Alberta general election, 1952

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The Alberta general election of 1952 was the twelfth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. It was held on August 5, 1952 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.

Ernest C. Manning in his third election as leader of the Social Credit Party, and its first election since the Social Credit Party paid off Alberta's first debt in 1949, led it to its fifth consecutive election victory, increasing its share of the popular vote, and winning fifty two of the sixty one seats in the legislature.

The Liberal Party formed the official opposition with only four seats. The Conservative Party returned to Alberta politics again, nominating candidates both under the "Conservative" banner, and under the "Progressive Conservative" banner recently adopted by its federal counterpart. The party won two seats, one under each banner. The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation won one seat, that of leader Elmer Roper. The remaining seat was won by an Independent.

[edit] Results

Party		Party Leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular Vote
				1948	Elected	% Change	#	%	% Change
	Social Credit	Ernest C. Manning	61	51	52	0%	167,789	56.24%	+0.61%
	Liberal	James Harper Prowse	55	2	4	+100.0%	66,738	22.37%	+4.51%
	Cooperative Commonwealth	Elmer Roper	41	2	2	0%	41,929	14.05%	-5.08%
	Conservative	John P. Page	5	*	1	*	6,271	2.10%	*
	Progressive Conservative	John P. Page	7	*	1	*	4,700	1.57%	*
	Independent Social Credit		6	1	1	-	4,203	1.41%	+0.41%
	Independent Labour		1	1	-	-100%	2,927	0.98%	-0.02%
	Labour Progressive		2	-	-		1,132	0.38%	-0.09%
	Independent		1	1	-	-100%	705	0.24%	-2.81%
	Farmer's candidate		1	*	-	*	655	0.22%	*
	Labour		1	-	-		527	0.18%	-1.03%
	Non-Partisan Farmer		1	*	-	*	463	0.16%	*
	People's candidate		1	*	-	*	296	0.10%	*
Total			183	57	61	+5.3%	298,3351	100%
Source: Elections Alberta

Notes:

¹ Taken from first count votes.

* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.

[edit] Members elected

For complete electoral history, see individual districts

12th Alberta Legislative Assembly
	District	Member	Party
	Acadia-Coronation	C.E. Gerhart	Social Credit
	Alexandria	Anders Aalborg	Social Credit
	Athabasca	Gordon Lee	Social Credit
	Banff-Cochrane	Lee Leavitt	Social Credit
	Bonnyville	Laudas Joly	Social Credit
	Bow Valley-Empress	Wilson Cain	Social Credit
	Bruce	Earl Hardy	Social Credit
	Calgary #1	Paul Brecken	Conservative
	Calgary #2	Rose Wilkinson	Social Credit
	Calgary #3	Frederick C. Colborne	Social Credit
	Calgary #4	Howard Macdonald	Social Credit
	Calgary #5	Arthur J. Dixon	Social Credit
	Calgary #6	Hugh John Macdonald	Liberal
	Camrose	Chester Sayers	Social Credit
	Cardston	Edgar Hinman	Social Credit
	Clover Bar	Floyd Baker	Social Credit
	Cypress	James Underdahl	Social Credit
	Didsbury	Howard Hammell	Social Credit
	Drumheller	Gordon Taylor	Social Credit
	Edmonton #1	Ernest Manning	Social Credit
	Edmonton #2	James Harper Prowse	Liberal
	Edmonton #3	Elmer Roper	Cooperative Commonwealth
	Edmonton #4	J. Donovan Ross	Social Credit
	Edmonton #5	Edgar Gerhart	Social Credit
	Edmonton #6	John P. Page	Progressive Conservative
	Edmonton #7	Harold Tanner	Liberal
	Edson	Norman Willmore	Social Credit
	Gliechen	George E. Bell	Social Credit
	Grand Prairie	Ira McLaughlin	Social Credit
	Grouard	Joseph Desfosses	Liberal
	Hand Hills	Wallace Warren Cross	Social Credit
	Lac La Biche	Harry Lobay	Social Credit
	Lac St. Anne	Angelo Montemurro	Social Credit
	Lacombe	Allan Patrick	Social Credit
	Leduc	Ronald Ansley	Independent Social Credit
	Lethbridge	John Landeryou	Social Credit
	Little Bow	Peter Dawson	Social Credit
	Macleod	James Hartley	Social Credit
	Medicine Hat	John L. Robinson	Social Credit
	Okotoks-High River	Ivan Casey	Social Credit
	Olds	Frederick Niddrie	Social Credit
	Peace River	William Gilliland	Social Credit
	Pembina	Robin Jorgenson	Social Credit
	Pincher Creek-Crowsnest	William Kovach	Social Credit
	Ponoka	Glen Johnston	Social Credit
	Red Deer	David A. Ure	Social Credit
	Redwater	Peter Chaba	Social Credit
	Rocky Mountain House	Alfred Hooke	Social Credit
	Sedgewick	Jack Hillman	Social Credit
	Spirit River	Adolf Fimrite	Social Credit
	St. Albert	Lucien Maynard	Social Credit
	St. Paul	Raymond Reierson	Social Credit
	Stettler	John E.Clark	Social Credit
	Stony Plain	Cornelia Wood	Social Credit
	Taber	Roy S. Lee	Social Credit
	Vegreville	Michael Ponich	Social Credit
	Vermillion	William Cornish	Social Credit
	Wainwright	William Masson	Social Credit
	Warner	Leonard Halmrast	Social Credit
	Wetaskiwin	John Wingblade	Social Credit
	Willingdon	Nick Dushenski	Cooperative Commonwealth

[edit] See also

• List of Alberta political parties

Preceded by 1948 Alberta election

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Succeeded by 1955 Alberta election

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