Alberta general election, 1948
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The Alberta general election of 1948 was the eleventh general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. It was held on August 17, 1948 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
Ernest C. Manning led the Social Credit to a fourth term in government, increasing its share of the popular vote further above the 50% mark it had set in the 1944 election. It won the same number of seats — 51 of the 57 seats in the legislature — that it had won in the previous election.
The remaining seats were won by the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, the Liberal Party and independents.
Along with this election voters got to also vote in the first province wide plebiscite in the provinces history. The ballot asked voters about utility regulation.
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[edit] Results
| Party | Party Leader | # of candidates |
Seats | Popular Vote | |||||
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| 1944 | Elected | % Change | # | % | % Change | ||||
| Social Credit |
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57 | 51 | 51 | - | 164,003 | 55.63% | +3.75% | |
| Cooperative Commonwealth |
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51 | 2 | 2 | - | 56,387 | 19.13% | -5.79% | |
| Liberal |
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49 | * | 2 | * | 52,655 | 17.86% | * | |
| Independent | 7 | 3 | 1 | -66.7% | 9,014 | 3.05% | -13.70% | ||
| Independent Social Credit | 3 | * | 1 | * | 2,958 | 1.00% | * | ||
| Independent Citizen's |
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2 | * | - | * | 3,969 | 1.35% | * | |
| Labour | 1 | * | - | * | 3,579 | 1.21% | * | ||
| Labour Progressive | 2 | - | - | 1,372 | 0.47% | -3.79% | |||
| United Labour | 1 | * | - | *. | 856 | 0.30% | * | ||
| Total | 173 | 57 | 57 | - | 294,793 | 100% |
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| Source: Elections Alberta | |||||||||
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* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.
[edit] Electrification plebiscite
The electrification plebiscite was the first of four plebiscites conducted province-wide in Alberta's history. The ballot was not a traditional yes/no question, but presented two options on electricity regulation, asking if the province should create a Crown corporation to manage electricity, or leave the electricity industry unregulated.
The result shows how divided the province was on the issue, with a plurality of only 151 votes in favour of leaving the province deregulated.
| Option A | Option B |
|---|---|
| Are you in favour of the generation and distribution of electricity being continued by the Power Companies? | Are you in favour of the generation and distribution of electricity being made a publicly owned utility administered by the Alberta Government Power Commission? |
| 139,991 50.03% | 139,840 49.97% |
For a break down of results, please see individual districts.
[edit] Members elected
For complete electoral history, see individual districts
[edit] See also
- 1957 Liquor Plebiscite
- 1967 Daylight Saving Plebiscite
- 1971 Daylight Saving Plebiscite
- List of Alberta political parties
| Preceded by 1944 Alberta election |
Alberta elections | Succeeded by 1952 Alberta election |
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