Donald Hugh Sparrow (November 21, 1935 – July 10, 1993) was a politician from

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, Canada. He served as a member of the

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from 1982 to 1993.

Political career

Sparrow ran for a seat as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the

1982 Alberta general election The 1982 Alberta general election was held on November 2, 1982, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Less than four years had passed since the Progressive Conservatives won their landslide victory in 1979. Premier Peter Lou ...

. He won the Wetaskiwin-Leduc electoral district with a super majority, defeating three other candidates and winning with a 9000 vote plurality over second place candidate Bill Hosford from the

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. He was re-elected with a substantially smaller majority in the

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. Sparrow lost 7,100 votes from his 1982 total, the field of five candidates turned into a two-way race between New Democratic candidate Dick Devries and Sparrow. On election night Sparrow hung on to his district winning a 2000 vote plurality over Devries. Sparrow ran for his third and final term in the

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. His margin of victory shrank as he won a hotly contested three-way election. He retired from public office at dissolution of the Assembly in 1993 and died a few weeks later in an automobile accident near

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and

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References

External links

Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sparrow, Donald 1993 deaths Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs Members of the Executive Council of Alberta 1935 births