The 1959 Alberta general election was held on June 18, 1959, to elect members of the

Legislative Assembly of Alberta The Legislative Assembly of Alberta is the deliberative assembly of the province of Alberta, Canada. It sits in the Alberta Legislature Building in Edmonton. Since 2012 the Legislative Assembly has had 87 members, elected first past the post f ...

. Ernest C. Manning, in his fifth election as party leader and provincial premier, led the Social Credit Party to its seventh consecutive term in government, with 55% of the popular vote, and all but four of the sixty five seats in the legislature. Social Credit was also helped by a split in the opposition vote: whereas in the 1955 election, opponents were largely united behind the

Liberal Party The Liberal Party is any of many political parties around the world. The meaning of ''liberal'' varies around the world, ranging from liberal conservatism on the right to social liberalism on the left. For example, while the political systems ...

, in this election the vote was divided between the Liberals and the resurgent Progressive Conservative Party under the leadership of Cam Kirby, won almost 15% of the popular vote, placing ahead of the Liberals whose leader,

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lost his Calgary seat. The Tories and Liberals each won only one seat in the legislature while the Alberta CCF was shut out of the legislature for the first time in seventeen years. The other two opposition seat were taken by a Coalition candidate in Banff and an Independent Social Credit-er, both with strong local support.

Change in voting system

Under an Act passed in 1956, Alberta's MLAs were now elected through

First-past-the-post voting 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, and the candidate with more first- ...

. Previous to this election, the Social Credit government had done away with the

Instant-runoff voting Instant-runoff voting (IRV; ranked-choice voting (RCV), preferential voting, alternative vote) is a single-winner ranked voting election system where Sequential loser method, one or more eliminations are used to simulate Runoff (election), ...

system in use in the rural constituencies, and the

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 ...

system in Edmonton and Calgary, both of which had been in place since 1924. The move was made, the government claimed, to prevent the waste of votes caused by votes being declared spoiled due to unsatisfactory ballot marking, to bring Alberta in line with the other provinces who were using the

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 ...

systems, and to stop what the government called a conspiracy by the opposition parties to gang up on the SC government. The cancellation of STV and AV also standardized and simplified voting results across the province. Under single transferable vote and instant-runoff voting, final results would take up to five days to count the necessary vote transfers, before the last seat in a multiple-member district, Edmonton nor Calgary, was declared filled. (Manning always knew he was elected only hours after the polls closed due to his high vote count on the First Count.) The delay was especially large in the

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, which elected seven members in 1955. The 1955 election had produced a large opposition in the Legislature (large by Alberta standards anyway). Besides Liberals, Conservatives and CCF-ers electing MLAs in proportion to their numbers in the cities, the government had lost a few members in rural constituencies due to IRV, when they had received the largest portion of the vote in the constituency in the First Count (but not a majority) but were not elected to the seat due to another candidate receiving many vote transfers and eventually accumulating a majority of the vote themselves. The cancellation of IRV system in the rural districts was meant to prevent this in the future.Bob Hesketh, "The Abolition of Preferential voting in Alberta", Prairie Forum, Spring 1987 The cancellation of STV in the cities gave the government a windfall of seats as well. SC candidates captured all the seats in Edmonton and all but one in Calgary although getting only 48 percent of the Edmonton city vote and only 54 percent of the Calgary vote.

Electoral redistribution

An Act was passed in 1957 that provided for the increase in the number of MLAs from 61 to 65, upon the next election. The following changes were made: Prior to this election, one or more multi-member districts had been used in each Alberta election since 1909. Alongside the change to FPTP, this increase necessitated the creation of 15 new districts, the most since 1913. The change was met by some harsh criticism at the time. The government was accused of changing the rules to help itself and for failing to consult the public, but it did not hurt the government's popularity at the polls.

Results

Results by riding

, - , Acadia-Coronation, , , , Marion Kelts
2,450
57.34% , , , , James Leland Sims
1,408
32.95% , , Lester A. Lindgren
404
9.45% , , , , , , , - ,

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, , , , Anders O. Aalborg
2,354
59.28% , , A.H. Sweet
1,248
31.43% , , Hilda A. Cross
358
9.02% , , , , , , , , Anders O. Aalborg , - , Athabasca, , , , Antonio Aloisio
2,333
54.17% , , Robert Shopland
707
16.42% , , Richard Edward Hall
1,069
24.82% , , , , John Harry (Lab-Pro)
188
4.36% , , , , - , Banff-Cochrane , , Robin W. Echlin
2,208
48.94% , , , , , , , , , Francis Leo Gainer (Coal)
2,279
50.51%, , , , Francis Leo Gainer , - , Bonnyville, , , , Karl Earnest Nordstrom
2,465
51.50% , , Victor E. Justik
860
17.97% , , Jake Josvanger
1,447
30.23% , , , , , , , , Jake Josvanger , - , Bow Valley-Empress, , , , William Delday
2,863
56.17% , , , , , , , , Bryce C. Stringam (Ind.)
2213
43.42% , , , Bryce C. Stringam , - ,

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, , , , Earl M. Hardy
2,324
55.11% , , Clifford G. Patterson
833
19.75% , , Clare L. Liden
534
12.66% , , Edward I. Thompson
518
12.28% , , , , , , , - , Calgary Bowness, , , , Charles E. Johnston
6,681
59.09% , , Bruce Norris
3,194
28.25% , , Evelyn Leew
1,018
9.00% , , Kay Halliday Grose
379
3.35% , , , , , , , - , Calgary-Centre, , , , Frederick C. Colborne
4,824
53.69% , , Runo Carl Berglund
2,642
29.40% , , Gordon Arnell
1,154
12.84% , , Grant McHardy
349
3.88% , , , , , , , - ,

Calgary-Glenmore Calgary-Glenmore, styled Calgary Glenmore from 1957 to 1971, is a Provinces and territories of Canada, provincial electoral district (Canada), electoral district in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The district is mandated to return a single member to ...

, , A. Ross Lawson
4,681
40.58%, , , , Ernest S. Watkins
4,893
42.42% , , Reg. Clarkson
1,916
16.61% , , , , , , , , , - ,

Calgary-North Calgary-North (previously styled Calgary North) is a single member electoral district in Calgary, Alberta. The electoral district existed from 1959 to 1971, and was re-established for the 2019 Alberta general election. Boundary history 1959 R ...

, , , , Rose Wilkinson
6,655
51.68% , , James David Macdonald
3,385
26.29% , ,

2,429
18.86% , , Aylmer John Eggert Liesemer
374
2.90% , , , , , , , - , Calgary-North East, , , , Albert W. Ludwig
5,945
64.02% , , Melvin P. Stronach
1,829
19.70% , , E. Kitch Elton
1,060
11.42% , , Jack Hampson
420
4.52% , , , , , , , - , Calgary-South East, , , , Arthur J. Dixon
5,643
66.69% , , Ernest Henry Starr
1,537
18.16% , , Peter Petrasuk
792
9.36% , , George E. Ellinson
437
5.16% , , , , , , , - , Calgary-West, , , , Donald S. Fleming
5,060
49.99% , , Roy Victor Deyell
3,392
33.51% , , Ted Duncan
1,397
13.80% , , Ken Tory
242
2.39% , , , , , , , - , Camrose, , , , Chester I. Sayers
3,229
53.12% , , John E. Stuart
1,638
26.95% , , Stanley Ross Gould
732
12.04% , , Archie Olstad
468
7.70% , , , , , , , - , Cardston, , , , Edgar W. Hinman
2,205
73.43% , , John A. Spencer
791
26.34% , , , , , , , , , , Edgar W. Hinman , - , Clover Bar, , , , Floyd M. Baker
3,393
57.78% , , Andrew M. Adamson
1,225
20.86% , , Roy C. Marler
935
15.92% , , Ernest Wilfred Davies
310
5.28% , , , , , , , - ,

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, , , , Harry E. Strom
3,199
79.09% , , Wayne N. Anderson
831
20.54% , , , , , , , , , , Harry E. Strom , - ,

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, , , , James Lawrence Owens
3,042
61.38% , , Douglas N. Munn
1,350
27.24% , , Walter P. Hourihan
556
11.22% , , , , , , , , James Lawrence Owens , - ,

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, , , , Gordon Edward Taylor
3,922
83.84% , , Eneas A. Toshach
740
15.82% , , , , , , , , , , Gordon Edward Taylor , - ,

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, , , , Joseph M. Scruggs
1,080
38.72% , , Bennidict V. Griep
661
23.70% , , Steven P. Tachit
648
23.23% , , Floyd A. Johnson
383
13.73% , , , , , , , - ,

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, , , , Ethel Sylvia Wilson
4,831
52.92% , , John Verchomin
3,356
36.76% , , , , Peter Gomuwka
881
9.65% , , , , , , , - , Edmonton-Centre, , , , Ambrose Holowach
3,912
46.53% , , Gerard Joseph Amerongen
2,185
25.99% , , Laurette C. Douglas
1,684
20.03% , , Robert Atkin
589
7.01% , , , , , , , - , Edmonton-North East, , , , Lou W. Heard
4,960
49.52% , , Allan Welsh
2,389
23.85% , , Louis Marchand
1,325
13.23% , , Alex Goruk
1,063
10.61% , , William Harasym (Lab-Pro)
218
2.18% , , , , - , Edmonton-North West, , , , Edgar H. Gerhart
4,823
42.63% , , Ned Feehan
3,249
28.72% , , Harper McCrae
2,071
18.31% , , James (Jim) Forest
1,146
10.13% , , , , , , , - , Edmonton-Norwood, , , ,

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5,071
54.49% , , Nestor Marchyshyn
1,482
15.93% , , P.W. Bill Jones
1,522
16.36% , , Frank G. McCoy
932
10.02% , , William A. Tuomi (Lab-Pro)
251
2.70% , , , , - , Edson, , , , Norman Alfred Willmore
3,074
56.84% , , Chris. H.R. Nielsen
1,678
31.03% , , Melvyn A. Parkyn
634
11.72% , , , , , , , , Norman Alfred Willmore , - ,

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, , , , George E. Bell
2,267
59.94% , , A. John Van Wezel
754
19.94% , , Carman W. Ellis
752
19.88% , , , , , , , , George E. Bell , - ,

Grande Prairie Grande Prairie is a city in Northern Alberta, northwestern Alberta, Canada, within the southern portion of an area known as Peace River Country. It is located at the intersection of Alberta Highway 43, Highway 43 (part of the CANAMEX Corridor) ...

, , , , Ira McLaughlin
4,213
65.43% , , David T. Williamson
1,391
21.60% , , Mac Perkins
816
12.67% , , , , , , , , Ira McLaughlin , - , Grouard, , , , Roy Ells
3,727
57.01% , , Paul Soulodre
1,309
20.02% , , Paul E. Maisonneuve
1,476
22.58% , , , , , , , , , - , Hand Hills, , , , Clinton Keith French
3,052
65.99% , , William J. Newman
1,074
23.22% , , Val Gobel
489
10.57% , , , , , , , , Wallace Warren Cross , - ,

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, , , , Richard H. Jamieson
5,047
40.65% , , John Percy Page
4,507
36.30% , , Abe William Miller
2,782
22.41% , , , , , , , , , - , Lac La Biche , , Elvin J. Woynarowich
1,518
41.27% , , Henry T. Thompson
411
11.17%, , , , Michael Maccagno
1,734
47.15% , , , , , , , , Michael Maccagno , - , Lac Ste. Anne, , , , William Patterson
2,286
46.53% , , L.D. Gould
1,129
22.98% , , John A. Mills
907
18.46% , , Charley Keeley
582
11.85% , , , , , , , - ,

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, , , , Allan Russell Patrick
3,089
63.42% , , Denis R. Stafford
1,162
23.86% , , , , Robert H. Carlyle
620
12.73% , , , , , , Allan Russell Patrick , - , Leduc , , , , Peter Wyllie
1,494
33.11% , , , , Andrew Simon Borys
676
14.98%, , , , Ronald Earl Ansley (Ind. SoCred)
2,334
51.73%, , , , , - ,

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, , , , John C. Landeryou
7,250
61.77% , , Thomas Spanos
2,917
24.85% , , Robery Henry Jeacock
1,525
12.99% , , , , , , , , John C. Landeryou , - , Little Bow, , , , Peter Dawson
2,939
64.71% , , Bernard W. Tonken
989
21.77% , , Donald A. McNiven
603
13.28% , , , , , , , , Peter Dawson , - ,

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, , , , James Hartley
3,731
72.12% , , Leo E. Toone
949
18.35% , , Dennis Arthur Mouser
475
9.18% , , , , , , , , James Hartley , - ,

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, , , ,

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5,604
64.87% , , John H. Cocks
1,780
20.60% , , Norma DeMan
597
6.91% , , John D. Rogers
495
5.73% , , , , , ,

, - ,

Okotoks-High River Okotoks-High River was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1930 to 1971. History The Okotoks—High River electoral district was formed prior to th ...

, , , , Ernest G. Hansell
2,642
51.42% , , James S. McLeod
1,069
20.81% , , , , , , Ross Laird Ellis (Ind.)
1,427
27.77% , , , Ross Laird Ellis , - , Olds, , , , Roderick Angus Macleod
3,424
66.29% , , Bruce Hanson
1,728
33.46% , , , , , , , , , , Roderick Angus Macleod , - ,

Peace River The Peace River () is a river in Canada that originates in the Rocky Mountains of northern British Columbia and flows to the northeast through northern Alberta. The Peace River joins the Athabasca River in the Peace-Athabasca Delta to form the ...

, , , , William F. Gilliland
2,864
60.64% , , Harold C. Sissons
1,190
25.20% , , James Mann
650
13.76% , , , , , , , , William F. Gilliland , - , Pembina, , , , Robin D. Jorgenson
3,436
61.50% , , Frie Bredo
1,708
30.57% , , Gustav Wahl
416
7.45% , , , , , , , , Robin D. Jorgenson , - , Pincher Creek-Crowsnest, , , , William A. Kovach
3,145
66.89% , , Alex Grant
1,133
24.10% , , C. Boyden
410
8.72% , , , , , , , , William A. Kovach , - , Ponoka, , , , Glen F. Johnston
2,406
49.88% , , Ivor E. Davies
1,529
31.70% , , Erwin E. Schultz
860
17.83% , , , , , , , , , - ,

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, , , , William Kenneth Ure
6,691
63.61% , , William J. Cameron "Cam" Kirby
3,797
36.10% , , , , , , , , , , , - , Redwater, , , , John Dubetz
2,092
49.05% , , Martha P. Bielish
901
21.13% , , Alfred Macyk
1,262
29.59% , , , , , , , , , - ,

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, , , , Alfred J. Hooke
3,235
74.45% , , , , Tom Bert
660
15.19% , , Raymond E. Schmidt
437
10.06% , , , , , , Alfred J. Hooke , - , Sedgewick, , , , Jack C. Hillman
2,805
62.75% , , Kenneth M. Geddes
796
17.81% , , Mildred G. Redman
541
12.10% , , Arthur C. Bunney
319
7.14% , , , , , , Jack C. Hillman , - , Spirit River, , , , Adolph O. Fimrite
3,010
63.68% , , Charles J. Stojan
1,059
22.40% , , , , James W. Graham
593
12.54% , , C.J. Lampert (Ind. SoCred)
58
1.23%, , , , Adolph O. Fimrite , - , St. Albert, , , , Keith Everitt
2,157
36.28% , , Stanley M. Walker
1,187
19.96% , , Arthur J. Soetaert
2,082
35.02% , , Earl Toane
473
7.95% , , , , , , , - , St. Paul, , , , Raymond Reierson
3,412
68.38% , , Gordon Shave
534
10.70% , , J. Van Brabant
1,034
20.72% , , , , , , , , Raymond Reierson , - , Stettler, , , , Galen C. Norris
3,150
60.71% , , Gordon Taylor
991
19.10% , , Henry Kroeger
721
13.89% , , Alice Ness
297
5.72% , , , , , , Galen C. Norris , - , Stony Plain, , , , Cornelia R. Wood
2,880
46.25% , , Robert K. Clarkson
1,227
19.70% , , John Harold McLaughlin
2,091
33.58% , , , , , , , , John Harold McLaughlin , - ,

Strathcona Centre Strathcona Centre was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting from 1959 to 1971. History It was created in 195 ...

, , , , Joseph Donovan Ross
4,564
53.81% , , Pat Walsh
2,226
26.25% , , Leslie M. Lyons
1,215
14.33% , , Keith Wright
422
4.98% , , , , , , , - ,

Strathcona East Strathcona East was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting from 1959 to 1971. History The historic 1959 redis ...

, , , , Ernest C. Manning
7,337
49.62% , , James E. Simpson
3,812
25.78% , , George Johnson
2,610
17.65% , , Hugh Smith
999
6.76% , , , , , , , - ,

Strathcona West Strathcona West was a provincial electoral district, located in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting from 1959 to 1971. History The historic ...

, , , , Randolph H. McKinnon
3,639
41.63% , , Eric M. Duggan
2,683
30.69% , , Frank J. Edwards
1,982
22.67% , , H. Douglas Trace
423
4.84% , , , , , , , - , Taber, , , , Roy S. Lee
3,678
77.64% , , Leslie P. Cluff
1,037
21.89% , , , , , , , , , , Roy S. Lee , - ,

Vegreville Vegreville () is a town in central Alberta, Canada. It is on Highway 16A approximately east of Edmonton, Alberta's capital city. It was incorporated as a town in 1906, and that year also saw the founding of the ''Vegreville Observer'', a week ...

, , , , Alex W. Gordey
2,248
47.63% , , Joseph M. Melnychuk
531
11.25% , , John Koshuta
676
14.32% , , Stanley N. Ruzycki
1,253
26.55% , , , , , , , - ,

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, , , , Ashley H. Cooper
2,204
49.35% , , D.J. Frunchak
799
17.89% , , Russell James Whitson
1,224
27.41% , , , , John P. Hocaluk (Lab-Pro)
227
5.08% , , , , - , Wainwright, , , , Henry A. Ruste
3,111
64.76% , , Donald Mills
831
17.30% , , Henry D. Frizzell
572
11.91% , , John Wesley Connelly
274
5.70% , , , , , , Henry A. Ruste , - , Warner, , , , Leonard C. Halmrast
2,430
72.52% , , , , Mark R. Stringam
915
27.31% , , , , , , , , Leonard C. Halmrast , - ,

Wetaskiwin Wetaskiwin ( ) is a city in the province of Alberta, Canada. The city is located south of the provincial capital of Edmonton. The city name comes from the Cree word , meaning "the hills where peace was made". Wetaskiwin is home to the Reyn ...

, , , , John A. Wingblade
3,352
58.12% , , Robert D. Angus
1,010
17.51% , , Fred R. MacNaughton
642
11.13% , , David Pat. Garland
749
12.99% , , , , , , , - , Willingdon, , , , Nicholas A. Melnyk
2,421
63.13% , , Alex Hushlak
991
25.84% , , , , Nick W. Svekla
392
10.22% , , , , , , , -

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Change in voting system

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Results

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