Elizabeth Gladys Robinson (May 28, 1899 – October 21, 1960) was a provincial politician from

Alberta Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...

, Canada. Following the death of her husband SC MLA

John Lyle Robinson John Lyle Robinson (August 28, 1890 – October 29, 1953) was a Canadian politician who served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 until his death in 1953 sitting with the Social Credit caucus. He served in the governmen ...

, she served as a

Social Credit Social credit is a distributive philosophy of political economy developed by C. H. Douglas. Douglas attributed economic downturns to discrepancies between the cost of goods and the compensation of the workers who made them. To combat what he ...

member of the

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from 1953 until her death in 1960, representing

Medicine Hat Medicine Hat is a city in Southern Alberta, southeast Alberta, Canada. It is located along the South Saskatchewan River. It is approximately east of Lethbridge and southeast of Calgary. This city and the adjacent Town of Redcliff, Alberta, ...

Political career

Robinson ran in a provincial by-election in the Medicine Hat electoral district on December 19, 1953, after her husband

died on October 29, 1953. John Robinson was a SC cabinet minister and MLA for the Medicine Hat district. Elizabeth Robinson won the 1953 by-election by a wide margin with almost 77% of the vote in a straight fight over E.W. Horne running under the Co-operative Commonwealth banner. The by-election was very low turnout, the lowest to date in the Medicine Hat district with just 28% of the voters casting a ballot. Robinson ran for a second term in the

1955 Alberta general election The 1955 Alberta general election was held on June 29, 1955, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Despite losing almost 10% of the popular vote (compared to its 1952 proportion of the vote) and 30% of its seats in the legislat ...

. She won a large but reduced majority defeating two other candidates to hold her seat. Robinson ran for her third and final term in the

1959 Alberta general election Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...

. She won the highest popular vote of her career despite her margin of victory dropping slightly. She held the district against three other candidates. Robinson, like her husband, died while holding office. She was hospitalized in Medicine Hat's University Hospital on August 31, 1960, after her illness worsened. She died on October 21, 1960, from the illness, which medical staff refused to disclose.

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External links

Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing
{{DEFAULTSORT:Robinson, Elizabeth Alberta Social Credit Party MLAs 1899 births 1960 deaths Women MLAs in Alberta 20th-century Canadian women politicians