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Charles Edward Johnston

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would bring Johnston his largest vote total as he defeated five other candidates to win his fourth consecutive term in office. He would be re-elected to a fifth term in office with another comfortable plurality in the
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for the opposition federal Social Credit party from 1935 to 1958. He moved to provincial politics and served as a member of the
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Johnston would increase his margin of victory winning his third term in office defeating four other candidates in the
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After being defeated from federal politics he would run for a seat to the Alberta Legislature as the governing
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to win his first term in office. Johnston ran for re-election in the
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from 1959 to 1967 for the governing Alberta Social Credit party.
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Charles Edward Johnston – Parliament of Canada biography
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20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada
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candidate in the new provincial electoral district of
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Index

Member of Parliament
Edward Joseph Garland
Eldon Woolliams
Bow River
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Len Werry
Calgary Bowness
Bay Mills
Michigan
United States
Houston, Texas
Social Credit
House of Commons of Canada
Legislative Assembly of Alberta
House of Commons of Canada
Social Credit
1935 Canadian federal election
Edward Joseph Garland
1940 Canadian federal election
Alberta
Aylmer Liesemer
1945 Canadian federal election
1949 Canadian federal election
1953 Canadian federal election
1957 Canadian federal election
Progressive Conservative
Eldon Woolliams
1958 Canadian federal election
Alberta Social Credit
Calgary Bowness

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