| Intro | Canadian politician |
| Is | Politician |
| From | Canada |
| Type | Politics |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 16 October 1978, Alberta |
| Age: | 41 years |
| Star sign | Libra |
Marlin Schmidt (born October 16, 1978) is a Canadian politician who was elected in the Alberta general election, 2015 to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the electoral district of Edmonton-Gold Bar. Schmidt currently serves as the Minister of Advanced Education.
Prior to serving with the Legislative Assembly, Schmidt specialized in site remediation for over a decade. From 2008 to 2015 he worked for Alberta Environment as a soil and groundwater contamination specialist, and previous to this, he worked as a remediation specialist, beginning in 2002. He holds a master of science degree in applied environmental geosciences from Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen in Germany and a bachelor of science from Queen’s University in Kingston.
Electoral history
2012 general election
| 2012 Alberta general election | Turnout % | Swing | |||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | Party | Personal | ||
| Progressive Conservative | David Dorward | 6,689 | 33% | ||||
| NDP | Marlin Schmidt | 5,809 | 29% | % | % | ||
| Liberal | Josipa Petrunic | 4,072 | 20% | ||||
| Wildrose | Linda Carlson | 3,175 | 16% | ||||
| Alberta Party | Dennis O’Neill | 344 | 2% | ||||
| Evergreen | David Parker | 201 | 1% | % | * | ||
| Total | |||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | |||||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | % | ||||||
2015 general election
| Alberta general election, 2015 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| New Democratic | Marlin Schmidt | 15,350 | 68.9 | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | David Dorward | 4,145 | 18.6 | |||||
| Wildrose | Justin James | 1,422 | 6.4 | |||||
| Liberal | Ronald Brochu | 702 | 3.2 | |||||
| Alberta Party | Cristina Stasia | 662 | 3.0 | |||||