This page lists the results of leadership elections held by the Alberta Liberal Party.
(Held August 3, 1905)
Alexander Rutherford resigned as Premier on May 26, 1910 and was succeeded by Arthur Sifton. Sifton was appointed by the Lieutendant Governor and it is assumed that Sifton was confirmed as leader at a subsequent convention.
Sifton in turn resigned as premier on October 30, 1917, and Charles Stewart was appointed by the Lieutenant Governor to replace him. It is also assumed that Stewart was confirmed as party leader at a subsequent convention.
After the Stewart government's defeat in the 1921 election and Stewart's resignation as party leader on appointment to the federal cabinet, John R. Boyle was elected by the caucus to replace him on February 2, 1922.
(Held November 27, 1924)[1]
Jeremiah Heffernan, Andrew Robert McLennan, William Thomas Henry, Stanley Tobin, Joseph Miville Dechene, Hugh John Montgomery, Jesse Gouge, William Ashbury Buchanan, William R. Howson were all nominated as candidates at the convention but immediately withdrew.
(Held April 21, 1926)[2]
(Held March 27, 1930)[3]
First Ballot:
Second Ballot:
Third Ballot (Montgomery eliminated):
(Held October 21, 1932)[4]
(Held June 4, 1937)[5]
Joseph Tweed Shaw, John J. Bowlen, Frederick William Gershaw and two others withdrew. Joseph Miville Dechene was also nominated but was not present at the convention and was declared to be ineligible.
(Held June 25, 1947)[6]
(Note: The vote totals do not appear to have been released.)
(Held November 1, 1958)[7]
(MacEwan elected on the second ballot. The vote totals for the first ballot were not released)
(Held January 14, 1962)[8]
(Note: The vote totals were not announced and Hunter's margin of victory was reported to be "decisive")
(Held January 15, 1966) [9]
First Ballot:
Second Ballot (Broughton eliminated):
Third Ballot (Freeland eliminated):
(Berry resigned as Liberal Leader on November 7, 1966, and Michael Maccagno was appointed interim leader on November 14, 1966)
(Held January 28, 1967) [10]
(Held April 26, 1969) [11]
First Ballot:
Second Ballot (Midgley eliminated):
Third Ballot (Russell eliminated):
(Held March 13, 1971)[12]
(Held March 2, 1974) [13]
(Note: There were 78 abstentions)
(Held October 9, 1988)
(Held November 13, 1994)
First Ballot:
Second Ballot (Mitchell, Chadi and Germain move to the next round):
(Note: this ballot used a preferential ballot)
Third Ballot (Germain eliminated and vote distributed):
(Held April 18, 1998)
(Following Nancy MacBeth's personal defeat in the 2001 election, Ken Nicol was appointed interim leader and was acclaimed at the ensuing leadership convention)
(Held September 14–15, 2001)
(Held March 27, 2004)
(Held December 12, 2008)
(Held September 10, 2011)
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