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Discrepancy[edit]

There is a 1 Liberal 1 Conservative discrepency between the Alberta Heritage records, and the Election Alberta records, Elections alberta lists 3 Conservatives being elected. In the Alberta Heritage list, 2 Conservatives only show up. I am reaserching the problem

Cloveious 03:28, 30 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I have confirmed that 23 Liberals and 2 Conservatives were elected, by reading through the Calgary Herald from various dates in November 1905 --Cloveious 22:12, 31 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed Merge[edit]

I had previously merged 1st Alberta Legislative Assembly into this article. That merge was reverted. As the merge is now effectively disputed, I leave it up to the community to come to a consensus. While there may be a technically correct point that a general election and a legislative assembly are two different things, the articles themselves are pretty much redundant redundant as they are almost identical. If there is to be a separate article for the general assembly, it ought not replicate this article. I would expect such an article to be about the 1st legislative assembly to be about what legislation was debated, what notable things happened, etc. Agent 86 21:18, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In an effort to help with the backlog of articles to be merged, I'm taking the merge tags off both articles. Nobody has replied in favor or against the merger since the post in June, and it seems to me that the articles are not identical, as the Legislative Assembly article is much longer and only shares one table with the Election article. If the previous merge was reverted, I'm thinking this is the way things should stay. Jaye 13:51, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Colour of the map is wrong[edit]

Could someone fix the colour of the map? all the Liberal seats are pink. Should be the same red as is used on the chart of candidates.Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 00:14, 3 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Updated figures[edit]

I noticed that the infobox and the table of seat standings showed the Conservatives with 3 members and no independents. That was what was shown on the Archives web-page. However, that archive page had a note that in case of a discrepency between the web version and the hard copy, the hard copy prevailed. The hard copy showed that the Conservatives only won 2 seats, and there was one Independent, Henry William McKenny. I updated the tables and figures based on the hard copy, since it has priority. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 22:05, 23 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]