Alberta general election, 1940
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The Alberta general election of 1940 was the ninth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada, was held on March 21, 1940 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
Despite its failure to implement its key policy, providing prosperity certificates to all Albertans, the Social Credit Party of Premier William Aberhart won a second term in government. Social Credit did despite lose a significant share of the popular vote.
The Conservative and Liberal parties, recognizing the wide-spread popularity of the Social Credit party, ran joint candidates as independents in what was called the "Independent Movement" or the "Unity Movement". Although independent candidates won almost as many votes as Social Credit, the strategy was unsuccessful in preventing Social Credit from winning a majority of the seats in the legislature. Despite the Unity Movement the Liberal party still ran two candidates under its banner.
The social democratic Cooperative Commonwealth Federation nominated candidates for the first time, but failed to win any seats in the legislature, despite winning over 10% of the popular vote under the leadership of former United Farmers of Alberta MLA Chester Ronning. Like Ronning, most of the CCF's candidates had run in the 1935 election for the UFA.
[edit] Results
| Party | Party Leader | # of candidates |
Seats | Popular Vote | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | Elected | % Change | # | % | % Change | ||||
| Social Credit |
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56 | 56 | 36 | -35.7% | 132,507 | 42.90% | -11.35% | |
| Independent | 59 | - | 19 | 131,172 | 42.47% | +41.57% | |||
| Labour | 2 | - | 1 | 3,258 | 1.05% | -0.63% | |||
| Liberal | 2 | 5 | 1 | -80.0% | 2,755 | 0.89% | -22.25% | ||
| Cooperative Commonwealth |
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36 | - | 34,316 | 11.11% | ||||
| Independent Progressive | 4 | - | 1,726 | 0.56% | |||||
| Independent Liberal | 1 | - | - | 1,136 | 0.37% | 0.06% | |||
| Communist | 1 | - | - | - | 1,067 | 0.35% | -1.56% | ||
| Independent Social Credit | 1 | - | 362 | 0.12% | |||||
| Independent Farmer | 2 | - | 314 | 0.10% | |||||
| Independent Labour | 1 | - | - | - | 251 | 0.08% | +0.01% | ||
| Total | 165 | 63 | 57 | -9.5% | 308,864 1 | 100% |
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| Source: Elections Alberta | |||||||||
Notes:
1 First vote count used.
[edit] Members elected
For complete electoral history, see individual districts
| 9th Alberta Legislative Assembly | |||
| District | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acadia-Coronation | Clarence Gerhart | Social Credit | |
| Alexandria | Selmer Berg | Social Credit | |
| Athabasca | Gordon Lee | Social Credit | |
| Banff-Cochrane | Frank Laut | Independent | |
| Beaver River | Lucien Maynard | Social Credit | |
| Bow Valley-Empress | Wilson Cain | Social Credit | |
| Bruce | James L. McPherson | Social Credit | |
| Calgary #1 | James Mahaffy | Independent | |
| Calgary #2 | Fred Anderson | Social Credit | |
| Calgary #3 | Andrew Davison | Independent | |
| Calgary #4 | William Aberhart | Social Credit | |
| Calgary #5 | John J. Bowlen | Independent | |
| Camrose | David Mullen | Social Credit | |
| Cardston | Nathan Eldon Tanner | Social Credit | |
| Clover Bar | Floyd Baker | Social Credit | |
| Cypress | Fay Jackson | Independent | |
| Didsbury | Ernest M. Brown | Independent | |
| Drumheller | Gordon Taylor | Social Credit | |
| Edmonton #1 | Ernest Manning | Social Credit | |
| Edmonton #2 | John P. Page | Independent | |
| Edmonton #3 | Norman James | Social Credit | |
| Edmonton #4 | David Milwyn Duggan | Independent | |
| Edmonton #5 | Hugh John Macdonald | Independent | |
| Edson | Angus James Morrison | Labour | |
| Gleichen | Donald McKinnon | Independent | |
| Grande Prairie | Lewis O'Brien | Independent | |
| Grouard | Joseph Tremblay | Liberal | |
| Hand Hills | Wallace Warren Cross | Social Credit | |
| Lac Ste. Anne | Albert Bourcier | Social Credit | |
| Lacombe | Duncan MacMillan | Social Credit | |
| Leduc | Ronald Ansley | Social Credit | |
| Lethbridge | Peter M. Campbell | Independent | |
| Little Bow | Peter Dawson | Social Credit | |
| Macleod | James Hartley | Social Credit | |
| Medicine Hat | John L. Robinson | Social Credit | |
| Okotoks-High River | John Broomfield | Independent | |
| Olds | Norman E. Cook | Social Credit | |
| Peace River | Eld J. Martin | Independent | |
| Pembina | George MacLachlan | Independent | |
| Pincher Creek-Crowsnest | Ernest Duke | Social Credit | |
| Ponoka | Percy McKelvey | Independent | |
| Red Deer | Alfred Speakman | Independent | |
| Redwater | James Popil | Social Credit | |
| Rocky Mountain House | Alfred Hooke | Social Credit | |
| Sedgewick | Albert Fee | Social Credit | |
| Spirit River | Henry DeBolt | Social Credit | |
| St. Albert | Lionel Tellier | Independent | |
| St. Paul | Joseph Beaudry | Social Credit | |
| Stettler | Chester Reynolds | Social Credit | |
| Stony Plain | Cornelia Wood | Social Credit | |
| Taber | Roy S. Lee | Social Credit | |
| Vegreville | George Woytkiw | Social Credit | |
| Vermillion | William Fallow | Social Credit | |
| Wainwright | William Masson | Social Credit | |
| Warner | James H. Walker | Independent | |
| Wetaskiwin | John Wingblade | Social Credit | |
| Willingdon | William Tomyn | Social Credit | |
[edit] See also
| Preceded by 1935 Alberta election |
Alberta elections | Succeeded by 1944 Alberta election |
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