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{{short description|Defunct provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada}}
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'''Claresholm''' was a [[provinces and territories of Canada|provincial]] [[electoral district (Canada)|electoral district]] in [[Alberta]] mandated to return a single [[Member of the Legislative Assembly|member]] to the [[Legislative Assembly of Alberta]] using the [[first past the post]] method of voting from 1909 to 1929.<ref>{{cite web |title=Election results for Claresholm. |url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/year_result.php?Constit=Claresholm |website=abheritage.ca. |publisher=Heritage Community Foundation |access-date=8 June 2020 |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/2217/20101208183724/http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/year_result.php?Constit=Claresholm |archive-date=December 8, 2010 |location=Wayback Machine}}</ref>

==History==
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{{AbMLA/top|Members of the Legislative Assembly for Claresholm}}
{{AbMLA/change|See [[Macleod (provincial electoral district)|Macleod]] electoral district from 1905-1909}}
{{AbMLA/row
  | FromYr       = 1909
  | ToYr         = 1913
  | Assembly#    = 2
  | AbParty      = Liberal
  | RepName      = Malcolm McKenzie
  | RepLink      = 
  | #ByElections = 
  | PartyTerms#  = 2
  | RepTerms#    = 1
  }}
{{AbMLA/row
  | FromYr       = 1913
  | ToYr         = 1917
  | Assembly#    = 3
  | RepName      = William Moffat
  | RepLink      = William Moffat (Alberta politician)
  | RepTerms#    = 1
  }}
{{AbMLA/row
  | FromYr       = 1917
  | ToYr         = 1921
  | Assembly#    = 4
  | AbParty      = [[Alberta Non-Partisan League]]
  | RepName      = Louise McKinney
  | RepLink      = 
  | #ByElections = 
  | PartyTerms#  = 1
  | RepTerms#    = 1
  }}
{{AbMLA/row
  | FromYr       = 1921
  | ToYr         = 1926
  | Assembly#    = 5
  | AbParty      = Independent Farmer
  | RepName      = Thomas Milnes
  | RepLink      = 
  | #ByElections = 
  | PartyTerms#  = 1
  | RepTerms#    = 1
  }}
{{AbMLA/row
  | FromYr       = 1926
  | ToYr         = 1930
  | Assembly#    = 6
  | AbParty      = United Farmers
  | RepName      = Gordon Beverly Walker
  | RepLink      = 
  | #ByElections = 
  | PartyTerms#  = 1
  | RepTerms#    = 1
  }}
{{AbMLA/change|See [[Nanton-Claresholm]] electoral district from 1930-1940}}
{{AbMLA/end}}
}}
The Claresholm electoral district was formed prior to the [[1909 Alberta general election]] from the northern portion of the [[Macleod (provincial electoral district)|Macleod]] electoral district. The electoral district would be renamed [[Nanton-Claresholm]] prior to the [[1930 Alberta general election]].

Malcolm McKenzie was elected the first MLA for Claresholm in the [[1909 Alberta general election|1909 election]], McKenzie was the incumbent, having been elected to the Macleod electoral district in [[1905 Alberta general election|1905]]. McKenzie's margin of victory in Claresholm was much larger than he had achieved in 1905<ref name="1909 results">{{cite web |url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1909&Constit=Claresholm |title=Claresholm Official Results 1909 Alberta general election |publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation |access-date=2010-03-24}}</ref><ref name="1905 results">{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1905&Constit=Macleod| title=Macleod Official Results 1905 Alberta general election | publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation | access-date=May 21, 2020}}</ref>

Premier [[Arthur Sifton]] appointed McKenzie Provincial Treasurer. In keeping with the era's custom, McKenzie responded to the cabinet appointment by resigning his seat in the legislature to contest it in a [[Ministerial by-election|by-election]]. Despite his previous wide margins, in 1912 he carried Claresholm by only 14 votes.<ref>{{cite book |first=Lewis Gwynne |last=Thomas |title=The Liberal Party in Alberta |url=https://archive.org/details/liberalpartyinal0000thom |url-access=registration |year=1959 |publisher=[[University of Toronto Press]] |location=[[Toronto]], [[Ontario]] |pages=125–127|isbn=9780802050830 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=By-elections |url=https://www.elections.ab.ca/news-reports/reports/by-elections/ |website=elections.ab.ca |publisher=[[Elections Alberta]] |access-date=18 June 2020}}</ref>

McKenzie's tenure as treasurer was not to last long: he caught a chill while attending the convention that nominated him as the Liberals' Claresholm candidate in the [[1913 Alberta general election|1913 election]], and by the time he returned to Edmonton on March 10, 1913, he was sufficiently ill to confine himself to bed. He had developed [[peritonitis]], and died from it early in the morning of March 15. The Liberal ''[[Edmonton Bulletin]]'', in mourning his passing, said that "no lawyer in the province had such a firm grasp in legal matters. No member of the house performed his legislative duties so admirably and so well. He has left his impression on more legislation than any other member."<ref name="obit">{{cite news |title=Death Calls Provincial Treasurer |work=[[Edmonton Bulletin]] |date=March 15, 1913 |pages=1–2 |url=http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/newspapr/np_page2.asp?code=n6pp0696.jpg |access-date=2010-03-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924100703/http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/newspapr/np_page2.asp?code=n6pp0696.jpg |archive-date=September 24, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In the [[1917 Alberta general election]], [[Louise McKinney]] became the first [[woman]] sworn into the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, and the first woman elected to a legislature in the [[British Empire]]. She served in the Alberta legislature from 1917 to 1921 as a member of the [[Alberta Non-Partisan League|Non-Partisan League]]. McKinney defeating [[Alberta Liberal Party|Liberal]] incumbent and former Mayor of Claresholm [[William Moffat (Alberta politician)|William Moffat]].<ref name="1917 official">{{Cite web |url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1917&Constit=Claresholm |title=Claresholm Official Results 1917 Alberta general election |publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation |access-date=8 September 2010}}</ref> She was one of two women elected to the Legislative Assembly that year, the other being [[Roberta MacAdams]]. Later McKinney was one of the [[The Famous Five (Canada)|Famous Five]] who campaigned successfully for the right of Canadian women to be appointed to the [[Senate of Canada|Senate]].

McKinney ran for a second term in the [[1921 Alberta general election]] as a member of the [[United Farmers of Alberta|United Farmers]]. She was defeated by Independent Farmer candidate [[Thomas Milnes]].<ref name="1921 official">{{Cite web| url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1921&Constit=Claresholm | title=Claresholm Official Results 1921 Alberta general election | publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation | access-date=8 September 2010 }}</ref>

The electoral district is named for the [[Claresholm, Alberta|Town of Claresholm]], Alberta.

==Election results==
===1900s===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1909/Claresholm}}
===1910s===
{{Alberta provincial by-election May 27, 1912/Claresholm}}
{{Alberta provincial election, 1913/Claresholm}}
{{Alberta provincial election, 1917/Claresholm}}

===1920s===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1921/Claresholm}}
{{Alberta provincial election, 1926/Claresholm}}

==See also==
*[[List of Alberta provincial electoral districts]]
*[[Claresholm, Alberta]], a town in southern Alberta

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
*{{cite book |author1=Office of the Chief Electoral Officer |author2=[[Legislative Assembly of Alberta|Legislative Assembly Office]] |author-link1=Elections Alberta |title=A Century of Democracy: Elections of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1905-2005 |date=2006 |publisher=Legislative Assembly of Alberta |series=The Centennial Series |location=Edmonton, AB |isbn=0-9689217-8-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/centennialseries04perr/mode/2up |access-date=25 May 2020}}

==External links==
*[http://www.electionsalberta.ab.ca/ Elections Alberta]
*[http://www.assembly.ab.ca/ The Legislative Assembly of Alberta]

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