alberta general election, 1948

The 11th general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada, was held on August 17, 1948 to elect members of the Alberta legislature. Ernest C. Manning led the Social Credit to a fourth term in government, increasing its share of the popular vote further above the 50% mark it had set in the 1944 election, and winning 51 of the 57 seats in the legislature. The remaining seats were won by the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, the Liberal Party and independents.

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	Ernest C. Manning	align="right"\|57	align="right"\| 51	align="right"\| 51	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| 164,003	align="right"\| 55.63%	align="right"\| +3.75%
Cooperative Commonwealth		align="right"\| 51	align="right"\| 2	align="right"\| 2	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| 56,387	align="right"\| 19.13%	align="right"\| -5.79%
Liberal		align="right"\| 49	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| 2	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| 52,655	align="right"\| 17.86%	align="right"\| n.a.
Independent		align="right"\| 7	align="right"\| 3	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| -66.7%	align="right"\| 9,014	align="right"\| 3.05%	align="right"\| -13.70%
Independent Citizen's		align="right"\|2	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| 3,969	align="right"\| 1.35%	align="right"\| n.a.
Labour		align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| 3,579	align="right"\| 1.21%	align="right"\|n.a.
Independent Social Credit		align="right"\| 3	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| 2,958	align="right"\| 1.00%	align="right"\| n.a.
Labour Progressive		align="right"\| 2	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 1,372	align="right"\| 0.47%	align="right"\| -3.79%
United Labour		align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| 856	align="right"\| 0.30%	align="right"\| n.a.
Total		173	57	57	-	294,793	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, 1948

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