The 1915 Alberta liquor plebiscite was the first plebiscite to ask Alberta voters to decide on a public issue. The 1915 question was whether Alberta should implement prohibition by ratifying the proposed Liquor Act. The plebiscite was the culmination of years of lobbying by the province's temperance movements and agricultural groups, and was forced by the submission of a 24,000-name petition under a recently implemented direct democracy law, the Direct Legislation Act. Alberta voters voted in favour of prohibition, which was implemented eleven months after the vote. The June 21, 1915 plebiscite was the first of three province-wide plebiscites held in a seven-year period related to liquor in Alberta.
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