Social Credit Party of Alberta

The Social Credit Party of Alberta is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada that was founded on the social credit monetary policy and conservative Christian social values.

Partial Rebirth into the 90's

After a lackluster election in 1989 The party was rekindled under the leadership of Randy Thorsteinson, a Reform Party of Canada activist. Social Credit made a showing in 1993. In the 1997 election, the party nominated 70 candidates, and won 64,667 votes, over 7% of the popular vote. It failed to have any of its members elected.

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Randy Thorsteinson - Reform Party of Canada - 1993 - 1997 election

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After the 1997 election polling revealed that the Social Credit Party was poised for a break through an estimated 150,000 Albertans would have been ready to once again support Social Credit as an alternative which would have meant up to eight seats or more in the legislature. In April 1999, Thorsteinson, a devout Latter-day Saint, resigned to protest an internal party proposal to limit the involvement of the Mormons within the party. The fortunes of the Social Credit party quickly faded.

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1999 - Latter-day Saint - Mormon

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In November 1999, James Alberts was elected to lead the party in a hotly contested nomination over Jon Dykstra and Norm Racine. Wiebo Ludwig was disqualified. During the election of 2001 the right wing vote fractured between the newly formed Alberta First Party and Social Credit and the lions share went back to supporting the Progressive Conservatives who were at the height of popularity.

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1999 - James Alberts - Jon Dykstra - Norm Racine - Wiebo Ludwig - Alberta First Party - Social Credit

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Thorsteinson founded the Alberta Alliance Party in October 2002.

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Alberta Alliance Party - 2002

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Lavern Ahlstrom was appointed leader of the party in February of 2001. Under Ahlstrom's leadership, the party has made moves toward re-embracing elements of social credit monetary threory.

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Lavern Ahlstrom - 2001

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The party nominated 12 candidates in the 2001 election (down from 70 in 1997) and received 5,361 votes (0.5% of the poular vote), down from 64,667.

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