16th Alberta Legislature

16th Alberta Legislature
16th Alberta Legislature
Majority parliament
February 15, 1968 – July 22, 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 ; February 6, 1952 – September 8, 2022
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 August 06, 2025

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.


District	Member	Party	First elected/ previously elected
Alexandra	Anders Aalborg	Social Credit	1948
Athabasca	Antonio Aloisio	Social Credit	1952, 1959
Banff-Cochrane	Clarence Copithorne	Independent	1967
Banff-Cochrane	Clarence Copithorne	Progressive Conservative	1967
Bonnyville	Romeo Lamothe	Social Credit	1961
Bow Valley-Empress	Fred Mandeville	Social Credit	1967
Calgary Bowness	Len Werry	Progressive Conservative	1967
Calgary Centre	Frederick Colborne	Social Credit	1945
Calgary East	Albert Ludwig	Social Credit	1959
Calgary Glenmore	Bill Dickie	Liberal	1963
Calgary Glenmore	Bill Dickie	Progressive Conservative	1963
Calgary North	Robert A. Simpson	Social Credit	1963
Calgary Queens Park	Lee Leavitt	Social Credit	1952,^[a] 1963
Calgary South	Arthur Dixon	Social Credit	1952
Calgary West	Peter Lougheed	Progressive Conservative	1967
Calgary Victoria Park	David Russell	Progressive Conservative	1967
Camrose	Chester Sayers	Social Credit	1941
Cardston	Alvin Bullock	Social Credit	1967
Clover Bar	Walt Buck	Social Credit	1967
Cypress	Harry Strom	Social Credit	1955
Drumheller-Gleichen	Gordon Taylor	Social Credit	1940
Dunvegan	Ernest Lee	Social Credit	1963
Edmonton Centre	Ambrose Holowach	Social Credit	1959
Edmonton Jasper Place	John Horan	Social Credit	1963
Edmonton North	Ethel Wilson	Social Credit	1959
Edmonton North East	Lou Heard	Social Credit	1948, 1959
Edmonton North West	Edgar Gerhart	Social Credit	1952
Edmonton Norwood	William Tomyn	Social Credit	1935,^[b] 1959
Edmonton West	Lou Hyndman	Progressive Conservative	1967
Edson	William Switzer	Liberal	1965
Edson	Robert Dowling (1969)	Progressive Conservative	1969
Grande Prairie	Ira McLaughlin	Social Credit	1944
Grouard	Roy Ells	Social Credit	1959
Hand Hills-Acadia	Clinton French	Social Credit	1959
Lac La Biche	Michael Maccagno	Liberal	1955
Lac La Biche	Damase Bouvier (1968)	Social Credit	1968
Lac Ste. Anne	Hugh Horner	Progressive Conservative	1967
Lacombe	Allen Patrick	Social Credit	1952
Leduc	James Henderson	Social Credit	1963
Lethbridge	John Landeryou	Social Credit	1944
Little Bow	Raymond Speaker	Social Credit	1963
Macleod	Leighton Buckwell	Social Credit	1967
Medicine Hat	Harry Leinweber	Social Credit	1961
Okotoks-High River	Edward Benoit	Social Credit	1963
Olds-Didsbury	Robert Clark	Social Credit	1960
Peace River	Robert Wiebe	Social Credit	1967
Pembina	Carl Muller	Social Credit	1967
Pincher Creek-Crowsnest	Charles Drain	Social Credit	1967
Ponoka	Neville Roper	Social Credit	1967
Red Deer	William Ure	Social Credit	1959
Redwater	Michael Senych	Social Credit	1963
Rocky Mountain House	Alfred Hooke	Social Credit	1935
Sedgewick-Coronation	Jack Hillman	Social Credit	1952
Spirit River	Adolph Fimrite	Social Credit	1952
St. Albert	Keith Everitt	Social Credit	1959
St. Paul	Raymond Reierson	Social Credit	1952
Stettler	Galen Norris	Social Credit	1956
Stony Plain	Ralph Jespersen	Social Credit	1967
Strathcona Centre	Joseph Donovan Ross	Social Credit	1952
Strathcona East	Ernest Manning	Social Credit	1935
Strathcona East	William Yurko (1969)	Progressive Conservative	1969
Strathcona South	Gerrit Radstaak	Social Credit	1967
Strathcona West	Don Getty	Progressive Conservative	1967
Taber-Warner	Douglas Miller	Social Credit	1967
Three Hills	Raymond Ratzlaff	Social Credit	1967
Vegreville-Bruce	Alex Gordey	Social Credit	1959
Vermilion	Ashley Cooper	Social Credit	1959
Wainwright	Henry Ruste	Social Credit	1955
Wetaskiwin	Albert Strohschein	Social Credit	1955
Willingdon-Two Hills	Nicholas Melnyk	Social Credit	1959

Notes

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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[2] Banff-Cochrane

[3] Willingdon

[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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