2004 Alberta Senate nominee election

2004 Alberta Senate nominee election

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4 persons to become senators-in-waiting
First party Second party Third party   B.B. B.U. C.B. Candidate Bert Brown Betty Unger Cliff Breitkreuz Party Progressive Conservative Progressive Conservative Progressive Conservative Popular vote 312,041 311,964 241,306 Percentage 14.3% 14.3% 11.1%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   J.S. D.U. Candidate Link Byfield Jim Silye David Usherwood Party Independent Progressive Conservative Progressive Conservative Popular vote 238,751 217,857 193,056 Percentage 11.0% 10.0% 8.9%

The 2004 Alberta Senate nominee election, formally the 3rd Alberta Senate nominee election of Alberta was held on November 22, 2004, to nominate appointments to the Senate of Canada. The Senate nominee election was held in conjunction with the 2004 Alberta general election.

The 3rd Senate nominee election took place six years following the 2nd Senate nominee election held in 1998, and 15 years after the first Senate nominee election held in 1989.

The election came five months following the 2004 Canadian federal election which saw the Liberal government secure a minority under new Prime Minister Paul Martin. Previous Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chrétien refused to appoint senators elected in Alberta in 1998.^[1] Previous Senate nominees from 1998 Bert Brown and Ted Morton, both of the Reform Party failed to be nominated before their five-year term expired. Brown, one of the four nominated senators was subsequently appointed to the Senate by Prime Minister Stephen Harper on July 10, 2007, and Betty Unger was appointed to the Senate on January 6, 2012, becoming the second and third elected senators in the upper chamber.