Sue Olsen

Sue Olsen is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. She served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1997 until 2001.

Political career

Olsen was elected to the Alberta Legislature in the 1997 Alberta general election. She defeated incumbent Andrew Beniuk to win her only term in office.[1]

Olsen resigned her seat in the Alberta Legislature to run for a seat in the House of Commons of Canada in the electoral district of Edmonton Centre-East as a federal Liberal candidate in the 2000 federal election. The election was closely contested but, Olsen lost by 3000 votes to incumbent Member of Parliament Peter Goldring.[2]

gollark: Although handwritten digital notes are still annoying since they're hard to index.
gollark: Yes, paper bad.
gollark: I have about four A4-sized books of maths notes from this year and every additional one makes looking up information harder.
gollark: I mostly have paper notes for things because school, but they're annoying when I have to reference them because I generate a *lot* of notes and have to linear-search them.
gollark: (Very unstable)

References
  1. "Edmonton-Norwood Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage. Retrieved 2008-03-08.
  2. "Edmonton Centre-East". Parliament of Canada. Retrieved February 27, 2010.
Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Preceded by
Andrew Beniuk		 MLA Edmonton Norwood
1997–2001		 Succeeded by
Gary Masyk


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