Nanton-Claresholm
{{Short description|Defunct provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada}}
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Nanton-Claresholm was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1909 to 1926.{{cite web |title=Election results for Nanton-Claresholm. |url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/year_result.php?Constit=Nanton-Claresholm|website=abheritage.ca. |publisher=Heritage Community Foundation |access-date=8 June 2020 |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/2217/20101208183724/http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/year_result.php?Constit=Nanton-Claresholm|archive-date=December 8, 2010 |location=Wayback Machine}}
History
The Nanton-Claresholm electoral district was formed in 1930 from the Nanton and Claresholm electoral districts.
The electoral district was named for the Town of Nanton and Town of Claresholm.
Gordon Beverly Walker the United Farmers of Alberta candidate would win the first of two elections held in Nanton-Claresholm, Walker had previously served as the Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for the Claresholm district from 1926, and prior to the redistribution and formation of Nanton-Claresholm.
The Nanton-Claresholm electoral district was abolished prior to the 1940 Alberta general election to form the Macleod, Okotoks-High River and Little Bow electoral districts.
Harry O. Haslam, the Alberta Social Credit candidate would defeat Walker during the final of the two elections held in Nanton-Claresholm in 1935.
{{AbMLA/top|Members of the Legislative Assembly for Nanton-Claresholm}}
{{AbMLA/change|See Claresholm electoral district from 1909-1930
and Nanton electoral district from 1909-1930}}
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| FromYr = 1930
| ToYr = 1935
| Assembly# = 7
| AbParty = United Farmers
| RepName = Gordon Beverly Walker
| RepLink =
| #ByElections =
| PartyTerms# = 1
| RepTerms# = 1
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| FromYr = 1935
| ToYr = 1940
| Assembly# = 8
| AbParty = Social Credit
| RepName = Harry O. Haslam
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| PartyTerms# = 1
| RepTerms# = 1
}}
{{AbMLA/change|See Macleod electoral district from 1940-1993,
Okotoks-High River electoral district from 1940-1971
and Little Bow electoral district from 1940-2019}}
{{AbMLA/end}}
Election results
=1930=
{{Alberta provincial election, 1930/Nanton-Claresholm}}
=1935=
{{Alberta provincial election, 1935/Nanton-Claresholm}}
See also
- List of Alberta provincial electoral districts
- Nanton, Alberta, a town in southwest Alberta
- Claresholm, Alberta, a town in southwest Alberta
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book |author1=Office of the Chief Electoral Officer |author2=Legislative Assembly Office |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}}
External links
- [http://www.electionsalberta.ab.ca/ Elections Alberta]
- [http://www.assembly.ab.ca/ The Legislative Assembly of Alberta]
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