alberta general election, 1959

The 14th general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada, was held on June 18, 1959 to elect members of the Alberta legislature. Ernest C. Manning, in his fifth election as party leader and provincial premier, led the Social Credit Party to its seventh consecutive term in government, with 55% of the popular vote, and all but four of the 65 seats in the legislature. Social Credit was also helped by a split in the opposition vote: whereas in the 1955 election, opponents were largely united behind the Liberal Party, in this election the vote was divided between the Liberals and the resurgent Conservative Party, now renamed the "Progressive Conservative Party". The PC Party, under the leadership of Cam Kirby, won almost 15% of the popular vote, placing ahed of the Liberals. Each party won only one seat in the legislature.

owspan="2"\|Party	rowspan="2"\|Party Leader	rowspan="2"\|# of candidates	colspan="3"\|Seats	colspan="3"\|Popular Vote
lign="center"\|Previous	align="center"\|After	align="center"\|% Change	align="center"\|#	align="center"\|%	align="center"\|Change
Social Credit	Ernest C. Manning	align="right"\|64	align="right"\| 37	align="right"\| 61	align="right"\| +64.9%	align="right"\| 230,283	align="right"\| 55.69%	align="right"\| +9.27%
Progressive Conservative(1)	Cam Kirby	align="right"\| 60	align="right"\| 3	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| -66.7%	align="right"\| 98,730	align="right"\| 23.88%	align="right"\| +14.69%
Liberal		align="right"\| 51	align="right"\| 15	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| -93.9%	align="right"\| 57,408	align="right"\| 13.88%	align="right"\| -17.25%
Independent Social Credit		align="right"\| 2	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| 2,393	align="right"\| 0.58%	align="right"\| -0.14%
Coalition		align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| 2,279	align="right"\| 0.55%	align="right"\| -0.66%
Cooperative Commonwealth		align="right"\| 32	align="right"\| 2	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -100%	align="right"\| 17,899	align="right"\| 4.33%	align="right"\| -3.91%
Independent		align="right"\| 2	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -100%	align="right"\| 3,640	align="right"\| 0.88%	align="right"\| -0.25%
Labour Progressive		align="right"\| 4	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 884	align="right"\| 0.21%	align="right"\| -0.69%
Total		216	61	65	+6.6%	413,516	100.00%
align="center" colspan="9"\|Source: Elections Alberta

Notes: (1) The Conservative Party adopted the name "Progressive Conservative Party" for the 1959 and subsequent elections. "Previous" refers to to standings at previous election, not to standings in the Legislature at dissolution. n.a. = not applicable - the party was not recognized in the previous election

Alberta General Election, 1959

See also