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1952 Alberta general election

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Field	Value
election_name	1952 Alberta general election
country	Alberta
flag_year	1921
type	legislative
party_colour	no
party_name	no
previous_election	1948 Alberta general election
previous_year	1948
outgoing_members	11th Alberta Legislative Assembly
election_date
elected_mps	[members](12th-alberta-legislative-assembly)
next_election	1955 Alberta general election
next_year	1955
seats_for_election	61 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
31 seats were needed for a majority
image1	Ernest Manning.jpg
colour1
leader1	Ernest Manning
party1
leader_since1	May 31, 1943
leaders_seat1	Edmonton
last_election1	51 seats, 55.6%
seats_before1	49
seats1	53
seat_change1	4
popular_vote1	167,789
percentage1	56.2%
swing1	0.6%
image2	LIB
colour2
leader2	James H. Prowse
party2
leader_since2	June 25, 1947
leaders_seat2	Edmonton
last_election2	2 seats, 17.9%
seats_before2	2
seats2	3
seat_change2	1
popular_vote2	66,738
percentage2	22.4%
swing2	4.5%
image4	Elmer Roper circa 1942.jpg
colour4
leader4	Elmer E. Roper
party4
leader_since4	1942
leaders_seat4	Edmonton
last_election4	2 seats, 19.1%
seats_before4	2
seats4	2
seat_change4	±0
popular_vote4	41,929
percentage4	14.1%
swing4	4.7%
image5	CON
colour5
leader5	None
party5
last_election5	did not contest
seats_before5	0
seats5	2
seat_change5	2
popular_vote5	10,971
percentage5	3.7%
swing5	—
title	Premier
posttitle	Premier after election
before_election	Ernest Manning
before_party
after_election	Ernest Manning
after_party

31 seats were needed for a majority The 1952 Alberta general election was held on August 5, 1952, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.

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.

Electoral redistribution

An Act was passed in 1950 that provided for the increase in the number of MLAs from 57 to 61, upon the next election. Calgary now returned six MLAs and Edmonton seven (instead of the five each previously had), and the following other changes were made:

Abolished	New	New districts	Renaming of districts

Results

Party	Leader	Candidates	First-preference votes	Seats	Votes	±	% Fpv	Change (pp)	[1948](1948-alberta-general-election)	1952	298,335	100.00%
Ernest C. Manning	61	167,789	3,786	56.24	{{bartable	0.61	-2	1em	background:green}}	51	2	James H. Prowse	55	66,738	14,083
Total	183
Rejected ballots	20,613	2,906
Turnout	318,948	6,448	59.4%	4.1
Registered voters	537,170	47,859

MLAs elected

Synopsis of results

Riding	First-preference votesThere were no Conservative or PC candidates outside Calgary and Edmonton.	Turnout
including spoilt ballots	Final counts	Winning party	Name	SC	CCF	Lib	I-SC	Oth	Total	SC	CCF	Lib	I-SC	Farm	[1948](1948-alberta-general-election)	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

: = Open seat : = turnout is above provincial average : = Candidate was in previous Legislature : = Incumbent had switched allegiance : = Previously incumbent in another riding : = Not incumbent; was previously elected to the Legislature : = Incumbency arose from by-election gain : = previously an MP in the House of Commons of Canada : = Multiple candidates

Multi-member districts

District	Seats won
(in order declared)
Calgary	AB	Social Credit	background}}
Edmonton

		Conservative (in Edmonton); Progressive Conservative (in Calgary)

: = Candidate was in previous Legislature : = Candidate had previously been in the Legislature : = First-time MLA

STV analysis

Exhausted votes

Thirteen districts went beyond first-preference counts in order to determine winning candidates:

District	Counts	Exhausted	1st preference	Final	Votes	% of 1st pref
Calgary	41,673	40,019	1,654	{{bartable	3.97	2	1em	background:red}}
Edmonton	52,039	47,149	4,890	{{bartable	9.40	2	1em	background:red}}
Grouard	5,543	4,963	580	{{bartable	10.46	2	1em	background:red}}
Lac Ste. Anne	4,697	3,912	785	{{bartable	16.71	2	1em	background:red}}
Leduc	4,589	3,828	761	{{bartable	16.58	2	1em	background:red}}
Redwater	4,243	3,477	766	{{bartable	18.05	2	1em	background:red}}
St. Albert	5,006	4,439	567	{{bartable	11.33	2	1em	background:red}}
Spirit River	4,371	3,459	912	{{bartable	20.86	2	1em	background:red}}
Stettler	4,694	4,520	177	{{bartable	3.77	2	1em	background:red}}
Stony Plain	4,271	3,707	564	{{bartable	13.21	2	1em	background:red}}
Vegreville	4,597	3,949	648	{{bartable	14.10	2	1em	background:red}}
Vermilion	4,014	3,754	260	{{bartable	6.48	2	1em	background:red}}
Willingdon	4,136	3,838	298	{{bartable	7.21	2	1em	background:red}}

Calgary

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

Party	Candidates	MLAs elected	1952	1948	±	1952	1948	±
6	5	1	4	2	2	5	–	5
Total	25	22	3	6	5	1

Edmonton

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

Party	Candidates	MLAs elected	1952	1948	±	1952	1948	±
7	5	2	3	3		7	5	2
Total	29	16	13	7	5	2

References

A Report on Alberta Elections, p. 75
{{Cite canlaw. (1950)
. (2006). ["A Century of Democracy: Elections of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1905-2005"](https://archive.org/details/centennialseries04perr/page/180/mode/2up). *[[Legislative Assembly of Alberta]]*.
. (August 7, 1952). "How The Surpluses Were Distributed". *[[Calgary Albertan]]*.
. (August 7, 1952). "20 Hours Required To Tally All Votes". *[[Calgary Albertan]]*.
. (August 7, 1952). "How Edmonton Chose M.L.A.s By Numerical Vote". *[[Edmonton Journal]]*.

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