alberta general election, 1905

The 1st general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada, was held on November 9, 1905 to elect members of the Alberta legislature, shortly after the province was created out of the Northwest Territories. The Alberta Liberal Party of Alexander C. Rutherford won 22 of the 25 seats in the new legislature, defeated the Conservative Party, which was led by a young lawyer, R.B. Bennett, who later served as Prime Minister of Canada.

owspan="2"\|Party	rowspan="2"\|Party Leader	rowspan="2"\|# of candidates	rowspan="2"\|Seats	colspan="2"\|Popular Vote
lign="center"\|#	align="center"\|%
Liberal	Alexander C. Rutherford	align="right"\| 27	align="right"\| 22	align="right"\| 14,485	align="right"\| 57.56%
Conservative	R.B. Bennett	align="right"\|22	align="right"\| 3	align="right"\| 9,342	align="right"\| 37.13%
Independent		align="right"\| 7	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| 1,336	align="right"\| 5.31%
Total		56	25	25,163	100.00%
align="center" colspan="9"\|Source: Elections Alberta

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