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The Calgary district in 1930.. The original 25 districts were drawn up by Liberal Member of Parliament Frank Oliver prior to the first general election of 1905. The original boundaries were widely regarded as being gerrymandered to favour the Alberta Liberal Party, although the Liberal Party did receive the majority of votes in the 1905 election and thus rightly formed majority government.
All Alberta elections have resulted in a majority government, a trend unseen in any other Canadian province. (But frequently the most popular party was the choice of less than half the voters.) Even with crossing the floor or by-elections, Alberta has never had a minority government. Each government has held a majority of seats in the Legislature.
Number of seats won by major parties at each election UCP Wildrose Conservative/PC Liberal CCF/NDP Social Credit United Farmers Dominion Labour Party Independants Other The Canadian province of Alberta holds elections to its unicameral legislative body, the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. The maximum period between general elections of the assembly is five years, but the Lieutenant Governor ...
The Office of the Chief Electoral Officer (Elections Alberta), was created in 1977 to act as an independent body to oversee Alberta's Elections Finances and Contribution Disclosure Act and Election Act. Prior to 1977, these acts were overseen by the clerk of the Legislative Assembly. [5]
Federal electoral districts represented by visible minorities during the 42nd Canadian Parliament (2015–2019) marked by party colour. This list comprises persons who belong to a visible minority group who have been elected to the federal House of Commons, legislative assemblies of provinces and territories, and members appointed to the Senate.
The election of 1971 saw a hotly contested three-way race as incumbent Social Credit MLA J. Donovan Ross ran for his sixth term in office. He had served as MLA for the predecessor district Strathcona Centre starting in 1959 and previously as an MLA for the multi-member Edmonton constituency starting in 1952.
Yellowhead is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1979. The district is in west-central Alberta and represents: parts of the Municipal District of Greenview No. 16 including Grande Cache, Improvement District No. 25 (), the Improvement District No. 12 (), the Municipality of Jasper, Yellowhead County including ...
Alberta First: 1999-2004 Freedom Conservative Alberta Independence: 2000-2001 Independence Party Greens: 1986-2009 Green Confederation of Regions: 1986-1996 — Forum Party of Alberta: 1995-2004 — Heritage Party: 1985-1986 — Independent Labour Party 1921 Leader Ernest Brown became active in Communist Party Natural Law: 1993-1997 ...