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Edmonton
Northwest Territories
1902 general election

Edmonton was a territorial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Northwest Territories, Canada

.

History

The riding was created by royal proclamation in 1883, the second district to elect a representative to the

Alberta provisional district
.

In 1885 the riding of

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).

Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs)

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Edmonton
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,

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

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).

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

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% Green tickY
Independent Frank Oliver 350 28.83% Green tickY
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.

Elections in the 1890s

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 election

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.

See also

  • Edmonton Alberta provincial electoral district.
  • Edmonton federal electoral district.

References

  1. ^ "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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