1963 Alberta general election

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox election 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 percent 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

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Party		Party Leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular Vote
				1959	Elected	% Change	#	%	% Change	Social Credit	Ernest C. Manning	63	61	60	−1.6%	221,107	54.81%	−0.88%	Dave Hunter	55	1	2	+100%	79,709	19.76%	+5.88%	Frank Gainer	1	1	1	-	2,179	0.54%	−0.01%
Template:Canadian party colour|	Progressive Conservative	Milt Harradence	33	1	-	−100%	51,278	12.71%	−11.17%	NDP1	Neil Reimer	56	-	-	-	37,133	9.45%	+5.12%	Independent		3	-	-	-	3,966	0.98%	+0.10%
	Independent Social Credit		6	1	-	−100%	3,178	0.79%	+0.21%	Alberta Unity Movement		3	*	-	*	2,223	0.55%	*	Ross Ellis	1	*	-	*	1,134	0.28%	* Template:Canadian party colour2		4	-	-	-	527	0.13%	−0.08%
Total			225	65	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.Template:Bar boxTemplate:Bar box

Results by riding

Template:Canadian politics/candlist header |- |Alexandra||Template:Canadian party colour| |Anders O. Aalborg
3,284
66.30% | | | | | |John C. Sandercock
529
10.68% | |W. Slim Thorpe (Con-Lib)
1,134
22.92% |Template:Canadian party colour| |Anders O. Aalborg |- |Athabasca||Template:Canadian party colour| |Antonio Aloisio
2,241
50.43% | |Dave Hunter
1,827
41.11% | | | |Judith Johnston
223
5.02% | |Trygve Hansen (Comm.)
118
2.66% |Template:Canadian party colour| |Antonio Aloisio |- |Banff-Cochrane | |Victor Watson
1,878
42.68% | | | | | |Jack Fraser
331
7.52% |Template:Canadian party colour| | Frank L. Gainer (Coal)
2,179
49.66% |Template:Canadian party colour| |Francis Leo Gainer |- |Bonnyville||Template:Canadian party colour| |Romeo B. Lamothe
2,222
47.91% | |Albert Turcotte
1,059
22.83% | |Victor E. Justik
1,091
23.52% | |Peter G. Forman
255
5.50% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Karl Earnest Nordstrom |- |Bow Valley-Empress||Template:Canadian party colour| |William Delday
2,871
60.19% | |George Timko
923
19.35% | |George A. Simpson
972
20.38% | | | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |William Delday |- |Calgary Bowness||Template:Canadian party colour| |Charles E. Johnston
5,355
52.11% | |Peter Petrasuk
2,456
23.90% | |Albert A. Frawley
1,719
16.73% | |Everett C. Baldwin
735
7.15% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Charles E. Johnston |- |Calgary-Centre||Template:Canadian party colour| |Frederick C. Colborne
4,395
61.22% | |E. Virgil Anderson
1,878
26.16% | | | |Mrs. Melba Cochlan
757
10.54% | |Dave Raichman (Comm.)
101
1.41% |Template:Canadian party colour| |Frederick C. Colborne |- |Calgary-East||Template:Canadian party colour| |Albert W. Ludwig
4,763
60.23% | |Evelyn Leew
677
8.56% | |Bill Duncan
1,497
18.93% | |Dick Dunlop
953
12.05% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| | |- |Calgary-Glenmore | |A. Ross Lawson
4,268
31.40%||Template:Canadian party colour| |William Daniel Dickie
6,037
44.42% | |Ned Corrigal
2,891
21.27% | |G.A.J. Otjes
374
2.75% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Ernest S. Watkins |- |Calgary-North||Template:Canadian party colour| |Robert A. Simpson
4,713
56.82% | |Robert F. Goss
794
9.57% | |Larry B. Nugent
2,123
25.59% | |Steven P. Galan
647
7.80% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Rose Wilkinson |- |Calgary Queens Park||Template:Canadian party colour| |Lea Leavitt
4,363
48.19% | |John Donnachie
961
10.61% | |Duncan Lovell McKillop
1,597
17.64% | |Ben S. Greenfield
509
5.62% | |Roy Alexander Farran (Ind.)
1,469
16.22%
Conrad Pfeifer (Ind. SoCred)
126
1.39%||Template:Canadian party colour| | |- |Calgary-South||Template:Canadian party colour| |Arthur J. Dixon
5,661
60.51% | |Howard G. Cook
2,529
27.03% | | | |John N. Smith
1,123
12.00% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| | |- |Calgary-West||Template:Canadian party colour| |Donald S. Fleming
5,183
42.76% | |Ted Duncan
2,250
18.56% | |Asa Milton Harradence
4,109
33.90% | |Jack D. Peters
568
4.69% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Donald S. Fleming |- |Camrose||Template:Canadian party colour| |Chester I. Sayers
3,427
56.57% | |James P. Richardson
746
12.31% | |Ernest Moore
1,519
25.07% | |Kenneth Nelson
356
5.88% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Chester I. Sayers |- |Cardston||Template:Canadian party colour| |Edgar W. Hinman
2,527
68.00% | |John Fenton Webster
1,035
27.85% | | | |Collin H. Holt
150
4.04% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Edgar W. Hinman |- |Clover Bar||Template:Canadian party colour| |Floyd M. Baker
3,730
57.65% | |James P. O'Dwyer
791
12.23% | |Daniel F. Hollands
1,407
21.75% | |Paul Arthur Dorin
535
8.27% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Floyd M. Baker |- |Cypress||Template:Canadian party colour| |Harry E. Strom
3,030
77.71% | |Alvin H. Reiman
861
22.08% | | | | | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Harry E. Strom |- |Drumheller-Gleichen||Template:Canadian party colour| |Gordon Edward Taylor
4,565
86.07% | | | | | |Irene Dyck
720
13.57% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| | |- |Dunvegan||Template:Canadian party colour| |Ernest L. Lee
1,306
52.45% | |M.H. (Milt) Connery
849
34.10% | | | |Roy A. Mitchell
325
13.05% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Joseph M. Scruggs |- |Edmonton North||Template:Canadian party colour| |Ethel Sylvia Wilson
4,655
52.17% | |Thomas O'Dwyer
2,489
27.90% | | | |William H. Nash
1,743
19.54% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Ethel Sylvia Wilson |- |Edmonton-Centre||Template:Canadian party colour| |Ambrose Holowach
3,378
47.56% | |Joseph A. Tannous
1,219
17.16% | |Gerard Joseph Amerongen
1,492
21.01% | |Alex Szchechina
993
13.98% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Ambrose Holowach |- |Edmonton-Jasper Place||Template:Canadian party colour| |John William Horan
3,639
45.14% | |Keith C. Campbell
2,234
27.71% | |Clarence Edgar Sage
1,034
12.83% | |Patrick J. Ryan
1,128
13.99% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| | |- |Edmonton-North East||Template:Canadian party colour| |Lou W. Heard
4,023
42.66% | |Ken McAuley
1,295
13.73% | |Allan Welsh
1,510
16.01% | |Neil Reimer
2,589
27.45% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Lou W. Heard |- |Edmonton-North West||Template:Canadian party colour| |Edgar H. Gerhart
4,369
45.97% | |Edmund H. Leger
1,854
19.51% | |Ned Feehan
1,878
19.76% | |Grant W. Notley
1,391
14.64% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Edgar H. Gerhart |- |Edmonton-Norwood||Template:Canadian party colour| |William Tomyn
3,905
47.86% | |J. Laurier Picard
1,628
19.95% | |J. Gordon Ozarko
1,190
14.58% | |Robert W. Douglas
1,330
16.30% | |Walter Makowecki (Comm.)
93
1.14% |Template:Canadian party colour| |William Tomyn |- |Edmonton-West||Template:Canadian party colour| |Stanley Gordon Geldart
3,733
41.83% | |Robert A. Doyle
2,572
28.82% | |Tony Nugent
2,019
22.62% | |Neil R. Larsen
585
6.55% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| | |- |Edson||Template:Canadian party colour| |Norman Alfred Willmore
2,668
56.16% | |Bertram E. Schoeppe
1,371
28.86% | | | |James D. Torgersen
701
14.75% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Norman Alfred Willmore |- |Grande Prairie||Template:Canadian party colour| |Ira McLaughlin
4,763
72.94% | |Ed. Kimpe
997
15.27% | | | |Charles A. Evaskevich
762
11.67% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Ira McLaughlin |- |Grouard||Template:Canadian party colour| |Roy Ells
3,832
62.38% | |Gunner Wahlstrom
1,595
25.96% | | | |Clif. I. Tollefson
674
10.97% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Roy Ells |- |Hand Hills-Acadia||Template:Canadian party colour| |Clinton Keith French
3,215
61.77% | | | | | | | |Lyall Alexander Curry (Ind.)
1,972
37.89%||Template:Canadian party colour| | |- |Lac La Biche | |Elvin J. Woynarowich
1,479
36.11%||Template:Canadian party colour| |Michael Maccagno
1,809
44.17% | |Henry T. Thompson
260
6.35% | |Henry Tomaschuk
297
7.25% | |Rudolph Michetti (Ind. SoCred)
246
6.01%||Template:Canadian party colour| |Michael Maccagno |- |Lac Ste. Anne||Template:Canadian party colour| |William Patterson
2,777
51.94% | |Douglas P. McKeen
1,794
33.55% | | | |John Liss
1,474
27.57% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |William Patterson |- |Lacombe||Template:Canadian party colour| |Allan Russell Patrick
3,405
69.22% | |John Paul Fehrenbach
776
15.78% | | | |John Liss
1,474
29.97% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Allan Russell Patrick |- |Leduc||Template:Canadian party colour| |James D. Henderson
1,898
39.74% | |Ronald John Hayter
461
9.65% | |Peter Wyllie
971
20.33% | |Andrew Simon Borys
613
12.84% | |Ronald Earl Ansley (Ind. SoCred)
731
15.31%
Michael F. Hold (AUM)
88
1.84% |Template:Canadian party colour| |Ronald Earl Ansley |- |Lethbridge||Template:Canadian party colour| |John C. Landeryou
6,975
60.05% | |Alan Cullen
3,786
32.60% | | | |James Taylor
820
7.06% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |John C. Landeryou |- |Little Bow||Template:Canadian party colour| |Raymond Albert Speaker
3,368
63.72% | |Arthur W. Ulrich
649
12.28% | |Douglas H. Galbraith
1,245
23.55% | | | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Peter Dawson |- |Macleod||Template:Canadian party colour| |James Hartley
3,127
64.57% | | | |Allie Streeter
1,466
30.27% | |John K. Head
238
4.91% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |James Hartley |- |Medicine Hat||Template:Canadian party colour| |Harry C. Leinweber
4,954
51.77% | |Helen Beny Gibson
2,259
23.61% | |Kenneth Roy Biddell
1,485
15.52% | |Milton J. Reinhardt
841
8.79% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Elizabeth G. Robinson |- |Okotoks-High River||Template:Canadian party colour| |Edward P. Benoit
2,361
52.55% | |Robert E.G. Armstrong
448
9.97% | |Samuel Brown
1,585
35.28% | |Bill Steemson
86
1.91% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Ernest G. Hansell |- |Olds-Didsbury||Template:Canadian party colour| |Robert Curtis Clark
3,950
66.79% | | | | | |Eva Banta
400
6.76% | |Roger Lebeuf (AUM)
1,550
26.21% |Template:Canadian party colour| | |- |Peace River||Template:Canadian party colour| |Euell F. Montgomery
2,782
60.32% | |Vic. O'Reilly
980
21.25% | |Hall C. Sisson
842
18.26% | | | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |William F. Gilliland |- |Pembina||Template:Canadian party colour| |Robin D. Jorgenson
3,067
55.78% | |Ray Brodeur
842
15.31% | |Percy Baxandall
823
14.97% | |Herman Hauch
562
10.22% | |Verdun Baxandall (Ind. SoCred)
165
3.00%||Template:Canadian party colour| |Robin D. Jorgenson |- |Pincher Creek-Crowsnest||Template:Canadian party colour| |William A. Kovach
2,524
54.30% | |Thomas J. Costigan
539
11.60% | |Frank Lynch-Staunton
953
20.50% | |Arthur Lees
621
13.36% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |William A. Kovach |- |Ponoka||Template:Canadian party colour| |Glen F. Johnston
1,830
44.56% | | | | | | | |Neville S. Roper (Ind. SoCred)
1,721
41.90%
George F. Sharp (Ind.)
525
12.78%||Template:Canadian party colour| |Glen F. Johnston |- |Red Deer||Template:Canadian party colour| |William Kenneth Ure
6,016
57.57% | |Denis Yunker
609
5.83% | |Walter M. Ogilvie
3,323
31.80% | |Herman H. Dorin
446
4.27% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |William Kenneth Ure |- |Redwater||Template:Canadian party colour| |Michael Senych
1,670
41.61% | |Steve Romanchuk
755
18.81% | |Joe Bielish
1,362
33.94% | |William Glass
216
5.38% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |John Dubetz |- |Rocky Mountain House||Template:Canadian party colour| |Alfred J. Hooke
3,175
72.32% | |Ellis M. Bowen
591
13.46% | | | |Robert H. Carlyle
599
13.64% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Alfred J. Hooke |- |Sedgewick-Coronation||Template:Canadian party colour| |Jack C. Hillman
3,999
67.72% | |James Leland Sims
1,368
23.17% | | | |Karl O. Peterson
529
8.96% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| | |- |Spirit River | |Lionel Lizee
383
8.68%||Template:Canadian party colour| |Adolph O. Fimrite
3,077
69.73% | | | |Uri Powell
948
21.48% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Adolph O. Fimrite |- |St. Albert||Template:Canadian party colour| |Keith Everitt
2,540
39.85% | |Louis Chalifoux
2,030
31.85% | |Alan Lazerte
1,332
20.90% | |Alan Bevington
451
7.08% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Keith Everitt |- |St. Paul||Template:Canadian party colour| |Raymond Reierson
2,889
60.90% | |Rene P. Foisy
1,363
28.73% | | | |H.B. Hodgins
265
5.59% | |Daniel Gamache (Comm.)
215
4.53% |Template:Canadian party colour| |Raymond Reierson |- |Stettler||Template:Canadian party colour| |Galen C. Norris
3,076
68.02% | |Clark K. Burlingham
1,065
23.55% | | | |Joseph J. Tipman
369
8.16% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Galen C. Norris |- |Stony Plain||Template:Canadian party colour| |Cornelia R. Wood
2,716
41.75% | |Harold McLaughlin
1,921
29.53% | |Peter Germaniuk
903
13.88% | |Conrad D. (Red) Fuhr
358
5.50% | |Rudolph Zander (AUM)
595
9.15% |Template:Canadian party colour| |Cornelia R. Wood |- |Strathcona Centre||Template:Canadian party colour| |Joseph Donovan Ross
5,232
58.39% | |Ian Nicoll
2,418
26.99% | | | |Harry J. Strynadka
1,262
14.08% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Joseph Donovan Ross |- |Strathcona East||Template:Canadian party colour| |Ernest C. Manning
6,842
53.22% | |James A. Cox
1,890
14.70% | |Oscar H. Kruger
2,630
20.46% | |Dennis A. Wood
1,457
11.33% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Ernest C. Manning |- |Strathcona West||Template:Canadian party colour| |Randolph H. McKinnon
5,029
47.47% | |Arthur W. Crossley
2,557
24.14% | |Arnold H. Lane
1,863
17.59% | |George R. Field
936
8.84% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Randolph H. McKinnon |- |Taber-Warner||Template:Canadian party colour| |Leonard C. Halmrast
0
| | | | | | | |||Template:Canadian party colour| | |- |Three Hills||Template:Canadian party colour| |Louis Petrie Meston
3,385
62.70% | |James A. Lore
1,728
32.01% | | | |John F. Kennan
257
4.76% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| | |- |Vegreville-Bruce||Template:Canadian party colour| |Alex W. Gordey
2,925
50.03% | |Wilfrid L. Horton
675
11.55% | |Graham Allan
1,194
20.42% | |Albin Lukawiecki
851
14.56% | |Clarence A. Knies (Ind. SoCred)
189
3.23%||Template:Canadian party colour| | |- |Vermilion||Template:Canadian party colour| |Ashley H. Cooper
2,964
68.08% | |Arthur W. Roland
837
19.22% | | | |Edward I. Thompson
545
12.52% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Ashley H. Cooper |- |Wainwright||Template:Canadian party colour| |Henry A. Ruste
3,465
76.25% | |John M. Saville
668
14.70% | | | |John Wesley Connelly
387
8.52% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Henry A. Ruste |- |Wetaskiwin||Template:Canadian party colour| |Albert W. Strohschein
3,333
61.01% | |Albert (Butch) Dyberg
1,298
23.76% | | | |Leslie Pritchard
823
15.06% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |John A. Wingblade |- |Willingdon-Two Hills||Template:Canadian party colour| |Nicholas A. Melnyk
2,315
56.53% | |Allan Eschak
283
6.91% | |Walter Witwicky
993
24.25% | |William Glen Haley
496
12.11% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| | |- |}

See also

• List of Canadian political parties

Further reading

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