Alberta general election, 1963
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The Alberta general election of 1963 was the fifteenth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. It 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 sixty three seats in the 1963 election. They fell short of this goal, however.
Much of the opposition vote shifted away from the Progressive Conservative Party, now led by Milt Harradance, 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.
1963 was the last year in Alberta provincial politics when an Acclamation occurred Leonard Halmrast was Acclaimed in Taber-Warner.
[edit] Results
| Party | Party Leader | # of candidates |
Seats | Popular Vote | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Elected | % Change | # | % | % Change | ||||
| Social Credit |
|
63 | 61 | 60 | -1.6% | 221,107 | 54.81% | -0.88% | |
| Liberal |
|
55 | 1 | 2 | +100% | 79,709 | 19.76% | +5.88% | |
| Coalition | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 2,179 | 0.54% | -0.01% | ||
| Progressive Conservative |
|
33 | 1 | - | -100% | 51,278 | 12.71% | -11.17% | |
| New Democratic1 |
|
56 | - | - | - | 37,133 | 9.45% | -5.12% | |
| Independent | 3 | - | - | - | 3,966 | 0.98% | +0.10% | ||
| Independent Social Credit | 6 | 1 | - | -100% | 3,178 | 0.79% | +0.21% | ||
| Alberta Unity Movement | 3 | * | - | * | 2,223 | 0.55% | * | ||
| Progressive Conservative-Liberal | 1 | * | - | * | 1,134 | 0.28% | * | ||
| Communist2 | 4 | - | - | - | 527 | 0.13% | -0.08% | ||
| Total | 225 | 65 | 63 | -3.1% | 403,444 | 100% |
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| Source: Elections Alberta | |||||||||
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.
[edit] Members elected
For complete electoral history, see individual districts
[edit] See also
| Preceded by 1959 Alberta election |
Alberta elections | Succeeded by 1967 Alberta election |
