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Floyd Albin Johnson was a Canadian politician who was the last leader of the Alberta Co-operative Commonwealth Federation from 1957 until 1962.
Johnson was born in South Dakota. He emigrated to Canada with his family when he was 12 and spent the rest of his youth on the family's homestead in Wetaskiwin, where he became involved with the United Farmers of Alberta. As an adult, he was a carpenter by trade and studied architecture, ultimately becoming a building contractor. In 1945, after being involved with construction projects in the north during World War II he co-founded and became president of Dicconson, Johnson and Company, a contracting firm specializing in building housing. He succeeded Elmer Roper as leader of the Alberta CCF in 1957, and led the party into the 1959 provincial election, in which it lost its only two seats in the Alberta legislature. He remained leader until the founding of the CCF's successor, the Alberta New Democratic Party, in 1962. Johnson sought the leadership of the new party at its first leadership convention on January 27, 1963 but withdrew before balloting began; Neil Reimer was elected leader.