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1963 Alberta general election
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| Field | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| election_name | 1963 Alberta general election | |
| country | Alberta | |
| flag_year | 1957 | |
| type | legislative | |
| party_colour | no | |
| party_name | no | |
| previous_election | 1959 Alberta general election | |
| previous_year | 1959 | |
| outgoing_members | 14th Alberta Legislative Assembly | |
| election_date | ||
| elected_mps | [members](15th-alberta-legislative-assembly) | |
| next_election | 1967 Alberta general election | |
| next_year | 1967 | |
| seats_for_election | 63 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta | |
| 32 seats were needed for a majority | ||
| image1 | [[File:Ernest Manning.jpg | 150x150px]] |
| colour1 | ||
| leader1 | Ernest Manning | |
| party1 | ||
| leader_since1 | May 31, 1943 | |
| leaders_seat1 | Strathcona East | |
| last_election1 | 61 seats, 55.7% | |
| seats_before1 | 60 | |
| seats1 | **60** | |
| seat_change1 | ||
| popular_vote1 | **221,107** | |
| percentage1 | **54.8%** | |
| swing1 | 0.9% | |
| image2 | **LIB** | |
| colour2 | ||
| leader2 | Dave Hunter | |
| party2 | ||
| leader_since2 | January 14, 1962 | |
| leaders_seat2 | *ran in Athabasca (lost)* | |
| last_election2 | 1 seat, 13.9% | |
| seats_before2 | 1 | |
| seats2 | 2 | |
| seat_change2 | 1 | |
| popular_vote2 | 79,709 | |
| percentage2 | 19.8% | |
| swing2 | 5.9% | |
| image3 | **PC** | |
| colour3 | ||
| leader3 | Milt Harradence | |
| party3 | ||
| leader_since3 | 1962 | |
| leaders_seat3 | *ran in Calgary-West (lost)* | |
| last_election3 | 1 seat, 23.9% | |
| seats_before3 | 1 | |
| seats3 | 0 | |
| seat_change3 | 1 | |
| popular_vote3 | 51,278 | |
| percentage3 | 12.7% | |
| swing3 | 11.2% | |
| title | Premier | |
| posttitle | Premier after election | |
| before_election | Ernest Manning | |
| before_party | ||
| after_election | Ernest Manning | |
| after_party |
32 seats were needed for a majority The 1963 Alberta general election was held on June 17, 1963, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
The Social Credit Party, led by Ernest C. Manning, won its eighth consecutive term in government, winning roughly the same number of seats in the legislature and share of popular vote that it had in the 1959 election.
Some Social Credit supporters were so confident of their party's chances that they talked of winning "63 in '63", i.e., all 63 seats in the legislature in the 1963 election. They fell short of this goal, but still had an overwhelming majority, reducing the opposition to only three MLAs in total. Indeed, as a share of the overall seats available, this represented Social Credit's greatest victory in its 36-year reign.
Much of the opposition vote shifted away from the Progressive Conservative Party, now led by Milt Harradence, resulting in the party losing its sole seat.
The Liberal Party was a partial beneficiary of the PC Party's decline, but picked up only one additional seat, for a total of two, despite winning almost 20% of the popular vote.
New Democratic Party candidates received 9 percent of the vote but no seats.
1963 was the last year in Alberta provincial politics when an MLA was acclaimed with the acclamation of Leonard Halmrast in Taber-Warner.
After the PCs won power, they would later speak of "79 in '79".
Results
| Party | Party Leader | # of | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| candidates | Seats | Popular Vote | 225 | 65 | 63 | −3.1% | 403,444 | 100% | ||||
| 1959 | **Elected** | % Change | # | % | % Change | Social Credit | Ernest C. Manning | 63 | 61 | **60** | −1.6% | |
| Progressive Conservative | Milt Harradence | 33 | 1 | - | −100% | 51,278 | 12.71% | −11.17% | NDP1 | Neil Reimer | ||
| Independent Social Credit | 6 | 1 | - | −100% | 3,178 | 0.79% | +0.21% | Alberta Unity Movement | 3 | |||
| **Total** | ||||||||||||
| **Source:** [Elections Alberta](https://web.archive.org/web/20051211143622/http://www.electionsalberta.ab.ca/welcome.html) |
Notes:
1 The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation adopted the name "New Democratic Party" for the 1963 and subsequent elections.
2 The "Labour Progressive Party" returned to its original "Communist Party of Alberta" name for the 1963 and subsequent elections.
- Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.{{Bar box|title=Popular vote|titlebar=#ddd|width=600px|barwidth=410px|bars=
Results by riding
|- |Alexandra||| |Anders O. Aalborg 3,284 66.30% | | | | | |John C. Sandercock 529 10.68% | |W. Slim Thorpe (Con-Lib) 1,134 22.92% ||
| Anders O. Aalborg |
|---|
| Athabasca |
| Antonio Aloisio |
| 2,241 |
| 50.43% |
| |Dave Hunter 1,827 41.11% | | | |Judith Johnston 223 5.02% | |Trygve Hansen (Comm.) 118 2.66% ||
| Antonio Aloisio |
|---|
| Banff-Cochrane |
| |Victor Watson 1,878 42.68% | | | | | |Jack Fraser 331 7.52% || | Frank L. Gainer (Coal) 2,179 49.66% ||
| Francis Leo Gainer |
|---|
| Bonnyville |
| Romeo B. Lamothe |
| 2,222 |
| 47.91% |
| |Albert Turcotte 1,059 22.83% | |Victor E. Justik 1,091 23.52% | |Peter G. Forman 255 5.50% | ||||
| Karl Earnest Nordstrom |
|---|
| Bow Valley-Empress |
| William Delday |
| 2,871 |
| 60.19% |
| |George Timko 923 19.35% | |George A. Simpson 972 20.38% | | | ||||
| William Delday |
|---|
| Calgary Bowness |
| Charles E. Johnston |
| 5,355 |
| 52.11% |
| |Peter Petrasuk 2,456 23.90% | |Albert A. Frawley 1,719 16.73% | |Everett C. Baldwin 735 7.15% | ||||
| Charles E. Johnston |
|---|
| Calgary-Centre |
| Frederick C. Colborne |
| 4,395 |
| 61.22% |
| |E. Virgil Anderson 1,878 26.16% | | | |Mrs. Melba Cochlan 757 10.54% | |Dave Raichman (Comm.) 101 1.41% ||
| Frederick C. Colborne |
|---|
| Calgary-East |
| Albert W. Ludwig |
| 4,763 |
| 60.23% |
| |Evelyn Leew 677 8.56% | |Bill Duncan 1,497 18.93% | |Dick Dunlop 953 12.05% | |||| | |- |Calgary-Glenmore | |A. Ross Lawson 4,268 31.40%||| |William Daniel Dickie 6,037 44.42% | |Ned Corrigal 2,891 21.27% | |G.A.J. Otjes 374 2.75% | ||||
| Ernest S. Watkins |
|---|
| Calgary-North |
| Robert A. Simpson |
| 4,713 |
| 56.82% |
| |Robert F. Goss 794 9.57% | |Larry B. Nugent 2,123 25.59% | |Steven P. Galan 647 7.80% | ||||
| Rose Wilkinson |
|---|
| Calgary Queens Park |
| Lea Leavitt |
| 4,363 |
| 48.19% |
| |John Donnachie 961 10.61% | |Duncan Lovell McKillop 1,597 17.64% | |Ben S. Greenfield 509 5.62% | |Roy Alexander Farran (Ind.) 1,469 16.22% Conrad Pfeifer (Ind. SoCred) 126 1.39%||| | |- |Calgary-South||| |Arthur J. Dixon 5,661 60.51% | |Howard G. Cook 2,529 27.03% | | | |John N. Smith 1,123 12.00% | |||| | |- |Calgary-West||| |Donald S. Fleming 5,183 42.76% | |Ted Duncan 2,250 18.56% | |Asa Milton Harradence 4,109 33.90% | |Jack D. Peters 568 4.69% | ||||
| Donald S. Fleming |
|---|
| Camrose |
| Chester I. Sayers |
| 3,427 |
| 56.57% |
| |James P. Richardson 746 12.31% | |Ernest Moore 1,519 25.07% | |Kenneth Nelson 356 5.88% | ||||
| Chester I. Sayers |
|---|
| Cardston |
| Edgar W. Hinman |
| 2,527 |
| 68.00% |
| |John Fenton Webster 1,035 27.85% | | | |Collin H. Holt 150 4.04% | ||||
| Edgar W. Hinman |
|---|
| Clover Bar |
| Floyd M. Baker |
| 3,730 |
| 57.65% |
| |James P. O'Dwyer 791 12.23% | |Daniel F. Hollands 1,407 21.75% | |Paul Arthur Dorin 535 8.27% | ||||
| Floyd M. Baker |
|---|
| Cypress |
| Harry E. Strom |
| 3,030 |
| 77.71% |
| |Alvin H. Reiman 861 22.08% | | | | | ||||
| Harry E. Strom |
|---|
| Drumheller-Gleichen |
| Gordon Edward Taylor |
| 4,565 |
| 86.07% |
| | | | | |Irene Dyck 720 13.57% | |||| | |- |Dunvegan||| |Ernest L. Lee 1,306 52.45% | |M.H. (Milt) Connery 849 34.10% | | | |Roy A. Mitchell 325 13.05% | ||||
| Joseph M. Scruggs |
|---|
| Edmonton North |
| Ethel Sylvia Wilson |
| 4,655 |
| 52.17% |
| |Thomas O'Dwyer 2,489 27.90% | | | |William H. Nash 1,743 19.54% | ||||
| Ethel Sylvia Wilson |
|---|
| Edmonton-Centre |
| Ambrose Holowach |
| 3,378 |
| 47.56% |
| |Joseph A. Tannous 1,219 17.16% | |Gerard Joseph Amerongen 1,492 21.01% | |Alex Szchechina 993 13.98% | ||||
| Ambrose Holowach |
|---|
| Edmonton-Jasper Place |
| John William Horan |
| 3,639 |
| 45.14% |
| |Keith C. Campbell 2,234 27.71% | |Clarence Edgar Sage 1,034 12.83% | |Patrick J. Ryan 1,128 13.99% | |||| | |- |Edmonton-North East||| |Lou W. Heard 4,023 42.66% | |Ken McAuley 1,295 13.73% | |Allan Welsh 1,510 16.01% | |Neil Reimer 2,589 27.45% | ||||
| Lou W. Heard |
|---|
| Edmonton-North West |
| Edgar H. Gerhart |
| 4,369 |
| 45.97% |
| |Edmund H. Leger 1,854 19.51% | |Ned Feehan 1,878 19.76% | |Grant W. Notley 1,391 14.64% | ||||
| Edgar H. Gerhart |
|---|
| Edmonton-Norwood |
| William Tomyn |
| 3,905 |
| 47.86% |
| |J. Laurier Picard 1,628 19.95% | |J. Gordon Ozarko 1,190 14.58% | |Robert W. Douglas 1,330 16.30% | |Walter Makowecki (Comm.) 93 1.14% ||
| William Tomyn |
|---|
| Edmonton-West |
| Stanley Gordon Geldart |
| 3,733 |
| 41.83% |
| |Robert A. Doyle 2,572 28.82% | |Tony Nugent 2,019 22.62% | |Neil R. Larsen 585 6.55% | |||| | |- |Edson||| |Norman Alfred Willmore 2,668 56.16% | |Bertram E. Schoeppe 1,371 28.86% | | | |James D. Torgersen 701 14.75% | ||||
| Norman Alfred Willmore |
|---|
| Grande Prairie |
| Ira McLaughlin |
| 4,763 |
| 72.94% |
| |Ed. Kimpe 997 15.27% | | | |Charles A. Evaskevich 762 11.67% | ||||
| Ira McLaughlin |
|---|
| Grouard |
| Roy Ells |
| 3,832 |
| 62.38% |
| |Gunner Wahlstrom 1,595 25.96% | | | |Clif. I. Tollefson 674 10.97% | ||||
| Roy Ells |
|---|
| Hand Hills-Acadia |
| Clinton Keith French |
| 3,215 |
| 61.77% |
| | | | | | | |Lyall Alexander Curry (Ind.) 1,972 37.89%||| | |- |Lac La Biche | |Elvin J. Woynarowich 1,479 36.11%||| |Michael Maccagno 1,809 44.17% | |Henry T. Thompson 260 6.35% | |Henry Tomaschuk 297 7.25% | |Rudolph Michetti (Ind. SoCred) 246 6.01%|||
| Michael Maccagno |
|---|
| Lac Ste. Anne |
| William Patterson |
| 2,777 |
| 51.94% |
| |Douglas P. McKeen 1,794 33.55% | | | |John Liss 1,474 27.57% | ||||
| William Patterson |
|---|
| Lacombe |
| Allan Russell Patrick |
| 3,405 |
| 69.22% |
| |John Paul Fehrenbach 776 15.78% | | | |John Liss 1,474 29.97% | ||||
| Allan Russell Patrick |
|---|
| Leduc |
| James D. Henderson |
| 1,898 |
| 39.74% |
| |Ronald John Hayter 461 9.65% | |Peter Wyllie 971 20.33% | |Andrew Simon Borys 613 12.84% | |Ronald Earl Ansley (Ind. SoCred) 731 15.31% Michael F. Hold (AUM) 88 1.84% ||
| Ronald Earl Ansley |
|---|
| Lethbridge |
| John C. Landeryou |
| 6,975 |
| 60.05% |
| |Alan Cullen 3,786 32.60% | | | |James Taylor 820 7.06% | ||||
| John C. Landeryou |
|---|
| Little Bow |
| Raymond Albert Speaker |
| 3,368 |
| 63.72% |
| |Arthur W. Ulrich 649 12.28% | |Douglas H. Galbraith 1,245 23.55% | | | ||||
| Peter Dawson |
|---|
| Macleod |
| James Hartley |
| 3,127 |
| 64.57% |
| | | |Allie Streeter 1,466 30.27% | |John K. Head 238 4.91% | ||||
| James Hartley |
|---|
| Medicine Hat |
| Harry C. Leinweber |
| 4,954 |
| 51.77% |
| |Helen Beny Gibson 2,259 23.61% | |Kenneth Roy Biddell 1,485 15.52% | |Milton J. Reinhardt 841 8.79% | ||||
| Elizabeth G. Robinson |
|---|
| Okotoks-High River |
| Edward P. Benoit |
| 2,361 |
| 52.55% |
| |Robert E.G. Armstrong 448 9.97% | |Samuel Brown 1,585 35.28% | |Bill Steemson 86 1.91% | ||||
| Ernest G. Hansell |
|---|
| Olds-Didsbury |
| Robert Curtis Clark |
| 3,950 |
| 66.79% |
| | | | | |Eva Banta 400 6.76% | |Roger Lebeuf (AUM) 1,550 26.21% || | |- |Peace River||| |Euell F. Montgomery 2,782 60.32% | |Vic. O'Reilly 980 21.25% | |Hall C. Sisson 842 18.26% | | | ||||
| William F. Gilliland |
|---|
| Pembina |
| Robin D. Jorgenson |
| 3,067 |
| 55.78% |
| |Ray Brodeur 842 15.31% | |Percy Baxandall 823 14.97% | |Herman Hauch 562 10.22% | |Verdun Baxandall (Ind. SoCred) 165 3.00%|||
| Robin D. Jorgenson |
|---|
| Pincher Creek-Crowsnest |
| William A. Kovach |
| 2,524 |
| 54.30% |
| |Thomas J. Costigan 539 11.60% | |Frank Lynch-Staunton 953 20.50% | |Arthur Lees 621 13.36% | ||||
| William A. Kovach |
|---|
| Ponoka |
| Glen F. Johnston |
| 1,830 |
| 44.56% |
| | | | | | | |Neville S. Roper (Ind. SoCred) 1,721 41.90% George F. Sharp (Ind.) 525 12.78%|||
| Glen F. Johnston |
|---|
| Red Deer |
| William Kenneth Ure |
| 6,016 |
| 57.57% |
| |Denis Yunker 609 5.83% | |Walter M. Ogilvie 3,323 31.80% | |Herman H. Dorin 446 4.27% | ||||
| William Kenneth Ure |
|---|
| Redwater |
| Michael Senych |
| 1,670 |
| 41.61% |
| |Steve Romanchuk 755 18.81% | |Joe Bielish 1,362 33.94% | |William Glass 216 5.38% | ||||
| John Dubetz |
|---|
| Rocky Mountain House |
| Alfred J. Hooke |
| 3,175 |
| 72.32% |
| |Ellis M. Bowen 591 13.46% | | | |Robert H. Carlyle 599 13.64% | ||||
| Alfred J. Hooke |
|---|
| Sedgewick-Coronation |
| Jack C. Hillman |
| 3,999 |
| 67.72% |
| |James Leland Sims 1,368 23.17% | | | |Karl O. Peterson 529 8.96% | |||| | |- |Spirit River | |Lionel Lizee 383 8.68%||| |Adolph O. Fimrite 3,077 69.73% | | | |Uri Powell 948 21.48% | ||||
| Adolph O. Fimrite |
|---|
| St. Albert |
| Keith Everitt |
| 2,540 |
| 39.85% |
| |Louis Chalifoux 2,030 31.85% | |Alan Lazerte 1,332 20.90% | |Alan Bevington 451 7.08% | ||||
| Keith Everitt |
|---|
| St. Paul |
| Raymond Reierson |
| 2,889 |
| 60.90% |
| |Rene P. Foisy 1,363 28.73% | | | |H.B. Hodgins 265 5.59% | |Daniel Gamache (Comm.) 215 4.53% ||
| Raymond Reierson |
|---|
| Stettler |
| Galen C. Norris |
| 3,076 |
| 68.02% |
| |Clark K. Burlingham 1,065 23.55% | | | |Joseph J. Tipman 369 8.16% | ||||
| Galen C. Norris |
|---|
| Stony Plain |
| Cornelia R. Wood |
| 2,716 |
| 41.75% |
| |Harold McLaughlin 1,921 29.53% | |Peter Germaniuk 903 13.88% | |Conrad D. (Red) Fuhr 358 5.50% | |Rudolph Zander (AUM) 595 9.15% ||
| Cornelia R. Wood |
|---|
| Strathcona Centre |
| Joseph Donovan Ross |
| 5,232 |
| 58.39% |
| |Ian Nicoll 2,418 26.99% | | | |Harry J. Strynadka 1,262 14.08% | ||||
| Joseph Donovan Ross |
|---|
| Strathcona East |
| Ernest C. Manning |
| 6,842 |
| 53.22% |
| |James A. Cox 1,890 14.70% | |Oscar H. Kruger 2,630 20.46% | |Dennis A. Wood 1,457 11.33% | ||||
| Ernest C. Manning |
|---|
| Strathcona West |
| Randolph H. McKinnon |
| 5,029 |
| 47.47% |
| |Arthur W. Crossley 2,557 24.14% | |Arnold H. Lane 1,863 17.59% | |George R. Field 936 8.84% | ||||
| Randolph H. McKinnon |
|---|
| Taber-Warner |
| Leonard C. Halmrast |
| 0 |
| | | | | | | |||| | |- |Three Hills||| |Louis Petrie Meston 3,385 62.70% | |James A. Lore 1,728 32.01% | | | |John F. Kennan 257 4.76% | |||| | |- |Vegreville-Bruce||| |Alex W. Gordey 2,925 50.03% | |Wilfrid L. Horton 675 11.55% | |Graham Allan 1,194 20.42% | |Albin Lukawiecki 851 14.56% | |Clarence A. Knies (Ind. SoCred) 189 3.23%||| | |- |Vermilion||| |Ashley H. Cooper 2,964 68.08% | |Arthur W. Roland 837 19.22% | | | |Edward I. Thompson 545 12.52% | ||||
| Ashley H. Cooper |
|---|
| Wainwright |
| Henry A. Ruste |
| 3,465 |
| 76.25% |
| |John M. Saville 668 14.70% | | | |John Wesley Connelly 387 8.52% | ||||
| Henry A. Ruste |
|---|
| Wetaskiwin |
| Albert W. Strohschein |
| 3,333 |
| 61.01% |
| |Albert (Butch) Dyberg 1,298 23.76% | | | |Leslie Pritchard 823 15.06% | ||||
| John A. Wingblade |
|---|
| Willingdon-Two Hills |
| Nicholas A. Melnyk |
| 2,315 |
| 56.53% |
| |Allan Eschak 283 6.91% | |Walter Witwicky 993 24.25% | |William Glen Haley 496 12.11% | |||| | |- |}
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