Acadia-Coronation

The Acadia-Coronation electoral district was formed from the Acadia electoral district prior to the 1940 Alberta general election. The district would be dissolved prior to the 1963 Alberta general election and be split into Hand Hills-Acadia and Sedgewick-Coronation electoral districts.

{{AbMLA/top|Members of the Legislative Assembly for Acadia-Coronation}}

{{AbMLA/change|See Acadia electoral district from 1913 to 1940}}

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| FromYr = 1940

| ToYr = 1944

| Assembly# = 9

| AbParty = Social Credit

| RepName = Clarence E. Gerhart

| RepLink = Clarence Gerhart

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| PartyTerms# = 4

| RepTerms# = 4

}}

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| FromYr = 1944

| ToYr = 1948

| Assembly# = 10

}}

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| FromYr = 1948

| ToYr = 1952

| Assembly# = 11

}}

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| FromYr = 1952

| ToYr = 1955

| Assembly# = 12

}}

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| FromYr = 1955

| ToYr = 1959

| Assembly# = 13

| AbParty = Liberal

| RepName = James Leland Sims

| RepLink =

| #ByElections =

| PartyTerms# = 1

| RepTerms# = 1

}}

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| FromYr = 1959

| ToYr = 1963

| Assembly# = 14

| AbParty = Social Credit

| RepName = Marion Kelts

| RepLink =

| #ByElections =

| PartyTerms# = 1

| RepTerms# = 1

}}

{{AbMLA/change|See Sedgewick-Coronation electoral district from 1963 to 1979
and Hand Hills-Acadia electoral district from 1963 to 1971}}

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{{Alberta provincial election, 1959/Acadia-Coronation}}

On October 30, 1957, a stand-alone plebiscite was held province wide in all 50 of the then current provincial electoral districts in Alberta. The government decided to consult Alberta voters to decide on liquor sales and mixed drinking after a divisive debate in the Legislature. The plebiscite was intended to deal with the growing demand for reforming antiquated liquor control laws.{{cite news|title=Albertans Vote 2 to 1 For More Liquor Outlets|publisher=The Lethbridge Herald|date=October 31, 1957|pages=1–2|work=Vol L No 273}}

The plebiscite was conducted in two parts. Question A, asked in all districts, asked the voters if the sale of liquor should be expanded in Alberta, while Question B, asked in a handful of districts within the corporate limits of Calgary and Edmonton, asked if men and women should be allowed to drink together in establishments.

Province wide Question A of the plebiscite passed in 33 of the 50 districts while Question B passed in all five districts. Acadia-Coronation was split on the issue, but voted in favour of the proposal. The district recorded one of the best turnouts in the province, well above the province wide 46% average.

Official district returns were released to the public on December 31, 1957. The Social Credit government in power at the time did not consider the results binding.{{cite news|title=No Sudden Change In Alberta Drinking Habits Is Seen|publisher=The Lethbridge Herald|date=October 24, 1957|page=1|work=Vol L No 267}} However the results of the vote led the government to repeal all existing liquor legislation and introduce an entirely new Liquor Act.{{cite news|title=Entirely New Act On Liquor|publisher=The Lethbridge Herald|date=March 5, 1958|page=1|work=Vol LI No 72}}

Municipal districts lying inside electoral districts that voted against the plebiscite were designated Local Option Zones by the Alberta Liquor Control Board and considered effective dry zones. Business owners who wanted a licence had to petition for a binding municipal plebiscite in order to be granted a licence.{{cite book|title=Alberta Bills 12th Legislature 1st Session|publisher=Government of Alberta|chapter=Bill 81|page=40|year=1958}}

• List of Alberta provincial electoral districts
• Canadian provincial electoral districts
• Acadia (federal electoral district)

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• {{cite book |author1=Office of the Chief Electoral Officer |author2=Legislative Assembly Office |author2-link=Legislative Assembly of Alberta |author-link1=Elections Alberta |title=A Century of Democracy: Elections of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1905-2005 |date=2006 |publisher=Legislative Assembly of Alberta |series=The Centennial Series |location=Edmonton, AB |isbn=0-9689217-8-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/centennialseries04perr/mode/2up |access-date=25 May 2020}}

• [http://www.electionsalberta.ab.ca/ Elections Alberta]
• [http://www.assembly.ab.ca/ The Legislative Assembly of Alberta]

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