 Northwest Territories electoral district | |
|---|---|
| Defunct federal electoral district | |
| Legislature | House of Commons |
| District created | 1886 |
| District abolished | 1907 |
| First contested | 1887 |
| Last contested | 1904 |
Alberta (Provisional District) was a federal electoral district in the Northwest Territories, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1887 to 1908.
The Alberta Provisional District was created in 1886 when the Northwest Territories gained representation in the House of Commons. It had the same boundaries of the District of Alberta, a subdivision of the Northwest Territories. In 1904, Edmonton and Calgary got their own MPs and the Alberta riding continued under the same name but only covering the southern part of Alberta district outside Calgary. [1]
In 1907, the Alberta riding was redistributed into Macleod and Medicine Hat.
This riding elected the following members of Parliament:
| Alberta (Provisional District) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parliament | Years | Member | Party | |
| Riding created | ||||
| 6th | 1887–1891 | Donald Watson Davis | Conservative | |
| 7th | 1891–1896 | |||
| 8th | 1896–1900 | Frank Oliver | Liberal | |
| 9th | 1900–1904 | |||
| 10th | 1904–1908 | John Herron | Liberal–Conservative | |
| Riding dissolved into Macleod and Medicine Hat | ||||
| 1887 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Conservative | Donald Watson Davis | 1,037 | 50.46 | |||||
| Independent Conservative | Richard Hardisty | 783 | 38.10 | |||||
| Liberal | James Delamere Lafferty | 235 | 11.44 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 2,055 | 100.00 | ||||||
| 1891 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Conservative | Donald Watson Davis | 2,742 | 74.57 | |||||
| Conservative | James A. Reilly | 935 | 25.43 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 3,677 | 100.00 | ||||||
| 1896 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Liberal | Frank Oliver | 3,647 | 55.42 | |||||
| Conservative | Thomas Cochrane | 2,863 | 43.50 | |||||
| Independent | Simon Clark | 71 | 1.08 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 6,581 | 100.00 | ||||||
| 1900 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Liberal | Frank Oliver | 5,203 | 56.36 | |||||
| Conservative | Richard Bennett | 4,029 | 43.64 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 9,232 | 100.00 | ||||||
| 1904 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Liberal–Conservative | John Herron | 1,755 | 51.14 | |||||
| Liberal | Malcolm McKenzie | 1,677 | 48.86 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 3,432 | 100.00 | ||||||
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