1940 Alberta general election

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1940 Alberta general election

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57 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta 29 seats were needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party   IM Leader William Aberhart Andrew Davison Party Social Credit Independent Movement Leader since September 3, 1935 1940 Leader's seat Calgary Calgary Last election 56 seats, 54.2% pre-creation Seats before 47 — Seats won 36 19 Seat change 11 — Popular vote 132,507 131,172 Percentage 42.9% 42.5% Swing 11.3% —   Third party Fourth party   LAB LIB Leader unknown Edward L. Gray Party Labour Liberal Leader since — June 4, 1937 Leader's seat — ran in Edmonton presumably Last election 0 seats, 1.7% 5 seats, 23.1% Seats before 0 6 Seats won 1 1 Seat change 1 5 Popular vote 3,258 2,755 Percentage 1.1% 0.9% Swing 0.6% 22.2%
Premier before election William Aberhart Social Credit Premier after election William Aberhart Social Credit

The 1940 Alberta general election was held on March 21, 1940, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.

Despite its failure to implement its key policy, providing prosperity certificates to all Albertans, the Social Credit Party of Premier William Aberhart won a second term in government. Nevertheless, it lost eleven seats that it had won in the 1935 landslide.

This provincial election, like the previous three, saw district-level proportional representation (Single transferable voting) used to elect the MLAs of Edmonton and Calgary. City-wide districts were used to elect multiple MLAs in the cities. All the other MLAs were elected in single-member districts through Instant-runoff voting.