Lethbridge (provincial electoral district)

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Lethbridge is was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada.

The riding has existed twice. The first incarnation was in 1905 when Alberta first became a province. Lethbridge covered a large patch of southern Alberta, It was broken into Lethbridge District and Lethbridge City in 1909. After Lethbridge District was broken up into Taber and Little Bow in 1913, Lethbridge City was all that remained, using the Lethbridge name, in 1921 Lethbridge was reformed after City was dropped from the name. In 1971 Lethbridge was split into two districts: Lethbridge East and Lethbridge West.

The riding was named after the Southern Alberta city of Lethbridge.

1 Election results 1905–1906, 1921–1967
2 Plebiscite results
- 2.1 1948 Electrification Plebiscite
3 By-election reasons
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Election results 1905–1906, 1921–1967

[edit] First past the post, 1948–1967

Party	1967	1963	1959	1955	1952	1948
Liberal	John Boras 2,237	Allen Cullen 3,786	Robery Jeacock 1,525	A.J. Cullen 3,361	Rex Tennant 1,901	H.B. McLaughlin 1,768
Conservative / Progressive Conservative	Wilfred Bowns 4,128		Thomas Spanos 2,917	C.J. Black 883
Social Credit	John Landeryou 6,155	John Landeryou 6,975	John Landeryou 7,250	John Landeryou 4,788	John Landeryou 4,975	John Landeryou 3,829
C.C.F. / N.D.P.	Klaas Buijert 1,335	James Taylor 820		James Helwig 490		Emil Vaselenak 1,441

[edit] Single transferable vote, 1926–1940, 1944

[edit] 1944

Year	Count	Candidate	Party	Votes
1944	2nd	John Landeryou	Social Credit	2,692
	2nd	D.H. Elton	Independent	2,388
1944	1st	John Landeryou	Social Credit	2,367
	1st	D.H. Elton	Independent	2,247
	1st	B.F. Tanner	Cooperative Commonwealth	1,464
	1st	Eugene Scully	Progressive Labour	219

[edit] 1926 - 1930

Year	Count	Candidate	Party	Votes	Year	Count	Candidate	Party	Votes
1930	2nd	Andrew Smeaton	Labour	2,238	1926	2nd	Andrew Smeaton	Labour	1,962
	2nd	W.D.L. Hardie	Independent	1,978		2nd	R.R. Davidson	Conservative	1,713
1930	1st	Andrew Smeaton	Labour	2,036	1930	1st	Andrew Smeaton	Labour	1,584
	1st	W.D.L. Hardie	Independent	1,598		1st	R.R. Davidson	Conservative	1,459
	1st	Robert Barrowman	Independent	1,005		1st	W.S. Galbraith	Liberal	1,225

[edit] First past the post, 1905 - 1906, 1921, 1935 - 1940

Party	1940	1937	1935	1921	1906	1905
Liberal			Robert Barrowman 1,946		William Simmons 543	Leverett DeVeber 639
Conservative			G.W. Green 341		A.E. Keffer 231	William Ives 491
Social Credit	A.E. Smith 2,760	A.J. Burnap 3,279	Hans Wight 3,700
Labour			Andrew Smeaton 654	John Marsh 1,374	T.H. Sherman 463
Unity		Peter M. Campbell 4,099
Independent	Peter M. Campbell 4,318			John Smith Stewart 2,252

[edit] Plebiscite results

[edit] 1948 Electrification Plebiscite

District results from the first province wide plebiscite on electricity regulation.

Option A	Option B
Are you in favour of the generation and distribution of electricity being continued by the Power Companies?	Are you in favour of the generation and distribution of electricity being made a publicly owned utility administered by the Alberta Government Power Commission?
4,237 64.90%	2,291 35.10%
Province wide result: Option A passed.