Rob Miyashiro
{{short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=December 2024}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| image = Rob Miyashiro SACPA 2023 (cropped).jpg
| name = Rob Miyashiro
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|size=100%|MLAAB}}
| caption = Miyashiro in 2023
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1962|3|19}}
| birth_place = Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
| death_date =
| death_place =
| residence = Lethbridge, Alberta
| office = Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Lethbridge-West
| term_start = December 18, 2024
| term_end =
| children = 3https://robmiyashiro.albertandp.ca/
| predecessor = Shannon Phillips
| successor =
| office1 = Lethbridge City Councillor
| term_start1 = October 28, 2013
| term_end1 = October 25, 2021
| party = NDP (since 2021)
Liberal (until 2012)
| occupation = Executive director, politician
| education = University of Lethbridge
}}
Robert Seiko Miyashiro {{post-nominals|country=CAN|MLAAB}} is a Canadian politician who was elected Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Lethbridge-West in 2024. A member of the Alberta New Democratic Party. He previously served as a member of the Lethbridge City Council from 2013 to 2021.{{Cite web |date=December 18, 2024 |title=Lethbridge-West byelection results: NDP claim victory, Rob Miyashiro to become MLA |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/lethbridge-west-byelection-1.7413491 |access-date=December 18, 2024 |website=CBC News}}
Miyashiro was a candidate for the Alberta NDP in the 2023 Alberta provincial election in the neighbouring riding of Lethbridge-East, where he lost to incumbent cabinet minister Nathan Neudorf by 636 votes. He also ran as a candidate for the Alberta Liberal Party in the 2012 Alberta general election in Lethbridge-East, coming in third place.
Prior to entering politics, Miyashiro worked in the human services sector for over 40 years, and was most recently the executive director of the Lethbridge Senior Citizens Organization.
Personal life
Miyashiro is a third-generation Japanese-Canadian and Okinawan-Canadian. His mother was a school teacher and his father was a sheet metal worker. Miyashiro was born in Lethbridge and raised in nearby Taber, Alberta. He attended the University of Lethbridge.{{Cite web |title=Rob Miyashiro |url=https://robmiyashiro.albertandp.ca/ |access-date=2024-12-19 |website=Alberta's NDP |language=en}}
Electoral history
{{CANelec/top|AB|Lethbridge-West: December 18, 2024|Lethbridge-West|by=yes|percent=yes|change=yes|prelim=no}}
{{CANelec|AB|NDP|Rob Miyashiro| 7,239 | 53.4% | -0.5}}
{{CANelec|AB|UCP|John Middleton-Hope| 6,089 | 44.9% | +2.4}}
{{CANelec|AB|Alberta|Layton Veverka| 233| 1.7% | -0.2}}
{{CANelec/total|Total valid votes|13,561}}
{{CANelec/total|Rejected, spoiled, and declined|}}
{{CANelec/total|Eligible electors|37,096|-25.21%}}
{{CANelec/hold|AB|NDP|-0.5}}
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{{Alberta provincial election, 2023/Lethbridge-East}}
{{2012 Alberta general election/Lethbridge-East}}
References
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{{Alberta MLAs}}
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Category:Alberta New Democratic Party MLAs
Category:Canadian people of Japanese descent
Category:21st-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Category:People from Taber, Alberta
Category:Lethbridge city councillors
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