1971 Alberta general election

none September 2023 1971 Alberta general election Alberta legislative no no 1967 Alberta general election 1967 1971 8 30 1975 Alberta general election 1975 75 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta 38 seats were needed for a majority Peter Lougheed - Premier of Alberta - 1983.jpg AB PC nohash Peter Lougheed AB PC name 1965 Calgary-West 6 seats, 26.0% 10 49 39 296,934 46.4% 20.4% Alberta general election 1971 - Results by Riding.svg 400px Popular vote by riding. As this is a first-past-the-post election, seat totals are not determined by total popular vote, but instead by results in each riding. Premier Harry Strom AB Social Credit name Premier after election Peter Lougheed AB PC name 16th Alberta Legislative Assembly members Harry Strom portrait (cropped).jpg AB Social Credit nohash Harry Strom AB Social Credit name December 12, 1968 Cypress 55 seats, 44.6% 55 25 30 262,953 41.1% 3.5% Grant Notley circa 1969.jpg AB NDP nohash Grant Notley AB NDP name 1968 ran in Spirit River-Fairview (won) 0 seats, 16.0% 0 1 1 73,038 11.4% 4.6% The 1971 Alberta general election was the seventeenth general election held in the Province of Alberta, Canada on August 30, 1971, to elect seventy-five members of the Alberta Legislature to form the 17th Alberta Legislative Assembly. The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta led by Peter Lougheed won 49 of 75 seats with 46.4 per cent of the popular vote in the new legislature to form a majority government. Lougheed's Progressive Conservatives defeated the incumbent Social Credit Party led by Premier Harry Strom who won 25 seats with 41.1 per cent of the popular vote. The 1971 election was the first of 12 consecutive election victories for the Progressive Conservatives. They would govern for 44 years from 1971 to 2015, the longest run in government at the provincial level in Canada. The election also marked the end of Social Credit's dynasty in the province; the Socreds had governed without interruption since 1935. Background 1967 Alberta general election 1967 Alberta general election In the May 1967 election, Progressive Conservative leader Peter Lougheed and his supporters worked to convince candidates to run in all 65 constituencies; however, the Progressive Conservatives were only able to nominate 47 candidates.Perry Craig 2006 523 This was two more than the Liberal Party which had 45, but less than the full slates put forward by the Social Credit Party and the New Democratic Party.Wood 1985 47 Lougheed was subsequently elected to the legislature in Calgary-West garnering 62 per cent of the vote, and the Progressive Conservatives captured 26 per cent of the vote province-wide with five other successful candidates.Wood 1985 61 With six elected MLAs, Lougheed became Leader of the Opposition. The group of elected Conservatives known as the "original six" included Calgary MLAs Len Werry and David Russell, Edmonton area MLAs Lou Hyndman and Don Getty, and the party's only rural MLA and former federal Member of Parliament Hugh Horner.Perry Craig 2006 524 The Edmonton Journal remarked positively on Lougheed's success following the 1967 election, stating Albertans had a responsible and credible alternative as opposition.Perry Craig 2006 524 Lead up to 1971 Ernest C. Manning had resigned as Social Credit leader and premier in 1968 after 25 years in office, a year after leading the Socreds to their ninth consecutive majority government. His successor, Harry E. Strom, had been unable to revive a government increasingly seen as tired, complacent and old-fashioned. The Socreds had been in government for almost two generations, having won their first victory more than a decade before the discovery of Leduc No. 1, which led to a massive oil boom in Alberta. Though the legislature's mandate from the 1967 election was not due to expire until May 1972, five years after it started, convention in Canadian politics is for legislatures to be dissolved every four years or less.Barr 2004 193 Accordingly, Strom resolved to call an election in 1971, sometime between May and September.Barr 2004 193 He briefly considered a spring campaign, in the hopes that the planting season would have farmers feeling optimistic and therefore inclined to support the incumbent government. However, after concluding that farmers would not react well to going to the polls in the middle of planting or harvest season, Strom finally settled on August 30.Barr 2004 193Barr 2004 195 The Progressive Conservatives, on the other hand, had significant momentum going into the 1971 election. They had been very active for an opposition party in a Westminster system, introducing 21 bills. In a Westminster system, a majority government can normally run roughshod over the legislature. Lougheed's Progressive Conservative caucus further grew from the "Original Six" with the election of Robert Dowling in the October 1969 Edson by-election,Wood 1985 69 Bill Dickie, a long-time friend of Lougheed, crossing the floor from the Liberals to join his caucus in November 1969,Wood 1985 69 and Banff-Cochrane independent representative Clarence Copithorne joining the party in April 1971. This growth saw the Lougheed-led Progressive Conservatives enter the August 1971 election with 10 incumbents.Wood 1985 70 Campaign Social Credit campaign A campaign committee was assembled, and recommended a budget of $580,000.Barr 2004 194 The party recruited star candidates, including Calgary alderman George Ho Lem and former Calgary Stampeder star Don Luzzi (Edmonton alderman and future mayor Cec Purves was defeated in his bid to win the Social Credit nomination in Edmonton-Strathcona from Strathcona Centre incumbent Joseph Donovan Ross), but was handicapped in these efforts by Strom's unwillingness to offer cabinet posts or other incentives to potential new candidates.Barr 2004 193Barr 2004 194 Strom's lack of personal charisma was also a liability: tellingly, of the large budget recommended by the central committee, only $72,000 was recommended for use on television advertising, where Strom did not shine.Barr 2004 194 The party tried to revitalize the Premier's image through publicity movies, though efforts were mixed.Barr 2004 193 In one, which was pulled after a single showing, Strom appeared scowling in his living room, urging Albertans to lower their expectations of government.Barr 2004 193 Another, produced by Tommy Banks and showing Strom in a variety of settings talking about the province's changing face, was more successful.Barr 2004 194 The campaign did not give Social Credit partisans much reason for optimism. Strom did not draw the crowds that Progressive Conservative opposition leader Peter Lougheed did, although an August 25 rally in Edmonton's Jubilee Auditorium featuring speeches by Strom and Manning was full.Barr 2004 196–197 After criticizing the Conservatives' medicare platform, which promised free medicare to Albertans older than 65, as spendthrift, Strom announced Social Credit's barely cheaper alternative: medicare to Albertans older than 65 for one dollar per month.Barr 2004 195 The Edmonton Journal, which had earlier published a poll showing that a plurality of Edmontonians intended to vote Progressive Conservative, endorsed Lougheed for Premier.Barr 2004 196–197 Progressive Conservative campaign The Progressive Conservative Party had been preparing for an election to be called since mid-1970.Wood 1985 73 The party developed slogans and branding which was one of the first instances in Alberta where political printing and branding was centrally controlled, with individual constituencies unable to develop their own materials. This centralization was intended to reinforce the party's key messages and ensure repetition in the eyes of voters.Wood 1985 74 An advertising budget of $120,000 was set to provide $80,000 for television advertisements and the rest of other materials for constituencies across the province.Wood 1985 74–75 Lougheed's focus on television contrasted Social Credit's use of radio for the less gregarious Strom.Wood 1985 76 Lougheed's team was careful with messaging, stressing the idea of the Progressive Conservative providing an "alternative" rather than "opposition".Perry Craig 2006 525 Lougheed developed a 40-day schedule that brought him to each constituency to "meet and greet" with potential voters.Wood 1985 77Perry Craig 2006 525 Election The 16th Legislature was prorogued on April 27, 1971, and dissolved three months later on July 22 with an election day set on August 30, 1971. Electoral boundaries A number of electoral districts were redistributed following 1970 amendments to The Elections Act, The Election Act RSA 1970 C-117 http://canlii.ca/t/53rn7 which were informed by the 1968 Report of the Alberta Committee on Redistribution Procedure written by the Special Committee on Redistribution chaired by Social Credit member Frederick C. Colborne.Special Committee on Redistribution Report of the Alberta Committee on Redistribution Procedure 1968 Legislative Assembly of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta https://archive.org/details/reportofcommitte00albe_1/mode/2up 22 May 2020 The number of members elected to the legislature was increased from 65 to 75, Voting and eligibility Amendments to the Age of Majority Act lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 years.Perry Craig 2006 525 Aftermath The collapse of the other opposition parties made the Progressive Conservatives the only credible challenger to the Social Credit. The Progressive Conservatives took 46 per cent of the popular vote and won 49 of the 75 seats in the legislature, enough for a strong majority government. This would be the first of twelve consecutive victories for the PCs; they would remain in government without interruption until their defeat in 2015, making them the longest serving political dynasty in Canadian history.https://www.ctvnews.ca/alberta-pcs-win-historic-12th-straight-majority-1.799835 https://web.archive.org/web/20140905025241/http://www.ctvnews.ca/alberta-pcs-win-historic-12th-straight-majority-1.799835 dead September 5, 2014 Alberta PCs win historic 12th straight majority April 23, 2012 CTV Calgary May 11, 2012 The 1971 election is considered a classic example of a realigning election. Social Credit garnered a record number of votes in this election compared to previous elections, which had been plagued by low turn-outs. However, the Progressive Conservatives converted this slim lead into a large lead in seats due to their success in the province's two largest cities: Edmonton, where the Progressive Conservatives won every seat, and Calgary, where they took all but five. While many of the Social Credit losses came by small margins, those losses, combined with the party being practically shut out in Calgary and Edmonton, were enough to deny Social Credit a 10th term. Due to the nature of the first past the post system, which awards power solely on the basis of seat count, Social Credit lost almost half of its caucus, taking 25 seats to the Progressive Conservative's 49.Barr 2004 198 Though Social Credit's share of the vote had only slipped slightly, losing five points, Lougheed benefited from a substantial reduction in the New Democrats' vote and a near-collapse of the Liberals'.Barr 2004 198 Strom conceded defeat in Edmonton and returned home to Medicine Hat.Barr 2004 198 The defeat sent Social Credit into headlong decline. Its membership in the Assembly shrank over the next ten years and disappeared altogether by 1982. The Liberal Party was shut out of the legislature. One Liberal, Bill Dickie, had crossed the floor to the PCs. Another, William Switzer, died in 1969. The remaining Liberal, Michael Maccagno, resigned to run, unsuccessfully as it turned out, for the federal Parliament. Alberta New Democratic Party leader Grant Notley was the only one in his party to win election. He sat as the only New Democrat in the legislature until 1982. His daughter Rachel would lead the NDP to victory over the Progressive Conservatives in 2015, ending its 44 years in office. Results centre|300px PartyParty leader# ofcandidatesSeatsPopular vote1967Dissol.Elected+/-#%% Change AB PC row Progressive Conservative Peter Lougheed 75 6 10 49 +43 296,934 46.40% +20.40% AB Social Credit row Social Credit Harry E. Strom75 55 55 25 −30 262,953 41.10% −3.50% AB NDP row New Democrats Grant Notley 70 - - 1 +1 73,038 11.42% −4.56% AB Liberal row-name Bob Russell 20 3 - - −3 6,475 1.01% −9.80% AB Independent rowIndependent 3 1 - - −1 462 0.07% −1.31%Total 243 65 65 75 +10 639,862 100% –Source: Elections Alberta Popular vote #ddd 600px 410px PC AB PC 46.40 Social Credit AB Social Credit 41.10 New Democratic AB NDP 11.42 Liberal AB Liberal 1.01 Others CA Inde 0.07Seats summary #ddd 600px 410px PC AB PC 65.33 Social Credit AB Social Credit 33.33 New Democratic AB NDP 1.33 Daylight saving time plebiscite Daylight saving time plebiscite Do you favour province-wide daylight saving time? Alberta 1971 08 30 386,846 242,431 629,277 Alberta voters participated in a province-wide plebiscite on the question of whether or not to endorse a proposal to adopt daylight saving time (summer time). Voters endorsed the proposal by a wide margin, 61 per cent approving of the change. Background In 1948, the Government of Alberta formally set the province's time zone with the passage of The Daylight Saving Time Act,An Act Respecting the use of Daylight Saving Time within the Province, SA 1948, c 18, retrieved from CanLII on July 21, 2021 which mandated the entire province observe Mountain Standard Time, and prevented any municipality from observing daylight saving time or any other time zone. The legislation came after Calgary (1946 and 1947), and Edmonton (1946) held municipal plebiscites that approved the move to daylight saving time. Alberta's urban municipalities were largely in favour of daylight saving time and pressured the provincial government to hold a provincial plebiscite or permit municipalities to observe daylight saving time.Daylight Saving Vote Sought Edmonton Journal July 9, 1963 31 2396983702 The effort in the legislature was spearheaded by Liberal MLA and Calgary Alderman Bill Dickie, who in March 1964 brought forward a motion to permit municipalities to hold plebiscites on the issue; the motion was defeated by the Social Credit government. At the time, Social Credit MLA William Patterson described daylight saving time as "that fandangled thing", and Minister Allen Russell Patrick stated municipal daylight saving time would be difficult for tourists to understand.Cove Lynne Under the Dome Calgary Herald March 11, 1964 Edmonton 1 2253643631 In February 1966, the Social Credit government finally gave in to the calls for a provincial plebiscite on daylight saving time, approving a motion submitted by Bill Dickie.Daylight Time: Legislature Votes to Hold Plebiscite Edmonton Journal February 25, 1966 15 2397521988 The government responded on March 29, 1966, with Minister Alfred Hooke introducing An Act to amend The Daylight Saving Time Act (Bill 75) which amended the Daylight Saving Time ActAn Act to amend The Daylight Saving Time Act, SA 1966, c 27, retrieved from CanLII on July 21, 2021 to permit the government to hold a plebiscite on the issue. Alberta voters were asked the question "Do you favour Province-wide Daylight Saving Time?", during the 1967 Alberta general election. A narrow majority of 51.25 per cent of voters rejected daylight saving time. Most of the opposition was located in rural areas, while strong support for daylight saving time was seen in the cities of Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge, and Medicine Hat. By 1967, each province besides Alberta and Saskatchewan had adopted daylight saving time. Many Alberta businesses provided for modified summer hours to coordinate with other provinces with daylight saving time, including the Alberta Stock Exchange which started at 7 a.m. to align with exchanges in Toronto and Montreal. Air Canada released a statement expressing the difficulty of distributing flight schedules with flights in Alberta.Daylight Saving...Everyone Out Of Step Calgary Herald April 29, 1967 31 2253792698 After 25 years as Premier, Social Credit leader Ernest Manning stepped down on December 12, 1968, and his successor Harry Strom was sworn in as Premier. Only a few months later in April 1969, Strom announced Albertans would once again be asked to vote on daylight saving time in conjunction with the next scheduled provincial general election. During the announcement, Strom stated he was neutral on the topic and did not have a preference one way or another.Bell Bob Alberta to get DST plebiscite Edmonton Journal April 17, 1969 29 2397475495 Campaign Once again Calgary residents and businessmen Bill Creighton and David Matthews led a campaign for daylight saving times, just as they did in 1967, arguing the benefits of an additional hour of late sunlight for sports.Boyer J. Patrick Direct democracy in Canada: the history and future of referendums 1992 Dundurn Press Toronto 978-1-55002-183-7 128 https://archive.org/details/directdemocracyi0000boye Creighton learned from the successful and well-funded "no" campaign in 1967 led by the Alberta Council for Standard Time and Calgary lawyer and drive-in movie operator R. H. Barron. Creighton and Matthews formed the "Yes for Daylight Saving Society" to advocate during the leadup to the 1971 plebiscite, mirroring the organized approach of the "no" campaign in 1967.Thomson Stuart Daylight saving time pioneers oppose move to scrap twice-yearly clock shift in Alberta https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/daylight-saving-time-pioneers-oppose-move-to-scrap-twice-yearly-clock-shift-in-alberta 23 July 2021 Edmonton Journal March 9, 2017'Beat that night life - vote for DST' Edmonton Journal August 19, 1971 53 2397691439 The Edmonton chapter had a $1,000 budget for advertising and even crowned a "Miss Daylight Saving Time", who made appearances throughout Edmonton. The arguments made for daylight saving time were similar to 1967, more amateur sport time, saving 150 hours of electricity each summer and aligning Alberta with the eight other provinces that observed daylight saving time. The primary opposition to daylight saving time was described by members of the "Yes for Daylight Saving Society" as farmers, housewives and drive-in movie operators. In the 1967 campaign, the Alberta Council for Standard Time raised $30,000 for advertisements, but opposition was much less vocal during the 1971 campaign. Unifarm, an agricultural organization, publicly opposed daylight saving time, but it was not willing to spend significantly on a counter-campaign.DST: controversy that fizzled Volkart Carol Edmonton Journal August 13, 1971 1, 6 2397601564 Aftermath The 1971 plebiscite on daylight saving time resulted in an overwhelming majority of the Alberta population approving the transition. A statement from Unifarm, a farmer representative organization that opposed daylight saving time, stated that the organization anticipated the proposal would pass and downplayed the consequences for farmers.Hull Ken Alberta lets more sun in Calgary Herald August 31, 1971 1 2258311130 The new Progressive Conservative government highlighted the change to observe daylight saving in the Speech from the Throne in early March 1972,Tories put stress on human rights Calgary Herald March 2, 1972 1 2258361856 and Attorney-General Merv Leitch announced on March 14, 1972 that Alberta would officially switch to daylight saving time on April 30, 1972, DST to last until October 29, 1972.DST Starts April 30 Edmonton Journal March 15, 1972 1 2397658522 Results Do you favour province-wide daylight saving time?ForAgainst386,846   61.47%242,431   38.53% Do you favour province-wide daylight saving time? #ddd 600px 410px For #32cd32 61.47 Against #ff0000 38.53For break down of results see individual districts Results by riding Calgary AB Social Credit PC Liberal NDP Other |- |Calgary-Bow||AB Social Credit background| |Roy Wilson5,53947.84% | |Bill Wearmouth4,56339.41% | | | |Fred Spooner1,40712.15% | |||AB background| | |- |Calgary-Buffalo | |Don Luzzi5,23842.31%||AB PC background| |Ronald H. Ghitter5,70546.09% | | | |Jane Ann Summers1,36411.02% | |||AB background| | |- |Calgary-Currie | |Frederick C. Colborne4,67943.43%||AB PC background| |Fred H. Peacock5,25548.78% | | | |Margaret I. Jackson7917.34% | |||AB background| | |- |Calgary-Egmont | |Pat O'Byrne5,50340.94%||AB PC background| |Merv Leitch6,79150.52% | | | |Ron Stuart1,0607.89% | |||AB background| | |- |Calgary-Elbow | |L.A. Thorssen4,48041.63%||AB PC background| |David J. Russell5,54751.54% | | | |Dolores LeDrew6886.39% | |||AB background| | |- |Calgary-Foothills | |Jay Salmon5,88539.30%||AB PC background| |Len F. Werry7,69351.38% | | | |James Staples1,3709.15% | |||AB background| | |- |Calgary-Glenmore | |Raymond A. Kingsmith5,12237.21%||AB PC background| |William Daniel Dickie7,65855.64% | | | |George C. McGuire8065.86% | |||AB PC background| |William Daniel Dickie |- |Calgary-McCall||AB Social Credit background| |George Ho Lem5,11643.70% | |John Kushner4,18735.76% | |Natalie Chapman1511.29% | |Ted Takacs1,98416.95% | |||AB background| | |- |Calgary-McKnight | |Jim Richards5,36841.60%||AB PC background| |Calvin E. Lee6,13447.54% | |Philip T. Keuber2461.91% | |Walter H. Siewert1,0978.50% | |||AB background| | |- |Calgary-Millican||AB Social Credit background| |Arthur J. Dixon4,53948.74% | |Norman Kwong2,97331.93% | |Carole Walter1531.64% | |Clarence Lacombe1,54316.57% | |||AB background| | |- |Calgary-Mountain View||AB Social Credit background| |Albert W. Ludwig4,99051.11% | |George Swales3,53336.19% | | | |E.C. Baldwin1,14911.77% | |||AB background| | |- |Calgary-North Hill | |Robert A. Simpson4,90042.88%||AB PC background| |Roy Alexander Farran4,96143.41% | | | |Barry Pashak1,34111.74% | |Carl L. Riech (Ind.)1211.06%||AB background| | |- |Calgary-West | |Charles Grey4,31933.68%||AB PC background| |Peter Lougheed7,04954.96% | |Brian Stevenson3332.60% | |Joe Yanchula1,0668.31% | |||AB PC background| |Peter Lougheed |} Edmonton AB Social Credit PC Liberal NDP Other |- |Edmonton-Avonmore | |Joe G. Radstaak3,68139.87%||AB PC background| |Horst A. Schmid3,91342.39% | |John Kloster2572.78% | |Bill McLean1,30314.11% | |||AB background| | |- |Edmonton-Belmont | |Werner G. Schmidt4,05233.42%||AB PC background| |Albert Edward Hohol6,01849.63% | | | |Gordon S.B. Wright1,96016.16% | |||AB background| | |- |Edmonton-Beverly | |Lou W. Heard3,05028.95%||AB PC background| |Bill W. Diachuk4,47142.44% | |John Lambert1851.76% | |Barrie Chivers2,76926.28% | |||AB background| | |- |Edmonton-Calder | |Edgar H. Gerhart3,65332.03%||AB PC background| |Tom Chambers5,93152.01% | | | |Bill Glass1,77215.54% | |||AB background| | |- |Edmonton-Centre | |Gerry Mulhall2,62228.91%||AB PC background| |Gordon Miniely5,28158.23% | |Leonard Stahl1972.17% | |Linda Gaboury93110.27% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Ambrose Holowach |- |Edmonton-Glenora | |Lou Letourneau4,00131.09%||AB PC background| |Lou Hyndman7,66159.53% | |Sol Estrin3222.50% | |Mary Lou Pocklington8486.59% | |||AB background| | |- |Edmonton-Gold Bar | |William F. Young3,77835.31%||AB PC background| |William Yurko5,78954.10% | | | |Tom Hennessey1,08210.11% | |||AB background| | |- |Edmonton-Highlands | |Ambrose Holowach2,74838.05%||AB PC background| |David T. King2,84839.43% | |Gerald Lorente1542.13% | |Leroy Pearch1,36818.94% | |||AB background| | |- |Edmonton-Jasper Place | |John B. Ludwig3,78933.72%||AB PC background| |Leslie Gordon Young5,75851.25% | |Edwin Robert Daniels2412.15% | |Kenneth Joseph Kerr1,40212.48% | |||AB Social Credit background| |John William Horan |- |Edmonton-Kingsway | |Ethel Sylvia Wilson3,53530.92%||AB PC background| |Kenneth R.H. Paproski6,31655.25% | |Roderick Woodcock1991.74% | |Paulette Atterbury1,29011.28% | |||AB background| | |- |Edmonton-Meadowlark | |Alexander Romaniuk3,83934.05%||AB PC background| |Gerard Joseph Amerongen6,37156.52% | | | |Alan J. Idiens1,0359.18% | |||AB background| | |- |Edmonton-Norwood | |Irene Domecki3,61835.80%||AB PC background| |Catherine Chichak4,33442.89% | | | |Sam Lee1,95419.34% | |||AB Social Credit background| |William Tomyn |- |Edmonton-Ottewell | |Ronald Penner4,18832.73%||AB PC background| |John G. Ashton7,00954.77% | | | |Donald Haythorne1,31410.27% | |||AB background| | |- |Edmonton-Parkallen | |Gordon V. Rasmussen3,87535.84%||AB PC background| |Neil S. Crawford5,30049.02% | |Vic Yanda2212.04% | |Hart Horn1,31112.13% | |||AB background| | |- |Edmonton-Strathcona | |Joseph Donovan Ross2,97332.55%||AB PC background| |Julian Koziak4,54149.72% | | | |Timothy Christian1,57417.23% | |||AB background| | |- |Edmonton-Whitemud | |Donald Murray Hamilton4,69033.06%||AB PC background| |Donald Ross Getty8,20157.81% | |James N. Tanner2351.66% | |Joseph Mercredi9366.60% | |||AB background| | |- |} Rest of Alberta AB Social Credit PC Liberal NDP Other |- |Athabasca | |Allan Gerlach2,58536.76%||AB PC background| |Frank Appleby3,26146.37% | | | |Peter E. Opryshko1,13616.15% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Antonio Aloisio |- |Banff-Cochrane | |Slim Martin2,64737.52%||AB PC background| |Clarence Copithorne3,80153.88% | | | |Beverly Coulter4205.95% | |||AB PC background| |Clarence Copithorne |- |Barrhead | |Simon Tuininga1,65129.10%||AB PC background| |Hugh F. Horner3,36059.23% | | | |Herman Burke64311.33% | |||AB background| | |- |Bonnyville | |Lorne Mowers2,35543.31%||AB PC background| |Donald Hansen2,52346.40% | | | |Claire Gaines5399.91% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Romeo B. Lamothe |- |Bow Valley||AB Social Credit background| |Fred T. Mandeville3,58467.66% | |Don Murray1,67431.60% | | | | | |||AB background| | |- |Camrose | |Laurence Rhierson3,96541.52%||AB PC background| |Gordon Stromberg4,55247.67% | | | |Keith Boulter98810.35% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Chester I. Sayers |- |Cardston||AB Social Credit background| |Edgar W. Hinman2,83153.56% | |Larry L. Lang2,39245.25% | | | | | |||AB Social Credit background| |Alvin F. Bullock |- |Clover Bar||AB Social Credit background| |Walt A. Buck4,04148.86% | |J. Devereux3,46841.93% | | | |A. Karvonen7368.90% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Walt A. Buck |- |Cypress||AB Social Credit background| |Harry E. Strom2,77760.15% | |Dave Berntson1,63535.41% | | | |Tony de Souza1964.25% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Harry E. Strom |- |Drayton Valley | |Thomas Johnson1,30426.62%||AB PC background| |Rudolph Zander2,60353.14% | | | |Alvin Harmacy96319.66% | |||AB background| | |- |Drumheller||AB Social Credit background| |Gordon Edward Taylor5,04463.56% | |Wayne Ohlhauser2,28528.79% | | | |Dick Hehr5476.89% | |||AB background| | |- |Edson | |Rollie Mohr1,94728.58%||AB PC background| |Robert W. Dowling3,90057.24% | | | |Walter Seewitz74910.99% | |||AB PC background| |Robert W. Dowling |- |Grande Prairie | |William Bowes4,10438.42%||AB PC background| |Winston Backus4,55342.63% | | | |Arthur Macklin1,99218.65% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Ira McLaughlin |- |Hanna-Oyen||AB Social Credit background| |Clinton Keith French2,23145.58% | |John Edward Butler2,21645.27% | | | |Gordon Snell4148.46% | |||AB background| | |- |Highwood||AB Social Credit background| |Edward P. Benoit2,94147.82% | |Eldon C. Couey2,78945.35% | | | |D. Larry McKillop3896.33% | |||AB background| | |- |Innisfail | |William Kenneth Ure2,91546.95%||AB PC background| |Clifford L. Doan3,23552.10% | | | | | |||AB background| | |- |Lac La Biche-McMurray||AB Social Credit background| |Dan Bouvier2,67952.97% | |Elmer Roy1,92738.10% | | | |Kenneth B. Orchard4148.19% | |||AB background| | |- |Lacombe | |Ivan Stonehocker2,58242.02%||AB PC background| |John William Cookson3,09450.36% | | | |Ragnar Johanson4527.36% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Allan Russell Patrick |- |Lesser Slave Lake||AB Social Credit background| |Dennis Barton1,83040.98% | |Garth Roberts1,43432.11% | |Stan Daniels2465.51% | |Marie Carlson67015.00% | |Allan Crawford (Ind.)2315.17%||AB background| | |- |Lethbridge-East||AB Social Credit background| |John V. Anderson5,34150.27% | |Richard Barton4,37441.17% | | | |Douglas Poile8057.58% | |||AB background| | |- |Lethbridge-West||AB Social Credit background| |Richard David Gruenwald4,16954.39% | |R.J. Gray2,75135.89% | | | |Klaas Buijert6708.74% | |||AB background| | |- |Little Bow||AB Social Credit background| |Raymond Albert Speaker3,40058.42% | |John C. Green2,11436.32% | | | |Edward H. Rodney2955.07% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Raymond Albert Speaker |- |Lloydminster | |Campbell A. Hancock2,58542.95%||AB PC background| |James Edgar Miller2,77446.09% | | | |Lloyd Robertson63510.55% | |||AB background| | |- |Macleod||AB Social Credit background| |Leighton E. Buckwell3,39950.67% | |Danny Le Grandeur2,80841.86% | | | |Sid J. Cornish4707.01% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Leighton E. Buckwell |- |Medicine Hat-Redcliff||AB Social Credit background| |William Wyse6,44748.68% | |James Horsman4,14031.26% | |Theodore Anhorn4623.49% | |Frank Armstrong2,12816.07% | |||AB background| | |- |Olds-Didsbury||AB Social Credit background| |Robert Curtis Clark4,34659.36% | |Rudolf Pedersen2,57835.21% | | | |William C. McCutcheon3665.00% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Robert Curtis Clark |- |Peace River | |Robert H. Wiebe2,43738.04%||AB PC background| |Al (Boomer) Adair3,18849.77% | | | |Hans Jorgensen72211.27% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Robert H. Wiebe |- |Pincher Creek-Crowsnest||AB Social Credit background| |Charles Duncan Drain2,37942.82% | |Morgan Johnson1,79132.24% | | | |Clarence W. Smith1,35524.39% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Charles Duncan Drain |- |Ponoka | |Neville S. Roper2,69543.69%||AB PC background| |Donald J. McCrimmon2,71243.96% | |Bernice Luce1422.30% | |Ed Nelson5989.69% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Neville S. Roper |- |Red Deer | |Fulton Rollings3,62734.79%||AB PC background| |James L. Foster4,99447.90% | |Len Patterson7617.30% | |Ethel Taylor1,0229.80% | |||AB Social Credit background| |William Kenneth Ure |- |Redwater-Andrew | |Michael Senych2,27134.67%||AB PC background| |George Topolnisky3,27750.02% | | | |Norman T. Flach96814.78% | |||AB background| | |- |Rocky Mountain House | |Harvey Staudinger2,47240.01%||AB PC background| |Helen Hunley3,01448.78% | | | |David Elliot65710.63% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Alfred J. Hooke |- |Sedgewick-Coronation||AB Social Credit background| |Ralph A. Sorenson2,27247.51% | |Herb Losness2,00541.93% | | | |Ron Chalmers48910.23% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Jack C. Hillman |- |Smoky River | |Bernard Lamoureux1,60426.88%||AB PC background| |Marvin Moore2,25437.77% | | | |Victor Tardif2,07434.76% | |||AB background| | |- |Spirit River-Fairview | |Adolph O. Fimrite2,24635.99% | |Don Moore1,43923.06% | |||AB NDP background| |Grant W. Notley2,40038.46% | |Michael Zuk (Ind.)1101.76%||AB background| | |- |St. Albert | |Keith Everitt3,59233.36%||AB PC background| |William Ernest Jamison4,62342.94% | |Robert A. Russell1,66015.42% | |Elsie McMillan8788.15% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Keith Everitt |- |St. Paul | |Raymond Reierson2,04135.07%||AB PC background| |Mick Fluker2,66145.72% | |Lawrence P. Coutu2093.59% | |Laurent (Jeff) Dubois89815.43% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Raymond Reierson |- |Stettler | |Galen C. Norris2,63147.10%||AB PC background| |Jack G. Robertson2,92552.36% | | | | | |||AB Social Credit background| |Galen C. Norris |- |Stony Plain | |Ralph A. Jespersen2,78840.12%||AB PC background| |William Frederick Purdy3,34848.17% | | | |Michael Crowson77011.08% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Ralph A. Jespersen |- |Taber-Warner||AB Social Credit background| |Douglas Miller4,07754.48% | |Robert Bogle3,36745.00% | | | | | |||AB Social Credit background| |Douglas Miller |- |Three Hills | |Raymond Ratzlaff2,97047.93%||AB PC background| |Allan Warrack2,97848.06% | | | |K. Robert Friesen2203.55% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Raymond Ratzlaff |- |Vegreville | |Alex W. Gordey2,19132.05%||AB PC background| |John S. Batiuk3,04244.49% | | | |W.B. Welsh1,53722.48% | |||AB background| | |- |Vermilion-Viking||AB Social Credit background| |Ashley H. Cooper2,42046.68% | |Tom Newcomb2,23243.06% | | | |Harry E. Yaremchuk5079.78% | |||AB background| | |- |Wainwright||AB Social Credit background| |Henry A. Ruste3,31163.04% | |Clifford Silas Smallwood1,36626.01% | | | |Gary Luciow54710.42% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Henry A. Ruste |- |Wetaskiwin-Leduc||AB Social Credit background| |James D. Henderson5,33447.25% | |Emanuel Pyrcz4,59040.66% | | | |Lionel Udenberg1,33611.83% | |||AB background| | |- |Whitecourt | |Clyde Feero2,12533.76%||AB PC background| |Peter Trynchy3,09649.19% | |Arthur Yates1011.60% | |Robert Price92914.76% | |||AB background| | |- |} See also 1948 Electrification Plebiscite 1957 Liquor Plebiscite 1967 Daylight Saving Plebiscite List of Alberta political parties References Works cited Office of the Chief Electoral Officer Legislative Assembly Office Legislative Assembly of Alberta Elections Alberta A Century of Democracy: Elections of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1905-2005 2006 Legislative Assembly of Alberta The Centennial Series Edmonton, AB 0-9689217-8-7 https://archive.org/details/centennialseries04perr/mode/2up May 25, 2020 Barr John J. Bradford J. Rennie Alberta Premiers of the Twentieth Century 2004 Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina Regina, Saskatchewan 0-88977-151-0 Harry Strom https://archive.org/details/albertapremierso0000unse registration Hustak Alan Peter Lougheed: A Biography 1979 McClelland & Stewart 9780771042997 Perry Sandra E. Craig Jessica J. The Mantle of Leadership: Premiers of the Northwest Territories and Alberta 2006 Legislative Assembly of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta 0-9689217-2-8 registration https://archive.org/details/centennialseries02perr Tupper Allan Bradford J. Rennie Alberta Premiers of the Twentieth Century 2004 Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina Regina, Saskatchewan 0-88977-151-0 Peter Lougheed https://archive.org/details/albertapremierso0000unse registration Wood David G. The Lougheed legacy 1985 Key Porter Books Toronto 0-919493-48-3 https://archive.org/details/lougheedlegacy0000wood registration 910363674 Further reading Long John Anthony Maldistribution in Western Provincial Legislatures: The Case of Alberta Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue Canadienne de Science Politique 1969 2 3 345–355 10.1017/S0008423900025105 1744-9324 3231781 154953422 Alberta 1971 General election Alberta general election