 Northwest Territories electoral district | |
|---|---|
| Defunct territorial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories |
| District created | 1883 |
| District abolished | 1905 |
| First contested | 1883 by-election |
| Last contested | 1902 general election |
Edmonton was a territorial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Northwest Territories, Canada.
The riding was created by royal proclamation in 1883, the second district to elect a representative to the North-West Legislative Assembly, and the first within the Alberta provisional district.
In 1885 the riding of St. Albert was split off from Edmonton's northwestern area, but in 1888 two ridings were combined again, with Edmonton briefly becoming a two-member district. St. Albert was re-established in 1891, and Edmonton again elected only one member. Strathcona was also split off from Edmonton's southern part in 1902.
When Alberta became a province in 1905, the district continued on as Edmonton (Alberta).
| Assembly | Years | Seat 1 | Seat 2 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member [1] | Party | Member | Party | ||||
| 1st Council | 1883-1885 | Frank Oliver | Independent | — | |||
| 1885-1888 | Herbert Wilson | ||||||
| 1st | 1888-1891 | Frank Oliver | Independent | ||||
| 2nd | 1891-1894 | Frank Oliver | — | ||||
| 3rd | 1894-1896 | ||||||
| 1896 | Vacant | ||||||
| 1896-1898 | Matthew McCauley | Independent | |||||
| 4th | 1898-1902 | ||||||
| 5th | 1902-1905 | Richard Secord | |||||
| See Edmonton (Alberta) 1905-1909 | |||||||
Edmonton elected its first representative in the North-West Assembly, Edmonton Bulletin founder Frank Oliver, in a by-election in 1883. Although the Legislative Council was not dissolved, elections were held in most of the North-West Territories in 1885, and Oliver was defeated by local physician and businessman Herbert Charles Wilson, who became speaker of the Assembly.
The first general election of the territory was held in 1888, after the dissolution of the Legislative Council. This was the only election in which Edmonton was a double-member district, and both Wilson and Oliver were elected. Wilson retired from politics when the Assembly was dissolved in 1891.
As Edmonton was now a single-member district again, Oliver remained MLA for another five years, with no challengers in the 1891 or 1894 elections. He resigned to run for the House of Commons seat for Alberta, which he successfully captured.
The resulting by-election was a close race between former Edmonton mayor Matthew McCauley and the future premier of Alberta Alexander Rutherford, which McCauley won. Both men contested the seat again in the general election of 1898, but McCauley triumphed a second time.
In 1902, however, McCauley was defeated by former alderman Richard Secord. While MLA, Secord challenged Frank Oliver for his House of Commons seat in the 1904 federal election, but was defeated. He did not seek re-election when Alberta was created in 1905 (although both Rutherford and McCauley went on to become MLAs in the new province).
| North-West Territories territorial by-election, May 29, 1883 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Independent | Frank Oliver | 155 | 58.94% | |||||
| Independent | Francis Lamoureux | 94 | 35.74% | |||||
| Independent | Stewart D. Mulkins | 14 | 5.32% | |||||
| Total votes | 263 | |||||||
Source(s) "North-West Territories: Council and Legislative Assembly, 1876-1905" (PDF). Saskatchewan Archives. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-09-30. | ||||||||
| 1885 North-West Territories general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Independent | Herbert Charles Wilson | 120 | 51.95% | |||||
| Independent | Frank Oliver | 111 | 48.05% | |||||
| Total votes | 231 | |||||||
Source(s) "North-West Territories: Council and Legislative Assembly, 1876-1905" (PDF). Saskatchewan Archives. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-09-30. | ||||||||
| 1888 North-West Territories general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Elected | ||||
| Independent | Herbert Charles Wilson | 395 | 32.54% |  | ||||
| Independent | Frank Oliver | 350 | 28.83% | | ||||
| Independent | Samuel Cunningham | 319 | 26.28% | |||||
| Independent | Daniel Maloney | 150 | 12.35% | |||||
| Total votes | 1,214 | |||||||
Source(s) "North-West Territories: Council and Legislative Assembly, 1876-1905" (PDF). Saskatchewan Archives. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-09-30. | ||||||||
| 1891 North-West Territories general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| Independent | Frank Oliver | Acclaimed | ||||||
Source(s) "North-West Territories: Council and Legislative Assembly, 1876-1905" (PDF). Saskatchewan Archives. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-09-30. | ||||||||
| 1894 North-West Territories general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| Independent | Frank Oliver | Acclaimed | ||||||
Source(s) "North-West Territories: Council and Legislative Assembly, 1876-1905" (PDF). Saskatchewan Archives. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-09-30. | ||||||||
| North-West Territories territorial by-election, August 4, 1896 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Independent | Matthew McCauley | 567 | 58.64% | |||||
| Independent | Alexander Cameron Rutherford | 400 | 41.36% | |||||
| Total votes | 967 | |||||||
Source(s) "North-West Territories: Council and Legislative Assembly, 1876-1905" (PDF). Saskatchewan Archives. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-09-30. | ||||||||
| 1898 North-West Territories general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Independent | Matthew McCauley | 582 | 48.83% | |||||
| Independent | Alexander Cameron Rutherford | 498 | 41.77% | |||||
| Independent | Harry Havelock Robertson | 112 | 9.40% | |||||
| Total votes | 1,192 | |||||||
Source(s) "North-West Territories: Council and Legislative Assembly, 1876-1905" (PDF). Saskatchewan Archives. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-09-30. | ||||||||
| 1902 North-West Territories general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Independent | Richard Secord | 527 | 47.96% | |||||
| Independent | Matthew McCauley | 519 | 46.97% | |||||
| Independent | Don Brox | 59 | 5.07% | |||||
| Total votes | 1,105 | |||||||
Source(s) "North-West Territories: Council and Legislative Assembly, 1876-1905" (PDF). Saskatchewan Archives. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-09-30. | ||||||||
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