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The Alberta Progressive Conservative Association is a provincial right-of-centre party in the Canadian province of Alberta. The party has formed the provincial government, without interruption, since 1971 under the leadership of Peter Lougheed (1971-1985), Don Getty (1985-1992) and current Premier Ralph Klein (1992-present). Image File history File links PCP_Alb_logo. ...
1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
The Honourable Ralph Phillip Klein (born November 1, 1942), leader of the Alberta Progressive Conservatives, is current premier of the Canadian province of Alberta. ...
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Motto: Fortis et Liber (Strong and free) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Edmonton Largest city Calgary Lieutenant-Governor Norman Kwong Premier Ralph Klein (PC) Area 661,848 km² (6th) • Land 642,317 km² • Water 19,531 km² (2. ...
1971 (MCMLXXI) is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ...
Peter Lougheed, painting by C. Leeper The Honourable Peter Lougheed, PC , CC , QC (born July 26, 1928, in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian lawyer, politician and Canadian Football League player. ...
1971 (MCMLXXI) is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ...
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Donald Ross Getty (born August 30, 1933), Canadian politician, was Premier of Alberta and leader of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party between 1985 and 1992. ...
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1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...
The Honourable Ralph Phillip Klein (born November 1, 1942), leader of the Alberta Progressive Conservatives, is current premier of the Canadian province of Alberta. ...
1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...
History
Origins and early years The party was created from the Northwest Territories Liberal-Conservative Party that existed from 1898 - 1905. Unlike their predecesor party that formed government during its entire existence, the Tories were a marginal party in Alberta for most of the province's history. In the province's first election, the 1905 election, the Conservatives, led by future Canadian Prime Minister R. B. Bennett, won only two seats and were barely able to improve on that in subsequent elections. The main policy difference between the Tories and the Alberta Liberal Party was over the Tories' belief that the province should control its natural resources, which the province had been denied. The Northwest Territories Liberal-Conservative Party was a short lived political party in the Northwest Territories, Canada, from 1898-1905. ...
The term Tory derives from the Tory Party, the ancestor of the modern UK Conservative Party. ...
The Alberta general election of 1905 was the first general election held in the Province of Alberta, Canada. ...
The Prime Minister of Canada (French: Premier ministre du Canada), the head of the Government of Canada, is usually the leader of the political party with the most seats in the Canadian House of Commons. ...
For the British composer named Richard Bennett, see Richard Rodney Bennett. ...
The Alberta Liberal Party is a political party in Alberta, Canada. ...
On the political sidelines In the 1913 election, the Tories achieved a breakthrough, winning 18 seats and 45% of the vote. Despite this result, and an even better result in the 1917 election, they were still unable to beat the Liberals. The Tories then split into 'traditional' and 'radical' camps. The party collapsed, and was unable to run a full slate of candidates in the 1921 election. Only one Conservative MLA was returned to the Legislature in this election, in which the new United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) defeated the Liberals, and took power. The Alberta general election of 1913 was the third general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. ...
The Alberta general election of 1917 was the fourth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada, held on June 7, 1917 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ...
The Alberta general election of 1921 was the fifth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. ...
This article is about the term as used within the Commonwealth of Nations; there is also an Legislative Assembly in Oregon and there used to be a Legislative Assembly in France during the French Revolution. ...
The United Farmers of Alberta was founded in 1909 as a lobby organization representing the interests of farmers. ...
For the next fifty years, the Tories were unable to elect more than a half dozen MLAs. The party was marginalized after the UFA was able to negotiate the province's control of its resources from Ottawa, denying the Tories their major policy plank.
In 1935, the UFA collapsed. The Social Credit took power on a populist and Christian conservative platform. Social Credit attracted conservative voters for decades, particularly after the party moved away from its radical social credit economic theories, and embraced fiscal conservatism. 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
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. ...
Social Credit is an economic ideology and a social movement which started in the early 1920s. ...
The party in the 1940s and 1950s In the late 1930s, the Conservatives and Liberals formed a united front in an attempt to fight Social Credit and, as a result, no Conservative candidates ran in 1940 election, 1944 election and 1948 election. Supporters of both parties ran instead as independents. // Events and trends The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the global depression. ...
The Alberta general election of 1940 was the ninth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada, was held on March 21, 1940 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ...
The Alberta general election of 1944 was the tenth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. ...
The Alberta general election of 1948 was the eleventh general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. ...
The failure of the coalition strategy led to the reemergence of separate Liberal and Conservative parties in the early 1950s. The Tories only nominated five candidates in the 1952 election, only one of whom won election. // Events and trends This map shows two essential global spheres during the Cold War in 1959. ...
The Alberta general election of 1952 was the twelveth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. ...
The Tories became Progressive Conservatives in 1959 in order to conform with the name of the federal Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. The party continued to be unable to improve their fortunes, and lost their only seats in the legislature. 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC) was a Canadian centre-right conservative political party that existed from 1867 to 2003. ...
The party under Peter Lougheed In March 1965, Peter Lougheed became leader of the party, and began transforming it into a political force by combining conservative financial principles with a modernist, urban outlook. This approach was in stark contrast to the parochialism and rural agrarianism of Social Credit. 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ...
Peter Lougheed, painting by C. Leeper The Honourable Peter Lougheed, PC , CC , QC (born July 26, 1928, in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian lawyer, politician and Canadian Football League player. ...
In 1967 election, Lougheed's Tories achieved an electoral breakthrough, electing seven MLAs. Lougheed became the province's Official opposition. The Alberta general election of 1967 was the sixteenth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. ...
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The Leader of the Opposition is a title traditionally held by the leader of the largest party not in government in a Westminster System of parliamentary government. ...
In 1968, Social Credit Premier Ernest Manning resigned after twenty five years, and was replaced by Harry E. Strom. Strom was unable to reinvigorate the tired, agrarian Social Credit party, which had been in government since the Great Depression. Albertans, particularly those associated with the booming oil industry, began to turn to the young and dynamic Lougheed Tories. 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...
A premier is an executive official of government. ...
Ernest Charles Manning The Honourable Senator Ernest Charles Manning, CC, PC (September 20, 1908 - February 19, 1996), Canadian politician, was Premier of Alberta between 1943 and 1968, the longest term of office of any Alberta premier, and the second longest serving premier in Canada. ...
The Honourable Harry Edwin Strom (July 7, 1914 - October 2, 1984), Canadian politician, was Premier of Alberta between 1968 and 1971. ...
The Great Depression was a massive global economic recession (or depression) that ran from 1929 to approximately 1939. ...
In the 1971 election, the Progressive Conservatives defeated Social Credit, winning 49 seats to Social Credit's 25. The party formed a majority government, with Lougheed as Premier. The Alberta general election of 1971 was the seventeenth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. ...
In the Westminster System, a majority government is one in which the government enjoys an absolute majority of seats in the legislature or Parliament. ...
In power, the Progressive Conservatives fought a long battle with the federal government over control of Alberta's natural resources (particularly oil). The oil industry provided the Alberta government with large revenue surpluses that allowed it to maintain Alberta as the only province or territory in Canada without a provincial retail sales tax. Alberta experienced a large development boom, particularly in Calgary, in the 1970s and 1980s. A sales tax is a tax on consumption. ...
The 1970s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1970 and 1979. ...
The 1980s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1980 and 1989. ...
During the Lougheed years, Alberta became a virtual one-party state, carrying almost all the seats in the provincial legislature. Lougheed's successor, Don Getty was unable to match the Lougheed Tories' dominance in the provincial legislature, but he enjoyed large majorities nevertheless. Donald Ross Getty (born August 30, 1933), Canadian politician, was Premier of Alberta and leader of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party between 1985 and 1992. ...
Recent history under Ralph Klein While the popularity of the Tories sagged somewhat under Don Getty, it was revived under Ralph Klein, whose government has been more socially conservative and fiscally conservative. The party was reduced to 51 seats in the 1993 election, but gained stronger majorities in 1997 and 2001. The Honourable Ralph Phillip Klein (born November 1, 1942), leader of the Alberta Progressive Conservatives, is current premier of the Canadian province of Alberta. ...
Tensions have developed within Albertan society and perhaps even within the party between social conservatives and fiscal conservatives as the former have raised concerns about issues such as same sex marriage. This has motivated Klein to muse about Alberta using the Canadian Constitution's notwithstanding clause to deny gay couples rights accorded to them by the courts. Alberta under the Tories has also been the province most willing to challenge Canada's system of Publicly funded medicine, introducing private clinics and threatening to opt out of the Canada Health Act, despite the claims of some that he does not have a mandate from the electorate to do so. Same-sex marriage (also called gay marriage, and—less frequently—homosexual marriage) refers to marriage between partners of the same gender (for other forms of same-sex unions that are different from marriages, see the articles linked in that section). ...
Section Thirty-three of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (known as la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés in French) is part of the Constitution of Canada. ...
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The Canada Health Act is a piece of Canadian federal legislation, adopted in 1984, that lists the conditions and criteria to which the provinces and territories must conform in order to receive the full amount of negotiated transfer payments relating to health care. ...
It was always viewed as unlikely that a centrist or left-leaning opposition party (the largest ones being Alberta Liberal Party and the Alberta New Democrats) would be in a serious position to challenge the Conservatives for power in the 2004 general election. The Liberals , New Democrats, and a new right wing party, the Alberta Alliance, all campaigned aggressively against the Tories in 2004. The Klein government was re-elected, but lost a dozen urban seats. Many pundits expected losses in Edmonton, but perhaps most significant was the loss of seats to the Liberals in Calgary, where the Tories had previously held every seat. The Alberta Liberal Party is a political party in Alberta, Canada. ...
The Alberta New Democrats or Alberta NDP is a social democratic political party in Canada that was founded as the Alberta section of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation. ...
Alberta riding map showing the winning parties and their vote percentage in each won riding. ...
In politics, right-wing, the political right, or simply the right, are terms which refer, with no particular precision, to the segment of the political spectrum in opposition to left-wing politics. ...
The Alberta Alliance is a right wing political party in Alberta. ...
The Alliance did not seriously challenge the Tories' majority either, but it was competitive in several rural districts that could formerly have been described as Tory bastions. Although the Alliance only won one seat, from the Tories' perspective that seat was a formerly ultra-safe southwestern district. This has led many pundits to conclude that although the Alliance gained less than ten percent of the popular vote in 2004, it could potentially be in a position to launch a more serious challange to the Tories in the future.
On July 20, 2005 Ralph Klein, issued a press release that said he will retire in 2007. Several cabinet ministers have been touted has possible successors, although one contender, Mark Norris was defeated in his Edmonton district. Also mentioned as likely contenders are former "Senator-in-Waiting" Ted Morton and former MLA Jim Dinning. Dr. Frederick Lee (Ted) Morton (born 1949, Los Angeles, California) is a Canadian politician and currently sitting Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ...
Jim Dinning is a Canadian politician and businessman. ...
Party leaders Northwest Territories Liberal-Conservative Party Alberta Conservative Party Sir Frederick William Alpin Gordon Haultain (November 25, 1857–January 30, 1942) was the first premier of Canadas North-West Territories (1897–1905) and the last premier prior to the creation of the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan from the original territory. ...
(Party in coalition with Liberal Party 1940-1952) For the British composer named Richard Bennett, see Richard Rodney Bennett. ...
The Alberta general election of 1905 was the first general election held in the Province of Alberta, Canada. ...
The Alberta general election was 1909 was the second general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. ...
For the British composer named Richard Bennett, see Richard Rodney Bennett. ...
The Alberta general election of 1917 was the fourth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada, held on June 7, 1917 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ...
The Alberta general election of 1935 was the eighth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. ...
Alberta Progressive Conservative Party The Alberta general election of 1952 was the twelveth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. ...
The Alberta general election of 1955 was the thirteenth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. ...
The Alberta general election of 1959 was the fourteenth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. ...
Peter Lougheed, painting by C. Leeper The Honourable Peter Lougheed, PC , CC , QC (born July 26, 1928, in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian lawyer, politician and Canadian Football League player. ...
Donald Getty The Honourable Donald Ross Getty, PC , OC , AOE (born August 30, 1933), Canadian politician, was Premier of Alberta and leader of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party between 1985 and 1992. ...
The Honourable Ralph Phillip Klein (born November 1, 1942), leader of the Alberta Progressive Conservatives, is current premier of the Canadian province of Alberta. ...
See also Alberta is a province of Canada. ...
A political party is a political organization subscribing to a certain ideology or formed around very special issues with the aim to participate in power, usually by participating in elections. ...
The Northwest Territories Liberal-Conservative Party was a short lived political party in the Northwest Territories, Canada, from 1898-1905. ...
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