Doug Faulkner - Wikipedia

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Doug Faulkner
Mayor of Wood Buffalo, Alberta
In office 1997–2004
Preceded by	Guy Boutilier
Succeeded by	Melissa Blake
Personal details
Born	1942 Inverness, Scotland
Died	17 July 2024 (aged 82)
Residence(s)	Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada

Doug Faulkner (1942 – 17 July 2024) was a Canadian politician, who served as mayor of the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Alberta from 1997 to 2004.^[1]

Born in Scotland and raised in Bishops Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador, Faulkner worked in the materials and services department for Syncrude prior to his election as mayor.^[2]

Faulkner also ran for federal and provincial office. He ran as a Progressive Conservative candidate in Athabasca in the 2000 election, but switched his affiliation to the Liberal Party in the 2004 election following the merger of the Progressive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance into the contemporary Conservative Party. In the 2012 provincial election in Alberta, he ran as a Wildrose Party candidate in the electoral district of Fort McMurray-Conklin. Faulkner died on 17 July 2024, at the age of 82.^[3]

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Alliance	David Chatters	18,775	54.45	-0.16	$34,623
	Liberal	Harold Cardinal	9,793	28.40	-1.62	$66,236
	Progressive Conservative	Doug Faulkner	4,224	12.25	+3.10	$26,660
	New Democratic	Alysia Erickson	872	2.52	-2.17
	Marijuana	Reginald Normore	469	1.36	–
	Green	Harvey Alex Scott	345	1.00	-0.50	$194
Total valid votes	34,478	100.00
Total rejected ballots	104	0.30	+0.03
Turnout	34,582	56.28	+6.86

2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Brian Jean	17,942	60.3	-6.40	$84,096
	Liberal	Doug Faulkner	7,158	24.05	-4.35	$52,713
	New Democratic	Robert Cree	3,115	10.46	+7.94	$4,942
	Green	Ian Hopfe	1,542	5.18	+4.18	$112
Total valid votes	29,757	100.00
Total rejected ballots	112	0.37	+0.07
Turnout	29,869	47.85	-8.43

v t e 2012 Alberta general election: Fort McMurray-Conklin
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Don Scott	2,588	48.95
	Wildrose	Doug Faulkner	2,123	40.16
	New Democratic	Paul Pomerleau	419	7.93
	Liberal	Ted Remenda	157	2.97
Total valid votes	5,287	99.17
Rejected, spoiled and declined	44	0.83
Turnout	5,331	36.30
Eligible electors	14,686
	Progressive Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s) Elections Alberta. "Election Results - Fort McMurray-Conklin". officialresults.elections.ab.ca/. Retrieved 27 December 2021.