The 1967 Alberta general election was held on May 23, 1967, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta to the 16th Alberta Legislature. The election was called after the 15th Alberta Legislature was prorogued on April 11, 1967, and dissolved on April 14, 1967.
Ernest C. Manning led the Social Credit Party to its ninth (and, as it turned out, final) consecutive majority government, winning 55 of the 65 seats in the legislature, despite getting less than 45 per cent of the popular vote. Although it was not apparent at the time, this proved to be an ominous sign for the party. The 1967 election was the first time the Social Credit government had won less than half the popular vote since 1955. The party won its lowest vote share since 1940.
The once-moribund Progressive Conservatives, led by young lawyer Peter Lougheed, emerged as the main opposition to Social Credit. They won over a quarter of the popular vote and six seats, mostly taking seats from Social Credit in the two major cities, Calgary and Edmonton. Social Credit was slow to adapt to the changes in Alberta as its two largest cities gained increasing influence.
Despite losing close to half of the share of the popular vote they had won in the 1963 election, the Liberals managed to increase their number of seats from two to three as a result of the decline in the Social Credit vote.
New Democrat Party candidates received 16 percent of the vote but no seats.
Voters also decided upon the adoption of daylight saving time, in a province-wide plebiscite. It was defeated by a very slim margin with 51.25 per cent voting against.
Amendments to the Election Act in 1965 provided voting rights for Treaty Indians in provincial elections, making the 1967 election the first opportunity for Indigenous Albertans to vote in a provincial election.
The Social Credit government had prepared well for the election in advance, with the party maintaining a significant war chest. The Social Credit government came under criticism for low non-renewable resource royalty rates compared to other developed nations, which it counted by saying the royalties were the highest in Canada. Social Credit focused on their governance record rather than make significant policy commitments, although the Social Credit government did commit to study rising car insurance rates. Furthermore the Social Credit government argued they spent the most per capita on social issues despite having the lowest tax rate.
An internal controversy occurred when Albert Bourcier, a Social Credit MLA from 1935 to 1952 filed papers to contest the Edmonton-Jasper Place constituency against incumbent Social Credit MLA John Horan. Bourcier was still an active member of the Social Credit Party, but was ejected from the party prior to the election. It was the second time Bourcier was ejected from the party, the first being in 1949 as a sitting MLA. Horan was re-elected with 36.3 per cent of the vote, while Bourcier received 1.5 per cent of the vote.
The New Democratic Party (NDP) built a campaign on the foundation of higher oil royalties, greater participation by small businesses in oil and gas resources, transition electricity utilities to provincial ownership, provide for provincial car insurance, and development of rural natural gas infrastructure.
New leader Peter Lougheed and his supporters worked tirelessly to convince candidates to run in all 65 constituencies, however the Progressive Conservatives were only able to nominate 47 candidates, two more than the Liberal Party, but less than the full slate put forward by the Social Credit Party and the New Democratic Party. Lougheed sought candidates who were already public figures, often meeting with editors of local weekly newspapers, mayors and presidents of boards of trade to inquire who the community's leaders were. As the writ came closer Lougheed and the Progressive Conservatives realized they could not defeat Social Credit, instead focusing on becoming the Official Opposition. The campaign created red, white and blue promotional materials with the slogan "Alberta Needs an Alternative", while Lougheed's own material added his personal slogan "Let's Start It in Calgary West".
Lougheed sought a public debate amongst the four party leaders, however as a long time incumbent Manning was not willing to risk a debate which could produce little benefit and much harm for the Socreds. Manning's position on the debate changed when a group of Edmonton church leaders decided to host a leaders debate, Manning, a devout Christian and host of "Back to the Bible Hour" radio broadcasts, accepted the debate. Lougheed's performance in the debate was lauded by the Edmonton Journal and was credited by biographer George Wood as boosting the Progressive Conservatives in the Edmonton area, including Don Getty's improbable victory over Social Credit Education Minister Randolph McKinnon in Strathcona West. Other media began to take notice with Maclean's stating the only politician capable of having "an outside chance of challenging Manning" was Lougheed.
During the campaign, the Progressive Conservatives called for the sale of Alberta Government Telephones.
Lougheed was subsequently elected to the legislature in Calgary-West capturing 62 per cent of the vote, and the Progressive Conservatives captured 26 per cent of the vote province-wide with five other successful candidates, and subsequently Lougheed became Leader of the Opposition. The group of elected Conservatives known as the "original six" included Calgary MLAs Len Werry, David Russell; Edmonton area MLAs Lou Hyndman and Don Getty, and the party's only rural candidate and former federal Member of Parliament Hugh Horner. The Edmonton Journal positively remarked on Lougheed's success following the 1967 election, stating Albertans had a responsible and credible alternative as opposition.
The 1967 Alberta general election had four sets of criteria for a person to be eligible to vote. A eligible voter must be a Canadian citizen or British subject prior to April 14, 1967; 19 years of age or older on voting day; a resident of Alberta for 12 months preceding April 14, 1967; and a resident of the constituency on April 14, 1967. Indigenous Albertans were eligible to vote for the first time in a provincial general election.
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<nowiki>*</nowiki> Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election
The Province of Alberta voted on its fifth provincial plebiscite. Voters were asked to endorse a proposal to adopt daylight saving time (summer time). The proposal was rejected by a very slim margin. The question was asked again in the next election, and passed at that time.
In 1948, the Government of Alberta formally set the province's time zone with the passage of The Daylight Saving Time Act, which mandated the entire province observe Mountain Standard Time, and prevented any municipality from observing daylight saving time or any other time zone. The bill came after Calgary (1946 and 1947), and Edmonton (1946) held municipal plebiscites which approved the move to daylight saving time. Edmonton under Mayor Harry Ainlay actually began to use DLT, which was forbidden under the new law.
Alberta's urban municipalities were in favour of daylight saving time and pressured the provincial government to hold a plebiscite or provide the authority for municipalities to locally observe daylight saving time. A joint motion of Calgary City Council and Edmonton City Council for a plebiscite was put to the Legislature in July 1963, with the support of Social Credit Minister and Edmonton Alderman Ethel Sylvia Wilson, without success.
A further effort in March 1964 by Liberal MLA and Calgary Alderman Bill Dickie to allow the matter to be settled by a municipal plebiscite also failed in the Legislature. In the debate, Social Credit MLA William Patterson described Daylight Saving Time as "that fandangled thing", and Minister Allen Russell Patrick stated municipal Daylight Savings Time would be difficult for tourists to understand.
A motion introduced by Bill Dickie was approved by the Legislature in February 1966 to hold a plebiscite on Daylight Saving Time. And on March 29, 1966, Minister Alfred Hooke introduced An Act to amend The Daylight Saving Time Act (Bill 75), to permit the government to hold a plebiscite on the issue.
On April 17, 1967, the Government of Alberta approved Order-in-Council 607/67 which provided the instructions for the plebiscite on Daylight Saving Time.
The prescribed question was "Do you favour Province-wide Daylight Saving Time?" with the two available responses as "Yes" and "No".
Across Canada, by 1967, each province besides Alberta and Saskatchewan had adopted Daylight Saving Time. Many Alberta businesses provided for modified summer hours, including the Alberta Stock Exchange which started at 7 a.m. to align with exchanges in Toronto and Montreal. Air Canada released a statement expressing the difficulty of distributing flight schedules with flights in Alberta.
Arguments for daylight saving time were put forward by the construction industry including the Alberta Construction Association and Edmonton Home Builders Association. The Calgary Herald editorial board published a number of editorials in advance of the plebiscite advocating for the province to observe daylight saving time, and further advocated for all of Canada to move to daylight saving time. Calgary residents and businessmen Bill Creighton and David Matthews led a campaign for daylight saving times, arguing the benefits of an additional hour of late sunlight for sports. Creighton was able to garner endorsements from the Alberta Amateur Athletics Union and other local golf, baseball, football and tennis associations. The Calgary Tourist and Convention Association endorsed daylight saving, noting that tourists perceived the province as "backwards" for not adopting the time shift. Liberal leader Michael Maccagno personally supported observing daylight saving time.
Arguments against daylight saving time were made by the group Alberta Council for Standard Time founded by Calgary lawyer and drive-in movie operator R.H. Barron. The Council ran a number of advertisements in local papers advocating for standard time, those arguments included the danger for children walking to school in the dark or twilight, and possible reductions to academic performance.
The plebiscite resulted in a narrow victory for retaining Mountain Standard Time, with 51.25 per cent of the population voting against daylight saving time. Alberta's large urban communities of Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge and Medicine Hat voted in favour, while the rural parts of the province voted against the proposal.
The new Progressive Conservative caucus continued to pressure the Social Credit government to provide individual municipalities the power to institute Daylight Saving Time. A February 1968 motion by Edmonton MLA Don Getty and Bill Dickie for municipal authority to institute daylight saving time was rejected by the Legislature.
In the aftermath of the plebiscite, the Calgary Herald blamed the defeat on "rural cousins" and the well organized Council for Standard Time, noting Calgarians voted two-to-one in favour of adopting daylight saving. The editorial board for the Calgary Herald decried the failure of the plebiscite, but predicted that the province would eventually adopt daylight saving time.
|- |Alexandra||| |Anders O. Aalborg<br/>2,880<br/>57.85% | |Kenneth E. Oates<br/>940<br/>18.88% | |Charles F. Swan<br/>304<br/>6.11% | |Lester A. Lindgren<br/>835<br/>16.77% | |||| |Anders O. Aalborg |- |Athabasca||| |Antonio Aloisio<br/>1,733<br/>45.08% | | | |Dave Hunter<br/>939<br/>24.43% | |George Opryshko<br/>1,170<br/>30.44% | |||| |Antonio Aloisio |- |Banff-Cochrane | |Roy Wilson<br/>2,066<br/>42.17% | | | | | |Jack Fraser<br/>374<br/>7.63%||| |Clarence Copithorne (Ind.)<br/>2,428<br/>49.56%||| |Francis Leo Gainer |- |Bonnyville||| |Romeo B. Lamothe<br/>2,339<br/>54.12% | | | | | |Kenneth Joseph Kerr<br/>316<br/>7.31% | |||| |Romeo B. Lamothe |- |Bow Valley-Empress||| |Fred T. Mandeville<br/>2,525<br/>49.16% | | | | | |Calvin Steinley<br/>549<br/>10.69% | | Ben M. MacLeod (Coal.)<br/>2,018<br/>39.63% || |William Delday |- |Calgary Bowness | |Charles E. Johnston<br/>6,461<br/>37.63%||| |Len F. Werry<br/>6,828<br/>39.77% | |John Donachie<br/>1,876<br/>10.93% | |Evelyn Moore<br/>1,905<br/>11.09% | |||| |Charles E. Johnston |- |Calgary Centre||| |Frederick C. Colborne<br/>3,873<br/>40.47% | |Charles Henry Cook<br/>3,359<br/>35.10% | |John Starchuk<br/>1,275<br/>13.32% | |Mrs. Margaret Hanley<br/>973<br/>10.17% | |||| |Frederick C. Colborne |- |Calgary-East||| |Albert W. Ludwig<br/>5,563<br/>50.43% | |Jim Crawford<br/>2,613<br/>23.69% | |Sandy Skoryko<br/>803<br/>7.28% | |Kurt Gebauer<br/>1,955<br/>17.72% | |||| |Albert W. Ludwig |- |Calgary-Glenmore | |Len Pearson<br/>3,840<br/>27.43% | |Ronald M. Helmer<br/>3,406<br/>24.33%||| |William Daniel Dickie<br/>5,743<br/>41.02% | |Max Wolfe<br/>950<br/>6.79% | |||| |William Daniel Dickie |- |Calgary-North||| |Robert A. Simpson<br/>4,308<br/>42.74% | |Henry M. Beaumont<br/>3,915<br/>38.84% | |Charles W. Loughridge<br/>638<br/>6.33% | |Walter H. Siewert<br/>1,157<br/>11.48% | |||| |Robert A. Simpson |- |Calgary Queens Park||| |Lea Leavitt<br/>4,943<br/>42.13% | |Eric Charles Musgreave<br/>3,820<br/>32.56% | |Darryl Raymaker<br/>1,702<br/>14.51% | |Lisa Baldwin<br/>1,220<br/>10.40% | |||| | |- |Calgary-South||| |Arthur J. Dixon<br/>5,401<br/>41.76% | |Joe Clark<br/>4,940<br/>38.19% | |Willis E. O'Leary<br/>1,146<br/>8.86% | |Jack D. Peters<br/>1,388<br/>10.73% | |||| |Arthur J. Dixon |- |Calgary Victoria Park | |Art Davis<br/>3,956<br/>35.49%||| |David J. Russell<br/>4,796<br/>43.03% | |Reginald J. Gibbs<br/>1,088<br/>9.76% | |Ted Takacs<br/>1,229<br/>11.03% | |||| | |- |Calgary-West | |Donald S. Fleming<br/>4,028<br/>28.95%||| |Peter Lougheed<br/>8,548<br/>61.43% | |Natalie Chapman<br/>402<br/>2.89% | |Allan M. Early<br/>868<br/>6.24% | |||| |Donald S. Fleming |- |Camrose||| |Chester I. Sayers<br/>3,083<br/>44.25% | |Emmett G. Mohler<br/>1,736<br/>24.91% | |G. Rod Knaut<br/>699<br/>10.03% | |Rudy P. Swanson<br/>1,412<br/>20.26% | |||| |Chester I. Sayers |- |Cardston||| |Alvin F. Bullock<br/>2,120<br/>47.11% | |Larry L. Lang<br/>1,692<br/>37.60% | | | |Leslie N. Howard<br/>104<br/>2.31% | |Robert D. Burt (Ind.)<br/>573<br/>12.73%||| |Edgar W. Hinman |- |Clover Bar||| |Walt A. Buck<br/>4,101<br/>51.35% | |Daniel F. Hollands<br/>2,215<br/>27.73% | |Kazmer D. Curry<br/>468<br/>5.86% | |Alfred O. Arnston<br/>1,175<br/>14.71% | |||| |Floyd M. Baker |- |Cypress||| |Harry E. Strom<br/>2,577<br/>76.65% | | | | | |William George McFall<br/>769<br/>22.87% | |||| |Harry E. Strom |- |Drumheller-Gleichen||| |Gordon Edward Taylor<br/>4,018<br/>67.46% | |Tom Hanson<br/>1,579<br/>26.51% | | | |Garry B. Law<br/>345<br/>5.79% | |||| |Gordon Edward Taylor |- |Dunvegan||| |Ernest L. Lee<br/>1,280<br/>41.52% | | | | | |Phil Thompson<br/>1,080<br/>35.03% | | John A. Hammond (Coal.)<br/>547<br/>18.82% || |Ernest L. Lee |- |Edmonton North||| |Ethel Sylvia Wilson<br/>4,698<br/>38.21% | |Tony Thibaudeau<br/>3,461<br/>28.15% | |L. John Corbiere<br/>1,303<br/>10.60% | |Gordon S.B. Wright<br/>2,763<br/>22.47% | |||| | |- |Edmonton-Centre||| |Ambrose Holowach<br/>3,146<br/>39.12% | |Harold W. Veale<br/>2,558<br/>31.81% | |Joseph A. Tannous<br/>747<br/>9.29% | |Henry Tomaschuk<br/>1,313<br/>16.33% | |Pat G.A. O'Hara (Ind.)<br/>194<br/>2.41%||| |Ambrose Holowach |- |Edmonton-Jasper Place||| |John William Horan<br/>4,206<br/>36.34% | |Gerard Joseph Amerongen<br/>3,000<br/>25.92% | |Barry Vogel<br/>1,851<br/>15.99% | |Tom Hennessey<br/>2,210<br/>19.09% | |Albert V. Bourcier (Ind. SoCred)<br/>176 || |John William Horan |- |Edmonton-North East||| |Lou W. Heard<br/>5,052<br/>35.02% | |Alan T. Cooke<br/>3,616<br/>25.06% | |Peter Achtem<br/>1,418<br/>9.83% | |Ivor G. Dent<br/>4,276<br/>29.64% | |||| |Lou W. Heard |- |Edmonton-North West||| |Edgar H. Gerhart<br/>4,674<br/>36.10% | |Paul Norris<br/>4,205<br/>32.48% | |Thomas Leia<br/>1,173<br/>9.06% | |Dave Belland<br/>2,664<br/>20.58% | |Oscar A. Green (Ind.)<br/>188<br/>1.45%||| |Edgar H. Gerhart |- |Edmonton-Norwood||| |William Tomyn<br/>3,450<br/>43.01% | |Ronald W. Downey<br/>2,023<br/>25.22% | | | |Grant W. Notley<br/>2,433<br/>30.33% | |||| |William Tomyn |- |Edmonton-West | |William A. Johnson<br/>4,016<br/>32.46%||| |Lou Hyndman<br/>4,753<br/>38.42% | |J. Bernard Feehan<br/>2,316<br/>18.72% | |Thomas C. Pocklington<br/>1,254<br/>10.14% | |||| |Stanley Gordon Geldart |- |Edson | |Arthur O. Jorgensen<br/>2,372<br/>34.59% | |||| |William A. Switzer<br/>2,803<br/>40.87% | |C. Neil Reimer<br/>1,656<br/>24.15% | |||| |William Switzer |- |Grande Prairie||| |Ira McLaughlin<br/>4,847<br/>55.38% | | | |George M. Repka<br/>1,132<br/>12.93% | |Alan Bush<br/>2,748<br/>31.40% | |||| |Ira McLaughlin |- |Grouard||| |Roy Ells<br/>3,363<br/>51.02% | | | |Gunnar Walhstrom<br/>985<br/>14.94% | |Stan Daniels<br/>2,207<br/>33.49% | |||| |Roy Ells |- |Hand Hills-Acadia||| |Clinton Keith French<br/>2,675<br/>50.17% | |Bill Cross<br/>2,140<br/>40.14% | | | |Ralph G. Jorgenson<br/>504<br/>9.45% | |||| |Clinton Keith French |- |Lac La Biche | |Harry Lobay<br/>1,613<br/>34.22% | |||| |Michael Maccagno<br/>2,212<br/>46.93% | |Fred Ustina<br/>758<br/>16.08% | |||| |Michael Maccagno |- |Lac Ste. Anne | |William Patterson<br/>1,731<br/>30.14%||| |Hugh F. Horner<br/>2,573<br/>44.80% | |Raymond Mills<br/>723<br/>12.59% | |Swen Symington<br/>674<br/>11.74% | |||| |William Patterson |- |Lacombe||| |Allan Russell Patrick<br/>2,690<br/>49.11% | |John William Cookson<br/>1,999<br/>36.49% | | | |Glen R. Nelson<br/>777<br/>14.18% | |||| |Allan Russell Patrick |- |Leduc||| |James D. Henderson<br/>2,193<br/>45.38% | |Emanuel Prycz<br/>1,206<br/>24.96% | |Russell Olekshy<br/>383<br/>7.93% | |Alex A. Sklarenko<br/>1,021<br/>21.13% | |||| |James D. Henderson |- |Lethbridge||| |John C. Landeryou<br/>6,155<br/>44.27% | |Wilfred Bowns<br/>4,128<br/>29.69% | |John I. Boras<br/>2,237<br/>16.09% | |Klaas Buijert<br/>1,335<br/>9.60% | |||| |John C. Landeryou |- |Little Bow||| |Raymond Albert Speaker<br/>3,367<br/>68.25% | | | | | |John K. Head<br/>572<br/>11.60% | |Arthur W. Ulrich (Ind.)<br/>978<br/>19.83%||| |Raymond Albert Speaker |- |Macleod||| |Leighton E. Buckwell<br/>2,822<br/>51.68% | |George Whitehead<br/>1,773<br/>32.47% | |Melba J. Cochlan<br/>149<br/>2.73% | |Sid J. Cornish<br/>673<br/>12.32% | |||| |James Hartley |- |Medicine Hat||| |Harry C. Leinweber<br/>4,390<br/>39.96% | |James Horsman<br/>2,701<br/>24.59% | |Roy Weidermann<br/>2,025<br/>18.43% | |Ted. J. Grimm<br/>1,819<br/>16.56% | |||| |Harry C. Leinweber |- |Okotoks-High River||| |Edward P. Benoit<br/>2,289<br/>48.50% | |Thomas E. Hughes<br/>2,097<br/>44.43% | |Ron A. Baker<br/>88<br/>1.86% | |Georgina M. Smith<br/>212<br/>4.49% | |||| |Edward P. Benoit |- |Olds-Didsbury||| |Robert Curtis Clark<br/>4,052<br/>65.02% | | | |Stan Bell<br/>1,129<br/>18.12% | |Eva Banta<br/>485<br/>7.78% | |Chas. Purvis (Ind. Con.)<br/>547<br/>8.80% || |Robert Curtis Clark |- |Peace River||| |Robert H. Wiebe<br/>2,860<br/>53.49% | | | | | |Harry Reinders<br/>1,338<br/>25.02% | |Edward R. Whitney (Ind.)<br/>1,149<br/>21.49%||| |Euell F. Montgomery |- |Pembina||| |Adam Carl Muller<br/>2,866<br/>47.23% | |Edward G. Samuel<br/>2,098<br/>34.57% | |Edward P. MacCallum<br/>484<br/>7.98% | |George A.E. Garnett<br/>576<br/>9.49% | |||| |Robin D. Jorgenson |- |Pincher Creek-Crowsnest||| |Charles Duncan Drain<br/>2,345<br/>45.78% | |Alexander B. Wells<br/>722<br/>14.10% | |F. Benton Murphy<br/>255<br/>4.98% | |Garth A. Turcott<br/>1,772<br/>34.60% | |||| |Garth Turcott |- |Ponoka||| |Neville S. Roper<br/>3,286<br/>62.04% | | | |Derek R. Broughton<br/>514<br/>9.70% | |Ed Nelson<br/>1,464<br/>27.64% | |||| |Glen F. Johnston |- |Red Deer||| |William Kenneth Ure<br/>6,166<br/>46.42% | |James L. Foster<br/>4,628<br/>34.84% | |Robert H. Scammell<br/>636<br/>4.79% | |Ethel Taylor<br/>1,799<br/>13.54% | |||| |William Kenneth Ure |- |Redwater||| |Michael Senych<br/>1,588<br/>43.42% | |Basil Zailo<br/>1,314<br/>35.93% | | | |Norman T. Flack<br/>737<br/>20.15% | |||| |Michael Senych |- |Rocky Mountain House||| |Alfred J. Hooke<br/>2,538<br/>53.21% | | | | | |Gilbert H.C. Farthing<br/>792<br/>16.60% | |Will Sinclair (Ind.)<br/>1,406<br/>29.48%||| |Alfred J. Hooke |- |Sedgewick-Coronation||| |Jack C. Hillman<br/>3,470<br/>59.41% | |Ernie Moore<br/>1,103<br/>18.88% | |Eugene F. Price<br/>547<br/>9.36% | |Arthur C. Bunney<br/>680<br/>11.64% | |||| |Jack C. Hillman |- |Spirit River||| |Adolph O. Fimrite<br/>2,627<br/>56.12% | | | |John L. Listhaeghe<br/>413<br/>8.82% | |Bert M. Strand<br/>1,634<br/>34.91% | |||| |Adolph O. Fimrite |- |St. Albert||| |Keith Everitt<br/>2,824<br/>35.44% | |Stanley M. Walker<br/>1,469<br/>18.43% | |Robert A. Russell<br/>2,297<br/>28.82% | |Norman Dolman<br/>1,339<br/>16.80% | |||| |Keith Everitt |- |St. Paul||| |Raymond Reierson<br/>2,275<br/>44.29% | | | |Armand Lamothe<br/>1,489<br/>28.99% | |Pierre M. Vallee<br/>788<br/>15.34% | |Leroy P. Christensen (Ind. P.C.)<br/>571<br/>11.12%||| |Raymond Reierson |- |Stettler||| |Galen C. Norris<br/>2,659<br/>54.88% | |Bob McKnight<br/>1,461<br/>30.15% | | | |Morton H. Neilson<br/>635<br/>13.11% | |||| |Galen C. Norris |- |Stony Plain||| |Ralph A. Jespersen<br/>2,316<br/>36.25% | |Frank Flanagan<br/>1,670<br/>26.14% | | | |Maurice R. McCullagh<br/>1,855<br/>29.03% | |Cornelia R. Wood (Ind. SoCred)<br/>517<br/>8.13% || |Cornelia R. Wood |- |Strathcona Centre||| |Joseph Donovan Ross<br/>4,052<br/>40.50% | |Larry Boddy<br/>2,493<br/>24.92% | |Ian Nicoll<br/>1,794<br/>17.93% | |Gordon E. Weese<br/>1,627<br/>16.26% | |||| |Joseph Donovan Ross |- |Strathcona East||| |Ernest C. Manning<br/>6,314<br/>49.70% | |C. Jack Thorpe<br/>2,976<br/>23.43% | |Percy Marshall<br/>1,458<br/>11.48% | |Ray Field<br/>1,909<br/>15.03% | |||| |Ernest C. Manning |- |Strathcona South||| |Joe G. Radstaak<br/>3,934<br/>40.73% | |Oscar H. Kruger<br/>2,594<br/>26.86% | |John Kloster<br/>968<br/>10.02% | |Bill McLean<br/>2,123<br/>21.98% | |||| | |- |Strathcona West | |Randolph H. McKinnon<br/>5,153<br/>36.87%||| |Donald Ross Getty<br/>6,764<br/>48.39% | |Edmund H. Leger<br/>890<br/>6.37% | |Frank Kuzemski<br/>1,115<br/>7.98% | |||| |Randolph H. McKinnon |- |Taber-Warner||| |Douglas Miller<br/>3,451<br/>61.24% | |Emil D. Gundlock<br/>1,170<br/>20.76% | |Theodore Rudd<br/>683<br/>12.12% | |Dick Verwoerd<br/>292<br/>5.18% | |||| |Leonard C. Halmrast |- |Three Hills||| |Raymond Ratzlaff<br/>2,762<br/>50.48% | |Gordon Leslie<br/>1,113<br/>20.34% | |James A. Lore<br/>1,317<br/>24.07% | |George E. Pieper<br/>268<br/>4.90% | |||| |Roy Davidson |- |Vegreville-Bruce||| |Alex W. Gordey<br/>2,497<br/>44.41% | |Mike W. Kawulych<br/>1,742<br/>30.98% | |Wilfrid L. Horton<br/>345<br/>6.14% | |Albin Lukawiecki<br/>1,010<br/>17.96% | |||| |Alex W. Gordey |- |Vermilion||| |Ashley H. Cooper<br/>2,545<br/>57.80% | |Hilda Wilson<br/>1,199<br/>27.23% | | | |Harry E. Yaremchuk<br/>642<br/>14.58% | |||| |Ashley H. Cooper |- |Wainwright||| |Henry A. Ruste<br/>3,807<br/>82.15% | | | | | |Glenn Valleau<br/>789<br/>17.03% | |||| |Henry A. Ruste |- |Wetaskiwin||| |Albert W. Strohschein<br/>2,879<br/>45.67% | |Dallas Schmidt<br/>2,408<br/>38.20% | | | |Robert P. Christensen<br/>1,000<br/>15.86% | |||| |Albert W. Strohschein |- |Willingdon-Two Hills||| |Nicholas A. Melnyk<br/>2,160<br/>62.25% | | | | | |Louis Souter<br/>1,298<br/>37.41% | |||| |Nicholas A. Melnyk |-