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 |
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61 | 51 | 52 | 0% | 167,789 | 56.24% | +0.61% | |
| Liberal |
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55 | 2 | 4 | +100.0% | 66,738 | 22.37% | +4.51% | |
| Cooperative Commonwealth |
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41 | 2 | 2 | 0% | 41,929 | 14.05% | -5.08% | |
| Conservative |
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5 | * | 1 | * | 6,271 | 2.10% | * | |
| Progressive Conservative | 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% |
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| 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
[edit] See also
| Preceded by 1948 Alberta election |
Alberta elections | Succeeded by 1955 Alberta election |
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