alberta general election, 1935

The 8th general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada, was held on August 22, 1935 to elect members of the Alberta legislature. Premier John E. Brownlee was forced to resign on July 10, 1934 when he was sued and found guilty of the seduction of a young clerk working in the Attorney-General's office. The scandal hurt the United Farmers of Alberta's reputation among socially conservative Albertans. The new UFA leader, Richard G. Reid, was unable to recover the party's popularity. The UFA's fiscal conservatism and the taint of moral turpitude led to the government's defeat in the 1935 election at the hands of the new Social Credit Party of Alberta and its leader evangelist William Aberhart. Every UFA candidate was defeated. Aberhart's combination of economic populism with Christian social conservatism highlighted the UFA's weaknesses. Social Credit won 56 of the 63 seats in the legislature, and over 50% of the popular vote.

owspan="2"\|Party	rowspan="2"\|Party Leader	rowspan="2"\|# of candidates	colspan="3"\|Seats	colspan="3"\|Popular Vote
lign="center"\|Previous	align="center"\|After	align="center"\|% Change	align="center"\|#	align="center"\|%	align="center"\|Change
Social Credit	William Aberhart	align="right"\|63	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| 56	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| 163,700	align="right"\| 54.25%	align="right"\| n.a.
Liberal		align="right"\| 61	align="right"\| 11	align="right"\| 5	align="right"\| -54.5%	align="right"\| 69,845	align="right"\| 23.14%	align="right"\| -1.45%
Conservative	D.W. Duggan	align="right"\|39	align="right"\| 6	align="right"\| 2	align="right"\| -66.7%	align="right"\|19,358	align="right"\| 6.41%	align="right"\| -8.44%
United Farmers	Richard G. Reid	align="right"\|45	align="right"\| 39	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -100%	align="right"\| 33,063	align="right"\| 11.00%	align="right"\| -28.41%
Communist		align="right"\| 9	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| -	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 5,771	align="right"\| 1.91%	align="right"\| n.a.
Labour		align="right"\| 11	align="right"\| 4	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -100%	align="right"\| 5,086	align="right"\| 1.68%	align="right"\|-5.95%
Independent		align="right"\| 7	align="right"\| 3	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -100%	align="right"\| 2,740	align="right"\| 0.90%	align="right"\| -12.62%
Independent Liberal		align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| 955	align="right"\| 0.31%	align="right"\| n.a.
United Front		align="right"\|1	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| 560	align="right"\| 0.19%	align="right"\| n.a.
Independent Conservative		align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| 258	align="right"\| 0.08%	align="right"\| n.a.
Independent Labour		align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| 224	align="right"\| 0.07%	align="right"\| n.a.
Economic Reconstruction		align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| 192	align="right"\| 0.06%	align="right"\| n.a.
Total		240	63	63	-	301,752	100.00%
align="center" colspan="9"\|Source: Elections Alberta

Notes: "Previous" refers to to standings at previous election, not to standings in the Legislature at dissolution. n.a. = not applicable - the party was not recognized in the previous election

Alberta General Election, 1935

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