1952 Alberta general election

1952 Alberta general election

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61 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta 31 seats were needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party   LIB Leader Ernest Manning James H. Prowse Party Social Credit Liberal Leader since May 31, 1943 June 25, 1947 Leader's seat Edmonton Edmonton Last election 51 seats, 55.6% 2 seats, 17.9% Seats before 49 2 Seats won 53 3 Seat change 4 1 Popular vote 167,789 66,738 Percentage 56.2% 22.4% Swing 0.6% 4.5%   Third party Fourth party   CON Leader Elmer E. Roper None Party Co-operative Commonwealth Conservative Leader since 1942 Leader's seat Edmonton Last election 2 seats, 19.1% did not contest Seats before 2 0 Seats won 2 2 Seat change ±0 2 Popular vote 41,929 10,971 Percentage 14.1% 3.7% Swing 4.7% —
Premier before election Ernest Manning Social Credit Premier after election Ernest Manning Social Credit

The 1952 Alberta general election was held on August 5, 1952, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.

Ernest C. Manning in his third election as leader of the Social Credit Party, and its first election since the Social Credit Party paid off Alberta's first debt in 1949, led it to its fifth consecutive election victory, increasing its share of the popular vote, and winning fifty two of the sixty one seats in the legislature.

The Liberal Party formed the official opposition with only four seats. The Conservative Party returned to Alberta politics again, nominating candidates 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 two seats, one that of leader Elmer Roper. The remaining seat was won by an Independent.

This provincial election, like the previous six, saw district-level proportional representation (Single transferable voting) used to elect the MLAs of Edmonton and Calgary. City-wide districts were used to elect multiple MLAs in the cities. All the other MLAs were elected in single-member districts through Instant-runoff voting.

Voter turn-out was 59.4 percent in this election.^[1]