Alberta (Provisional District)

For the modern province, see Alberta.

Alberta (Provisional District) was a federal electoral district in the Northwest Territories, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1887 to 1908.

History

The Alberta Provisional District was created in 1886 when the Northwest Territories gained representation in the House of Commons. It had the same boundaries of the District of Alberta, a subdivision of the Northwest Territories. In 1905, Alberta became a province of Canada, and the electoral district continued as an Alberta federal electoral district covering the southern part of the province until 1907, when the district was redistributed into Macleod and Medicine Hat.

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following Members of Parliament:

  1. Donald Watson Davis, Conservative (1887–1896)
  2. Frank Oliver, Liberal (1896–1904)
  3. John Herron, Liberal-Conservative (1904–1908)

Election results

Canadian federal election, 1887
Party Candidate Votes
ConservativeDonald Watson Davis 1,037
Independent ConservativeRichard Hardisty 783
LiberalJames Delamere Lafferty 235
Canadian federal election, 1891
Party Candidate Votes
ConservativeDonald Watson Davis 2,742
ConservativeJames A. Reilly 935
Canadian federal election, 1896
Party Candidate Votes
LiberalFrank Oliver 3,647
ConservativeThomas Cochrane 2,863
IndependentSimon Clark 71
Canadian federal election, 1900
Party Candidate Votes
LiberalFrank Oliver 5,203
Conservative Richard Bennett 4,029
Canadian federal election, 1904
Party Candidate Votes
Liberal–ConservativeJohn Herron 1,755
LiberalMalcolm McKenzie 1,677

See also

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