Alberta (Provisional District)
Former federal electoral district in the North-West Territories, Canada
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The Alberta Provisional District was created in 1882, as an informal division of the settled part of the Northwest Territories.
 Northwest Territories electoral district | |
|---|---|
| Defunct federal electoral district | |
| Legislature | House of Commons |
| District created | 1886 |
| District abolished | 1907 |
| First contested | 1887 |
| Last contested | 1904 |
When the North-West Territories was granted representation in the House of Commons in 1887, the Alberta district was used as a federal electoral district and was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1887 to 1908.
The Alberta federal riding had the same boundaries as the District of Alberta in 1887. The creation of the Edmonton, Calgary and Strathcona ridings in 1904 meant that the Alberta riding was left to covered just the part of the old district around Medicine Hat. In 1904, the Alberta riding covered only the southern part of Alberta district outside Calgary, with the north boundary being the north edge of the seventeenth township (now designated Township Road 180).[1][2] In 1907, the Alberta riding was redistributed into a new Macleod riding and a new Medicine Hat riding.
Members of Parliament
The Alberta riding elected the following members of Parliament:
| Alberta (Provisional District) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parliament | Years | Member | Party | |
| Riding created | ||||
| 6th | 1887–1891 | Donald Watson Davis | Conservative | |
| 7th | 1891–1896 | |||
| 8th | 1896–1900 | Frank Oliver | Liberal | |
| 9th | 1900–1904 | |||
| 10th | 1904–1908 | John Herron | Liberal–Conservative | |
| Riding dissolved into Macleod and Medicine Hat | ||||
Election results
| 1887 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Conservative | Donald Watson Davis | 1,037 | 50.46 | |||||
| Independent Conservative | Richard Hardisty | 783 | 38.10 | |||||
| Liberal | James Delamere Lafferty | 235 | 11.44 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 2,055 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | unknown | |||||||
| Turnout | 2,055 | 69.66 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 2,950 | |||||||
| Source: Library of Parliament[3][4] | ||||||||
| 1891 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Conservative | Donald Watson Davis | 2,742 | 74.57 | +24.11 | ||||
| Conservative | James Reilly | 935 | 25.43 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 3,677 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | unknown | |||||||
| Turnout | 3,677 | 55.96 | –13.70 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 6,571 | |||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +24.57 | ||||||
| Source: Library of Parliament[5][6] | ||||||||
| 1896 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Frank Oliver | 3,647 | 55.42 | – | ||||
| Conservative | Thomas Cochrane | 2,863 | 43.50 | –31.07 | ||||
| Independent | Simon I. Clark | 71 | 1.08 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 6,581 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | unknown | |||||||
| Turnout | 6,581 | 64.02 | +8.06 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 10,279 | |||||||
| Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | N/A | ||||||
| Source: Library of Parliament[7][8] | ||||||||
| 1900 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Frank Oliver | 5,203 | 56.36 | +0.94 | ||||
| Conservative | R. B. Bennett | 4,029 | 43.64 | +0.14 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 9,232 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | unknown | |||||||
| Turnout | 9,232 | 76.53 | +12.51 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 12,064 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +0.54 | ||||||
| Source: Library of Parliament[9][10] | ||||||||
| 1904 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal–Conservative | John Herron | 1,755 | 51.14 | +7.50 | ||||
| Liberal | Malcolm McKenzie | 1,677 | 48.86 | –7.50 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 3,432 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | unknown | |||||||
| Turnout | 3,432 | 98.82 | +22.29 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 3,473 | |||||||
| Liberal–Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +7.50 | ||||||
| Source: Library of Parliament[11][12] | ||||||||
(only covering the southern part of Alberta district outside Calgary)