• Source: 1948 Alberta general election

The 1948 Alberta general election was held on August 17, 1948, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
Ernest C. Manning led the Social Credit to a fourth term in government, increasing its share of the popular vote further above the 50% mark it had set in the 1944 election. It won the same number of seats — 51 of the 57 seats in the legislature — that it had won in the previous election.
The remaining seats were won by the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, the Liberal Party and independents.
This provincial election, like the previous five, saw district-level proportional representation (Single transferable voting) used to elect the MLAs of Edmonton and Calgary. City-wide districts were used to elect multiple MLAs in the cities. All the other MLAs were elected in single-member districts through Instant-runoff voting.
Along with this election, voters got to also vote in a province wide plebiscite. The ballot asked voters about utility regulation.




Results






Electrification plebiscite


The fourth plebiscite conducted province-wide in Alberta's history, the 1948 electrification referendum was not a traditional yes–no question but presented two options on electricity generation and transmission. It asked the voter to indicate whether the province should create "a publicly-owned utility administered by the Alberta Government Power Commission" or leave the electricity industry in the hands of companies already in the business, a mixture of municipal operations and private companies. The driving force behind the referendum was whether to provide rural electrification through provincial government ownership or leave it in the hands of private corporations, who had done very little up to that time and did not have the financial resources to perform the task. The referendum result was a slight majority in favour of retention of the existing companies. Despite that, the government sponsored the creation of many Rural Electrification Associations, some of which still are in operation today.
The result shows how evenly divided the province was on the issue, with a majority of only 151 votes in favour of leaving the old system in place. In fact, voters in Edmonton were effectively split and the rural areas were in favour of provincial control, but an even larger majority in Calgary voted to retain the old system.




MLAs elected






= Synopsis of results

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= Open seat
= turnout is above provincial average
= Candidate was in previous Legislature
= Incumbent had switched allegiance
= Previously incumbent in another riding
= Not incumbent; was previously elected to the Legislature
= Incumbency arose from by-election gain
= previously an MP in the House of Commons of Canada
= Multiple candidates




= Multi-member districts

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= Candidate was in previous Legislature
= First-time MLA




STV analysis






= Exhausted votes

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Ten districts went beyond first-preference counts in order to determine winning candidates:




= Calgary

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All parties other than the Independent Movement fielded full slates.




= Edmonton

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Three parties had full slates. The Independent Movement presented four candidates, and Williams campaigned under his own banner.




See also


1957 Liquor Plebiscite
1967 Daylight Saving Plebiscite
1971 Daylight Saving Plebiscite
List of Alberta political parties




References

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• Paus Fransiskus
• Portland, Oregon
• 1948 Alberta general election
• List of elections in 1948
• 1971 Alberta general election
• 1944 Alberta general election
• 1967 Alberta general election
• 1955 Alberta general election
• 1952 Alberta general election
• Alberta Liberal Party
• List of Alberta general elections
• Clayton Adams (Alberta politician)