1921 Alberta general election

The Alberta general election of 1921 was the fifth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. It was held on July 18 1921 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.

The Liberal Party of Charles Stewart, which had governed the province since its creation in 1905, was defeated unexpectedly by the United Farmers of Alberta, an agricultural lobby organization that was contesting its first elections. The UFA had no leader, and its president, Henry Wise Wood, declined to take the leadership and become Premier. The UFA's third choice, its vice president, Herbert Greenfield, agreed to do so, and sought election to the legislature in a by-election.

The Liberals had, in fact, won a larger share of the popular vote (about 34%, compared to 29% for the UFA). The popular vote numbers do not represent the actual amount of voters however as urban voters were allowed to vote 5 times in Calgary and Edmonton and 2 votes in Medicine Hat, as the districts contained 5 and 2 seats respectively, while rural voters only had 1 vote for all other districts under the first past the post electoral system. The United Farmers did not run in Calgary or Edmonton and did not benefit from the higher weighted city vote.

Results

Party	Party Leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular Vote
Party	Party Leader	# of candidates	1917	Elected	% Change	#	%	% Change Template:Canadian politics/party colours/United Farmers/row	United Farmers	Herbert Greenfield	45	38	86,250	28.92%	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal/row	Liberal	Charles Stewart	61	34	15	-67.6%	101,584	34.07%	-14.07% Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Labour/row	Labour	10	-	4	33,987	3.17%	+7.87% Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents/row	Independent	18	2	4	+100%	28,794	9.66%	+3.83% Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives/row	Conservative	13	19	-	-100%	32,734	10.98%	-30.81% Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents/row	Independent Labour	7	-	10,733	3.06%	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/LabourSocialist/row	Labour Socialist	2	-	2,628	0.88%	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents/row	Independent Liberal	1	-	1,467	0.49%
Total		157	58	61	+5.2%	298,177	100%
Source: Elections Alberta

Members elected

For complete electoral history, see individual districts

	District	Member
5th Alberta Legislative Assembly
Acadia	Lorne Proudfoot	United Farmers
Alexandria	Peter Enzenauer	United Farmers
Athabasca	George Mills	Liberal
Beaver River	Joseph Dechene	Liberal
Bow Valley	Charles R. Mitchell	Liberal
Calgary #1	Alex Ross	Labour
Calgary #2	Robert C. Edwards	Independent
Calgary #3	Fred J. White	Labour
Calgary #4	Robert Marshall	Liberal
Calgary #5	Robert Pearson	Independent
Camrose	Vernor Smith	United Farmers
Cardston	George Stringham	United Farmers
Claresholm	Thomas Milner	Independent
Clearwater	Joseph State	Liberal
Cochrane	Alex Moore	United Farmers
Coronation	George Johnston	United Farmers
Didsbury	Austin Claypool	United Farmers
Edmonton #1	Andrew McLennan	Liberal
Edmonton #2	John C. Bowen	Liberal
Edmonton #3	Nellie McClung	Liberal
Edmonton #4	John R. Boyle	Liberal
Edmonton #5	Jeremiah Hefferman	Liberal
Edson	Charles Cross	Liberal
Gliechen	John Buckley	United Farmers
Grouard	Jean Côté	Liberal
Hand Hills	Gordon Forster	United Farmers
High River	Samuel Brown	United Farmers
Innisfail	Donald Cameron	United Farmers
Lac St. Anne	Charles McKeen	United Farmers
Lacombe	Irene Parlby	United Farmers
Leduc	Stanley Tobin	Liberal
Lethbridge	John Smith Stewart	Independent
Little Bow	Oran McPherson	United Farmers
Macleod	William Hetherington Shield	United Farmers
Medicine Hat #1	Perren Baker	United Farmers
Medicine Hat #2	William Johnston	Labour
Nanton	Douglas Galbraith	United Farmers
Okotoks	George Hoadley	United Farmers
Olds	Nelson Smith	United Farmers
Peace River	Donald MacBeth Kennedy	United Farmers
Pembina	George MacLachlan	United Farmers
Pincher Creek	Earl Goodwin Cook	United Farmers
Ponoka	Percival Baker	United Farmers
Red Deer	George Wilbert Smith	United Farmers
Redcliff	William Cunningham Smith	United Farmers
Ribstone	Charles O.F. Wright	United Farmers
Rocky Mountain	Phillip Christopher	Labour
Sedgewick	Charles Stewart	Liberal
St. Albert	Telesphore St. Arnaud	United Farmers
Stettler	Albert Sanders	United Farmers
St. Paul	Joseph Joly	United Farmers
Stony Plain	Willard Washburn	United Farmers
Sturgeon	Samuel Carson	United Farmers
Taber	Lawrence Peterson	United Farmers
Vegreville	Archibald Matheson	United Farmers
Vermillion	Richard G. Reid	United Farmers
Victoria	William Fedun	United Farmers
Wainwright	Russel Love	United Farmers
Warner	Maurice Conner	United Farmers
Wetaskiwin	Evart Sparks	United Farmers
Whitford	Andrew Shandro	Liberal

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Results

Members elected

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