1967 Alberta general election

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox election The 1967 Alberta general election was held on May 23, 1967, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta to the 16th Alberta Legislature. The election was called after the 15th Alberta Legislature was prorogued on April 11, 1967, and dissolved on April 14, 1967.Template:Sfn

Ernest C. Manning led the Social Credit Party to its ninth (and, as it turned out, final) consecutive majority government, winning 55 of the 65 seats in the legislature, despite getting less than 45 per cent of the popular vote. Although it was not apparent at the time, this proved to be an ominous sign for the party. The 1967 election was the first time the Social Credit government had won less than half the popular vote since 1955.

The once-moribund Progressive Conservatives, led by young lawyer Peter Lougheed, emerged as the main opposition to Social Credit. They won over a quarter of the popular vote and six seats, mostly taking seats from Social Credit in the two major cities, Calgary and Edmonton. Social Credit was slow to adapt to the changes in Alberta as its two largest cities gained increasing influence.

Despite losing close to half of the share of the popular vote they had won in the 1963 election, the Liberals managed to increase their number of seats from two to three as a result of the decline in the Social Credit vote.

New Democrat Party candidates received 16 percent of the vote but no seats.

Voters also decided upon the adoption of daylight saving time, in a province-wide plebiscite. It was defeated by a very slim margin with 51.25 per cent voting against.

Amendments to the Election Act in 1965 provided voting rights for Treaty Indians in provincial elections, making the 1967 election the first opportunity for Indigenous Albertans to vote in a provincial election.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>An Act to amend The Election Act, SA 1965, c 23, retrieved from CanLII on July 21, 2021</ref>

Background

Social Credit campaign

The Social Credit government had prepared well for the election in advance, with the party maintaining a significant war chest.Template:Sfn The Social Credit government came under criticism for low non-renewable resource royalty rates compared to other developed nations, which it counted by saying the royalties were the highest in Canada.Template:Sfn Social Credit focused on their governance record rather than make significant policy commitments, although the Social Credit government did commit to study rising car insurance rates.Template:Sfn Furthermore the Social Credit government argued they spent the most per capita on social issues despite having the lowest tax rate.Template:Sfn

An internal controversy occurred when Albert Bourcier, a Social Credit MLA from 1935 to 1952 filed papers to contest the Edmonton-Jasper Place constituency against incumbent Social Credit MLA John Horan. Bourcier was still an active member of the Social Credit Party, but was ejected from the party prior to the election. It was the second time Bourcier was ejected from the party, the first being in 1949 as a sitting MLA.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Horan was re-elected with 36.3 per cent of the vote, while Bourcier received 1.5 per cent of the vote.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

New Democratic Party campaign

The New Democratic Party (NDP) built a campaign on the foundation of higher oil royalties, greater participation by small businesses in oil and gas resources, transition electricity utilities to provincial ownership, provide for provincial car insurance, and development of rural natural gas infrastructure.Template:Sfn

Progressive Conservative campaign

New leader Peter Lougheed and his supporters worked tirelessly to convince candidates to run in all 65 constituencies, however the Progressive Conservatives were only able to nominate 47 candidates,Template:Sfn two more than the Liberal Party, but less than the full slate put forward by the Social Credit Party and the New Democratic Party. Lougheed sought candidates who were already public figures, often meeting with editors of local weekly newspapers, mayors and presidents of boards of trade to inquire who the community's leaders were.Template:Sfn As the writ came closer Lougheed and the Progressive Conservatives realized they could not defeat Social Credit, instead focusing on becoming the Official Opposition.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn The campaign created red, white and blue promotional materials with the slogan "Alberta Needs an Alternative", while Lougheed's own material added his personal slogan "Let's Start It in Calgary West".Template:Sfn

Lougheed sought a public debate amongst the four party leaders, however as a long time incumbent Manning was not willing to risk a debate which could produce little benefit and much harm for the Socreds.Template:Sfn Manning's position on the debate changed when a group of Edmonton church leaders decided to host a leaders debate, Manning, a devout Christian and host of "Back to the Bible Hour" radio broadcasts, accepted the debate.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Lougheed's performance in the debate was lauded by the Edmonton Journal and was credited by biographer George Wood as boosting the Progressive Conservatives in the Edmonton area, including Don Getty's improbable victory over Social Credit Education Minister Randolph McKinnon in Strathcona West.Template:Sfn Other media began to take notice with Maclean's stating the only politician capable of having "an outside chance of challenging Manning" was Lougheed.Template:Sfn

During the campaign, the Progressive Conservatives called for the sale of Alberta Government Telephones.Template:Sfn

Lougheed was subsequently elected to the legislature in Calgary-West capturing 62 per cent of the vote, and the Progressive Conservatives captured 26 per cent of the vote province-wide with five other successful candidates,Template:Sfn and subsequently Lougheed became Leader of the Opposition. The group of elected Conservatives known as the "original six" included Calgary MLAs Len Werry, David Russell; Edmonton area MLAs Lou Hyndman and Don Getty, and the party's only rural candidate and former federal Member of Parliament Hugh Horner.Template:Sfn The Edmonton Journal positively remarked on Lougheed's success following the 1967 election, stating Albertans had a responsible and credible alternative as opposition.Template:Sfn

Eligibility to vote

The 1967 Alberta general election had four sets of criteria for a person to be eligible to vote. A eligible voter must be a Canadian citizen or British subject prior to April 14, 1967; 19 years of age or older on voting day; a resident of Alberta for 12 months preceding April 14, 1967; and a resident of the constituency on April 14, 1967.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Indigenous Albertans were eligible to vote for the first time in a provincial general election.

Results

File:Alberta Legislature 1967.svg

Party		Party leader	# of candidates	Seats				Popular vote
				1963	Dissolution	Elected	% Change	#	%	% Change	Social Credit	Ernest C. Manning	65	60	57	55	-8.3%	222,270	44.60%	-10.21%
Template:Canadian party colour|	Progressive Conservative	Peter Lougheed	47	-	-	6		129,544	26.00%	+13.29%	Michael Maccagno	45	2	3	3	+50.0%	53,847	10.81%	-8.95%	Independent		7	-	-	1		6,916	1.38%	+0.40%	NDP	Neil Reimer	65	-	1	-	-	79,610	15.98%	+6.53%	Frank Gainer	2	1	1	-	-100%	3,654	0.73%	+0.19%	Independent Progressive Conservative		2	*	-	-	*	1,118	0.22%	*	Ross Ellis	1	-	-	-	-	699	0.14%	-0.14%
	Independent Social Credit		2	-	1	-	-	693	0.14%	-0.65%
Total			236	63	63	65	+3.2%	498,351	100%
Source: Elections Alberta

Note:

* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous electionTemplate:Bar boxTemplate:Bar box

Daylight saving time plebiscite

The Province of Alberta voted on its fifth provincial plebiscite. Voters were asked to endorse a proposal to adopt daylight saving time (summer time). The proposal was rejected by a very slim margin. The question was asked again in the next election, and passed at that time.

Background

In 1948, the Government of Alberta formally set the province's time zone with the passage of The Daylight Saving Time Act,<ref>An Act Respecting the use of Daylight Saving Time within the Province, SA 1948, c 18, retrieved from CanLII on July 21, 2021</ref> which mandated the entire province observe Mountain Standard Time, and prevented any municipality from observing daylight saving time or any other time zone. The bill came after Calgary (1946 and 1947), and Edmonton (1946) held municipal plebiscites which approved the move to daylight saving time. Edmonton under Mayor Harry Ainlay actually began to use DLT, which was forbidden under the new law.

Alberta's urban municipalities were in favour of daylight saving time and pressured the provincial government to hold a plebiscite or provide the authority for municipalities to locally observe daylight saving time. A joint motion of Calgary City Council and Edmonton City Council for a plebiscite was put to the Legislature in July 1963, with the support of Social Credit Minister and Edmonton Alderman Ethel Sylvia Wilson,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> without success.

A further effort in March 1964 by Liberal MLA and Calgary Alderman Bill Dickie to allow the matter to be settled by a municipal plebiscite also failed in the Legislature. In the debate, Social Credit MLA William Patterson described Daylight Saving Time as "that fandangled thing", and Minister Allen Russell Patrick stated municipal Daylight Savings Time would be difficult for tourists to understand.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

A motion introduced by Bill Dickie was approved by the Legislature in February 1966 to hold a plebiscite on Daylight Saving Time.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> And on March 29, 1966, Minister Alfred Hooke introduced An Act to amend The Daylight Saving Time Act (Bill 75),<ref>An Act to amend The Daylight Saving Time Act, SA 1966, c 27, retrieved from CanLII on July 21, 2021</ref> to permit the government to hold a plebiscite on the issue.

On April 17, 1967, the Government of Alberta approved Order-in-Council 607/67 which provided the instructions for the plebiscite on Daylight Saving Time.

The prescribed question was "Do you favour Province-wide Daylight Saving Time?" with the two available responses as "Yes" and "No".Template:Sfn

Across Canada, by 1967, each province besides Alberta and Saskatchewan had adopted Daylight Saving Time. Many Alberta businesses provided for modified summer hours, 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Arguments for and against

Arguments for daylight saving time were put forward by the construction industry including the Alberta Construction Association and Edmonton Home Builders Association.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The Calgary Herald editorial board published a number of editorials in advance of the plebiscite advocating for the province to observe daylight saving time, and further advocated for all of Canada to move to daylight saving time.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Calgary residents and businessmen Bill Creighton and David Matthews led a campaign for daylight saving times, arguing the benefits of an additional hour of late sunlight for sports.<ref name=DDIC>Template:Cite book</ref> Creighton was able to garner endorsements from the Alberta Amateur Athletics Union and other local golf, baseball, football and tennis associations.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The Calgary Tourist and Convention Association endorsed daylight saving, noting that tourists perceived the province as "backwards" for not adopting the time shift.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Liberal leader Michael Maccagno personally supported observing daylight saving time.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Arguments against daylight saving time were made by the group Alberta Council for Standard Time founded by Calgary lawyer and drive-in movie operator R.H. Barron.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The Council ran a number of advertisements in local papers advocating for standard time, those arguments included the danger for children walking to school in the dark or twilight, and possible reductions to academic performance.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Aftermath

The plebiscite resulted in a narrow victory for retaining Mountain Standard Time, with 51.25 per cent of the population voting against daylight saving time.<ref name=DDIC/> Alberta's large urban communities of Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge and Medicine Hat voted in favour, while the rural parts of the province voted against the proposal.<ref name=DDIC/>

The new Progressive Conservative caucus continued to pressure the Social Credit government to provide individual municipalities the power to institute Daylight Saving Time. A February 1968 motion by Edmonton MLA Don Getty and Bill Dickie for municipal authority to institute daylight saving time was rejected by the Legislature.Template:Sfn

In the aftermath of the plebiscite, the Calgary Herald blamed the defeat on "rural cousins" and the well organized Council for Standard Time, noting Calgarians voted two-to-one in favour of adopting daylight saving.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The editorial board for the Calgary Herald decried the failure of the plebiscite, but predicted that the province would eventually adopt daylight saving time.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Results

Do you favour province-wide daylight saving time?Template:Sfn
For	Against
236,555     48.75%	248,680     51.25%

Results by riding

Template:Canadian politics/candlist header |- |Alexandra||Template:Canadian party colour| |Anders O. Aalborg
2,880
57.85% | |Kenneth E. Oates
940
18.88% | |Charles F. Swan
304
6.11% | |Lester A. Lindgren
835
16.77% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Anders O. Aalborg |- |Athabasca||Template:Canadian party colour| |Antonio Aloisio
1,733
45.08% | | | |Dave Hunter
939
24.43% | |George Opryshko
1,170
30.44% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Antonio Aloisio |- |Banff-Cochrane | |Roy Wilson
2,066
42.17% | | | | | |Jack Fraser
374
7.63%||Template:Canadian party colour| |Clarence Copithorne (Ind.)
2,428
49.56%||Template:Canadian party colour| |Francis Leo Gainer |- |Bonnyville||Template:Canadian party colour| |Romeo B. Lamothe
2,339
54.12% | | | | | |Kenneth Joseph Kerr
316
7.31% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Romeo B. Lamothe |- |Bow Valley-Empress||Template:Canadian party colour| |Fred T. Mandeville
2,525
49.16% | | | | | |Calvin Steinley
549
10.69% | | Ben M. MacLeod (Coal.)
2,018
39.63% |Template:Canadian party colour| |William Delday |- |Calgary Bowness | |Charles E. Johnston
6,461
37.63%||Template:Canadian party colour| |Len F. Werry
6,828
39.77% | |John Donachie
1,876
10.93% | |Evelyn Moore
1,905
11.09% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Charles E. Johnston |- |Calgary Centre||Template:Canadian party colour| |Frederick C. Colborne
3,873
40.47% | |Charles Henry Cook
3,359
35.10% | |John Starchuk
1,275
13.32% | |Mrs. Margaret Hanley
973
10.17% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Frederick C. Colborne |- |Calgary-East||Template:Canadian party colour| |Albert W. Ludwig
5,563
50.43% | |Jim Crawford
2,613
23.69% | |Sandy Skoryko
803
7.28% | |Kurt Gebauer
1,955
17.72% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Albert W. Ludwig |- |Calgary-Glenmore | |Len Pearson
3,840
27.43% | |Ronald M. Helmer
3,406
24.33%||Template:Canadian party colour| |William Daniel Dickie
5,743
41.02% | |Max Wolfe
950
6.79% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |William Daniel Dickie |- |Calgary-North||Template:Canadian party colour| |Robert A. Simpson
4,308
42.74% | |Henry M. Beaumont
3,915
38.84% | |Charles W. Loughridge
638
6.33% | |Walter H. Siewert
1,157
11.48% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Robert A. Simpson |- |Calgary Queens Park||Template:Canadian party colour| |Lea Leavitt
4,943
42.13% | |Eric Charles Musgreave
3,820
32.56% | |Darryl Raymaker
1,702
14.51% | |Lisa Baldwin
1,220
10.40% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| | |- |Calgary-South||Template:Canadian party colour| |Arthur J. Dixon
5,401
41.76% | |Joe Clark
4,940
38.19% | |Willis E. O'Leary
1,146
8.86% | |Jack D. Peters
1,388
10.73% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Arthur J. Dixon |- |Calgary Victoria Park | |Art Davis
3,956
35.49%||Template:Canadian party colour| |David J. Russell
4,796
43.03% | |Reginald J. Gibbs
1,088
9.76% | |Ted Takacs
1,229
11.03% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| | |- |Calgary-West | |Donald S. Fleming
4,028
28.95%||Template:Canadian party colour| |Peter Lougheed
8,548
61.43% | |Natalie Chapman
402
2.89% | |Allan M. Early
868
6.24% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Donald S. Fleming |- |Camrose||Template:Canadian party colour| |Chester I. Sayers
3,083
44.25% | |Emmett G. Mohler
1,736
24.91% | |G. Rod Knaut
699
10.03% | |Rudy P. Swanson
1,412
20.26% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Chester I. Sayers |- |Cardston||Template:Canadian party colour| |Alvin F. Bullock
2,120
47.11% | |Larry L. Lang
1,692
37.60% | | | |Leslie N. Howard
104
2.31% | |Robert D. Burt (Ind.)
573
12.73%||Template:Canadian party colour| |Edgar W. Hinman |- |Clover Bar||Template:Canadian party colour| |Walt A. Buck
4,101
51.35% | |Daniel F. Hollands
2,215
27.73% | |Kazmer D. Curry
468
5.86% | |Alfred O. Arnston
1,175
14.71% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Floyd M. Baker |- |Cypress||Template:Canadian party colour| |Harry E. Strom
2,577
76.65% | | | | | |William George McFall
769
22.87% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Harry E. Strom |- |Drumheller-Gleichen||Template:Canadian party colour| |Gordon Edward Taylor
4,018
67.46% | |Tom Hanson
1,579
26.51% | | | |Garry B. Law
345
5.79% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Gordon Edward Taylor |- |Dunvegan||Template:Canadian party colour| |Ernest L. Lee
1,280
41.52% | | | | | |Phil Thompson
1,080
35.03% | | John A. Hammond (Coal.)
547
18.82% |Template:Canadian party colour| |Ernest L. Lee |- |Edmonton North||Template:Canadian party colour| |Ethel Sylvia Wilson
4,698
38.21% | |Tony Thibaudeau
3,461
28.15% | |L. John Corbiere
1,303
10.60% | |Gordon S.B. Wright
2,763
22.47% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| | |- |Edmonton-Centre||Template:Canadian party colour| |Ambrose Holowach
3,146
39.12% | |Harold W. Veale
2,558
31.81% | |Joseph A. Tannous
747
9.29% | |Henry Tomaschuk
1,313
16.33% | |Pat G.A. O'Hara (Ind.)
194
2.41%||Template:Canadian party colour| |Ambrose Holowach |- |Edmonton-Jasper Place||Template:Canadian party colour| |John William Horan
4,206
36.34% | |Gerard Joseph Amerongen
3,000
25.92% | |Barry Vogel
1,851
15.99% | |Tom Hennessey
2,210
19.09% | |Albert V. Bourcier (Ind. SoCred)
176 |Template:Canadian party colour| |John William Horan |- |Edmonton-North East||Template:Canadian party colour| |Lou W. Heard
5,052
35.02% | |Alan T. Cooke
3,616
25.06% | |Peter Achtem
1,418
9.83% | |Ivor G. Dent
4,276
29.64% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Lou W. Heard |- |Edmonton-North West||Template:Canadian party colour| |Edgar H. Gerhart
4,674
36.10% | |Paul Norris
4,205
32.48% | |Thomas Leia
1,173
9.06% | |Dave Belland
2,664
20.58% | |Oscar A. Green (Ind.)
188
1.45%||Template:Canadian party colour| |Edgar H. Gerhart |- |Edmonton-Norwood||Template:Canadian party colour| |William Tomyn
3,450
43.01% | |Ronald W. Downey
2,023
25.22% | | | |Grant W. Notley
2,433
30.33% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |William Tomyn |- |Edmonton-West | |William A. Johnson
4,016
32.46%||Template:Canadian party colour| |Lou Hyndman
4,753
38.42% | |J. Bernard Feehan
2,316
18.72% | |Thomas C. Pocklington
1,254
10.14% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Stanley Gordon Geldart |- |Edson | |Arthur O. Jorgensen
2,372
34.59% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |William A. Switzer
2,803
40.87% | |C. Neil Reimer
1,656
24.15% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |William Switzer |- |Grande Prairie||Template:Canadian party colour| |Ira McLaughlin
4,847
55.38% | | | |George M. Repka
1,132
12.93% | |Alan Bush
2,748
31.40% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Ira McLaughlin |- |Grouard||Template:Canadian party colour| |Roy Ells
3,363
51.02% | | | |Gunnar Walhstrom
985
14.94% | |Stan Daniels
2,207
33.49% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Roy Ells |- |Hand Hills-Acadia||Template:Canadian party colour| |Clinton Keith French
2,675
50.17% | |Bill Cross
2,140
40.14% | | | |Ralph G. Jorgenson
504
9.45% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Clinton Keith French |- |Lac La Biche | |Harry Lobay
1,613
34.22% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Michael Maccagno
2,212
46.93% | |Fred Ustina
758
16.08% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Michael Maccagno |- |Lac Ste. Anne | |William Patterson
1,731
30.14%||Template:Canadian party colour| |Hugh F. Horner
2,573
44.80% | |Raymond Mills
723
12.59% | |Swen Symington
674
11.74% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |William Patterson |- |Lacombe||Template:Canadian party colour| |Allan Russell Patrick
2,690
49.11% | |John William Cookson
1,999
36.49% | | | |Glen R. Nelson
777
14.18% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Allan Russell Patrick |- |Leduc||Template:Canadian party colour| |James D. Henderson
2,193
45.38% | |Emanuel Prycz
1,206
24.96% | |Russell Olekshy
383
7.93% | |Alex A. Sklarenko
1,021
21.13% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |James D. Henderson |- |Lethbridge||Template:Canadian party colour| |John C. Landeryou
6,155
44.27% | |Wilfred Bowns
4,128
29.69% | |John I. Boras
2,237
16.09% | |Klaas Buijert
1,335
9.60% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |John C. Landeryou |- |Little Bow||Template:Canadian party colour| |Raymond Albert Speaker
3,367
68.25% | | | | | |John K. Head
572
11.60% | |Arthur W. Ulrich (Ind.)
978
19.83%||Template:Canadian party colour| |Raymond Albert Speaker |- |Macleod||Template:Canadian party colour| |Leighton E. Buckwell
2,822
51.68% | |George Whitehead
1,773
32.47% | |Melba J. Cochlan
149
2.73% | |Sid J. Cornish
673
12.32% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |James Hartley |- |Medicine Hat||Template:Canadian party colour| |Harry C. Leinweber
4,390
39.96% | |James Horsman
2,701
24.59% | |Roy Weidermann
2,025
18.43% | |Ted. J. Grimm
1,819
16.56% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Harry C. Leinweber |- |Okotoks-High River||Template:Canadian party colour| |Edward P. Benoit
2,289
48.50% | |Thomas E. Hughes
2,097
44.43% | |Ron A. Baker
88
1.86% | |Georgina M. Smith
212
4.49% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Edward P. Benoit |- |Olds-Didsbury||Template:Canadian party colour| |Robert Curtis Clark
4,052
65.02% | | | |Stan Bell
1,129
18.12% | |Eva Banta
485
7.78% | |Chas. Purvis (Ind. Con.)
547
8.80% |Template:Canadian party colour| |Robert Curtis Clark |- |Peace River||Template:Canadian party colour| |Robert H. Wiebe
2,860
53.49% | | | | | |Harry Reinders
1,338
25.02% | |Edward R. Whitney (Ind.)
1,149
21.49%||Template:Canadian party colour| |Euell F. Montgomery |- |Pembina||Template:Canadian party colour| |Adam Carl Muller
2,866
47.23% | |Edward G. Samuel
2,098
34.57% | |Edward P. MacCallum
484
7.98% | |George A.E. Garnett
576
9.49% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Robin D. Jorgenson |- |Pincher Creek-Crowsnest||Template:Canadian party colour| |Charles Duncan Drain
2,345
45.78% | |Alexander B. Wells
722
14.10% | |F. Benton Murphy
255
4.98% | |Garth A. Turcott
1,772
34.60% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Garth Turcott |- |Ponoka||Template:Canadian party colour| |Neville S. Roper
3,286
62.04% | | | |Derek R. Broughton
514
9.70% | |Ed Nelson
1,464
27.64% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Glen F. Johnston |- |Red Deer||Template:Canadian party colour| |William Kenneth Ure
6,166
46.42% | |James L. Foster
4,628
34.84% | |Robert H. Scammell
636
4.79% | |Ethel Taylor
1,799
13.54% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |William Kenneth Ure |- |Redwater||Template:Canadian party colour| |Michael Senych
1,588
43.42% | |Basil Zailo
1,314
35.93% | | | |Norman T. Flack
737
20.15% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Michael Senych |- |Rocky Mountain House||Template:Canadian party colour| |Alfred J. Hooke
2,538
53.21% | | | | | |Gilbert H.C. Farthing
792
16.60% | |Will Sinclair (Ind.)
1,406
29.48%||Template:Canadian party colour| |Alfred J. Hooke |- |Sedgewick-Coronation||Template:Canadian party colour| |Jack C. Hillman
3,470
59.41% | |Ernie Moore
1,103
18.88% | |Eugene F. Price
547
9.36% | |Arthur C. Bunney
680
11.64% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Jack C. Hillman |- |Spirit River||Template:Canadian party colour| |Adolph O. Fimrite
2,627
56.12% | | | |John L. Listhaeghe
413
8.82% | |Bert M. Strand
1,634
34.91% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Adolph O. Fimrite |- |St. Albert||Template:Canadian party colour| |Keith Everitt
2,824
35.44% | |Stanley M. Walker
1,469
18.43% | |Robert A. Russell
2,297
28.82% | |Norman Dolman
1,339
16.80% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Keith Everitt |- |St. Paul||Template:Canadian party colour| |Raymond Reierson
2,275
44.29% | | | |Armand Lamothe
1,489
28.99% | |Pierre M. Vallee
788
15.34% | |Leroy P. Christensen (Ind. P.C.)
571
11.12%||Template:Canadian party colour| |Raymond Reierson |- |Stettler||Template:Canadian party colour| |Galen C. Norris
2,659
54.88% | |Bob McKnight
1,461
30.15% | | | |Morton H. Neilson
635
13.11% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Galen C. Norris |- |Stony Plain||Template:Canadian party colour| |Ralph A. Jespersen
2,316
36.25% | |Frank Flanagan
1,670
26.14% | | | |Maurice R. McCullagh
1,855
29.03% | |Cornelia R. Wood (Ind. SoCred)
517
8.13% |Template:Canadian party colour| |Cornelia R. Wood |- |Strathcona Centre||Template:Canadian party colour| |Joseph Donovan Ross
4,052
40.50% | |Larry Boddy
2,493
24.92% | |Ian Nicoll
1,794
17.93% | |Gordon E. Weese
1,627
16.26% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Joseph Donovan Ross |- |Strathcona East||Template:Canadian party colour| |Ernest C. Manning
6,314
49.70% | |C. Jack Thorpe
2,976
23.43% | |Percy Marshall
1,458
11.48% | |Ray Field
1,909
15.03% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Ernest C. Manning |- |Strathcona South||Template:Canadian party colour| |Joe G. Radstaak
3,934
40.73% | |Oscar H. Kruger
2,594
26.86% | |John Kloster
968
10.02% | |Bill McLean
2,123
21.98% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| | |- |Strathcona West | |Randolph H. McKinnon
5,153
36.87%||Template:Canadian party colour| |Donald Ross Getty
6,764
48.39% | |Edmund H. Leger
890
6.37% | |Frank Kuzemski
1,115
7.98% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Randolph H. McKinnon |- |Taber-Warner||Template:Canadian party colour| |Douglas Miller
3,451
61.24% | |Emil D. Gundlock
1,170
20.76% | |Theodore Rudd
683
12.12% | |Dick Verwoerd
292
5.18% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Leonard C. Halmrast |- |Three Hills||Template:Canadian party colour| |Raymond Ratzlaff
2,762
50.48% | |Gordon Leslie
1,113
20.34% | |James A. Lore
1,317
24.07% | |George E. Pieper
268
4.90% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Roy Davidson |- |Vegreville-Bruce||Template:Canadian party colour| |Alex W. Gordey
2,497
44.41% | |Mike W. Kawulych
1,742
30.98% | |Wilfrid L. Horton
345
6.14% | |Albin Lukawiecki
1,010
17.96% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Alex W. Gordey |- |Vermilion||Template:Canadian party colour| |Ashley H. Cooper
2,545
57.80% | |Hilda Wilson
1,199
27.23% | | | |Harry E. Yaremchuk
642
14.58% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Ashley H. Cooper |- |Wainwright||Template:Canadian party colour| |Henry A. Ruste
3,807
82.15% | | | | | |Glenn Valleau
789
17.03% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Henry A. Ruste |- |Wetaskiwin||Template:Canadian party colour| |Albert W. Strohschein
2,879
45.67% | |Dallas Schmidt
2,408
38.20% | | | |Robert P. Christensen
1,000
15.86% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Albert W. Strohschein |- |Willingdon-Two Hills||Template:Canadian party colour| |Nicholas A. Melnyk
2,160
62.25% | | | | | |Louis Souter
1,298
37.41% | |||Template:Canadian party colour| |Nicholas A. Melnyk |- |}

See also

• 1948 electrification plebiscite
• 1957 liquor plebiscite
• 1971 daylight saving time plebiscite
• List of Alberta political parties

References

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