Wetaskiwin_(provincial_electoral_district)
Wetaskiwin (provincial electoral district)
Defunct provincial electoral district in Alberta
Wetaskiwin was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1905 to 1971.[1]
Quick Facts Alberta electoral district, Defunct provincial electoral district ...
 Alberta electoral district | |
|---|---|
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
| District created | 1905 |
| District abolished | 1971 |
| First contested | 1905 |
| Last contested | 1967 |
Close
The Wetaskiwin electoral district was one of the original 25 electoral districts contested in the 1905 Alberta general election upon Alberta joining Confederation in September 1905. The district was carried over from the old Wetaskiwin electoral district which returned a single member to the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories from 1898 to 1905.[2]
Liberal candidate Anthony Rosenroll who was the incumbent in the previous Northwest Territories' Legislature since 1891 was the first member elected for the Wetaskiwin electoral district.[3]
Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs)
More information Members of the Legislative Assembly for Wetaskiwin, Assembly ...
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Wetaskiwin | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| 1st | 1905–1909 | Anthony Rosenroll | Liberal | |
| 2nd | 1909–1913 | Charles H. Olin | ||
| 3rd | 1913–1914 | |||
| 1914–1917 | Hugh John Montgomery | |||
| 4th | 1917–1921 | |||
| 5th | 1921–1926 | Evert E. Sparks | United Farmers | |
| 6th | 1926–1930 | |||
| 7th | 1930–1935 | Hugh John Montgomery | Liberal | |
| 8th | 1935–1940 | John A. Wingblade | Social Credit | |
| 9th | 1940–1944 | |||
| 10th | 1944–1948 | |||
| 11th | 1948–1952 | |||
| 12th | 1952–1955 | |||
| 13th | 1955–1959 | |||
| 14th | 1959–1963 | |||
| 15th | 1963–1967 | Albert W. Strohschein | ||
| 16th | 1967–1971 | |||
Close
1905
More information Party, Candidate ...
| 1905 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Liberal | A.L. Rosenroll [sic] | 552 | 66.51% | |||||
| Conservative | R.W. Angus | 278 | 33.49% | |||||
| Total | 830 | |||||||
| Liberal pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Wetaskiwin Official Results 1905 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
Close
The Returning Officer for the 1905 election was James Kennedy Burgess[4]
1909
Liberal Charles H. Olin defeated Conservative James George Anderson in the 1909 election. Anderson previously contested the 1908 Canadian federal election in the Strathcona district as an Independent.[5]
More information 1909 Alberta general election, Party ...
| 1909 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Charles H. Olin | 713 | 59.82% | -6.69% | ||||
| Conservative | James George Anderson | 479 | 40.18% | 6.69% | ||||
| Total | 1,192 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | N/A | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | N/A | N/A | – | |||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -6.69% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Wetaskiwin Official Results 1909 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
Close
1913
More information 1913 Alberta general election, Party ...
| 1913 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Charles H. Olin | 780 | 57.35% | -2.46% | ||||
| Conservative | George B. Campbell | 580 | 42.65% | 2.46% | ||||
| Total | 1,360 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | N/A | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | N/A | N/A | – | |||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -2.46% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Wetaskiwin Official Results 1913 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
Close
1914 by-election
More information Party, Candidate ...
| Alberta provincial by-election, November 17, 1914 Upon the death of Charles H. Olin on October 4, 1914 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Hugh John Montgomery | 990 | 66.94% | 9.59% | ||||
| Conservative | F. B. Watson | 489 | 33.06% | -9.59% | ||||
| Total | 1,479 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | N/A | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | N/A | N/A | – | |||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | 9.59% | ||||||
Source(s) | ||||||||
Close
1917
More information 1917 Alberta general election, Party ...
| 1917 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Hugh John Montgomery | 1,500 | 68.71% | 11.36% | ||||
| Conservative | Robert MacLachlan Angus | 683 | 31.29% | -11.36% | ||||
| Total | 2,183 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | N/A | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | N/A | N/A | – | |||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | 11.36% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Wetaskiwin Official Results 1917 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
Close
1921
More information 1921 Alberta general election, Party ...
| 1921 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Farmers | Evert E. Sparks | 1,508 | 55.36% | – | ||||
| Liberal | Hugh John Montgomery | 1,216 | 44.64% | -24.07% | ||||
| Total | 2,724 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | N/A | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | 3,345 | 81.43% | – | |||||
| United Farmers gain from Liberal | Swing | -13.35% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Wetaskiwin Official Results 1921 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
Close
1926
More information 1926 Alberta general election, Party ...
| 1926 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count | % | Votes final count | ±% | |||
| United Farmers | Evert E. Sparks | 1,274 | 46.16% | 1,418 | -9.20% | |||
| Liberal | Hugh John Montgomery | 1,198 | 43.41% | 1,266 | -1.23% | |||
| Conservative | J.F. Inglis | 288 | 10.43% | – | – | |||
| Total | 2,760 | – | – | – | ||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 139 | – | – | – | ||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | 3,617 | 80.15% | -1.29% | – | ||||
| United Farmers hold | Swing | -3.98% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Wetaskiwin Official Results 1926 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Instant-runoff voting requires a candidate to receive a plurality (greater than 50%) of the votes. As no candidate received a plurality of votes, the bottom candidate was eliminated and their 2nd place votes were applied to both other candidates until one received a plurality. | ||||||||
Close
1930
More information 1930 Alberta general election, Party ...
| 1930 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Hugh John Montgomery | 1,713 | 54.73% | 11.32% | ||||
| United Farmers | Evert E. Sparks | 1,417 | 45.27% | -0.89% | ||||
| Total | 3,130 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 1 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | 4,040 | 77.50% | -2.65% | |||||
| Liberal gain from United Farmers | Swing | 3.35% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Wetaskiwin Official Results 1930 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
Close
1935
More information 1935 Alberta general election, Party ...
| 1935 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Social Credit | John A. Wingblade | 2,762 | 58.21% | – | ||||
| Liberal | Hugh John Montgomery | 1,149 | 24.21% | -30.51% | ||||
| United Farmers | W. Stevens | 506 | 10.66% | -34.61% | ||||
| Conservative | R. H. Inglis | 187 | 3.94% | – | ||||
| Communist | A. E. Bolton | 141 | 2.97% | – | ||||
| Total | 4,745 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 117 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | 5,671 | 85.73% | 8.23% | |||||
| Social Credit gain from Liberal | Swing | 12.27% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Wetaskiwin Official Results 1935 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
Close
1940
More information 1940 Alberta general election, Party ...
| 1940 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count | % | Votes final count | ±% | |||
| Social Credit | John A. Wingblade | 2,480 | 47.19% | 2,761 | -11.02% | |||
| Independent | T. S. Steedman | 1,874 | 35.66% | 2,179 | – | |||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | H. G. Young | 901 | 17.15% | – | – | |||
| Total | 5,255 | – | – | – | ||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 77 | – | – | – | ||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | 7,412 | 71.94% | -13.80% | – | ||||
| Social Credit hold | Swing | -11.23% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Wetaskiwin Official Results 1940 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Instant-runoff voting requires a candidate to receive a plurality (greater than 50%) of the votes. As no candidate received a plurality of votes, the bottom candidate was eliminated and their 2nd place votes were applied to both other candidates until one received a plurality. | ||||||||
Close
1944
More information 1944 Alberta general election, Party ...
| 1944 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Social Credit | John A. Wingblade | 2,700 | 52.63% | 5.44% | ||||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | J. G. Baker | 1,259 | 24.54% | 7.40% | ||||
| Independent | Hugh John Montgomery | 1,007 | 19.63% | -16.03% | ||||
| Labor–Progressive | David Graham | 164 | 3.20% | – | ||||
| Total | 5,130 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 115 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | 6,827 | 76.83% | 4.89% | |||||
| Social Credit hold | Swing | 8.28% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Wetaskiwin Official Results 1944 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
Close
1948
More information 1948 Alberta general election, Party ...
| 1948 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Social Credit | John A. Wingblade | 2,827 | 51.65% | -0.98% | ||||
| Liberal | Morley Merner | 1,414 | 25.84% | – | ||||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Henry Young | 1,232 | 22.51% | -2.03% | ||||
| Total | 5,473 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 215 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | 7,507 | 75.77% | -1.06% | |||||
| Social Credit hold | Swing | -1.14% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Wetaskiwin Official Results 1948 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
Close
1952
More information 1952 Alberta general election, Party ...
| 1952 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Social Credit | John A. Wingblade | 2,664 | 54.12% | 2.47% | ||||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Harry Van Dyke | 1,029 | 20.91% | – | ||||
| Liberal | William W. Draayer | 1,029 | 20.91% | – | ||||
| Independent Social Credit | Arnold D. Olsen | 200 | 4.06% | – | ||||
| Total | 4,922 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 354 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | 7,914 | 66.67% | -9.10% | |||||
| Social Credit hold | Swing | N/A | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Wetaskiwin Official Results 1952 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
Close
1955
More information 1955 Alberta general election, Party ...
| 1955 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count | % | Votes final count | ±% | |||
| Social Credit | John A. Wingblade | 2,695 | 49.17% | 2,756 | -4.95% | |||
| Liberal | Ernest Oscar Larson | 1,636 | 29.85% | 1,731 | 8.94% | |||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | M. Jevne | 892 | 16.27% | 942 | -4.63% | |||
| Conservative | W. C. Kimmel | 258 | 4.71% | – | – | |||
| Total | 5,481 | – | – | – | ||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 399 | – | – | – | ||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | 8,135 | 72.28% | 5.61% | – | ||||
| Social Credit hold | Swing | -6.95% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Wetaskiwin Official Results 1955 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Instant-runoff voting requires a candidate to receive a plurality (greater than 50%) of the votes. As no candidate received a plurality of votes, the bottom candidate was eliminated and their 2nd place votes were applied to both other candidates until one received a plurality. | ||||||||
Close
1959
More information 1959 Alberta general election, Party ...
| 1959 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Social Credit | John A. Wingblade | 3,352 | 58.27% | 9.10% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Robert D. Angus | 1,010 | 17.56% | – | ||||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | David Pat. Garland | 749 | 13.02% | -3.26% | ||||
| Liberal | Fred R. MacNaughton | 642 | 11.16% | -18.69% | ||||
| Total | 5,753 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 14 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | 8,231 | 70.06% | -2.22% | |||||
| Social Credit hold | Swing | 10.69% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Wetaskiwin Official Results 1959 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
Close
1963
More information 1963 Alberta general election, Party ...
| 1963 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Social Credit | Albert W. Strohschein | 3333 | 61.11% | 2.85% | ||||
| Liberal | Albert Dyberg | 1298 | 23.80% | 12.64% | ||||
| New Democratic | Leslie Pritchard | 823 | 15.09% | 2.07% | ||||
| Total | 5,454 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 9 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | 8,601 | 63.52% | -6.55% | |||||
| Social Credit hold | Swing | -1.70% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Wetaskiwin Official Results 1963 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
Close
1967
More information 1967 Alberta general election, Party ...
| 1967 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Social Credit | Albert W. Strohschein | 2,879 | 45.79% | -15.32% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Dallas Schmidt | 2,408 | 38.30% | – | ||||
| New Democratic | Robert P. Christensen | 1,000 | 15.91% | 0.82% | ||||
| Total | 6,287 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 17 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | 9,129 | 68.87% | – | |||||
| Social Credit hold | Swing | -14.91% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Wetaskiwin Official Results 1967 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
Close
1957 liquor plebiscite
More information Question A: Do you approve additional types of outlets for the sale of beer, wine and spirituous liquor subject to a local vote?, Ballot choice ...
| 1957 Alberta liquor plebiscite results: Wetaskiwin[6] | |||
| Question A: Do you approve additional types of outlets for the sale of beer, wine and spirituous liquor subject to a local vote? | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Ballot choice | Votes | % | |
| No | 1,892 | 51.62% | |
| Yes | 1,773 | 48.78% | |
| Total votes | 3,665 | 100% | |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 9 | ||
| 7,650 eligible electors, turnout 48.03% | |||
Close
On October 30, 1957 a stand alone plebiscite was held province wide in all 50 of the then current provincial electoral districts in Alberta. The government decided to consult Alberta voters to decide on liquor sales and mixed drinking after a divisive debate in the Legislature. The plebiscite was intended to deal with the growing demand for reforming antiquated liquor control laws.[7]
The plebiscite was conducted in two parts. Question A asked in all districts, asked the voters if the sale of liquor should be expanded in Alberta, while Question B asked in a handful of districts within the corporate limits of Calgary and Edmonton asked if men and woman were allowed to drink together in establishments.[6]
Province wide Question A of the plebiscite passed in 33 of the 50 districts while Question B passed in all five districts. Wetaskiwin was the only other city in Alberta aside from Lethbridge to vote against the proposal. The vote was nearly even with the No side winning by a slim margin. The voter turnout in the district was slightly above the province wide average of 46%.[6]
Official district returns were released to the public on December 31, 1957.[6] The Social Credit government in power at the time did not considered the results binding.[8] However the results of the vote led the government to repeal all existing liquor legislation and introduce an entirely new Liquor Act.[9]
Municipal districts lying inside electoral districts that voted against the Plebiscite such as Wetaskiwin were designated Local Option Zones by the Alberta Liquor Control Board and considered effective dry zones, business owners that wanted a license had to petition for a binding municipal plebiscite in order to be granted a license.[10]
- List of Alberta provincial electoral districts
- Wetaskiwin, a city in Alberta, Canada
- Wetaskiwin (electoral district), a federal electoral district from 1925 to 2015
- Wetaskiwin (N.W.T. electoral district), a territorial electoral district from 1898 to 1905
- "Election results for Wetaskiwin". abheritage.ca. Wayback Machine: Heritage Community Foundation. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
- "North-West Territories: Council and Legislative Assembly, 1876-1905" (PDF). Saskatchewan Archives. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-09-30.
- "Election results for Wetaskiwin, 1905". Alberta Online Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2010-03-24.
- "Territories Elections Ordinance; Province of Alberta". Vol VI No. 12. The Rocky Mountain Echo. October 30, 1905. p. 4.
- "Wetaskiwin Conservatives Convention". The Edmonton Bulletin. March 10, 1909. p. 7.
- Alberta Gazette. Vol. 53 (December 31 ed.). Government of Alberta. 1957. pp. 2, 247–2, 249.
- "Albertans Vote 2 to 1 For More Liquor Outlets". Vol L No 273. The Lethbridge Herald. October 31, 1957. pp. 1–2.
- "No Sudden Change In Alberta Drinking Habits Is Seen". Vol L No 267. The Lethbridge Herald. October 24, 1957. p. 1.
- "Entirely New Act On Liquor". Vol LI No 72. The Lethbridge Herald. March 5, 1968. p. 1.
- "Bill 81". Alberta Bills 12th Legislature 1st Session. Government of Alberta. 1958. p. 40.
- Office of the Chief Electoral Officer; Legislative Assembly Office (2006). A Century of Democracy: Elections of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1905-2005. The Centennial Series. Edmonton, AB: Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ISBN 0-9689217-8-7. Retrieved 25 May 2020.