16th Alberta Legislature

16th Alberta Legislature
16th Alberta Legislature
Majority parliament
15 February 1968 – 22 July 1971
Parliament leaders
Premier	Ernest Charles Manning ; May 31, 1943 – December 12, 1968
	Harry Strom ; December 12, 1968 – September 10, 1971
Cabinets	Manning cabinet ; Strom cabinet
Leader of the; Opposition	Peter Lougheed ; February 15, 1968 – April 27, 1971
Party caucuses
Government	Social Credit Party
Opposition	Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
Recognized	Alberta Liberal Party
Legislative Assembly
Speaker of the; Assembly	Arthur J. Dixon ; March 26, 1963 – March 1, 1972
Government; House Leader	Frederick C. Colborne ; December 18, 1968 – February 10, 1971
	Edgar Gerhart ; February 11, 1971 – April 27, 1971
Members	65 MLA seats
Sovereign
Monarch	Elizabeth II ; 6 February 1952 –present
Lieutenant; Governor	Hon. Grant MacEwan ; January 26, 1966 – July 2, 1974
Sessions
	1st Session; February 15, 1968 – May 2, 1968
	2nd Session; February 13, 1969 – May 7, 1969
	3rd Session; January 29, 1970 – April 15, 1970
	4th Session; February 11, 1971 – April 27, 1971
<15th	17th>

Last updated October 29, 2022

The 16th Alberta Legislative Assembly was in session from February 15, 1968, to April 27, 1971, with the membership of the assembly determined by the results of the 1967 Alberta general election held on May 23, 1967. The Legislature officially resumed on February 15, 1968, and continued until the fourth session was prorogued on April 27, 1971, and dissolved on July 22, 1971, prior to the 1971 Alberta general election.^[1]

Alberta's sixteenth government was controlled by the majority Social Credit Party for the ninth time, led by Premier Ernest Manning, Alberta's longest serving Premier who would retire part way through the session, and be replaced by Harry Strom. The Official Opposition was led by Peter Lougheed of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, who would go on to win the 1971 election and become the 9th Premier of Alberta. The Speaker was Arthur J. Dixon.

Party standings after the 16th General Election

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Standings changes in the 16th Assembly

Number of members per party by date		1967	1968			1969				1971
Number of members per party by date		May 23	May 27	Aug 20	Dec 11	Feb 10	Jun 30	Oct 28	Nov 23	Apr 15
	Social Credit	55		56	55
	Progressive Conservative	6				7		8	9	10
	Liberal	3	2				1		0
	Independent	1								0
	Total members	65	64	65	64	65	64	65
	Vacant	0	1	0	1	0	1	0
	Government Majority	45	46	47	46	45	46	45


Date	Member Name	District	Party	Reason
May 27, 1968	Michael Maccagno	Lac La Biche	Liberal	Resigned to run in the 1968 federal election
August 20, 1968	Damase Bouvier	Lac La Biche	Social Credit	Elected in a by-election
December 11, 1968	Ernest Manning	Strathcona East	Social Credit	Resigned
February 10, 1969	William Yurko	Strathcona East	Progressive Conservative	Elected in a by-election
June 30, 1969	William Switzer	Edson	Liberal	Died
October 28, 1969	Robert Dowling	Edson	Progressive Conservative	Elected in a by-election
November 23, 1969	Bill Dickie	Calgary Glenmore	Progressive Conservative	Crossed the floor from Liberals to the Progressive Conservatives
April 15, 1971	Clarence Copithorne	Banff-Cochrane	Progressive Conservative	Joined the Progressive Conservative caucus

Members elected

For complete electoral history, see individual districts.

16th Alberta Legislative Assembly
District		Member	Party
	Alexandra	Anders Aalborg	Social Credit
	Athabasca	Antonio Aloisio	Social Credit
	Banff-Cochrane	Clarence Copithorne	Independent
	Bonnyville	Romeo Lamothe	Social Credit
	Bow Valley-Empress	Fred Mandeville	Social Credit
	Calgary Bowness	Len Werry	Progressive Conservative
	Calgary Centre	Frederick Colborne	Social Credit
	Calgary East	Albert Ludwig	Social Credit
	Calgary Glenmore	Bill Dickie	Liberal
	Calgary North	Robert A. Simpson	Social Credit
	Calgary Queens Park	Lee Leavitt	Social Credit
	Calgary South	Arthur Dixon	Social Credit
	Calgary West	Peter Lougheed	Progressive Conservative
	Calgary Victoria Park	David Russell	Progressive Conservative
	Camrose	Chester Sayers	Social Credit
	Cardston	Alvin Bullock	Social Credit
	Clover Bar	Walt Buck	Social Credit
	Cypress	Harry Strom	Social Credit
	Drumheller-Gleichen	Gordon Taylor	Social Credit
	Dunvegan	Ernest Lee	Social Credit
	Edmonton Centre	Ambrose Holowach	Social Credit
	Edmonton Jasper Place	John Horan	Social Credit
	Edmonton North	Ethel Wilson	Social Credit
	Edmonton North East	Lou Heard	Social Credit
	Edmonton North West	Edgar Gerhart	Social Credit
	Edmonton Norwood	William Tomyn	Social Credit
	Edmonton West	Lou Hyndman	Progressive Conservative
	Edson	William Switzer	Liberal
	Grande Prairie	Ira McLaughlin	Social Credit
	Grouard	Roy Ells	Social Credit
	Hand Hills-Acadia	Clinton French	Social Credit
	Lac La Biche	Michael Maccagno	Liberal
	Lac Ste. Anne	Hugh Horner	Progressive Conservative
	Lacombe	Allen Patrick	Social Credit
	Leduc	James Henderson	Social Credit
	Lethbridge	John Landeryou	Social Credit
	Little Bow	Raymond Speaker	Social Credit
	Macleod	Leighton Buckwell	Social Credit
	Medicine Hat	Harry Leinweber	Social Credit
	Okotoks-High River	Edward Benoit	Social Credit
	Olds-Didsbury	Robert Clark	Social Credit
	Peace River	Robert Wiebe	Social Credit
	Pembina	Carl Muller	Social Credit
	Pincher Creek-Crowsnest	Charles Drain	Social Credit
	Ponoka	Neville Roper	Social Credit
	Red Deer	William Ure	Social Credit
	Redwater	Michael Senych	Social Credit
	Rocky Mountain House	Alfred Hooke	Social Credit
	Sedgewick-Coronation	Jack Hillman	Social Credit
	Spirit River	Adolph Fimrite	Social Credit
	St. Albert	Keith Everitt	Social Credit
	St. Paul	Raymond Reierson	Social Credit
	Stettler	Galen Norris	Social Credit
	Stony Plain	Ralph Jespersen	Social Credit
	Strathcona Centre	Joseph Donovan Ross	Social Credit
	Strathcona East	Ernest Manning	Social Credit
	Strathcona South	Gerrit Radstaak	Social Credit
	Strathcona West	Don Getty	Progressive Conservative
	Taber-Warner	Douglas Miller	Social Credit
	Three Hills	Raymond Ratzlaff	Social Credit
	Vegreville-Bruce	Alex Gordey	Social Credit
	Vermilion	Ashley Cooper	Social Credit
	Wainwright	Henry Ruste	Social Credit
	Wetaskiwin	Albert Strohschein	Social Credit
	Willingdon-Two Hills	Nicholas Melnyk	Social Credit

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References

↑ Perry, Sandra E.; Footz, Valerie L. (2006). Massolin, Philip A. (ed.). A Higher Duty: Speakers of the Legislative Assemblies. Edmonton, AB: Legislative Assembly of Alberta. p. 499. ISBN 0-9689217-3-6 . Retrieved August 9, 2020.

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[1] Perry, Sandra E.; Footz, Valerie L. (2006). Massolin, Philip A. (ed.). A Higher Duty: Speakers of the Legislative Assemblies. Edmonton, AB: Legislative Assembly of Alberta. p. 499. ISBN 0-9689217-3-6 . Retrieved August 9, 2020.

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