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1959 Alberta general election, a Common card
The 1959 Alberta general election was held on June 18, 1959, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 34
- Power
- 105
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 3,000
Power 105 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Ernest C. Manning, in his fifth election as party leader and provincial premier, led the Social Credit Party to its seventh consecutive term in government, with 55% of the popular vote, and all but four of the sixty five seats in the legislature.
- Social Credit was also helped by a split in the opposition vote: whereas in the 1955 election, opponents were largely united behind the Liberal Party, in this election the vote was divided between the Liberals and the resurgent Progressive Conservative Party under the leadership of Cam Kirby, won almost 15% of the popular vote, placing ahead of the Liberals whose leader, Grant MacEwan lost his…
- The Tories and Liberals each won only one seat in the legislature while the Alberta CCF was shut out of the legislature for the first time in seventeen years.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The 1959 Alberta general election article was read about 3,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 71 and blocks with 34: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, 1959 Alberta general election (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.


