1930 Alberta general election

1930 Alberta general election

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63 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta 32 seats were needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party   Leader John E. Brownlee John W. McDonald Party United Farmers Liberal Leader since November 23, 1925 March 27, 1930 Leader's seat Ponoka ran in unknown Last election 43 seats, 39.7% 7 seats, 26.2% Seats before 44 6 Seats won 39 11 Seat change 5 5 Popular vote 74,187[1] 46,275 Percentage 39.4% 24.6% Swing 0.3% 1.6%   Third party Fourth party   Leader David M. Duggan Fred J. White Party Conservative Dominion Labor Leader since 1930 between 1921 & 1926 Leader's seat Edmonton Calgary Last election 4 seats, 22.1% 5 seats, 7.8% Seats before 4 5 Seats won 6 4 Seat change 2 1 Popular vote 27,954 14,354 Percentage 14.8% 7.6% Swing 7.3% 0.2%
Premier before election John E. Brownlee United Farmers Premier after election John E. Brownlee United Farmers

The 1930 Alberta general election was held on June 19, 1930, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.

The United Farmers of Alberta won election to a third term in government, and John E. Brownlee continued as premier.

This provincial election, like the previous election (1926), used district-level proportional representation (Single transferable voting) to elect the MLAs of Edmonton and Calgary. (Medicine Hat no longer had multiple seats.) City-wide districts were used to elect multiple MLAs in the two main cities.

All the other MLAs were elected in single-member districts through Instant-runoff voting.

Th United Farmers again ran one candidate in Edmonton and won that seat and did not run in Calgary.

Altogether in the cities the UFA won just one seat in the cities (in Edmonton) but won a great share of the rural seats, by securing the support of a majority of votes in each district, as required under IRV (AKA Alternative Voting).

The effect of STV in the cities was that candidates of four parties - UFA, Conservative, Liberal and Labour - were elected in Edmonton reflecting votes cast.

STV in Calgary similarly produced mixed representation reflecting votes cast. Candidates of the Conservative, Liberal and Labour parties were elected there.^[2]