65 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta 33 seats were needed for a majority
Majority party
Minority party
Leader
Ernest Manning
Cam Kirby
Party
Social Credit
Progressive Conservative
Leader since
May 31, 1943
1958
Leader's seat
Strathcona East
Red Deer (lost re-election)
Last election
37 seats, 46.4%
3 seats, 9.2%
Seats before
37
3
Seats won
61
1
Seat change
24
2
Popular vote
230,283
98,730
Percentage
55.7%
23.9%
Swing
9.3%
14.7%
Third party
Fourth party
CCF
Leader
Grant MacEwan
Floyd Albin Johnson
Party
Liberal
Co-operative Commonwealth
Leader since
November 1, 1958
1957
Leader's seat
Calgary-North (lost re-election)
ran in Denvegan (lost)
Last election
15 seats, 31.1%
2 seats, 8.2%
Seats before
15
2
Seats won
1
0
Seat change
14
2
Popular vote
57,408
17,899
Percentage
13.9%
4.3%
Swing
17.2%
3.9%
Premier before election
Ernest Manning
Social Credit
Premier after election
Ernest Manning
Social Credit
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The 1959 Alberta general election was held on June 18, 1959, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
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 sixty five 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 Progressive Conservative Party under the leadership of Cam Kirby, won almost 15% of the popular vote, placing ahead of the Liberals whose leader, Grant MacEwan lost his Calgary seat. The Tories and Liberals each won only one seat in the legislature while the Alberta CCF was shut out of the legislature for the first time in seventeen years. The other two opposition seat were taken by a Coalition candidate in Banff and an Independent Social Credit-er, both with strong local support.
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