Betty Unger

The Honourable
Betty E. Unger
Senator from Alberta
In office
January 6, 2012 – August 21, 2018
Nominated byStephen Harper
Appointed byDavid Johnston
Personal details
Born (1943-08-21) August 21, 1943
Sexsmith, Alberta, Canada[1]
Political partyConservative Party of Canada
Other political
affiliations		Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
Canadian Alliance (2000)

Betty E. Unger (born August 21, 1943) is a Canadian politician and a former member of the Senate of Canada, from Alberta, Canada from January 2012 until her retirement in August 2018 upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75.

Political career

In 2000 Unger ran for the House of Commons of Canada as a candidate for the Canadian Alliance in Edmonton West, losing a close contest to Liberal Cabinet Minister Anne McLellan. The race was so close that the media prematurely declared a Canadian Alliance victory on election night.

In 2004 she ran as a candidate in the 2004 Alberta senate nominee election. She finished a close second place behind Bert Brown. She is the first Albertan woman to be elected a senator-in-waiting. On January 6, 2012, she was appointed to the Senate on the advice of Prime Minister Stephen Harper by Governor General David Johnston.[2]

Electoral record

2004 Alberta Senate nominee election
Candidate Party Votes # Votes % Ballots % Elected Appointed
  Bert Brown Progressive Conservative 312,041 14.3% 43.7% Y July 10, 2007
  Progressive Conservative 311,964 14.3% 43.6% Y January 6, 2012
  Cliff Breitkreuz Progressive Conservative 241,306 11.1% 33.8% Y Term ended March 26, 2012
  Link Byfield Independent 238,751 11.0% 33.4% Y Resigned November 2010[3]
  Jim Silye Progressive Conservative 217,857 10.0% 30.5%
  David Usherwood Progressive Conservative 193,056 8.9% 27.0%
  Michael Roth Alberta Alliance 176,339 8.1% 24.7%
  Vance Gough Alberta Alliance 167,770 7.7% 23.5%
  Tom Sindlinger Independent 161,082 7.4% 22.5%
  Gary Horan Alberta Alliance 156,175 7.2% 21.9%
2000 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Liberal Anne McLellan 21,978 44.24% – $65,989
Alliance 21,245 42.76% – $66,378
Progressive Conservative Rory J. Koopmans 3,009 6.05% – $5,622
New Democratic Richard D. Vanderberg 2,895 5.82% – $10,850
Canadian Action Dan Parker 354 0.71% – $1,157
Marxist–Leninist Peggy Morton 194 0.39% –
Total valid votes 49,675 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 169 0.34%
Turnout 49,844 56.29%

References

  1. ^ Senate biography
  2. ^ "Harper appoints 7 new senators". CBC News. January 6, 2012. Retrieved 2018-05-26.
  3. ^ "Senator-in-waiting Byfield resigns". CBC News. November 22, 2010. Archived from the original on 7 January 2012. Retrieved March 26, 2012.


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