Английская Википедия:1940 Alberta general election

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:More citations needed Шаблон:Infobox election The 1940 Alberta general election was held on March 21, 1940, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.

Despite its failure to implement its key policy, providing prosperity certificates to all Albertans, the Social Credit Party of Premier William Aberhart won a second term in government. Nevertheless, it lost eleven seats that it had won in the 1935 landslide.

This provincial election, like the previous three, 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.

Unity Movement

The Conservative and Liberal parties as well as the remains of the United Farmers, recognizing the widespread popularity of the Social Credit party, ran joint candidates as independents in what was called the "Independent Movement" or the "Unity Movement". Although independent candidates won almost as many votes as Social Credit, their support was dispersed across many areas so few of the movement's candidates took a majority of the votes (required under Instant-runoff voting to take the seat) so the movement's overall vote tally did not translate into its due share of seats overall. The Independent Movement lost a number of races by small margins. However, due to the Parliamentary system, which awards power solely on the basis of seats won, Social Credit was returned for a second term, albeit with a considerably reduced majority.

The Liberals under leader Edward Gray chose only to support Independent candidates that they played a hand in nominating, and nominated other candidates under its own banner. Gray felt that candidates should not be machined into the field and left it up to the individual Liberal constituency associations to decide if they would support a candidate or not.

This would be the most opposition that Social Credit would face until 1959.

Co-operative Commonwealth

The social democratic Cooperative Commonwealth Federation nominated candidates for the first time, but failed to win any seats in the legislature, despite winning over 10% of the popular vote under the leadership of former United Farmers of Alberta MLA Chester Ronning. Like Ronning, most of the CCF's candidates had run in the 1935 election for the UFA.

Results

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Party		Party leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular vote
				1935	Elected	% Change	#	%	% Change	Social Credit	William Aberhart	56	56	36	−35.7%	132,507	42.90%	−11.35%	Independent	Andrew Davison	59	-	19		131,172	42.47%	+41.57%	Labour		2	-	1		3,258	1.05%	-0.63%	Edward Gray	2	5	1	−80.0%	2,755	0.89%	−22.25%	Cooperative Commonwealth	Chester Ronning	36		-		34,316	11.11%		Independent Progressive		4		-		1,726	0.56%		Independent Liberal		1	-	-		1,136	0.37%	0.06%		1	-	-	-	1,067	0.35%	−1.56%
Independent Social Credit		1		-		362	0.12%		Independent Farmer		2		-		314	0.10%		Independent Labour		1	-	-	-	251	0.08%	+0.01%
Total			165	63	57	-9.5%	308,8641	100%
Source: Elections Alberta

Notes:

¹ First vote count used.Шаблон:Bar boxШаблон:Bar box

Members elected

For complete electoral history, see individual districts.

9th Alberta Legislative Assembly
	District	Member	Party	Acadia-Coronation	Clarence Gerhart	Social Credit	Alexandra	Selmer Berg	Social Credit	Athabasca	Gordon Lee	Social Credit	Banff-Cochrane	Frank Laut	Independent	Beaver River	Lucien Maynard	Social Credit	Bow Valley-Empress	Wilson Cain	Social Credit	Bruce	James L. McPherson	Social Credit	Calgary	James Mahaffy	Independent	Fred Anderson	Social Credit	Andrew Davison	Independent	William Aberhart	Social Credit	John J. Bowlen	Independent	Camrose	David B. Mullen	Social Credit	Cardston	Nathan Eldon Tanner	Social Credit	Clover Bar	Floyd Baker	Social Credit	Cypress	Fay Jackson	Independent	Didsbury	Ernest M. Brown	Independent	Drumheller	Gordon Taylor	Social Credit	Edmonton	Ernest Manning	Social Credit	John P. Page	Independent	Norman James	Social Credit	David Milwyn Duggan	Independent	Hugh John Macdonald	Independent	Edson	Angus James Morrison	Labour	Gleichen	Donald McKinnon	Independent	Grande Prairie	Lewis O'Brien	Independent	Grouard	Joseph Tremblay	Liberal	Hand Hills	Wallace Cross	Social Credit	Lac Ste. Anne	Albert Bourcier	Social Credit	Lacombe	Duncan MacMillan	Social Credit	Leduc	Ronald Ansley	Social Credit	Lethbridge	Peter M. Campbell	Independent	Little Bow	Peter Dawson	Social Credit	Macleod	James Hartley	Social Credit	Medicine Hat	John Lyle Robinson	Social Credit	Okotoks-High River	John Broomfield	Independent	Olds	Norman E. Cook	Social Credit	Peace River	Eld J. Martin	Independent	Pembina	George MacLachlan	Independent	Pincher Creek-Crowsnest	Ernest Duke	Social Credit	Ponoka	Percy McKelvey	Independent	Red Deer	Alfred Speakman	Independent	Redwater	James Popil	Social Credit	Rocky Mountain House	Alfred Hooke	Social Credit	Sedgewick	Albert Fee	Social Credit	Spirit River	Henry DeBolt	Social Credit	St. Albert	Lionel Tellier	Independent	St. Paul	Joseph Beaudry	Social Credit	Stettler	Chester Reynolds	Social Credit	Stony Plain	Cornelia Wood	Social Credit	Taber	Roy S. Lee	Social Credit	Vegreville	George Woytkiw	Social Credit	Vermilion	William Fallow	Social Credit	Wainwright	William Masson	Social Credit	Warner	James H. Walker	Independent	Wetaskiwin	John Wingblade	Social Credit	Willingdon	William Tomyn	Social Credit

Further reading

• Шаблон:Cite book

Party platforms

• Шаблон:Cite book
• Шаблон:Cite book

See also

• List of Alberta political parties