The 1963 Alberta general election was held on June 17, 1963, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
The Social Credit Party, led by Ernest C. Manning, won its eighth consecutive term in government, winning roughly the same number of seats in the legislature and share of popular vote that it had in the 1959 election.
Some Social Credit supporters were so confident of their party's chances that they talked of winning "63 in '63", i.e., all 63 seats in the legislature in the 1963 election. They fell short of this goal, but still had an overwhelming majority, reducing the opposition to only three MLAs in total. Indeed, as a share of the overall seats available, this represented Social Credit's greatest victory in its 36-year reign.
Much of the opposition vote shifted away from the Progressive Conservative Party, now led by Milt Harradence, resulting in the party losing its sole seat.
The Liberal Party was a partial beneficiary of the PC Party's decline, but picked up only one additional seat, for a total of two, despite winning almost 20% of the popular vote.
New Democratic Party candidates received 9 percent of the vote but no seats.
1963 was the last year in Alberta provincial politics when an MLA was acclaimed with the acclamation of Leonard Halmrast in Taber-Warner.
After the PCs won power, they would later speak of "79 in '79".
Notes:
<sup>1</sup> The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation adopted the name "New Democratic Party" for the 1963 and subsequent elections.
<sup>2</sup> The "Labour Progressive Party" returned to its original "Communist Party of Alberta" name for the 1963 and subsequent elections.
<nowiki>*</nowiki> Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.
|- |Alexandra||| |Anders O. Aalborg<br/>3,284<br/>66.30% | | | | | |John C. Sandercock<br/>529<br/>10.68% | |W. Slim Thorpe (Con-Lib)<br/>1,134<br/>22.92% || |Anders O. Aalborg |- |Athabasca||| |Antonio Aloisio<br/>2,241<br/>50.43% | |Dave Hunter<br/>1,827<br/>41.11% | | | |Judith Johnston<br/>223<br/>5.02% | |Trygve Hansen (Comm.)<br/>118<br/>2.66% || |Antonio Aloisio |- |Banff-Cochrane | |Victor Watson<br/>1,878<br/>42.68% | | | | | |Jack Fraser<br/>331<br/>7.52% || | Frank L. Gainer (Coal)<br/>2,179<br/>49.66% || |Francis Leo Gainer |- |Bonnyville||| |Romeo B. Lamothe<br/>2,222<br/>47.91% | |Albert Turcotte<br/>1,059<br/>22.83% | |Victor E. Justik<br/>1,091<br/>23.52% | |Peter G. Forman<br/>255<br/>5.50% | |||| |Karl Earnest Nordstrom |- |Bow Valley-Empress||| |William Delday<br/>2,871<br/>60.19% | |George Timko<br/>923<br/>19.35% | |George A. Simpson<br/>972<br/>20.38% | | | |||| |William Delday |- |Calgary Bowness||| |Charles E. Johnston<br/>5,355<br/>52.11% | |Peter Petrasuk<br/>2,456<br/>23.90% | |Albert A. Frawley<br/>1,719<br/>16.73% | |Everett C. Baldwin<br/>735<br/>7.15% | |||| |Charles E. Johnston |- |Calgary-Centre||| |Frederick C. Colborne<br/>4,395<br/>61.22% | |E. Virgil Anderson<br/>1,878<br/>26.16% | | | |Mrs. Melba Cochlan<br/>757<br/>10.54% | |Dave Raichman (Comm.)<br/>101<br/>1.41% || |Frederick C. Colborne |- |Calgary-East||| |Albert W. Ludwig<br/>4,763<br/>60.23% | |Evelyn Leew<br/>677<br/>8.56% | |Bill Duncan<br/>1,497<br/>18.93% | |Dick Dunlop<br/>953<br/>12.05% | |||| | |- |Calgary-Glenmore | |A. Ross Lawson<br/>4,268<br/>31.40%||| |William Daniel Dickie<br/>6,037<br/>44.42% | |Ned Corrigal<br/>2,891<br/>21.27% | |G.A.J. Otjes<br/>374<br/>2.75% | |||| |Ernest S. Watkins |- |Calgary-North||| |Robert A. Simpson<br/>4,713<br/>56.82% | |Robert F. Goss<br/>794<br/>9.57% | |Larry B. Nugent<br/>2,123<br/>25.59% | |Steven P. Galan<br/>647<br/>7.80% | |||| |Rose Wilkinson |- |Calgary Queens Park||| |Lea Leavitt<br/>4,363<br/>48.19% | |John Donnachie<br/>961<br/>10.61% | |Duncan Lovell McKillop<br/>1,597<br/>17.64% | |Ben S. Greenfield<br/>509<br/>5.62% | |Roy Alexander Farran (Ind.)<br/>1,469<br/>16.22%<br/>Conrad Pfeifer (Ind. SoCred)<br/>126<br/>1.39%||| | |- |Calgary-South||| |Arthur J. Dixon<br/>5,661<br/>60.51% | |Howard G. Cook<br/>2,529<br/>27.03% | | | |John N. Smith<br/>1,123<br/>12.00% | |||| | |- |Calgary-West||| |Donald S. Fleming<br/>5,183<br/>42.76% | |Ted Duncan<br/>2,250<br/>18.56% | |Asa Milton Harradence<br/>4,109<br/>33.90% | |Jack D. Peters<br/>568<br/>4.69% | |||| |Donald S. Fleming |- |Camrose||| |Chester I. Sayers<br/>3,427<br/>56.57% | |James P. Richardson<br/>746<br/>12.31% | |Ernest Moore<br/>1,519<br/>25.07% | |Kenneth Nelson<br/>356<br/>5.88% | |||| |Chester I. Sayers |- |Cardston||| |Edgar W. Hinman<br/>2,527<br/>68.00% | |John Fenton Webster<br/>1,035<br/>27.85% | | | |Collin H. Holt<br/>150<br/>4.04% | |||| |Edgar W. Hinman |- |Clover Bar||| |Floyd M. Baker<br/>3,730<br/>57.65% | |James P. O'Dwyer<br/>791<br/>12.23% | |Daniel F. Hollands<br/>1,407<br/>21.75% | |Paul Arthur Dorin<br/>535<br/>8.27% | |||| |Floyd M. Baker |- |Cypress||| |Harry E. Strom<br/>3,030<br/>77.71% | |Alvin H. Reiman<br/>861<br/>22.08% | | | | | |||| |Harry E. Strom |- |Drumheller-Gleichen||| |Gordon Edward Taylor<br/>4,565<br/>86.07% | | | | | |Irene Dyck<br/>720<br/>13.57% | |||| | |- |Dunvegan||| |Ernest L. Lee<br/>1,306<br/>52.45% | |M.H. (Milt) Connery<br/>849<br/>34.10% | | | |Roy A. Mitchell<br/>325<br/>13.05% | |||| |Joseph M. Scruggs |- |Edmonton North||| |Ethel Sylvia Wilson<br/>4,655<br/>52.17% | |Thomas O'Dwyer<br/>2,489<br/>27.90% | | | |William H. Nash<br/>1,743<br/>19.54% | |||| |Ethel Sylvia Wilson |- |Edmonton-Centre||| |Ambrose Holowach<br/>3,378<br/>47.56% | |Joseph A. Tannous<br/>1,219<br/>17.16% | |Gerard Joseph Amerongen<br/>1,492<br/>21.01% | |Alex Szchechina<br/>993<br/>13.98% | |||| |Ambrose Holowach |- |Edmonton-Jasper Place||| |John William Horan<br/>3,639<br/>45.14% | |Keith C. Campbell<br/>2,234<br/>27.71% | |Clarence Edgar Sage<br/>1,034<br/>12.83% | |Patrick J. Ryan<br/>1,128<br/>13.99% | |||| | |- |Edmonton-North East||| |Lou W. Heard<br/>4,023<br/>42.66% | |Ken McAuley<br/>1,295<br/>13.73% | |Allan Welsh<br/>1,510<br/>16.01% | |Neil Reimer<br/>2,589<br/>27.45% | |||| |Lou W. Heard |- |Edmonton-North West||| |Edgar H. Gerhart<br/>4,369<br/>45.97% | |Edmund H. Leger<br/>1,854<br/>19.51% | |Ned Feehan<br/>1,878<br/>19.76% | |Grant W. Notley<br/>1,391<br/>14.64% | |||| |Edgar H. Gerhart |- |Edmonton-Norwood||| |William Tomyn<br/>3,905<br/>47.86% | |J. Laurier Picard<br/>1,628<br/>19.95% | |J. Gordon Ozarko<br/>1,190<br/>14.58% | |Robert W. Douglas<br/>1,330<br/>16.30% | |Walter Makowecki (Comm.)<br/>93<br/>1.14% || |William Tomyn |- |Edmonton-West||| |Stanley Gordon Geldart<br/>3,733<br/>41.83% | |Robert A. Doyle<br/>2,572<br/>28.82% | |Tony Nugent<br/>2,019<br/>22.62% | |Neil R. Larsen<br/>585<br/>6.55% | |||| | |- |Edson||| |Norman Alfred Willmore<br/>2,668<br/>56.16% | |Bertram E. Schoeppe<br/>1,371<br/>28.86% | | | |James D. Torgersen<br/>701<br/>14.75% | |||| |Norman Alfred Willmore |- |Grande Prairie||| |Ira McLaughlin<br/>4,763<br/>72.94% | |Ed. Kimpe<br/>997<br/>15.27% | | | |Charles A. Evaskevich<br/>762<br/>11.67% | |||| |Ira McLaughlin |- |Grouard||| |Roy Ells<br/>3,832<br/>62.38% | |Gunner Wahlstrom<br/>1,595<br/>25.96% | | | |Clif. I. Tollefson<br/>674<br/>10.97% | |||| |Roy Ells |- |Hand Hills-Acadia||| |Clinton Keith French<br/>3,215<br/>61.77% | | | | | | | |Lyall Alexander Curry (Ind.)<br/>1,972<br/>37.89%||| | |- |Lac La Biche | |Elvin J. Woynarowich<br/>1,479<br/>36.11%||| |Michael Maccagno<br/>1,809<br/>44.17% | |Henry T. Thompson<br/>260<br/>6.35% | |Henry Tomaschuk<br/>297<br/>7.25% | |Rudolph Michetti (Ind. SoCred)<br/>246<br/>6.01%||| |Michael Maccagno |- |Lac Ste. Anne||| |William Patterson<br/>2,777<br/>51.94% | |Douglas P. McKeen<br/>1,794<br/>33.55% | | | |John Liss<br/>1,474<br/>27.57% | |||| |William Patterson |- |Lacombe||| |Allan Russell Patrick<br/>3,405<br/>69.22% | |John Paul Fehrenbach<br/>776<br/>15.78% | | | |John Liss<br/>1,474<br/>29.97% | |||| |Allan Russell Patrick |- |Leduc||| |James D. Henderson<br/>1,898<br/>39.74% | |Ronald John Hayter<br/>461<br/>9.65% | |Peter Wyllie<br/>971<br/>20.33% | |Andrew Simon Borys<br/>613<br/>12.84% | |Ronald Earl Ansley (Ind. SoCred)<br/>731<br/>15.31%<br/>Michael F. Hold (AUM)<br/>88<br/>1.84% || |Ronald Earl Ansley |- |Lethbridge||| |John C. Landeryou<br/>6,975<br/>60.05% | |Alan Cullen<br/>3,786<br/>32.60% | | | |James Taylor<br/>820<br/>7.06% | |||| |John C. Landeryou |- |Little Bow||| |Raymond Albert Speaker<br/>3,368<br/>63.72% | |Arthur W. Ulrich<br/>649<br/>12.28% | |Douglas H. Galbraith<br/>1,245<br/>23.55% | | | |||| |Peter Dawson |- |Macleod||| |James Hartley<br/>3,127<br/>64.57% | | | |Allie Streeter<br/>1,466<br/>30.27% | |John K. Head<br/>238<br/>4.91% | |||| |James Hartley |- |Medicine Hat||| |Harry C. Leinweber<br/>4,954<br/>51.77% | |Helen Beny Gibson<br/>2,259<br/>23.61% | |Kenneth Roy Biddell<br/>1,485<br/>15.52% | |Milton J. Reinhardt<br/>841<br/>8.79% | |||| |Elizabeth G. Robinson |- |Okotoks-High River||| |Edward P. Benoit<br/>2,361<br/>52.55% | |Robert E.G. Armstrong<br/>448<br/>9.97% | |Samuel Brown<br/>1,585<br/>35.28% | |Bill Steemson<br/>86<br/>1.91% | |||| |Ernest G. Hansell |- |Olds-Didsbury||| |Robert Curtis Clark<br/>3,950<br/>66.79% | | | | | |Eva Banta<br/>400<br/>6.76% | |Roger Lebeuf (AUM)<br/>1,550<br/>26.21% || | |- |Peace River||| |Euell F. Montgomery<br/>2,782<br/>60.32% | |Vic. O'Reilly<br/>980<br/>21.25% | |Hall C. Sisson<br/>842<br/>18.26% | | | |||| |William F. Gilliland |- |Pembina||| |Robin D. Jorgenson<br/>3,067<br/>55.78% | |Ray Brodeur<br/>842<br/>15.31% | |Percy Baxandall<br/>823<br/>14.97% | |Herman Hauch<br/>562<br/>10.22% | |Verdun Baxandall (Ind. SoCred)<br/>165<br/>3.00%||| |Robin D. Jorgenson |- |Pincher Creek-Crowsnest||| |William A. Kovach<br/>2,524<br/>54.30% | |Thomas J. Costigan<br/>539<br/>11.60% | |Frank Lynch-Staunton<br/>953<br/>20.50% | |Arthur Lees<br/>621<br/>13.36% | |||| |William A. Kovach |- |Ponoka||| |Glen F. Johnston<br/>1,830<br/>44.56% | | | | | | | |Neville S. Roper (Ind. SoCred)<br/>1,721<br/>41.90%<br/>George F. Sharp (Ind.)<br/>525<br/>12.78%||| |Glen F. Johnston |- |Red Deer||| |William Kenneth Ure<br/>6,016<br/>57.57% | |Denis Yunker<br/>609<br/>5.83% | |Walter M. Ogilvie<br/>3,323<br/>31.80% | |Herman H. Dorin<br/>446<br/>4.27% | |||| |William Kenneth Ure |- |Redwater||| |Michael Senych<br/>1,670<br/>41.61% | |Steve Romanchuk<br/>755<br/>18.81% | |Joe Bielish<br/>1,362<br/>33.94% | |William Glass<br/>216<br/>5.38% | |||| |John Dubetz |- |Rocky Mountain House||| |Alfred J. Hooke<br/>3,175<br/>72.32% | |Ellis M. Bowen<br/>591<br/>13.46% | | | |Robert H. Carlyle<br/>599<br/>13.64% | |||| |Alfred J. Hooke |- |Sedgewick-Coronation||| |Jack C. Hillman<br/>3,999<br/>67.72% | |James Leland Sims<br/>1,368<br/>23.17% | | | |Karl O. Peterson<br/>529<br/>8.96% | |||| | |- |Spirit River | |Lionel Lizee<br/>383<br/>8.68%||| |Adolph O. Fimrite<br/>3,077<br/>69.73% | | | |Uri Powell<br/>948<br/>21.48% | |||| |Adolph O. Fimrite |- |St. Albert||| |Keith Everitt<br/>2,540<br/>39.85% | |Louis Chalifoux<br/>2,030<br/>31.85% | |Alan Lazerte<br/>1,332<br/>20.90% | |Alan Bevington<br/>451<br/>7.08% | |||| |Keith Everitt |- |St. Paul||| |Raymond Reierson<br/>2,889<br/>60.90% | |Rene P. Foisy<br/>1,363<br/>28.73% | | | |H.B. Hodgins<br/>265<br/>5.59% | |Daniel Gamache (Comm.)<br/>215<br/>4.53% || |Raymond Reierson |- |Stettler||| |Galen C. Norris<br/>3,076<br/>68.02% | |Clark K. Burlingham<br/>1,065<br/>23.55% | | | |Joseph J. Tipman<br/>369<br/>8.16% | |||| |Galen C. Norris |- |Stony Plain||| |Cornelia R. Wood<br/>2,716<br/>41.75% | |Harold McLaughlin<br/>1,921<br/>29.53% | |Peter Germaniuk<br/>903<br/>13.88% | |Conrad D. (Red) Fuhr<br/>358<br/>5.50% | |Rudolph Zander (AUM)<br/>595<br/>9.15% || |Cornelia R. Wood |- |Strathcona Centre||| |Joseph Donovan Ross<br/>5,232<br/>58.39% | |Ian Nicoll<br/>2,418<br/>26.99% | | | |Harry J. Strynadka<br/>1,262<br/>14.08% | |||| |Joseph Donovan Ross |- |Strathcona East||| |Ernest C. Manning<br/>6,842<br/>53.22% | |James A. Cox<br/>1,890<br/>14.70% | |Oscar H. Kruger<br/>2,630<br/>20.46% | |Dennis A. Wood<br/>1,457<br/>11.33% | |||| |Ernest C. Manning |- |Strathcona West||| |Randolph H. McKinnon<br/>5,029<br/>47.47% | |Arthur W. Crossley<br/>2,557<br/>24.14% | |Arnold H. Lane<br/>1,863<br/>17.59% | |George R. Field<br/>936<br/>8.84% | |||| |Randolph H. McKinnon |- |Taber-Warner||| |Leonard C. Halmrast<br/>0<br/> | | | | | | | |||| | |- |Three Hills||| |Louis Petrie Meston<br/>3,385<br/>62.70% | |James A. Lore<br/>1,728<br/>32.01% | | | |John F. Kennan<br/>257<br/>4.76% | |||| | |- |Vegreville-Bruce||| |Alex W. Gordey<br/>2,925<br/>50.03% | |Wilfrid L. Horton<br/>675<br/>11.55% | |Graham Allan<br/>1,194<br/>20.42% | |Albin Lukawiecki<br/>851<br/>14.56% | |Clarence A. Knies (Ind. SoCred)<br/>189<br/>3.23%||| | |- |Vermilion||| |Ashley H. Cooper<br/>2,964<br/>68.08% | |Arthur W. Roland<br/>837<br/>19.22% | | | |Edward I. Thompson<br/>545<br/>12.52% | |||| |Ashley H. Cooper |- |Wainwright||| |Henry A. Ruste<br/>3,465<br/>76.25% | |John M. Saville<br/>668<br/>14.70% | | | |John Wesley Connelly<br/>387<br/>8.52% | |||| |Henry A. Ruste |- |Wetaskiwin||| |Albert W. Strohschein<br/>3,333<br/>61.01% | |Albert (Butch) Dyberg<br/>1,298<br/>23.76% | | | |Leslie Pritchard<br/>823<br/>15.06% | |||| |John A. Wingblade |- |Willingdon-Two Hills||| |Nicholas A. Melnyk<br/>2,315<br/>56.53% | |Allan Eschak<br/>283<br/>6.91% | |Walter Witwicky<br/>993<br/>24.25% | |William Glen Haley<br/>496<br/>12.11% | |||| | |-