Social Credit Party of Canada

The Social Credit Party of Canada was a conservative - populist political party in Canada that promoted social credit theories of monetary reform. It was the federal wing of the Canadian social credit movement.

A Western protest movement: 1935–1961

When first formed in 1935, Social Credit took many voters from the Progressive Party of Canada and the United Farmers Movement. The party grew out of disaffection with the status quo during the Great Depression. The depression hit the party's western Canadian birth-place especially hard, and can be credited both for the creation of this party and the rise of a social democratic party, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation.

Related Topics:
Progressive Party of Canada - United Farmers - Great Depression - Cooperative Commonwealth Federation

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In 1935, in the party's first election, it won seventeen seats, all but two of them in Alberta, where it won over 46% of that province's popular vote.

Related Topics:
Election - Alberta - Popular vote

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In 1939, Social Credit joined with former Conservative William Duncan Herridge and his supporters in the New Democracy movement. The Social Credit Party ran in the 1940 election under the "New Democracy" name, but reverted to "Social Credit" for the 1945 election.

Related Topics:
Conservative - William Duncan Herridge - New Democracy - 1940 election - 1945 election

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