Alban Erskine MacLellan (February 9,1902 –December 20,1968) was a railway foreman and a provincial politician from Alberta,Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 to 1940 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government.
MacLellan ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature as a Social Credit candidate in the electoral district of Innisfail for the 1935 Alberta general election. He won a strong first ballot majority defeating three other candidates to pick up the seat for his party. [1]
The 1940 boundary redistribution saw the Innisfail electoral district get abolished,along with other districts whose representatives had gone against the Social Credit party line. [2] MacLellan ran for nomination as an Independent Progressive candidate and was nominated at a convention on July 19,1939. [3] He stood for a second term in the 1940 Alberta general election in the Red Deer provincial electoral district and was defeated finishing in last place on the first vote count and getting eliminated. He lost to former member of Parliament and Independent candidate Alfred Speakman. [4]
MacLellan made an attempt to run for a seat to the House of Commons of Canada in the federal electoral district of Red Deer in the 1945 Canadian federal election as a Co-operative Commonwealth candidate. He was defeated by incumbent Frederick Shaw finishing in third place in the field of five candidates. [5]
The Alberta Alliance was a right-wing provincial political party in Alberta,Canada. Many of its members were supporters of the defunct Canadian Alliance federal political party and its predecessor,the Reform Party of Canada. Members also joined from similar provincial fringe parties like the Alberta First Party,the Alberta Party and Social Credit. Alliance supporters tended to view themselves as "true conservatives," and believed the Progressive Conservative governments of Premiers Ralph Klein and Ed Stelmach were out of touch with the needs of Albertans.
The 1940 Alberta general election was held on March 21,1940,to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
The 1944 Alberta general election was held on August 8,1944 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
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Red Deer was a provincial electoral district in Alberta,Canada,mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1905 to 1986.
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