1952_Alberta_general_election

1952 Alberta general election
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61 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta ; 31 seats were needed for a majority
Premier before election; Ernest Manning; Social Credit	Premier after election ; Ernest Manning; Social Credit

1952 Alberta general election

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The 1952 Alberta general election was held on August 5, 1952, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.

Quick Facts 61 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta 31 seats were needed for a majority, Majority party ...

Ernest C. Manning in his third election as leader of the Social Credit Party, and its first election since the Social Credit Party paid off Alberta's first debt in 1949, led it to its fifth consecutive election victory, increasing its share of the popular vote, and winning fifty two of the sixty one seats in the legislature.

The Liberal Party formed the official opposition with only four seats. The Conservative Party returned to Alberta politics again, nominating candidates both under the "Conservative" banner, and under the "Progressive Conservative" banner recently adopted by its federal counterpart. The party won two seats, one under each banner. The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation won two seats, one that of leader Elmer Roper. The remaining seat was won by an Independent.

This provincial election, like the previous six, saw district-level proportional representation (Single transferable voting) used to elect the MLAs of Edmonton and Calgary. City-wide districts were used to elect multiple MLAs in the cities. All the other MLAs were elected in single-member districts through Instant-runoff voting.

Voter turn-out was 59.4 percent in this election.^[1]

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Calgary

All major parties other than the Progressive Conservatives fielded full slates.

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Calgary (1952 Alberta general election) (six members elected, candidates ranked in order of 1st preference)^[4]^[5]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
	Social Credit	Rose Wilkinson	16.31%	6,796
	Social Credit	Howard B. Macdonald	10.11%	4,214	4,346	4,346	4,350	4,355	4,365	4,369	4,371	4,397	4,417	4,442	4,489	4,502	4,547	4,565	4,614	4,696	4,902	4,929	6,167
	Social Credit	Frederick C. Colborne	9.54%	3,974	4,252	4,252	4,254	4,258	4,268	4,276	4,298	4,318	4,401	4,420	4,438	4,449	4,470	4,492	4,563	4,607	6,292
	Progressive Conservative	Paul Brecken	7.50%	3,126	3,147	3,151	3,154	3,160	3,176	3,179	3,183	3,184	3,211	3,351	3,391	3,886	4,380	4,454	4,552	5,607	5,656	5,657	5,725	5,730	6,269
	Independent Labour	Donald Fraser McIntosh	7.02%	2,927	2,940	2,945	2,951	2,956	2,966	2,972	2,977	3,110	3,121	3,142	3,166	3,195	3,228	3,276	3,315	3,371	3,419	3,420	3,550	3,554
	Social Credit	Thomas Glen	6.77%	2,820	2,870	2,871	2,872	2,874	2,876	2,890	2,893	2,905	2,911	2,916	2,919	2,926	2,934	2,949	2,966	2,981	3,172	3,199
	Liberal	Hugh John MacDonald	6.51%	2,711	2,724	2,724	2,730	2,771	2,833	2,834	2,842	2,867	2,991	3,030	3,547	3,580	3,663	3,675	4,499	4,619	4,659	4,661	4,747	4,750	5,216
	Social Credit	Arthur J. Dixon	6.42%	2,677	2,759	2,762	2,763	2,766	2,776	2,776	2,779	2,790	2,816	2,829	2,837	2,840	2,846	2,858	2,874	2,981	3,312	3,586	4,954	5,149	5,966
	Social Credit	Clifford Norman Clarke	5.74%	2,390	2,587	2,589	2,592	2,595	2,603	2,607	2,610	2,620	2,681	2,688	2,693	2,710	2,721	2,741	2,758	2,777
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Aylmer Liesemer	4.78%	1,991	1,993	2,030	2,136	2,142	2,142	2,380	2,498	2,642	2,651	2,664	2,670	2,681	2,695	3,508	3,528	3,575	3,600	3,601	3,693	3,696	4,706
	Progressive Conservative	Philip P. C. Haigh	2.17%	905	908	908	908	924	925	935	937	939	957	1,083	1,098	1,176	1,508	1,523	1,551
	Liberal	Melvin E. Shannon	2.06%	857	860	861	865	889	936	937	949	986	1,072	1,100	1,226	1,241	1,266	1,275
	Progressive Conservative	John James Zubick	1.93%	806	811	812	814	814	823	825	829	834	839	887	894
	Progressive Conservative	W. R. Irwin	1.83%	764	764	764	767	776	779	780	780	782	793	984	996	1,117
	Progressive Conservative	Ronald M. Helmer	1.61%	670	672	675	676	685	688	689	693	693	698
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Robert T. Alderman	1.52%	633	637	715	735	735	741	798	1,040	1,084	1,097	1,103	1,107	1,140	1,147
	Liberal	Alberta Clark	1.35%	563	580	581	582	598	660	662	664	667
	Liberal	Collier Maberly	1.33%	555	557	558	563	676	699	699	699	722	850	853
	Labour	W. Longridge	1.26%	527	528	529	541	548	550	550	551
	Co-operative Commonwealth	George E. Ellinson	0.91%	378	378	396	409	410	410
	Co-operative Commonwealth	H. J. Ryan	0.80%	333	334	375	422	422	425	460
	Liberal	Richard Thomson	0.75%	313	315	315	317	325
	Liberal	J. A. Murray Green	0.69%	287	288	288	289
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Harold L. Livergant	0.58%	243	243	251
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Ronald W. Stirling	0.51%	213	213
Exhausted ballots			—	—	13	21	29	40	84	101	126	179	213	227	248	276	314	403	499	505	707	712	929	932	1,654
Electorate: 91,289 Valid: 41,673 Spoilt: 1,694 Quota: 5,954 Turnout: 43,367 (47.5%)

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Edmonton

All major parties ran full slates. There were also two Labour candidates

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Edmonton (1952 Alberta general election) (seven members elected, candidates ranked in order of 1st preference)^[6]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
	Social Credit	Ernest Manning	32.71%	22,014
	Liberal	James Harper Prowse	13.96%	7,264	7,264
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Elmer Roper	12.74%	6,632	6,632	6,632
	Conservative	John Percy Page	4.25%	2,212	2,761	2,810	2,817	2,851	2,898	2,996	3,006	3,016	3,289	3,410	3,421	3,443	3,466	3,564	3,576	3,787	3,830	3,856	4,804	4,948	5,017	5,188	5,267	5,291	5,504
	Social Credit	Joseph Donovan Ross	3.38%	1,757	4,967	4,977	4,977	4,981	4,988	4,995	4,997	5,003	5,028	5,044	5,058	5,069	5,085	5,126	5,139	5,189	5,499	5,516	5,711	5,766	6,205	6,328	7,126
	Social Credit	Ambrose Holowach	2.65%	1,381	2,659	2,660	2,661	2,662	2,664	2,667	2,670	2,671	2,677	2,681	2,686	2,691	2,716	2,730	2,734	2,748	3,252	3,278	3,363	3,695	4,005	4,110	4,540	4,745	4,809
	Liberal	Andre Milville Dechene	2.57%	1,340	1,389	1,471	1,471	1,471	1,472	1,479	1,481	1,482	1,487	1,521	1,526	1,749	1,751	1,860	1,866	2,252	2,257	2,268	2,305	2,587	2,839
	Liberal	Peter Lazarowich	2.18%	1,136	1,214	1,280	1,282	1,283	1,288	1,290	1,291	1,293	1,297	1,317	1,337	1,379	1,405	1,592	1,596	1,735	1,748	1,776	1,815
	Social Credit	Harry D. Carrigan	2.18%	1,135	1,814	1,818	1,819	1,821	1,826	1,832	1,834	1,838	1,841	1,850	1,852	1,935	1,936	1,949	1,956	1,986	2,152	2,158	2,211	2,230
	Social Credit	Stella M. Baker	2.16%	1,126	2,251	2,253	2,253	2,254	2,257	2,271	2,273	2,276	2,280	2,285	2,290	2,295	2,306	2,320	2,341	2,385	2,554	2,567	2,646	2,676	3,033	3,084
	Conservative	Marshall E. Manning	2.04%	1,060	1,194	1,202	1,203	1,212	1,227	1,269	1,269	1,272	1,358	1,628	1,636	1,644	1,654	1,673	1,677	1,727	1,754	1,770
	Liberal	Harold Tanner	1.68%	875	1,037	1,258	1,261	1,269	1,282	1,296	1,300	1,309	1,352	1,372	1,376	1,441	1,477	1,755	1,765	2,157	2,178	2,200	2,274	2,897	2,953	4,621	4,667	4,680	4,921
	Social Credit	Williston Haszard	1.60%	834	1,609	1,610	1,610	1,612	1,614	1,616	1,619	1,619	1,624	1,629	1,632	1,638	1,644	1,659	1,664	1,679
	Labor–Progressive	Bernard Swankey	1.58%	824	831	833	833	835	845	845	847	866	871	872	881	881
	Liberal	Cora Casselman	1.57%	819	964	1,091	1,092	1,093	1,097	1,123	1,126	1,131	1,165	1,180	1,185	1,318	1,333	1,467	1,484
	Social Credit	Edgar Gerhart	1.48%	769	2,601	2,603	2,603	2,603	2,606	2,610	2,626	2,632	2,638	2,648	2,655	2,664	2,670	2,692	2,701	2,736	3,090	3,103	3,201	3,225	3,834	3,895	5,416	5,791	5,895
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Robert Atkin	1.26%	658	683	685	705	705	708	714	771	819	822	824	927	927	1,044	1,054
	Liberal	Laurette C. Douglas	1.21%	632	664	709	709	711	713	719	723	727	732	748	749
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Roy Jamha	1.19%	619	641	643	656	656	656	658	833	902	905	908	1,055	1,057	1,192	1,209	1,688	1,698	1,705
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Arthur E. Thornton	1.18%	612	640	642	664	665	668	677	718	917	920	924	1,152	1,154	1,323	1,341	1,709	1,728	1,734	3,004	3,024	3,057	3,076	3,114	3,135	3,139
	Liberal	Duncan Innes	1.17%	608	727	837	837	838	841	842	846	848	868	883	893	1,007	1,014
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Floyd Albin Johnson	0.96%	500	522	524	538	538	539	542	590	648	648	649
	Conservative	Marcel Lambert	0.83%	432	480	484	484	490	508	586	587	587	609
	Conservative	Frederick John Mitchell	0.83%	430	531	537	538	543	553	574	575	576
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Norman Finnemore	0.79%	413	427	428	439	439	440	440
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Winnifred Scott	0.74%	383	410	414	444	446	448	453	496
	Conservative	Mrs. Arnold Taylor	0.52%	272	300	303	303	322	375
	Conservative	John A. L. Smith	0.36%	189	205	207	207	220
	Conservative	Edward Sturrock	0.20%	105	117	118	118
Exhausted ballots			—	—	0	0	0	4	11	30	46	92	113	151	213	232	508	533	628	717	771	1,028	1,170	1,443	1,562	2,184	2,373	2,373	4,890
Electorate: 108,424 Valid: 52,039 Spoilt: 5,217 Quota: 6,505 Turnout: 57,256 (52.8%)

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from part of St. Paul

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also receiving part of Athabasca

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John P. Page campaigned and won re-election as a Conservative.

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There were no Conservative or PC candidates outside Calgary and Edmonton.

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including spoilt ballots

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A Report on Alberta Elections, p. 75

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An Act to Amend The Legislative Assembly Act, S.A. 1950, c. 36

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A Century of Democracy: Elections of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1905-2005. Edmonton: Legislative Assembly of Alberta. pp. 180–193. ISBN 0-9689217-9-5.

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"How The Surpluses Were Distributed". Calgary Albertan. August 7, 1952. p. 3.

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"20 Hours Required To Tally All Votes". Calgary Albertan. August 7, 1952. pp. 1, 3.

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"How Edmonton Chose M.L.A.s By Numerical Vote". Edmonton Journal. August 7, 1952. p. 2.

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Party		Leader	Candidates	First-preference votes					Seats
Party		Leader	Candidates	Votes	±	% Fpv	Change (pp)		1944	1948	±
	Social Credit	Ernest C. Manning	61	167,789	3,786	56.24	0.61	0.61	51	53 / 61	2
	Liberal	James H. Prowse	55	66,738	14,083	22.37	4.51	4.51	2	3 / 61	1
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Elmer Roper	41	41,929	14,458	14.05	-5.08		2	2 / 61
	Conservative		5	6,271	6,271	2.10	2.10	2.1	–	1 / 61	1
	Progressive Conservative		7	4,700	4,700	1.57	1.57	1.57	–	1 / 61	1
	Independent Social Credit		6	4,203	1,245	1.41	0.41	0.41	1	1 / 61
	Independent Citizen's Association		Did not campaign^{[a 1]}				-4.40		1	0 / 61	1
	Independent Labour		1	2,927	2,071	0.98	0.68	0.68
	Labor–Progressive		2	1,132	240	0.47	-3.67
	Independent		1	705	705	0.24	0.24	0.24
	Farmer		1	655	655	0.22	0.22	0.22
	Labour		1	527	3,052	0.18	-1.03
	Independent Farmer		1	463	463	0.16	0.16	0.16
	People's candidate		1	296	296	0.10	0.10	0.1
Total			183	298,335		100.00%
Rejected ballots				20,613	2,906
Turnout				318,948	6,448	59.4%	4.1
Registered voters				537,170	47,859

Riding	First-preference votes^{[a 1]}						Turnout ^{[a 2]}	Final counts					Winning party
Name	SC	CCF	Lib	I-SC	Oth	Total		SC	CCF	Lib	I-SC	Farm	1948		1952
Name						Total							1948		1952

Acadia-Coronation	Acclamation													SC		SC
Alexandra	2,412	1,071	–	–	–	3,483	58.2%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Athabasca	2,012	623	864	–	463	3,962	66.3%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Banff-Cochrane	1,845	–	1,035	491	–	3,371	56.8%	Elected on 1st count						I-SC		SC
Bonnyville	2,497	–	1,290	–	–	3,787	67.4%	Elected on 1st count					New			SC
Bow Valley-Empress	2,475	–	1,560	–	–	4,035	67.9%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Bruce	2,157	1,210	756	–	–	4,123	67.9%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Camrose	2,919	1,132	1,015	–	–	5,066	65.1%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Cardston	2,011	–	630	–	–	2,641	56.0%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Clover Bar	2,238	935	769	–	–	3,942	66.2%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Cypress	2,240	–	1,048	–	–	3,288	61.2%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Didsbury	2,870	–	1,253	–	–	4,123	62.0%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Drumheller	3,458	–	–	–	308	3,766	62.0%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Edson	2,480	–	1,965	–	–	4,445	60.8%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Gleichen	2,061	273	675	–	–	3,009	61.0%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Grande Prairie	2,967	902	935	–	–	4,804	65.4%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Grouard	2,234	951	2,358	–	–	5,543	65.5%	2,405	–	2,558	–	–		SC		Lib
Hand Hills	2,806	–	1,145	–	–	3,951	69.0%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Lac La Biche	1,832	–	1,792	–	–	3,624	68.5%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Lac Ste. Anne	1,639	1,520	1,069	469	–	4,697	71.9%	2,034	1,878	–	–	–		SC		SC
Lacombe	2,446	975	757	–	–	4,178	70.3%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Leduc	1,207	1,331	–	2,051	–	4,589	63.7%	–	1,422	–	2,406	–		SC		I-SC
Lethbridge	4,975	–	1,901	–	–	6,876	53.7%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Little Bow	2,668	411	1,001	–	–	4,080	71.0%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Macleod	3,232	496	773	–	–	4,501	83.9%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Medicine Hat	4,724	–	1,601	–	–	6,325	58.8%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Okotoks-High River	3,077	–	1,291	–	–	4,368	64.8%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Olds	3,064	–	1,611	–	–	4,675	66.6%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Peace River	3,352	1,177	1,214	–	–	5,743	57.8%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Pembina	2,818	941	1,127	–	–	4,886	69.5%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Pincher Creek-Crowsnest	3,207	–	1,008	–	–	4,215	62.4%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Ponoka	2,377	800	1,214	–	–	4,391	70.7%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Red Deer	4,907	1,496	–	–	–	6,403	58.8%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Redwater	1,677	1,002	1,268	–	296	4,243	68.8%	1,833	–	1,644	–	–		SC		SC
Rocky Mountain House	2,886	1,165	–	–	–	4,051	56.2%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
St. Albert	2,218	1,292	1,496	–	–	5,006	70.6%	2,420	–	2,019	–	–		SC		SC
St. Paul	2,581	–	2,235	–	–	4,816	71.1%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Sedgewick	2,714	634	813	–	–	4,161	68.7%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Spirit River	1,738	1,222	861	550	–	4,371	66.3%	2,041	1,418	–	–	–		SC		SC
Stettler	2,275	752	1,225	442	–	4,694	69.6%	2,397	784	1,339	–	–		SC		SC
Stony Plain	1,991	1,218	1,062	–	–	4,271	68.7%	2,177	1,530	–	–	–		SC		SC
Taber	2,809	–	717	–	–	3,526	58.0%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Vegreville	1,981	1,434	1,182	–	–	4,597	75.4%	2,239	1,710	–	–	–		SC		SC
Vermilion	1,955	869	835	–	655	4,014	66.3%	2,058	–	983	–	713		SC		SC
Wainwright	2,578	–	1,105	–	705	4,388	62.0%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Warner	1,904	–	633	–	–	2,537	49.3%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Wetaskiwin	2,664	1,029	1,029	200	–	4,922	66.7%	Elected on 1st count						SC		SC
Willingdon	1,716	1,760	660	–	–	4,136	75.1%	1,812	2,026	–	–	–		SC		CCF

District	Counts		Exhausted
District	1st preference	Final	Votes	% of 1st pref
Calgary	41,673	40,019	1,654	3.97	3.97
Edmonton	52,039	47,149	4,890	9.40	9.4
Grouard	5,543	4,963	580	10.46	10.46
Lac Ste. Anne	4,697	3,912	785	16.71	16.71
Leduc	4,589	3,828	761	16.58	16.58
Redwater	4,243	3,477	766	18.05	18.05
St. Albert	5,006	4,439	567	11.33	11.33
Spirit River	4,371	3,459	912	20.86	20.86
Stettler	4,694	4,520	177	3.77	3.77
Stony Plain	4,271	3,707	564	13.21	13.21
Vegreville	4,597	3,949	648	14.10	14.1
Vermilion	4,014	3,754	260	6.48	6.48
Willingdon	4,136	3,838	298	7.21	7.21

1952_Alberta_general_election

1952 Alberta general election

Electoral redistribution

Results

MLAs elected

Synopsis of results

Multi-member districts

STV analysis

Exhausted votes

Calgary

Edmonton

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Party		Candidate	Maximum round	Maximum votes	Share in maximum round
	Social Credit	Ernest Manning	1	17,022	32.71%
	Liberal	James Harper Prowse	1	7,264	13.96%
	CCF	Elmer Roper	1	6,632	12.74%
	Conservative	John Percy Page	26	5,504	10.37%
	Social Credit	Joseph Donovan Ross	24	7,126	14.35%
	Social Credit	Ambrose Holowach	26	4,809	10.20%
	Liberal	Andre Milville Dechene	22	2,839	5.62%
	Liberal	Peter Lazarowich	20	1,815	3.57%
	Social Credit	Harry D. Carrigan	21	2,230	4.41%
	Social Credit	Stella M. Baker	23	3,084	6.19%
	Conservative	Marshall E. Manning	19	1,770	3.47%
	Liberal	Harold Tanner	26	4,921	10.44%
	Social Credit	Williston Haszard	17	1,679	3.27%
	LPP	Bernard Swankey	13	881	1.70%
	Liberal	Cora Casselman	16	1,484	2.89%
	Social Credit	Edgar Gerhart	26	5,895	12.50%
	CCF	Robert Atkin	15	1,054	2.05%
	Liberal	Laurette C. Douglas	12	749	1.45%
	CCF	Roy Jamha	18	1,705	3.33%
	CCF	Arthur Thornton	25	3,139	6.32%
	Liberal	Duncan Innes	14	1,014	1.97%
	CCF	Floyd Albin Johnson	11	649	1.25%
	Conservative	Marcel Lambert	10	609	1.17%
	Conservative	Frederick John Mitchell	9	576	1.11%
	CCF	Norman Finnemore	7	440	0.85%
	CCF	Winnifred Scott	8	496	0.95%
	Conservative	Mrs. Arnold Taylor	6	375	0.72%
	Conservative	John A. L. Smith	5	220	0.42%
	Conservative	Edward Sturrock	4	118	0.23%
Exhausted votes				4,890	9.40%