William Kenneth Ure was a provincial level politician from Alberta

Alberta

Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

, Canada

Canada

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. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

Legislative Assembly of Alberta

The Legislative Assembly of Alberta is one of two components of the Legislature of Alberta, the other being the Queen, represented by the Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta. The Alberta legislature meets in the Alberta Legislature Building in the provincial capital, Edmonton...

 from 1959 to 1971 sitting with the governing Social Credit caucus.

Political career

Ure ran for as a seat to the Alberta Legislature for the first time in the Red Deer

Red Deer (provincial electoral district)

Red Deer was a provincial electoral district representing the city of Red Deer, Alberta in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1905 to 1986...

 electoral district in the 1959 Alberta general election

Alberta general election, 1959

The Alberta general election of 1959 was the fourteenth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. It was held on June 18, 1959 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.Ernest C...

. He defeated incumbent Progressive Conservative MLA William Kirby

Cam Kirby

The Hon. William J. Cameron Kirby, Q.C. was an Alberta politician, leader of the Conservative Party, barrister, Queen's Counsel, and a Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench.Born in Calgary...

 in landslide to pick up the district for the Social Credit party.

He ran for a second term in the 1963 Alberta general election

Alberta general election, 1963

The Alberta general election of 1963 was the fifteenth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. It was held on June 17, 1963 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.The Social Credit Party, led by Ernest C...

. His popular support dropped slightly, but he still easily defeated his three challengers by a wide margin to hold his seat.

Ure ran for his third term in office in the 1967 Alberta general election

Alberta general election, 1967

The Alberta general election of 1967 was the sixteenth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. It was held on May 23, 1967 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta....

. He ran in a tight election against future MLA James Foster

James L. Foster

James "Jim" L. Foster was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1979 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

. Ure increased his popular vote slightly from the previous general election, but his margin of victory slid as Foster came a close second out of the four candidates.

The Red Deer electoral district had its boundaries changed due to redistribution in 1971. Ure ran for re-election in the new riding of Innisfail

Innisfail (provincial electoral district)

Innisfail is a former Alberta provincial electoral district that existed from 1905 to 1993.-1905 general election:-External links:*...

. He was defeated in a hotly contested straight fight with Progressive Conservative candidate Clifford Doan

Clifford Doan

Clifford Lawrence Doan was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1979 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus.-Political career:...

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Ure's brother David Ure served as a Legislative Assembly of Alberta member for Red Deer from 1943 to 1954.

External links

• Alberta Legislative Assembly 2001 Annual General Report