John Younie | |
Birth Date: | 30 March 1950 |
Birth Place: | Olds, Alberta |
Office: | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
Constituency: | Edmonton-Glengarry |
Term Start: | 1986 |
Term End: | 1989 |
Predecessor: | Rollie Cook |
Successor: | Laurence Decore |
Party: | Alberta New Democrats |
John Younie (born March 3, 1950) is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for a single term from 1986 to 1989 and sat as a member of the New Democrats caucus when they held official opposition status.[1]
Younie ran for a seat in the Alberta Legislature in the 1979 Alberta general election in the electoral district of Rocky Mountain House. He finished a distant third place out of four candidates behind future Social Credit leader Lavern Ahlstrom and John Murray Campbell who won the district.[2]
He would make another attempt to win a seat by running in the 1986 Alberta general election. He won a hotly contested race in the electoral district of Edmonton-Glengarry by a safe margin defeating four other candidates.[3]
Younie ran for a second term in the 1989 Alberta general election but was defeated in a landslide by Laurence Decore who had become leader of the Liberals the previous year.[4]