Alberta general election, 1926
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Turnout | 67 percent[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Alberta general election of 1926 was the sixth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. It was held on June 28, 1926, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. The writs of election were issued on May 10, 1926, allowing an election period of 40 days.
After Herbert Greenfield had resigned as United Farmers leader and premier, John E. Brownlee accepted the position and led the UFA to a second election victory, increasing the UFA's number of seats.
1926 would mark the first general election that Single Transferable Vote would be used in Alberta. Calgary, Edmonton and Medicine Hat continued to be multi member districts, previously electing members in a plurality Block Vote, now electing members under STV-PR, through the Hare Proportional Representation system. The rural areas continued being single member districts, but now members were elected under Alternative Voting system under which voters cast single transferable votes (preferential voting).
This dual system of balloting would last until 1959 (although Medicine Hat reverted to a single-member constituency before that).
Under STV in Edmonton, The UFA captured one seat in Edmonton where it had taken no seats in 1921. It also took four rural seats that had been captured by Liberal candidates in 1921 (Beaver River, Leduc, Sedgewick and Whitford), and one that had been won by an Independent in 1921 (Claresholm). The UFA also won the district of Empress formerly known as Redcliffe, which had been won by the UFA in 1921. The UFA lost their seat in Medicine Hat but gained a seat in the newly created next-door Cypress district, and lost its seat at St. Albert.
The Conservatives did better in this election than in the previous one, winning two seats each in Edmonton and Calgary.
Results
1926 Alberta provincial election[2] | |||||||||
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Party | Party Leader | # of candidates |
Seats | Popular Vote | |||||
1921 | Elected | % Change | # | % | % Change | ||||
United Farmers | John E. Brownlee | 46 | 38 | 43 | +13.2% | 71,967 | 39.68% | +10.76% | |
Liberal | Joseph Tweed Shaw | 54 | 15 | 7 | -36.4% | 47,450 | 26.17% | -7.90% | |
Labour | 12 | 4 | 5 | +25.0% | 14,123 | 7.79% | -3.25% | ||
Conservative | Alexander McGillivray | 56 | - | 4 | 40,091 | 22.10% | +11.12% | ||
Independent Labour | 1 | - | 1 | 2,467 | 1.37% | -1.69% | |||
Independent Liberal | 5 | - | - | 2,728 | 1.51% | 1.02% | |||
Independent | 3 | 4 | - | -100% | 1,254 | 0.70% | -8.96% | ||
Independent UFA | 5 | - | 999 | 0.55% | |||||
Liberal–Progressive | A. D. Campbell | 1 | - | 252 | 0.13% | ||||
Total | 183 | 61 | 60 | - | 181,331 | 100% |
Members elected
For complete electoral history, see individual districts
(* Cook's defeat of Liberal candidate Bossenberry is the only instance in this election where a candidate who led in the first count was not elected in a second round count, under the preferential balloting system.)
See also
References
- ↑ Report on Alberta Elections, p. 42
- ↑ "Alberta provincial election results". Elections Alberta. Archived from the original on February 11, 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-13.