The 14th Alberta Legislature was in
session from February 11, 1960, to May 9, 1963, with the membership of the Legislative Assembly determined by the results of the
1959 Alberta general election
The 1959 Alberta general election was held on June 18, 1959, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
Ernest C. Manning, in his fifth election as party leader and provincial premier, led the Social Credit Party to its seventh c ...
held on June 18, 1959. The Legislature officially resumed on February 11, 1960, and continued until the fifth session was
prorogued
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on March 29, 1963, and
dissolved on May 9, prior to the
1963 Alberta general 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 nu ...
.
Alberta's government was controlled by the
majority
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It is a subset of a Set (mathematics), set consisting of more than half of the se ...
Social Credit Party for the seventh time, led by Premier
Ernest Manning
Ernest Charles Manning (September 20, 1908 – February 19, 1996) was a Canadian politician and the eighth premier of Alberta between 1943 and 1968 for the Social Credit Party of Alberta. He served longer than any other premier in the province' ...
who went on to be the longest-serving premier in Alberta history. There was no
Official Opposition
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, as three parities and one independent made up the four non-government house seats at one seat apiece. The
Speaker was
Peter Dawson, who served until his death on March 24, 1963. Dawson was replaced as Speaker by
Arthur J. Dixon, who remained the speaker until the fall of the Social Credit government after the
1971 Alberta general election
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
The Alberta Legislature is the unicameral legislatur ...
. This was the first assembly elected after the Government of Alberta changed from
single transferable vote
The single transferable vote (STV) or proportional-ranked choice voting (P-RCV) is a multi-winner electoral system in which each voter casts a single vote in the form of a ranked ballot. Voters have the option to rank candidates, and their vot ...
to
first past the post
First-past-the-post (FPTP)—also called choose-one, first-preference plurality (FPP), or simply plurality—is a single-winner voting rule. Voters mark one candidate as their favorite, or First-preference votes, first-preference, and the cand ...
.
Standings changes since the 14th general election
Members elected
For complete electoral history, see individual districts.
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References
Further reading
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External links
Alberta Legislative AssemblyLegislative Assembly of Alberta Members Book
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