Alberta general election, 1993





Alberta general election, 1993





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June 15, 1993 (1993-06-15)
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83 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
42 seats needed for a majority
Turnout60.21%





















































 
Majority party
Minority party
Third party
 

Ralph-Klein-Szmurlo.jpg

LIB


Ray Martin.jpg
Leader

Ralph Klein

Laurence Decore

Ray Martin
Party

Progressive Conservative

Liberal

New Democratic
Leader since
December 14, 1992

October 9, 1988
1984
Leader's seat

Calgary-Elbow

Edmonton-Glengarry

Edmonton-Norwood (lost re-election)
Last election
59 seats, 44.3%
8 seats, 28.7%
16 seats, 26.3%
Seats before
59
8
16
Seats won
51
32
0
Seat change

Decrease8

Increase24

Decrease16
Popular vote
439,981
392,899
108,883
Percentage
44.5%
39.7%
11.0%
Swing

Increase0.2%

Increase11.0%

Decrease15.3%





Premier before election

Ralph Klein
Progressive Conservative



Premier-designate

Ralph Klein
Progressive Conservative


The Alberta general election of 1993 was the twenty-third general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. It was held on June 15, 1993, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. It is notable because it was seen by some as a contest between the former mayors of Calgary and Edmonton, Ralph Klein and Laurence Decore, respectively. Before eventually being defeated in 2015, it remained the closest the Progressive Conservatives had come to losing since coming to power in 1971.




Contents





  • 1 Background


  • 2 Campaign


  • 3 Election


  • 4 Results

    • 4.1 Overall results


    • 4.2 Detailed results



  • 5 Members elected


  • 6 References


  • 7 See also




Background


In 1992, the Liberal Party was led by Laurence Decore, a former mayor of Edmonton. Despite being the smallest of the three parties in the legislature, the Liberals made major gains by shifting to the political right and criticizing the Conservatives' fiscal responsibility, the province's rapidly rising debt, and the government's involvement in the private sector which resulted in some companies defaulting on government loans.


In September 1992, Don Getty resigned as provincial premier and leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, after polls showed that he would not win re-election. The party membership elected Environment Minister and former Calgary mayor Ralph Klein to succeed Getty. Klein campaigned for the leadership in part by making arguments similar to Decore's. He favoured a near-immediate balancing of the provincial budget and rapid debt repayment thereafter, and declared his government "out of the business of business". By the time Klein dropped the writs, his party had regained the lead on polls.


The election was fought on a new series of electoral boundaries based on the census of 1991, drawn by a committee composed only of Progressive Conservative MLAs led by Bob Bogle, with no input from opposition parties. The new electoral map drew criticism from the Alberta Court of Appeal in 1994 because the committee gave no justification for creating four districts well below average population, one of which was Bogle's own riding of Taber-Warner.[1]



Campaign


During the general election campaign, Klein promoted the significant changes that he had made during his time of Premier, distancing the Conservatives from Getty's past administration. Decore, facing a Premier with whom he agreed on many issues, argued that the Progressive Conservative party had no moral authority left on the issues on which Klein was campaigning.[2]


There were several televised debates, however viewership was low since it coincided with the 1993 Stanley Cup Finals.



Election


Klein's efforts were seen as successful in reinvigorating the Conservatives from certain defeat just under a year earlier. Ending up, they retained a solid majority in the legislature for its seventh consecutive term in government. The Conservatives increased its share of the popular vote marginally, and lost eight seats in the legislature.


The Liberals capitalized on the stagnant PC vote and the collapse of the New Democratic Party vote from 26% to 11%. As opposition to the PC government coalesced around Decore and the Liberals, they won almost 40% of the popular vote and 32 seats in the legislature, including every seat in Edmonton. They formed what still stands as the largest opposition caucus in Alberta history with the exception of 1917, when the government majority was smaller but there were far fewer seats in the legislature. To the surprise of many, Decore stepped down as Liberal leader not long after the election, supposedly being pressured to resign by party insiders who felt that he missed the chance to form the government.


Ray Martin's New Democrats, previously the official opposition, were shut out of the legislature altogether for the first time since 1967. All of their seats in Edmonton—including Martin's--were lost to the Liberals, due to the popularity of Decore there. Martin suggested that tactical voting was to blame as well, as the anti-PC vote consolidated around the Liberals.



Results


Overall voter turnout was 60.21%.[3]



Overall results



















Party
Votes
Seats


Progressive Conservative
439,981



44.5%



Increase 0.2%


51 / 83 (61%)



Decrease 8


Liberal
392,899



39.7%



Increase 11.1%


32 / 83 (39%)



Increase 24


Detailed results
























































































































Party
Party leader
candidates
Seats
Popular vote
1989

Elected
% Change
#
%
% Change
 

Progressive Conservative

Ralph Klein
83
59

51
-13.6%
439,981
44.49%
+0.20%


Liberal

Laurence Decore
83
8

32
+300%
392,899
39.73%
+11.05%
 

New Democrats

Ray Martin
83
16
-
-100%
108,883
11.01%
-15.28%
 

Social Credit

Randy Thorsteinson
39
-
-
-
23,885
2.41%
+1.94%
 
Independent
21
-
-
-
9,214
0.93%
+0.67%
    

Natural Law
Maury Shapka
45
*
-
*
5,017
0.51%
*


Confederation of Regions
Ray Young
12
*
-
*
3,556
0.36%
*
 

Alliance

Mark Waters
4
*
-
*
3,548
0.36%
*


Green

Betty Paschen
11
*
-
*
1,995
0.20%
*


Communist

Naomi Rankin
1
-
-
-
47
x
-0.01%

Total
382
83
83
-
989,025
100%
 

Source: Elections Alberta

Notes:


* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.


x – less than 0.005% of the popular vote



Members elected


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23rd Alberta Legislative Assembly
District
Member
Party
 

Athabasca-Wabasca

Mike Cardinal

Progressive Conservative
 

Banff-Cochrane

Brian Evans
Progressive Conservative
 

Barrhead-Westlock

Ken Kowalski
Progressive Conservative
 

Bonnyville

Leo Vasseur

Liberal
 

Bow Valley

Lyle Oberg
Progressive Conservative
 

Calgary-Bow

Bonnie Laing
Progressive Conservative
 

Calgary-Buffalo

Gary Dickson
Liberal
 

Calgary-Cross

Yvonne Fritz
Progressive Conservative
 

Calgary-Currie

Jocelyn Burgener
Progressive Conservative
 

Calgary-East

Moe Amery
Progressive Conservative
 

Calgary-Egmont

Denis Herard
Progressive Conservative
 

Calgary-Elbow

Ralph Klein
Progressive Conservative
 

Calgary-Fish Creek

Heather Forsyth
Progressive Conservative
 

Calgary-Foothills

Pat Black1
Progressive Conservative
 

Calgary-Glenmore

Dianne Mirosh
Progressive Conservative
 

Calgary-Lougheed

Jim Dinning
Progressive Conservative
 

Calgary-McCall

Harry Sohal
Progressive Conservative
 

Calgary-Montrose

Hung Pham
Progressive Conservative
 

Calgary-Mountain View

Mark Hlady
Progressive Conservative
 

Calgary-North Hill

Richard Magnus
Progressive Conservative
 

Calgary-North West

Frank Bruseker
Liberal
 

Calgary-Nose Creek

Gary Mar
Progressive Conservative
 

Calgary-Shaw

Jon Havelock
Progressive Conservative
 

Calgary-Varsity

Murray Smith
Progressive Conservative
 

Calgary-West

Danny Dalla-Longa
Liberal
 

Cardston-Chief Mountain

Jack Ady
Progressive Conservative
 

Chinook

Shirley McClellan
Progressive Conservative
 

Clover Bar-Fort Saskatchewan

Muriel Abdurahman
Liberal
 

Cypress-Medicine Hat

Lorne Taylor
Progressive Conservative
 

Drayton Valley-Calmar

Tom Thurber
Progressive Conservative
 

Drumheller

Stanley Schumacher
Progressive Conservative
 

Dunvegan

Glen Clegg
Progressive Conservative
 

Edmonton-Avonmore

Gene Zwozdesky
Liberal
 

Edmonton-Beverly-Belmont

Julius Yankowsky
Liberal
 

Edmonton-Centre

Michael Henry
Liberal
 

Edmonton-Ellerslie

Debby Carlson
Liberal
 

Edmonton-Glengarry

Laurence Decore
Liberal
 

Edmonton-Glenora

Howard Sapers
Liberal
 

Edmonton-Gold Bar

Bettie Hewes
Liberal
 

Edmonton-Highlands-Beverly

Alice Hanson
Liberal
 

Edmonton-Manning

Peter Sekulic
Liberal
 

Edmonton-Mayfield

Lance White
Liberal
 

Edmonton-McClung

Grant Mitchell
Liberal
 

Edmonton-Meadowlark

Karen Leibovici
Liberal
 

Edmonton-Mill Woods

Don Massey
Liberal
 

Edmonton-Norwood

Andrew Beniuk
Liberal
 

Edmonton-Roper

Sine Chadi
Liberal
 

Edmonton-Rutherford

Percy Wickman
Liberal
 

Edmonton-Strathcona

Al Zariwny
Liberal
 

Edmonton-Whitemud

Mike Percy
Liberal
 

Fort McMurray

Adam Germain
Liberal
 

Grande Prairie-Smoky

Walter Paszkowski
Progressive Conservative
 

Grande Prairie-Wapiti

Wayne Jacques
Progressive Conservative
 

Highwood

Don Tannas
Progressive Conservative
 

Innisfail-Sylvan Lake

Gary Severtson
Progressive Conservative
 

Lac La Biche-St. Paul

Paul Langevin
Liberal
 

Lacombe-Stettler

Judy Gordon
Progressive Conservative
 

Lesser Slave Lake

Pearl Calahasen
Progressive Conservative
 

Leduc

Terry Kirkland
Liberal
 

Lethbridge-East

Ken Nicol
Liberal
 

Lethbridge-West

Clint Dunford
Progressive Conservative
 

Little Bow

Barry McFarland
Progressive Conservative
 

Medicine Hat

Rob Renner
Progressive Conservative
 

Olds-Didsbury

Roy Brassard
Progressive Conservative
 

Peace River

Gary Friedel
Progressive Conservative
 

Pincher Creek-Macleod

David Coutts
Progressive Conservative
 

Ponoka-Rimbey

Halvar Jonson
Progressive Conservative
 

Red Deer North

Stockwell Day
Progressive Conservative
 

Red Deer South

Victor Doerksen
Progressive Conservative
 

Redwater

Nicholas Taylor
Liberal
 

Rocky Mountain House

Ty Lund
Progressive Conservative
 

Sherwood Park

Bruce Collingwood
Liberal
 

St. Albert

Len Bracko
Liberal
 

Spruce Grove-Sturgeon-St. Albert

Colleen Soetaert
Liberal
 

Stony Plain

Stan Woloshyn
Progressive Conservative
 

Taber-Warner

Ron Hierath
Progressive Conservative
 

Three Hills-Airdrie

Carol Haley
Progressive Conservative
 

Vegreville-Viking

Ed Stelmach
Progressive Conservative
 

Vermilion-Lloydminster

Steve West
Progressive Conservative
 

Wainwright

Robert Fischer
Progressive Conservative
 

West Yellowhead

Duco Van Binsbergen
Liberal
 

Wetaskiwin-Camrose

Ken Rostad
Progressive Conservative
 

Whitecourt-Ste. Anne

Peter Trynchy
Progressive Conservative

Note:



  • 1 Pat Black later changed her last name to Nelson.


References



  1. ^ Stinson, Douglas (July 1, 1999). "Knowing Where to Draw the Line - Alberta Views - The Magazine for Engaged Citizens". albertaviews.ca. Retrieved 2018-05-31..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em


  2. ^ "Alberta Campaigns Since 1935". CBC News.


  3. ^ Election Alberta (July 28, 2008). 2008 General Report (PDF). p. 158. Retrieved April 29, 2011.



See also


  • List of Alberta political parties







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