1963 Alberta general election

none September 2023 1963 Alberta general election Alberta 1957 legislative no no 1959 Alberta general election 1959 14th Alberta Legislative Assembly 1963 6 17 members 1967 Alberta general election 1967 63 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta 32 seats were needed for a majority 150x150px AB Social Credit nohash Ernest Manning AB Social Credit name May 31, 1943 Strathcona East 61 seats, 55.7% 60 60 221,107 54.8% 0.9% LIB AB Liberal nohash Dave Hunter AB Liberal name January 14, 1962 ran in Athabasca (lost) 1 seat, 13.9% 1 2 1 79,709 19.8% 5.9% PC AB PC nohash Milt Harradence AB PC name 1962 ran in Calgary-West (lost) 1 seat, 23.9% 1 0 1 51,278 12.7% 11.2% Premier Premier after election Ernest Manning AB Social Credit name Ernest Manning AB Social Credit name The 1963 Alberta general election was held on June 17, 1963, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. The Social Credit Party, led by Ernest C. Manning, won its eighth consecutive term in government, winning roughly the same number of seats in the legislature and share of popular vote that it had in the 1959 election. Some Social Credit supporters were so confident of their party's chances that they talked of winning "63 in '63", i.e., all 63 seats in the legislature in the 1963 election. They fell short of this goal, but still had an overwhelming majority, reducing the opposition to only three MLAs in total. Indeed, as a share of the overall seats available, this represented Social Credit's greatest victory in its 36-year reign. Much of the opposition vote shifted away from the Progressive Conservative Party, now led by Milt Harradence, resulting in the party losing its sole seat. The Liberal Party was a partial beneficiary of the PC Party's decline, but picked up only one additional seat, for a total of two, despite winning almost 20% of the popular vote. New Democratic Party candidates received 9 per cent of the vote but no seats. 1963 was the last year in Alberta provincial politics when an MLA was acclaimed with the acclamation of Leonard Halmrast in Taber-Warner. After the PCs won power, they would later speak of "79 in '79". Results centre|300px PartyParty Leader# ofcandidatesSeatsPopular Vote1959Elected% Change#%% Change AB Social Credit row Social Credit Ernest C. Manning63 61 60 −1.6% 221,107 54.81% −0.88% AB Liberal row-name Dave Hunter 55 1 2 +100% 79,709 19.76% +5.88% AB Coalition row-name Frank Gainer 1 1 1 - 2,179 0.54% −0.01% Progressive Conservative Milt Harradence 33 1 - −100% 51,278 12.71% −11.17% AB NDP row NDP1 Neil Reimer 56 - - - 37,133 9.45% +5.12% AB Independent rowIndependent 3 - - - 3,966 0.98% +0.10%Independent Social Credit 6 1 - −100% 3,178 0.79% +0.21% AB Independent row Alberta Unity Movement 3 * - * 2,223 0.55% * AB Progressive Conservative-Liberal row-name Ross Ellis 1 * - * 1,134 0.28% * AB Communist row-name2 4 - - - 527 0.13% −0.08%Total22565 63 −3.1% 403,444 100%  Source: Elections Alberta Notes: 1 The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation adopted the name "New Democratic Party" for the 1963 and subsequent elections. 2 The "Labour Progressive Party" returned to its original "Communist Party of Alberta" name for the 1963 and subsequent elections. * Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.Popular vote #ddd 600px 410px Social Credit AB Social Credit 54.81 Liberal AB Liberal 19.76 PC AB PC 12.71 New Democratic AB NDP 9.45 Coalition AB Coalition 0.54 Others CA Inde 2.73Seats summary #ddd 600px 410px Social Credit AB Social Credit 95.24 Liberal AB Liberal 3.17 Coalition AB Coalition 1.59 Results by riding AB Social Credit Liberal PC NDP Other |- |Alexandra||AB Social Credit background| |Anders O. Aalborg3,28466.30% | | | | | |John C. Sandercock52910.68% | |W. Slim Thorpe (Con-Lib)1,13422.92% |AB Social Credit background| |Anders O. Aalborg |- |Athabasca||AB Social Credit background| |Antonio Aloisio2,24150.43% | |Dave Hunter1,82741.11% | | | |Judith Johnston2235.02% | |Trygve Hansen (Comm.)1182.66% |AB Social Credit background| |Antonio Aloisio |- |Banff-Cochrane | |Victor Watson1,87842.68% | | | | | |Jack Fraser3317.52% |AB Coalition background| | Frank L. Gainer (Coal)2,17949.66% |AB Coalition background| |Francis Leo Gainer |- |Bonnyville||AB Social Credit background| |Romeo B. Lamothe2,22247.91% | |Albert Turcotte1,05922.83% | |Victor E. Justik1,09123.52% | |Peter G. Forman2555.50% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Karl Earnest Nordstrom |- |Bow Valley-Empress||AB Social Credit background| |William Delday2,87160.19% | |George Timko92319.35% | |George A. Simpson97220.38% | | | |||AB Social Credit background| |William Delday |- |Calgary Bowness||AB Social Credit background| |Charles E. Johnston5,35552.11% | |Peter Petrasuk2,45623.90% | |Albert A. Frawley1,71916.73% | |Everett C. Baldwin7357.15% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Charles E. Johnston |- |Calgary-Centre||AB Social Credit background| |Frederick C. Colborne4,39561.22% | |E. Virgil Anderson1,87826.16% | | | |Mrs. Melba Cochlan75710.54% | |Dave Raichman (Comm.)1011.41% |AB Social Credit background| |Frederick C. Colborne |- |Calgary-East||AB Social Credit background| |Albert W. Ludwig4,76360.23% | |Evelyn Leew6778.56% | |Bill Duncan1,49718.93% | |Dick Dunlop95312.05% | |||AB background| | |- |Calgary-Glenmore | |A. Ross Lawson4,26831.40%||AB Liberal background| |William Daniel Dickie6,03744.42% | |Ned Corrigal2,89121.27% | |G.A.J. Otjes3742.75% | |||AB PC background| |Ernest S. Watkins |- |Calgary-North||AB Social Credit background| |Robert A. Simpson4,71356.82% | |Robert F. Goss7949.57% | |Larry B. Nugent2,12325.59% | |Steven P. Galan6477.80% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Rose Wilkinson |- |Calgary Queens Park||AB Social Credit background| |Lea Leavitt4,36348.19% | |John Donnachie96110.61% | |Duncan Lovell McKillop1,59717.64% | |Ben S. Greenfield5095.62% | |Roy Alexander Farran (Ind.)1,46916.22%Conrad Pfeifer (Ind. SoCred)1261.39%||AB background| | |- |Calgary-South||AB Social Credit background| |Arthur J. Dixon5,66160.51% | |Howard G. Cook2,52927.03% | | | |John N. Smith1,12312.00% | |||AB background| | |- |Calgary-West||AB Social Credit background| |Donald S. Fleming5,18342.76% | |Ted Duncan2,25018.56% | |Asa Milton Harradence4,10933.90% | |Jack D. Peters5684.69% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Donald S. Fleming |- |Camrose||AB Social Credit background| |Chester I. Sayers3,42756.57% | |James P. Richardson74612.31% | |Ernest Moore1,51925.07% | |Kenneth Nelson3565.88% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Chester I. Sayers |- |Cardston||AB Social Credit background| |Edgar W. Hinman2,52768.00% | |John Fenton Webster1,03527.85% | | | |Collin H. Holt1504.04% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Edgar W. Hinman |- |Clover Bar||AB Social Credit background| |Floyd M. Baker3,73057.65% | |James P. O'Dwyer79112.23% | |Daniel F. Hollands1,40721.75% | |Paul Arthur Dorin5358.27% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Floyd M. Baker |- |Cypress||AB Social Credit background| |Harry E. Strom3,03077.71% | |Alvin H. Reiman86122.08% | | | | | |||AB Social Credit background| |Harry E. Strom |- |Drumheller-Gleichen||AB Social Credit background| |Gordon Edward Taylor4,56586.07% | | | | | |Irene Dyck72013.57% | |||AB background| | |- |Dunvegan||AB Social Credit background| |Ernest L. Lee1,30652.45% | |M.H. (Milt) Connery84934.10% | | | |Roy A. Mitchell32513.05% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Joseph M. Scruggs |- |Edmonton North||AB Social Credit background| |Ethel Sylvia Wilson4,65552.17% | |Thomas O'Dwyer2,48927.90% | | | |William H. Nash1,74319.54% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Ethel Sylvia Wilson |- |Edmonton-Centre||AB Social Credit background| |Ambrose Holowach3,37847.56% | |Joseph A. Tannous1,21917.16% | |Gerard Joseph Amerongen1,49221.01% | |Alex Szchechina99313.98% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Ambrose Holowach |- |Edmonton-Jasper Place||AB Social Credit background| |John William Horan3,63945.14% | |Keith C. Campbell2,23427.71% | |Clarence Edgar Sage1,03412.83% | |Patrick J. Ryan1,12813.99% | |||AB background| | |- |Edmonton-North East||AB Social Credit background| |Lou W. Heard4,02342.66% | |Ken McAuley1,29513.73% | |Allan Welsh1,51016.01% | |Neil Reimer2,58927.45% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Lou W. Heard |- |Edmonton-North West||AB Social Credit background| |Edgar H. Gerhart4,36945.97% | |Edmund H. Leger1,85419.51% | |Ned Feehan1,87819.76% | |Grant W. Notley1,39114.64% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Edgar H. Gerhart |- |Edmonton-Norwood||AB Social Credit background| |William Tomyn3,90547.86% | |J. Laurier Picard1,62819.95% | |J. Gordon Ozarko1,19014.58% | |Robert W. Douglas1,33016.30% | |Walter Makowecki (Comm.)931.14% |AB Social Credit background| |William Tomyn |- |Edmonton-West||AB Social Credit background| |Stanley Gordon Geldart3,73341.83% | |Robert A. Doyle2,57228.82% | |Tony Nugent2,01922.62% | |Neil R. Larsen5856.55% | |||AB background| | |- |Edson||AB Social Credit background| |Norman Alfred Willmore2,66856.16% | |Bertram E. Schoeppe1,37128.86% | | | |James D. Torgersen70114.75% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Norman Alfred Willmore |- |Grande Prairie||AB Social Credit background| |Ira McLaughlin4,76372.94% | |Ed. Kimpe99715.27% | | | |Charles A. Evaskevich76211.67% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Ira McLaughlin |- |Grouard||AB Social Credit background| |Roy Ells3,83262.38% | |Gunner Wahlstrom1,59525.96% | | | |Clif. I. Tollefson67410.97% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Roy Ells |- |Hand Hills-Acadia||AB Social Credit background| |Clinton Keith French3,21561.77% | | | | | | | |Lyall Alexander Curry (Ind.)1,97237.89%||AB background| | |- |Lac La Biche | |Elvin J. Woynarowich1,47936.11%||AB Liberal background| |Michael Maccagno1,80944.17% | |Henry T. Thompson2606.35% | |Henry Tomaschuk2977.25% | |Rudolph Michetti (Ind. SoCred)2466.01%||AB Liberal background| |Michael Maccagno |- |Lac Ste. Anne||AB Social Credit background| |William Patterson2,77751.94% | |Douglas P. McKeen1,79433.55% | | | |John Liss1,47427.57% | |||AB Social Credit background| |William Patterson |- |Lacombe||AB Social Credit background| |Allan Russell Patrick3,40569.22% | |John Paul Fehrenbach77615.78% | | | |John Liss1,47429.97% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Allan Russell Patrick |- |Leduc||AB Social Credit background| |James D. Henderson1,89839.74% | |Ronald John Hayter4619.65% | |Peter Wyllie97120.33% | |Andrew Simon Borys61312.84% | |Ronald Earl Ansley (Ind. SoCred)73115.31%Michael F. Hold (AUM)881.84% |AB Independent Social Credit background| |Ronald Earl Ansley |- |Lethbridge||AB Social Credit background| |John C. Landeryou6,97560.05% | |Alan Cullen3,78632.60% | | | |James Taylor8207.06% | |||AB Social Credit background| |John C. Landeryou |- |Little Bow||AB Social Credit background| |Raymond Albert Speaker3,36863.72% | |Arthur W. Ulrich64912.28% | |Douglas H. Galbraith1,24523.55% | | | |||AB Social Credit background| |Peter Dawson |- |Macleod||AB Social Credit background| |James Hartley3,12764.57% | | | |Allie Streeter1,46630.27% | |John K. Head2384.91% | |||AB Social Credit background| |James Hartley |- |Medicine Hat||AB Social Credit background| |Harry C. Leinweber4,95451.77% | |Helen Beny Gibson2,25923.61% | |Kenneth Roy Biddell1,48515.52% | |Milton J. Reinhardt8418.79% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Elizabeth G. Robinson |- |Okotoks-High River||AB Social Credit background| |Edward P. Benoit2,36152.55% | |Robert E.G. Armstrong4489.97% | |Samuel Brown1,58535.28% | |Bill Steemson861.91% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Ernest G. Hansell |- |Olds-Didsbury||AB Social Credit background| |Robert Curtis Clark3,95066.79% | | | | | |Eva Banta4006.76% | |Roger Lebeuf (AUM)1,55026.21% |AB background| | |- |Peace River||AB Social Credit background| |Euell F. Montgomery2,78260.32% | |Vic. O'Reilly98021.25% | |Hall C. Sisson84218.26% | | | |||AB Social Credit background| |William F. Gilliland |- |Pembina||AB Social Credit background| |Robin D. Jorgenson3,06755.78% | |Ray Brodeur84215.31% | |Percy Baxandall82314.97% | |Herman Hauch56210.22% | |Verdun Baxandall (Ind. SoCred)1653.00%||AB Social Credit background| |Robin D. Jorgenson |- |Pincher Creek-Crowsnest||AB Social Credit background| |William A. Kovach2,52454.30% | |Thomas J. Costigan53911.60% | |Frank Lynch-Staunton95320.50% | |Arthur Lees62113.36% | |||AB Social Credit background| |William A. Kovach |- |Ponoka||AB Social Credit background| |Glen F. Johnston1,83044.56% | | | | | | | |Neville S. Roper (Ind. SoCred)1,72141.90%George F. Sharp (Ind.)52512.78%||AB Social Credit background| |Glen F. Johnston |- |Red Deer||AB Social Credit background| |William Kenneth Ure6,01657.57% | |Denis Yunker6095.83% | |Walter M. Ogilvie3,32331.80% | |Herman H. Dorin4464.27% | |||AB Social Credit background| |William Kenneth Ure |- |Redwater||AB Social Credit background| |Michael Senych1,67041.61% | |Steve Romanchuk75518.81% | |Joe Bielish1,36233.94% | |William Glass2165.38% | |||AB Social Credit background| |John Dubetz |- |Rocky Mountain House||AB Social Credit background| |Alfred J. Hooke3,17572.32% | |Ellis M. Bowen59113.46% | | | |Robert H. Carlyle59913.64% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Alfred J. Hooke |- |Sedgewick-Coronation||AB Social Credit background| |Jack C. Hillman3,99967.72% | |James Leland Sims1,36823.17% | | | |Karl O. Peterson5298.96% | |||AB background| | |- |Spirit River | |Lionel Lizee3838.68%||AB Liberal background| |Adolph O. Fimrite3,07769.73% | | | |Uri Powell94821.48% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Adolph O. Fimrite |- |St. Albert||AB Social Credit background| |Keith Everitt2,54039.85% | |Louis Chalifoux2,03031.85% | |Alan Lazerte1,33220.90% | |Alan Bevington4517.08% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Keith Everitt |- |St. Paul||AB Social Credit background| |Raymond Reierson2,88960.90% | |Rene P. Foisy1,36328.73% | | | |H.B. Hodgins2655.59% | |Daniel Gamache (Comm.)2154.53% |AB Social Credit background| |Raymond Reierson |- |Stettler||AB Social Credit background| |Galen C. Norris3,07668.02% | |Clark K. Burlingham1,06523.55% | | | |Joseph J. Tipman3698.16% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Galen C. Norris |- |Stony Plain||AB Social Credit background| |Cornelia R. Wood2,71641.75% | |Harold McLaughlin1,92129.53% | |Peter Germaniuk90313.88% | |Conrad D. (Red) Fuhr3585.50% | |Rudolph Zander (AUM)5959.15% |AB Social Credit background| |Cornelia R. Wood |- |Strathcona Centre||AB Social Credit background| |Joseph Donovan Ross5,23258.39% | |Ian Nicoll2,41826.99% | | | |Harry J. Strynadka1,26214.08% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Joseph Donovan Ross |- |Strathcona East||AB Social Credit background| |Ernest C. Manning6,84253.22% | |James A. Cox1,89014.70% | |Oscar H. Kruger2,63020.46% | |Dennis A. Wood1,45711.33% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Ernest C. Manning |- |Strathcona West||AB Social Credit background| |Randolph H. McKinnon5,02947.47% | |Arthur W. Crossley2,55724.14% | |Arnold H. Lane1,86317.59% | |George R. Field9368.84% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Randolph H. McKinnon |- |Taber-Warner||AB Social Credit background| |Leonard C. Halmrast0 | | | | | | | |||AB background| | |- |Three Hills||AB Social Credit background| |Louis Petrie Meston3,38562.70% | |James A. Lore1,72832.01% | | | |John F. Kennan2574.76% | |||AB background| | |- |Vegreville-Bruce||AB Social Credit background| |Alex W. Gordey2,92550.03% | |Wilfrid L. Horton67511.55% | |Graham Allan1,19420.42% | |Albin Lukawiecki85114.56% | |Clarence A. Knies (Ind. SoCred)1893.23%||AB background| | |- |Vermilion||AB Social Credit background| |Ashley H. Cooper2,96468.08% | |Arthur W. Roland83719.22% | | | |Edward I. Thompson54512.52% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Ashley H. Cooper |- |Wainwright||AB Social Credit background| |Henry A. Ruste3,46576.25% | |John M. Saville66814.70% | | | |John Wesley Connelly3878.52% | |||AB Social Credit background| |Henry A. Ruste |- |Wetaskiwin||AB Social Credit background| |Albert W. Strohschein3,33361.01% | |Albert (Butch) Dyberg1,29823.76% | | | |Leslie Pritchard82315.06% | |||AB Social Credit background| |John A. Wingblade |- |Willingdon-Two Hills||AB Social Credit background| |Nicholas A. Melnyk2,31556.53% | |Allan Eschak2836.91% | |Walter Witwicky99324.25% | |William Glen Haley49612.11% | |||AB background| | |- |} See also List of Canadian political parties References Further reading Saywell John T. John Saywell Canadian Annual Review for 1963 1964 University of Toronto Press Toronto https://archive.org/details/canadianannualre0000unse_b0o5 registration Category:1963 elections in Canada 1963 Election Category:June 1963 in Canada