Strathcona East

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Strathcona East was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The riding was created in 1959, out of the Edmonton district when it broke up into nine ridings.

In 1971 the riding was split between Edmonton Goldbar and Edmonton Ottewell

1 1959 Redristribution
2 Election Results 1959 - 1969
- 2.1 1967 - 1969
- 2.2 1959 - 1963
3 By-Election Reasons
4 External links

[edit] 1959 Redristribution

The historic 1959 redistribution of the provincial ridings of Calgary and Edmonton standardized the voting system back to First Past the Post. From 1926 to 1959 Calgary and Edmonton members were elected by Single Transferable Vote. The rest of the province had the option of how to count ballots. The redistribution created nine ridings in Edmonton.

The other eight ridings were Edmonton Centre, Edmonton North, Edmonton Norwood, Edmonton North East, Edmonton North West, Strathcona West, Strathcona Centre and Jasper West.

[edit] Election Results 1959 - 1969

[edit] 1967 - 1969

1969 By-Election Results					1967 Results
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%	Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	William Yurko	3,783			Social Credit	Ernest Manning	6,314	49.91%
	Social Credit	W. Johnson	3,339			Progressive Conservative	C. Jack Thorpe	2,976	23.51%
	Liberal	Percy Marshall	771			N.D.P.	Ray Field	1,909	15.08%
	N.D.P.	G. Allen	392			Liberal	Percy Marshall	1,458	11.52%

[edit] 1959 - 1963

1963 Results					1959 Results
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%	Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%
	Social Credit	Ernest Manning	6,842	54.52%		Social Credit	Ernest Manning	7,337	49.72%
	Progressive Conservative	Oscar Kruger	2,360	18.81%		Progressive Conservative	James Simpson	3,812	25.83%
	Liberal	James Cox	1,890	15.06%		Liberal	George Johnson	2,610	17.69%
	N.D.P	Dennis Wood	1,457	11.61%		C.C.F.	Hugh Smith	999	6.76%