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{{Infobox_President |
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| name = Hon. Richard Gavin Reid |
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| image = Richard Reid.jpg |
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| caption = |
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| order = 7th |
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| office = Premier of Alberta |
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| term_start = July 10, 1934 |
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| term_end = September 3, 1935 |
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| predecessor = [[John E. Brownlee]] |
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| successor = [[William Aberhart]] |
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| office1 = Member of the [[Legislative Assembly of Alberta]] for [[Vermilion (provincial electoral district)|Vermilion]] |
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| term_start1 = July 18, 1921 |
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| term_end1 = August 22, 1935 |
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| predecessor1 = [[Arthur Ebbett]] |
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| successor1 = [[William Fallow]] |
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| office2 = Alberta Treasury Board President |
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| term_start2 = July 10, 1934 |
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| term_end2 = September 3, 1935 |
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| predecessor2 = '''New position''' |
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| successor2 = '''Position abolished''' (Position was merged with that of Provincial Treasurer until 2004, when [[Shirley McClellan]] filled it) |
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| office3 = Alberta Provincial Secretary |
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| term_start3 = July 10, 1934 |
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| term_end3 = September 3, 1935 |
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| predecessor3 = [[John E. Brownlee]] |
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| successor3 = [[Ernest Manning]] |
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| office4 = Alberta Minister of Public Works |
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| term_start4 = July 10, 1934 |
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| term_end4 = July 14, 1934 |
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| predecessor4 = [[Oran McPherson]] |
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| successor4 = [[John James MacLellan]] |
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| office5 = Alberta Minister of Health |
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| term_start5 = August 13, 1921 |
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| term_end5 = July 10, 1934 |
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| predecessor5 = [[Charles R. Mitchell]] |
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| successor5 = [[George Hoadley]] |
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| office6 = Alberta Provincial Treasurer |
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| term_start6 = 1923 |
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| term_end6 = July 10, 1934 |
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| predecessor6 = [[Herbert Greenfield]] |
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| successor6 = [[John Russell Love]] |
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| office7 = Alberta Minister of Municipal Affairs |
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| term_start7 = November 23, 1925 |
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| term_end7 = July 10, 1934 |
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| predecessor7 = [[Herbert Greenfield]] |
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| successor7 = [[Hugh Allen]] |
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| term_start8 = August 31, 1921 |
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| term_end8 = 1923 |
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| predecessor8 = [[Charles R. Mitchell]] |
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| successor8 = [[Herbert Greenfield]] |
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| office9 = Alberta Minister of Lands and Mines |
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| term_start9 = October 10, 1930 |
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| term_end9 = July 10, 1934 |
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| predecessor9 = '''New position''' |
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| successor9 = [[Hugh Allen]] |
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| birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1879|1|17|mf=y}} |
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| birth_place = [[Aberdeenshire (historic)|Aberdeenshire]], Scotland |
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| death_date = {{death date and age |mf=yes|1980|10|17|1879|01|17}} |
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| death_place = [[Edmonton]], [[Alberta]], Canada |
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| party = [[United Farmers of Alberta]] |
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| spouse = Marion Stuart |
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| children = Three sons, two daughters |
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| profession = [[Dentist]] |
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| religion = [[Presbyterian]] |
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|}} |
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== October 2008 == |
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'''Richard Gavin Reid''' (January 17, 1879 – October 17, 1980) was a Canadian politician who served as [[Premier of Alberta|Premier]] of the province of [[Alberta]] from 1934 to 1935. He was the last member of the [[United Farmers of Alberta]] to hold the office, and that party's defeat at the hands of the upstart [[Social Credit Party of Alberta|Social Credit League]] in the [[Alberta general election, 1935|1935 election]] made Reid the shortest-serving Premier in Alberta history. |
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Born near [[Glasgow]], Reid worked a number of jobs as a young adult, including wholesaler, army medic (during the [[Second Boer War]]), farmhand, lumberjack, and dentist, and emigrated to Canada in 1903. He involved himself in local politics and joined the recently-formed UFA; he was nominated to run for provincial office in the [[Alberta general election, 1921|1921 election]] in [[Vermilion (provincial electoral district)|Vermilion]]. After winning election, he found himself a member of the UFA government caucus, and served in several capacities in the cabinets of Premiers [[Herbert Greenfield]] and [[John E. Brownlee]], where he established a reputation for competence and fiscal conservatism. When a sex scandal forced Brownlee from office in 1934, Reid was the caucus' unanimous choice to succeed him as Premier. |
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When Reid took office, Alberta was in the throes of the [[Great Depression]]. Reid took measures to attempt to ease the suffering of Albertans, but asserted that inducing economic recovery was beyond the capability of the provincial government. In this climate, the monetary theories of evangelical preacher [[William Aberhart]], who preached a version [[social credit]], began to look very attractive to Alberta voters. Despite Reid's claims that Aberhart's proposals were economically and constitutionally unfeasible, Social Credit routed the United Farmers in the 1935 election; Reid's party did not retain a single seat. |
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Reid would live forty-five years after his defeat, but these years were spent in obscurity; he never returned to political life. |
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==Early life== |
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Reid was born January 17, 1879 near [[Glasgow]], Scotland to George Reid and Margaret Ogston.<ref name="Legbio">{{cite web |url=http://www.assembly.ab.ca/lao/library/premiers/reid.htm |title=The Honourable Richard G. Reid, 1934-35 |publisher=Legislative Assembly of Alberta |accessdate=2008-07-24}}</ref> He attended school in Glasgow and worked for several years in the wholesale provisions business before enlisting in the [[Royal Army Medical Corps]].<ref name="Rennie 108">{{cite book |last=Rennie |first=Bradford J. |editor=Bradford J. Rennie |title=Alberta Premiers of the Twentieth Century |year=2004 |publisher=Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina |location=[[Regina, Saskatchewan]] |isbn=0-88977-151-0 |pages=p. 108 |chapter=Richard Reid }}</ref> He served in South Africa as a [[Lance-Sergeant]] from 1900 to 1902 during the [[Second Boer War]], doing hospital duty, before returning to Scotland.<ref name="Rennie 108"/> There he began to map his future, considering returning to South Africa to live before deciding on Canada instead.<ref name="Rennie 108"/> |
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He arrived in [[Killarney, Manitoba|Killarney]], [[Manitoba]] in 1903, where he worked as a farmhand during the harvest.<ref name="Rennie 108"/> When winter came, he went to [[Fort William, Ontario|Fort William]] to work as a lumberjack.<ref name="Rennie 108"/> He emerged from the experience with $160.<ref name="Rennie 108"/> A voyage west followed, and he set up a homestead in east-central [[Alberta]].<ref name="Rennie 108"/> He also began to work as a dentist, drawing on his experience in the war.<ref name="Rennie 108"/> |
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On September 9, 1919, he married Marion Stuart.<ref name="Legbio"/> They would have three sons and two daughters.<ref name="Rennie 108"/> |
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==Early political career== |
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===Local politics=== |
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Reid's political career began with four years on the municipal council of Buffalo Coulee, around present-day [[Vermilion, Alberta|Vermilion]].<ref name="Rennie 108"/> Two of these were spent as Reeve.<ref name="Rennie 108"/> He was also instrumental in founding the Vermilion municipal hospital district, on which he served for many years.<ref name="Rennie 108"/> On the federal scene, he was active with the [[United Farmers of Alberta]] [[Battle River]] Federal Political Association.<ref name="Rennie 108"/> To his surprise, he was elected its president.<ref name="Rennie 108"/> This led to a degree of profile around the district and, eventually, a nomination for provincial office.<ref>Rennie 108-109</ref> |
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===Entry into provincial politics=== |
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Reid was nominated as the [[United Farmers of Alberta]] candidate in [[Vermilion (provincial electoral district)|Vermilion]] during the [[Alberta general election, 1921|1921 provincial election]].<ref name="Rennie 109">Rennie 109</ref> The UFA had only one seat—[[Alexander Moore]]'s [[Cochrane (provincial electoral district)|Cochrane]] seat, won in a 1919 [[by-election]] resulting from the death of [[Charles W. Fisher]]—in the [[Legislative Assembly of Alberta]], which was dominated by the [[Alberta Liberal Party]], which had governed Alberta since it became a province. To Reid's great surprise, he defeated his only opponent (a Liberal) and was elected to the legislature, along with thirty-seven of his fellow UFA candidates—enough for a majority government.<ref name="Rennie 109"/> |
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[[Image:UFA caucus.jpg|thumb|left|The first meeting of the UFA caucus following the 1921 election, at which it selected [[Herbert Greenfield]] as its Premier. Reid, who chaired the meeting, sits at the extreme right.]] |
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Reid was elected chair of the first meeting of the UFA caucus following the election, at which it selected [[Herbert Greenfield]], who had not run in the election, as Premier.<ref name="Rennie 109"/> Once so-elected, Greenfield made Reid his Minister of Health and his Minister of Municipal Affairs.<ref name="Rennie 109"/> Reid was re-elected in the [[Alberta general election, 1926|1926]] and [[Alberta general election, 1930|1930]] elections.<ref name="1926 results">{{cite web |url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/database/maps_choice.asp?Year=1926&Constit=Vermilion |title=Election results for Vermilion, 1926 |publisher=Alberta's online encyclopedia |accessdate=2008-08-08}}</ref><ref name="1930 results">{{cite web |url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/database/maps_choice.asp?Year=1930&Constit=Vermilion |title=Election results for Vermilion, 1930 |publisher=Alberta's online encyclopedia |accessdate=2008-08-08}}</ref> |
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===Cabinet career=== |
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Richard Reid enjoyed an illustrious career as minister in the cabinets of Greenfield and his successor, [[John E. Brownlee]]. He served as Minister of Health throughout both of their tenures, and also served as Minister of Municipal Affairs (1921–23, 1925-34), Provincial Treasurer (1923–34), and Minister of Lands and Mines (1930–34).<ref name="Rennie 109"/> As Health Minister, he called on his past experience to guide the establishment of new municipal health boards.<ref name="Rennie 109"/> He initiated a program of [[eugenics]] through the sterilization of the mentally handicapped;<ref name="Rennie 109"/> the program took effect in 1928 and lasted until 1972.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/people/influ_eugenics.html |title=Eugenics in Alberta |publisher=Alberta Online Encyclopedia}}</ref> He also vigorously supported Greenfield's deficit-cutting measures, laying off all school inspection nurses and many public health nurses.<ref name="Rennie 110">Rennie 110</ref> |
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This zeal also manifested itself in his performance as Provincial Treasurer. He was able to run surpluses from 1925 until 1930, except for 1927, and predicted in 1929 that a Alberta was on the cusp of a period of economic expansion.<ref name="Rennie 110"/> When he was confronted instead by the [[Great Depression]], he drastically cut provincial spending and raised taxes, including a new [[income tax]].<ref name="Rennie 110"/> When these measures were insufficient to prevent further deficits, he reluctantly accepted that the budget would not be balanced as long as the depression persisted, though his reasons for this were less the result of any [[Keynesian]] desire to stimulate the economy through government spending and more a belief that there simply wasn't any further spending to be cut or any further taxes that could be raised.<ref name="Rennie 110"/> |
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[[Image:Alberta and Saskatchewan.jpg|thumb|left|Reid, fourth from the left, stands among members of the Alberta and Saskatchewan cabinets, circa 1930.]] |
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As Treasurer, Reid favoured private over public ownership. He opposed calls from his own party to have the provincial government take the lead in developing [[hydroelectricity]] in Alberta, and viewed the provincially-owned railways as a burden to the government, even once they finally turned a profit in 1927.<ref name="Rennie 111">Rennie 111</ref> He was a leading advocate of selling them to private interests, a course that was eventually followed in 1929.<ref name="Rennie 111"/> |
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Reid's fiscal conservatism was also in evidence in his performance as Municipal Affairs Minister. In this capacity, he resisted a 1926 call from several municipalities to transfer a greater proportion of the responsibility for caring for indigents to the province.<ref name="Rennie 111"/> In 1929, he locked horns with the cities again when he insisted that they be responsible for 10% of the old age pensions paid to their residents.<ref name="Rennie 111"/> |
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==Premier== |
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When Brownlee was forced to resign in 1934 over his involvement in a sex scandal, Reid was the most prominent minister in his cabinet and among the most popular.<ref name="Rennie 111"/> Accordingly, he was the UFA caucus' unanimous choice to take over as Premier.<ref name="Rennie 111"/> It was not a good time for the government; besides Brownlee's resignation, longtime minister [[Oran McPherson]] was in the midst of a messy divorce and had also left cabinet, and UFA MLAs [[Peter Miskiw]] and [[Omer St. Germain]] had crossed the floor to the [[Alberta Liberal Party|Liberals]].<ref name="Rennie 111"/> Additionally, the province was in dire economic straits, as the [[Great Depression]] was still very much in effect.<ref name="Rennie 111"/> Liberal leader [[William R. Howson]] tried to take advantage of this state to undermine the government and position himself as the province's next Premier; he attacked Reid relentlessly for what he alleged were spendthrift habits, and suggested the province's tax rates were causing the confiscation of family homes.<ref name="Rennie 112">Rennie 112</ref> Reid resisted the attacks, asserted that Alberta's taxes had decreased since 1921, and criticized Howson for simultaneously attacking government spending as lavish and demanding new infrastructure projects.<ref name="Rennie 112"/> |
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[[Image:Richard Reid jubilee.jpg|thumb|right|Reid, right, giving a speech in [[Edmonton]] on the occasion of [[George V of the United Kingdom|George V]]'s [[silver jubilee]]]] |
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A more dangerous opponent than Howson was [[William Aberhart]], the [[Calgary]] preacher who was proposing a form of [[social credit]] to cure the province's ills.<ref name="Rennie 113">Rennie 113</ref> Reid pronounced himself in favour of the principles of social credit, as did most of the province's politicians of the day,<ref name="Rennie 116">Rennie 116</ref> but ridiculed Aberhart's proposal to send every Alberta $25 per month as unfeasible without a tenfold increase in taxes.<ref name="Rennie 115">Rennie 115</ref> Moreover, Reid argued, since Aberhart's proposals would amount to a shift in [[monetary policy]], they could not be implemented without the support of the federal government which, under the [[British North America Act]], had full authority over such changes.<ref name="Rennie 115"/> In these criticisms, Reid had the support of both his party and social credit advocates who were loyal to the movement's intellectual godfather, [[C. H. Douglas]], and who considered the Aberhart plan a perversion of proper social credit principles.<ref name="Rennie 115"/> Aberhart had not yet established a political party of his own, and attended the UFA's annual convention in January 1935 to propose a resolution that would have seen the UFA campaign on social credit in the next election; it was supported by fewer than ten percent of delegates, and Aberhart began to organize the [[Social Credit Party of Alberta|Social Credit league]] as an electoral alternative to the UFA and the old-line parties.<ref>Rennie 114-115</ref> |
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In the meantime, Reid's government had taken a number of policy initiatives. It passed legislation authorizing it to buy the cattle of farmers who could no longer afford feed, and worked out a cost-sharing agreement with the federal government and the railways to relocate farmers fleeing the province's dust belt.<ref name="Rennie 112"/> Reid also called for the creation of a [[Canadian Wheat Board|federal wheat marketing board]],<ref name="Rennie 113"/> and proposed legislation—the ''Agricultural Industry Stabilization Act''—that protected from creditors any portion of a farmer's revenue that was used on operating costs for his farm or living expenses for his family.<ref name="Rennie 117">Rennie 117</ref> Despite these measures, Reid found himself at odds with his party's membership, which was reacting to the depression by following an increasingly [[socialism|socialist]] path.<ref name="Rennie 113"/> Reid found UFA President [[Robert Gardiner (Canadian politician)|Robert Gardiner]] to be of the "far left", and considered the [[Cooperative Commonwealth Federation]] to be an "unholy amalgamation".<ref name="Rennie 113"/> Even so, Reid's government experimented with a form of health insurance, to be jointly funded by government, employers, and employees, that would provide all Albertans with free medical, dental, and hospital care; the project was to be launched as a [[pilot project]] in [[Camrose (provincial electoral district)|Camrose]], but never got off the ground due to the intervention of the [[Alberta general election, 1935|1935 election]].<ref name="Rennie 113"/> More controversially, Reid's government reacted to McPherson's divorce and its attendant coverage by proposing legislation that would ban the coverage of divorce proceedings by the province's newspapers.<ref name="Rennie 117"/> In response, Liberal MLA [[Joseph Miville Dechene]] compared Reid to [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]], [[Benito Mussolini|Mussolini]], and [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]].<ref name="Rennie 117"/> |
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When the election came, in August 1935, Aberhart offered economic recovery and Reid offered criticisms.<ref name="Rennie 119">Rennie 119</ref> Highlighting the UFA's record of clean government, low taxes, and fiscal responsibility, Reid committed himself and his government to bringing a sense of security.<ref name="Rennie 118">Rennie 118</ref> More tangibly, he committed to build a government [[oil refinery]] (predicting that "the near future will witness the greatest explorations for oil which this province has ever known").<ref name="Rennie 118"/> Even with the UFA's defense of its record and promises for the future, most of the campaign was conducted around Social Credit's promise to pull the province out of the depression with its monetary theories.<ref name="Rennie 119"/> Reid alleged that Aberhart's policies would destroy the province's credit and leave it unable to borrow the money it needed to carry on, but voters—even those skeptical of Social Credit's promises—saw no alternative hopes offered by the UFA, and deserted it in droves.<ref name="Rennie 119"/> On August 11, election day, every UFA MLA was defeated; Reid himself finished third in his riding, barely ahead of the [[Communist Party (Alberta)|Communist]] candidate, and resigned as Premier effective August 22.<ref>Rennie 119-120</ref> At 408 days, Reid's time as Premier was the shortest in the province's history.<ref name="Rennie 108"/> |
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==Life after politics== |
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After his defeat in the 1935 election, Reid withdrew from politics all together.<ref name="Rennie 120">Rennie 120</ref> He became a commission agent, and later the librarian for Canadian Utilities Limited.<ref name="Rennie 120"/> For this latter role, he was made an honorary member of the Edmonton Library Association.<ref name="Rennie 120"/> During [[World War II]], he served on the Canadian government's mobilization board.<ref name="Rennie 120"/> |
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Richard Reid died in [[Edmonton]] October 17, 1980 at the age of 101.<ref name="Rennie 120"/> He was [[cremation|cremated]], and his ashes buried in Edmonton.<ref name="Legbio"/> |
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==Electoral record== |
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===As party leader=== |
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{| class="wikitable" |
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|- |
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!colspan="10"|[[Alberta general election, 1935]] |
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|- bgcolor=CCCCCC |
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!rowspan="2" align=left colspan="2"|Party |
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!rowspan="2" align=left|Party leader |
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!rowspan="2" align=left |# of<br>candidates |
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!colspan="3" align=center |Seats |
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!colspan="3" align=center |Popular vote |
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|- bgcolor="CCCCCC" |
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|align="center"|[[Alberta general election, 1930|1930]] |
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|align="center"|'''[[Alberta general election, 1935|1935]]''' |
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|align="center"|% Change |
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|align="center"|# |
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|align="center"|% |
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|align="center"|% Change |
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{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Social Credit/row}} |
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| [[Social Credit Party of Alberta|Social Credit]] |
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| <center> [[William Aberhart]] |
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|align="right"|63 |
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|align="right"|'''56''' |
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|align="right"| |
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|align="right"|163,700 |
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|align="right"|54.25% |
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{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}} |
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|[[Alberta Liberal Party|Liberal]] |
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| <center> [[William Howson]] |
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|align="right"|61 |
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|align="right"|11 |
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|align="right"|'''5''' |
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|align="right"|-54.5% |
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|align="right"|69,845 |
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|align="right"|23.14% |
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|align="right"|-1.45% |
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{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Progressive_Conservatives/row}} |
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| [[Alberta Progressive Conservatives|Conservative]] |
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| <center> [[David Milwyn Duggan]] |
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|align="right"|39 |
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|align="right"|6 |
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|align="right"|'''2''' |
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|align="right"|-66.7% |
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|align="right"|19,358 |
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|align="right"|6.41% |
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|align="right"|-8.44% |
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{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/United Farmers/row}} |
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| [[United Farmers of Alberta|United Farmers]] |
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| <center>[[Richard G. Reid]] |
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|align="right"|45 |
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|align="right"|39 |
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|align="right"|-100% |
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|align="right"|33,063 |
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|align="right"|11.00% |
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|align="right"|-28.41% |
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{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Communist/row}} |
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| [[Communist Party (Alberta)|Communist]] |
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| <center> [[Jan Lakeman]] |
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|align="right"| 9 |
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|align="right"|5,771 |
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|align="right"|1.91% |
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{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Labour/row}} |
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| [[Labour candidates and parties (Canada)|Labour]] |
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| <center> [[Fred J. White]] |
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|align="right"|11 |
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|align="right"|4 |
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|align="right"|-100% |
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|align="right"|5,086 |
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|align="right"|1.68% |
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|align="right"|-5.95% |
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{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Independents/row}} |
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| colspan="2"|Independent |
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|align="right"|7 |
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|align="right"|3 |
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|align="right"|- |
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|align="right"|-100% |
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|align="right"|2,740 |
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|align="right"|0.90% |
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|align="right"|-12.62% |
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{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Independents/row}} |
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| colspan="2"|Independent Liberal |
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|align="right"|1 |
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|align="right"| |
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|align="right"|- |
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|align="right"| |
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|align="right"|955 |
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|align="right"|0.31% |
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|align="right"| |
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{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Independents/row}} |
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| United Front |
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| <center> |
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|align="right"|1 |
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|align="right"| |
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|align="right"|- |
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|align="right"| |
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|align="right"|560 |
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|align="right"|0.19% |
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{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Independents/row}} |
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| colspan="2"|Independent Conservative |
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|align="right"|1 |
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|align="right"| |
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|align="right"|- |
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|align="right"| |
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|align="right"|258 |
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|align="right"|0.08% |
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|align="right"| |
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{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Independents/row}} |
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| colspan="2"|Independent Labour |
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|align="right"|1 |
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|align="right"| |
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|align="right"|- |
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|align="right"| |
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|align="right"|224 |
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|align="right"|0.07% |
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{{Canadian politics/party colours/Reconstruction/row}} |
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|[[Reconstruction Party of Canada|Economic Reconstruction]] |
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| <center> [[Elsie Wright (Alberta politician)|Elsie Wright]] |
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|align="right"|1 |
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|align="right"| |
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|align="right"|- |
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|align="right"| |
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|align="right"|192 |
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|align="right"|0.06% |
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|- |
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| colspan="3"|'''Total''' |
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|align="right"|240 |
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|align="right"|63 |
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|align="right"|63 |
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|align="right"| |
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|align="right"|301,752 |
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|align="right"|100% |
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! <center> |
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===As MLA=== |
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{| class="wikitable" |
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| colspan="3" align=center|'''[[Alberta general election, 1935|1935 Alberta general election]] results ([[Vermilion (provincial electoral district)|Vermilion]])''' |
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| colspan="2"|<font style="font-size: 90%;">'''Turnout 82.8%'''</font> |
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|- |
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| colspan="5" align=center|Second count |
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|- |
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| colspan="2" rowspan="1" align="left" valign="top" | '''Affiliation''' |
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| valign="top" |'''Candidate''' |
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| valign="top" |'''Votes''' |
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| valign="top" align="right"|'''%''' |
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{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Social Credit/row}} |
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|[[Social Credit Party of Alberta|Social Credit]] |
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|[[William Fallow]] |
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|2,664 |
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|65.0% |
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{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}} |
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|[[Alberta Liberal Party|Liberal]] |
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|A. P. Hunter |
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|1,437 |
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|35.0% |
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|- |
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| colspan="5" align=center|First count |
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|- |
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| colspan="2" rowspan="1" align="left" valign="top" | '''Affiliation''' |
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| valign="top" |'''Candidate''' |
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| valign="top" |'''Votes''' |
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| valign="top" align="right"|'''%''' |
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{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Social Credit/row}} |
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|[[Social Credit Party of Alberta|Social Credit]] |
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|[[William Fallow]] |
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|2,452 |
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|44.8% |
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{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}} |
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|[[Alberta Liberal Party|Liberal]] |
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|A. P. Hunter |
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|1,062 |
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|19.4% |
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{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/United Farmers/row}} |
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|[[United Farmers of Alberta]] |
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|[[Richard G. Reid]] |
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|876 |
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|16.0% |
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{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Communist/row}} |
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|[[Communist Party of Alberta|Communist]] |
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|William Halina |
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|838 |
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|15.3% |
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{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Progressive Conservatives/row}} |
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|[[Alberta Progressive Conservative Party|Conservative]] |
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|A. E. Williams |
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|244 |
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|4.5% |
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|- |
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| colspan="3" align=center|'''[[Alberta general election, 1930|1930 Alberta general election]] results ([[Vermilion (provincial electoral district)|Vermilion]])''' |
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| colspan="2"|<font style="font-size: 90%;">'''Turnout 62.3%'''</font> |
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|- |
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| colspan="2" rowspan="1" align="left" valign="top" | '''Affiliation''' |
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| valign="top" |'''Candidate''' |
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| valign="top" |'''Votes''' |
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| valign="top" align="right"|'''%''' |
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{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/United Farmers/row}} |
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|[[United Farmers of Alberta]] |
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|[[Richard G. Reid]] |
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|align="right"|2,551 |
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|align="right"|75.79% |
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{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}} |
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|[[Alberta Liberal Party|Liberal]] |
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|Robert B. Hall |
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|align="right"|815 |
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|align="right"|24.21% |
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|- |
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| colspan="3" align=center|'''[[Alberta general election, 1926|1926 Alberta general election]] results ([[Vermilion (provincial electoral district)|Vermilion]])''' |
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| colspan="2"|<font style="font-size: 90%;">'''Turnout 67.5%'''</font> |
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|- |
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| colspan="2" rowspan="1" align="left" valign="top" | '''Affiliation''' |
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| valign="top" |'''Candidate''' |
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| valign="top" |'''Votes''' |
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| valign="top" align="right"|'''%''' |
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{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/United Farmers/row}} |
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|[[United Farmers of Alberta]] |
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|[[Richard G. Reid]] |
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|align="right"|1,981 |
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|align="right"|64.6% |
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{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Progressive Conservatives/row}} |
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|[[Alberta Progressive Conservative Party|Conservative]] |
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|W. J. McNab |
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|align="right"|592 |
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|align="right"|19.3% |
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{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}} |
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|[[Alberta Liberal Party|Liberal]] |
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|A. W. Ebbett |
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|align="right"|492 |
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|align="right"|16.1% |
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|- |
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| colspan="3" align=center|'''[[Alberta general election, 1921|1921 Alberta general election]] results ([[Vermilion (provincial electoral district)|Vermilion]])''' |
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| colspan="2"|<font style="font-size: 90%;">'''Turnout N.A.'''</font> |
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|- |
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| colspan="2" rowspan="1" align="left" valign="top" | '''Affiliation''' |
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| valign="top" |'''Candidate''' |
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| valign="top" |'''Votes''' |
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| valign="top" align="right"|'''%''' |
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{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/United Farmers/row}} |
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|[[United Farmers of Alberta]] |
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|[[Richard G. Reid]] |
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|align="right"|2,955 |
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|align="right"|75.9% |
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{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Liberal/row}} |
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|[[Alberta Liberal Party|Liberal]] |
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|A. W. Ebbett |
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|align="right"|939 |
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|align="right"|24.1% |
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|} |
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