Sex, lies, dynasties and defeats: 30 Alberta elections, 30 historic front pages — How Albertans have voted in every provincial election ableg abpoli abvotes
. For the first time, a substantial opposition was elected in the province. The Liberals won 38 seats and the Conservatives grabbed 17, when the official count was done. Calgary now had three seats, and all three went to Conservative candidates.Article content
This election was also noteworthy because women were allowed to vote and run for provincial office for the first time. Two women were elected, including Louise McKinney, a member of the groundbreaking Famous 5 suffragist group. McKinney also became the first woman elected to a legislature in the entire British Empire. The other elected female was Roberta MacAdams, representing soldiers and nurses oversees.
The 1930 Alberta provincial election saw voters give the United Farmers its third — and what would be final — term in office.: As is the Alberta way, voters completely rejected the ruling United Farmers party in the 1935 provincial election. Not a single United Farmers incumbent or candidate won his seat. Voter turnout was the largest it’s ever been in Alberta — just over 80 per cent.
The Social Credit dynasty continued in 1948, with the party being elected to its fourth term as government.: The 1952 provincial election saw the Social Credit Party win its fifth term, claiming 53 seats.1955 Another sweeping victory was in store for the Social Credit party in the 1963 Alberta election — the eighth win for the Socreds.: Premier Ernest Manning led his Social Credit Party to another win in the 1967 provincial election — its ninth. Harry Strom took over as leader in 1968 and became premier.
The 1971 provincial election in Alberta was historic in that the vote ended the 36-year dynasty of one party and ushered in the Progressive Conservatives as the new provincial ruling party — the start of another dynasty that would extend for 44 years.provincial election occur in Alberta, with the Progressive Conservatives capturing their second win and taking 69 of 75 seats.
While the Progressive Conservatives continued their winning ways in the 1986 provincial election, the Liberals won four seats — their first in the legislature since 1969 — and the NDP won 16 under Ray Martin, who’d become party leader after Grant Notley died in a plane crash in 1984.: Don Getty led the Progressive Conservatives to their sixth majority government, but lost his own seat in Edmonton to the Liberals’ Percy Wickman.
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