June 17, : The Manning machine roars along, gobbling 60 of 63 seats. May 23, : Manning wins his seventh election. Harvard-trained lawyer Peter Lougheed comes onto the political scene, picking up six seats for the Progressive Conservatives and capturing 26 per cent of the vote.
Manning resigns in to enter the corporate world, leaving behind a stunned caucus and no obvious successor. Harry Strom, a soft-spoken rancher, fails to spark new life in the party.
The Socreds are reduced to a member opposition. Good times begin to roll. March 26, : Tories win 69 of 75 seats. Albertans reward him with another resounding majority — 74 of 79 seats. But oil company layoffs signal an era of unemployment, bankruptcies and bank failures. Lougheed retires in May 8, : Don Getty gets the party nod and leads the Tories to another majority government.
Tories win 61 of 83 seats. He hikes taxes and imposes cuts in health, education and social services. March 20, : Getty is punished for calling a snap election by losing his own seat, but his party remains in power with 59 of 83 seats.
Getty later wins a byelection. He survives a leadership challenge but huge losses of public money in bad government investments overshadow his tenure. June 15, : Liberals under former Edmonton mayor Laurence Decore appear poised to seize power but lose the brass ring to populist Tory Ralph Klein.
Tories win 51 of 83 seats on a platform of severe program cuts, government downsizing and privatization of services. The Liberals, led by Grant Mitchell, win 18 seats. March 12, : Klein and the Tories capture 74 seats and win back parts of Edmonton, which had been shut out to them since the mids. The new Alberta Alliance party elects its first member. Klein resigns as leader in after getting 55 per cent support in a leadership review.
Notable winners and losers in the federal election. Meanwhile, the right flank accuses him of overstepping when he introduced a vaccine passport system and reintroduced some restrictions last week. They pointed to Mr. Kenney and cancelled interviews in the final days of the campaign. He also would not disclose how many CPC candidates are vaccinated against the coronavirus. Chahal, a former city councillor and well-known community member, unseated the Conservative incumbent and now has a shot at joining cabinet in the minority government.
Calgary Skyview was previously known as Calgary Northeast, which the Liberals captured in The Conservatives held the seat prior to the election. Calgary had become the dominant commercial centre in Alberta, and it really was not until , a result of the Yukon Gold Rush, that Edmonton caught up to its southern rival. The period from to was a time of struggle between the North West Territorial Council and Legislative Assembly and Ottawa over control of the purse strings.
In the Dominion Parliament succumbed and passed an amendment to the North-West Territories Act allowing the Legislative Assembly to make ordinances covering virtually all matters that were granted to the provinces in the BNA Act, except the authority to borrowing money.
In , F. Haultain was appointed Premier and the battle for a fully responsible government was initiated. Two successive executive councils resigned over this issue and in a responsible government was formally approved by Ottawa. The push for provincial status now began in earnest.
By , Alberta, with its population of 73,, was ready to step into the twentieth century with a positive view to the future.
The Formation of a Province. In , a anadian Pacific Railway crew, attempting to drill for water 40 miles west of Medicine Hat, struck natural gas.
Seven years later the first commercial well was established to supply the town of Medicine Hat. Coal was being mined in the Crowsnest Pass and many small sawmills were opening. Economic growth, through the sale of Alberta's abundant natural resources, played an important role in convincing Ottawa of Alberta's potential. Successive Members of the North-West Territories Assembly continually urged Ottawa to grant provincial status to the west.
The Calgary Herald echoing general feeling about the event commented: "The people of the Territories will hail with delight the fact that they are to receive at last some measure of self-government, though the terms and conditions as announced will create great disappointment in any event as regards the boundaries and the retaining of the public lands by the Dominion. One other decision concerning the creation of a province had sparked considerable interest in the west: the location of a provincial capital.
Calgary and Edmonton were both considered front-runners, but other sites such as Red Deer and Banff were also bidding for the honour. Calgary had the advantage of a greater population, and greater economic wealth and yet had the greatest liability in that it had elected a Conservative MP in Edmonton claimed to be the geographic centre, but its primary advantage was the fact that it had elected two very powerful Liberals, Frank Oliver and Peter Talbot, in that same election.
Suffice it to say that Edmonton was named the provisional capital, with a permanent site to be chosen by the 25 Members of Alberta's first Legislature. During this time, one of Edmonton's leading Liberal lawyers, A. Rutherford, was appointed Premier until Ottawa officially divided Alberta into constituencies.
Edmontonian Fran Oliver was responsible for the division, which, clearly favoured northern Alberta, particularly Edmonton. Alberta's first provincial election was called for November 9, , with A. Rutherford's Liberal Party winning 23 of the 25 seats. The ceremonies over, the government moved to McKay Avenue School, the only suitable site in the City of Edmonton to handle the session.
The first session of the Legislature dealt with many items ranging from setting speed limits for motor vehicles maximum 20 mph to the creation of the University of Alberta. Edmonton was chosen provincial capital, and a site on the banks of the North Saskatchewan River overlooking Fort Edmonton was selected as the location of the new Legislature Building.
By , Rutherford was prepared to go back to the polls campaigning on a platform of good government. With the support of the newly formed United Farmers of Alberta, Rutherford was re-elected to power with 37 of the 41 seats. If the latter — who endorsed O'Toole — can't get a handle on COVID, how could you trust the former to be any different, they argued.
The CPC leader praised Kenney's handling of the pandemic shortly before Alberta plunged into the most strenuous wave yet. The premier's popularity is also the lowest in the country. Conservatives still won ridings with huge margins, margins the other parties combined couldn't touch. Polling analysts have estimated that the CPC could drop per cent beneath its vote share without it costing more than a handful of seats.
The NDP vote went up by more than the Liberal vote went up by. Yes, there's the loss with the Conservatives. And the PPC clawed votes from the other flank, taking more than seven per cent of the vote and finishing second in several Alberta ridings. How do you keep the far right happy but attract more centrist voters? The balance for the leader, should he remain in that job, is keeping Alberta onside while courting votes in seat-rich provinces, a strategy that won't be without sacrifices in the Prairies, according to these experts.
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