Lethbridge City was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first-past-the-post method of voting from 1909 to 1921.[1]
 Alberta electoral district | |
|---|---|
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
| District created | 1909 |
| District abolished | 1921 |
| First contested | 1909 |
| Last contested | 1917 |
History
editThe Lethbridge City electoral district was created after the Lethbridge electoral district was split into the Lethbridge District and Lethbridge City electoral district in 1909.
Lethbridge district was all the rural area surrounding the City of Lethbridge, which in 1913, was split into Little Bow and Taber.
After Lethbridge District was dissolved there was no need to differentiate itself, and thus "City" was dropped in 1921 and Lethbridge was re-formed.
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Lethbridge City | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Lethbridge electoral district from 1905-1909 | ||||
| 2nd | 1909–1911 | William Ashbury Buchanan | Liberal | |
| 1911–1913 | John Smith Stewart | Conservative | ||
| 3rd | 1913–1917 | |||
| 4th | 1917–1921 | |||
| See Lethbridge electoral district from 1921-1971 | ||||
Election results
edit1909
edit| 1909 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | William Ashbury Buchanan | 529 | 44.12% | – | ||||
| Conservative | William Carlos Ives | 456 | 38.03% | – | ||||
| Dominion Labor | Donald McNabb | 214 | 17.85% | – | ||||
| Total | 1,199 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | N/A | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 1,698 | 70.61% | – | |||||
| Liberal pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Lethbridge City Official Results 1909 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
1911 by-election
edit| Alberta provincial by-election, October 31, 1911 Upon the resignation of William Ashbury Buchanan | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Conservative | John Smith Stewart | 978 | 55.16% | – | ||||
| Liberal | S. J. Shepherd | 795 | 44.84% | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 1,773 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled, and declined | – | – | – | |||||
| Electors / turnout | – | – | – | |||||
| Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | N/A | ||||||
Source(s) | ||||||||
1913
edit| 1913 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Conservative | John Smith Stewart | 1,371 | 51.04% | 13.01% | ||||
| Liberal | J. O. Jones | 1,033 | 38.46% | -5.66% | ||||
| Socialist | Joseph R. Knight | 282 | 10.50% | – | ||||
| Total | 2,686 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | N/A | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 4,111 | 65.34% | -5.28% | |||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | N/A | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Lethbridge City Official Results 1913 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.[2] | ||||||||
1917
edit| 1917 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Conservative | John Smith Stewart | Acclaimed | – | – | ||||
| Total | N/A | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | N/A | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | N/A | N/A | – | |||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | N/A | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Lethbridge City Official Results 1917 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. One of eleven Members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta acclaimed under The Elections Act Section 38, which stipulated that any member of the 3rd Alberta Legislative Assembly would be guaranteed re-election, with no contest held, if the member joined for wartime service in the First World War. An Act amending The Election Act respecting Members of the Legislative Assembly on Active Service., SA 1917, c. 38 | ||||||||
By-election reasons
edit- October 31, 1911 —Resignation of Mr. William Buchanan to run for House for Commons.
Floor crossings
edit- John Stewart became an Independent and ran for Re-election as an Independent in Lethbridge date not available
See also
edit- List of Alberta provincial electoral districts
- Lethbridge, Alberta, a city in Alberta, Canada
References
edit- ^ "Election results for Lethbridge City". abheritage.ca. Heritage Community Foundation. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
- ^ "Socialist in Lethbridge". The Edmonton Bulletin. March 25, 1913. p. 6.
Further reading
edit- 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 May 25, 2020.