 22, 2013) was a politician from

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, Canada. She served in the

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from 1993 to 1997.

Political career

Fort Saskatchewan Town Council

Abdurahman was elected to

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town council in 1977. She was elected Mayor of Fort Saskatchewan in 1980 and 1983, and was the first Mayor of the City of Fort Saskatchewan following its incorporation as a city in 1985. Abdurahman resigned midway through her second term as mayor in order to contest the

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Provincial Politics

Abdurahman first ran for the Alberta Legislature in the 1986 general election. Running in the electoral district of Clover Bar under the Progressive Conservative banner, she finished a distant second to incumbent Representative Party MLA

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. She ran as a

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candidate in the 1993 general election in the new electoral district of

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and defeated incumbent independent MLA Kurt Gesell. In the

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she earned a greater share of the popular vote than in 1993 but was defeated by Progressive Conservative candidate Rob Lougheed.

References

External links

Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing
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