In 1921, with the fall of the Liberal government, he was defeated by Laudas Joly of the United Farmers of Alberta.

In 1926, Alberta began to use the instant-runoff system to elect MLAs in rural districts.

This can be seen in the dramatic drop in spoiled (incorrectly marked) ballots compared to previous elections.

On October 30, 1957 a stand-alone plebiscite was held province wide in all 50 of the then current provincial electoral districts in Alberta.

The plebiscite was intended to deal with the growing demand for reforming antiquated liquor control laws.

Voter turnout in the district was abysmal falling well under the province wide average of 46%.

[6] Municipal districts lying inside electoral districts that voted against the Plebiscite were designated Local Option Zones by the Alberta Liquor Control Board and considered effective dry zones, business owners that wanted a license had to petition for a binding municipal plebiscite in order to be granted a license.