Robert Edward Wanner (born April 25, 1949) is a Canadian politician who was elected in the

2015 Alberta general election The 2015 Alberta general election was held on May 5, 2015, following a request of Premier Jim Prentice to the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Donald Ethell to dissolve the Legislative Assembly on April 7, 2015. This election elected members to th ...

to the

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representing the

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Medicine Hat Medicine Hat is a city in Southern Alberta, southeast Alberta, Canada. It is located along the South Saskatchewan River. It is approximately east of Lethbridge and southeast of Calgary. This city and the adjacent Town of Redcliff, Alberta, ...

. On June 11, 2015, he was elected as

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. On April 18, 2016, Wanner threw interim PC leader

Ric McIver Richard William McIver (born August 28, 1958) is a Canadian politician who has represented Calgary-Hays in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta since 2012. A member of the United Conservative Party (UCP), McIver is the current minister of munic ...

out of the Alberta legislature for repeatedly refusing to sit down after learning that sheets explaining Wanner's ruling for an NDP amendment on a motion tabled by McIver had been distributed before the amendment was even debated on the floor. Wanner did not seek re-election in the 2019 general election.

Electoral history

2015 general election

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* 1949 births Alberta New Democratic Party MLAs Living people People from Medicine Hat People from Weyburn Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta 21st-century Canadian politicians {{Alberta-politician-stub