alberta general election, 1952

The 12th general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada, was held on August 5, 1948 to elect members of the Alberta legislature. Ernest C. Manning in his third election as leader of the Social Credit Party, led it to its fifth consecutive election victory, increasing its share of the popular vote, and winning 53 of the 60 seats in the legislature. The Liberal Party formed the official opposition with only 3 seats. The Conservative Party returned to Alberta politics again, nominating cnadidates 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, and the remaining two seats were won by 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"\|61	align="right"\| 51	align="right"\| 53	align="right"\| +3.9%	align="right"\| 167,789	align="right"\| 56.24%	align="right"\| +0.61%
Liberal		align="right"\| 55	align="right"\| 2	align="right"\| 3	align="right"\| +50.0%	align="right"\| 66,738	align="right"\| 22.37%	align="right"\| +4.51%
Cooperative Commonwealth		align="right"\| 41	align="right"\| 2	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| -50.0%	align="right"\| 41,929	align="right"\| 14.05%	align="right"\| -5.08%
Conservative	Percy Page	align="right"\| 5	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| 6,271	align="right"\| 2.10%	align="right"\| n.a.
Progressive Conservative	Percy Page	align="right"\| 7	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| 4,700	align="right"\| 1.57%	align="right"\| n.a.
Independent Social Credit		align="right"\| 6	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| 4,203	align="right"\| 1.41%	align="right"\| +0.41%
Independent Labour		align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -100%	align="right"\| 2,927	align="right"\| 0.98%	align="right"\| -0.02%
Labour Progressive		align="right"\| 2	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 1,132	align="right"\| 0.38%	align="right"\| -0.09%
Independent		align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -100%	align="right"\| 705	align="right"\| 0.24%	align="right"\| -2.81%
Farmer's candidate		align="right"\|1	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| 655	align="right"\| 0.22%	align="right"\| n.a.
Labour		align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 527	align="right"\| 0.18%	align="right"\|-1.03%
Non-Partisan Farmer		align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| 463	align="right"\| 0.16%	align="right"\| n.a.
People's candidate		align="right"\|1	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| 296	align="right"\| 0.10%	align="right"\| n.a.
Total		183	57	60	+5.3%	298,335(1)	100.00%
align="center" colspan="9"\|Source: Elections Alberta

Notes: (1) Taken from first count votes. "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, 1952

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