alberta general election, 1955

The 13th general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada, was held on June 29, 1955 to elect members of the Alberta legislature. Despite losing almost 10% of the popular vote and 30% of its seats in the legislature, the Social Credit Party of Ernest C. Manning still won a comfortable majority for its sixth term in government. The Liberal Party emerged as the principal opposition to the Social Credit juggernaut, winning over 30% of the popular vote, and increasing its legislative caucus from 3 members to 15. The Conservative Party, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, and various independents also won seats.

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"\|62	align="right"\| 53	align="right"\| 37	align="right"\| -30.2%	align="right"\| 175,553	align="right"\| 46.42%	align="right"\| -9.82%
Liberal		align="right"\| 53	align="right"\| 3	align="right"\| 15	align="right"\| +400%	align="right"\| 117,741	align="right"\| 31.13%	align="right"\| +8.76%
Conservative	Percy Page	align="right"\| 26	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| 3	align="right"\| +200%	align="right"\| 34,757	align="right"\| 9.19%	align="right"\| +7.09%
Cooperative Commonwealth		align="right"\| 38	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| 2	align="right"\| +100%	align="right"\| 31,180	align="right"\| 8.24%	align="right"\| -5.81%
Coalition		align="right"\| 2	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| 4,581	align="right"\| 1.21%	align="right"\| n.a.
Independent		align="right"\| 7	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 4,225	align="right"\| 1.13%	align="right"\| +0.89%
Liberal Conservative		align="right"\| 2	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| 4,001	align="right"\| 1.06%	align="right"\| n.a.
Independent Social Credit		align="right"\| 3	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| 2,721	align="right"\| 0.72%	align="right"\| -0.69%
Labour Progressive		align="right"\| 9	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 3,420	align="right"\| 0.90%	align="right"\| +0.52%
Total		202	60	61	+1.7%	378,179	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, 1955

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