The politics of Alberta are centred on a provincial government resembling that of the other Canadian provinces,namely a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy. The capital of the province is Edmonton,where the provincial Legislative Building is located.
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta was a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta that existed from 1905 to 2020. The party formed the provincial government,without interruption,from 1971 until the party's defeat in the 2015 provincial election under premiers Peter Lougheed,Don Getty,Ralph Klein,Ed Stelmach,Alison Redford,Dave Hancock and Jim Prentice. At 44 years,this was the longest unbroken run in government at the provincial or federal level in Canadian history.
The Alberta Liberal Party is a provincial political party in Alberta,Canada. Founded in 1905,it is the oldest active political party in Alberta and was the dominant political party until the 1921 election,with the first three provincial Premiers being Liberals. Since 1921,it has formed the official opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta several times,most recently from 1993 until 2012. Fourteen Liberals have served as Leader of the Opposition of Alberta.
The Alberta New Democratic Party,is social democratic political party in Alberta,Canada. The party sits on the centre-left to left-wing of the political spectrum and is a provincial Alberta affiliate of the federal New Democratic Party.
Randy Thorsteinson is a politician and businessman in Red Deer,Alberta,Canada.
Raymond James Martin is a politician in Alberta,Canada and former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
Nancy MacBeth is a Canadian politician who was the leader of the Alberta Liberal Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1998 to 2001. She was the first female opposition leader in the province's history.
Paul Hinman is a Canadian politician and businessman who is currently the leader of the Wildrose Loyalty Coalition. He was the leader of the Wildrose Independence Party of Alberta from 2020 to 2022,and was the leader of the Wildrose Alliance (2008–2009) and Alberta Alliance Party (2005–2008). He served two terms as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta,from 2004 to 2008 representing the electoral district of Cardston-Taber-Warner and then from 2009 to 2012 in Calgary-Glenmore.
Edmonton-Decore is a provincial electoral district in Alberta,Canada. It is one of 87 districts mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting. It was most recently contested in the general election of 2019.
Edmonton-McClung is a provincial electoral district in Edmonton,Alberta,Canada. The district was created in 1993 and is named after Nellie McClung. The current MLA is Lorne Dach of the NDP,who was first elected in 2015.
Edmonton Meadowlark was a provincial electoral district in Alberta,Canada,mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting from 1971 to 2019.
Edmonton-Strathcona is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta,Canada. It shares the same name as the federal electoral district of Edmonton Strathcona.
Mo Elsalhy is a politician,pharmacist and businessman from Alberta,Canada. He received his Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from the University of Alberta in 1994.
Ronald Liepert is a Canadian politician from Alberta who serves as the Member of Parliament for Calgary Signal Hill in the House of Commons of Canada. He previously served in the Cabinet of Alberta as Minister of Finance,Energy,Health and Wellness and Education under premiers Ed Stelmach and Alison Redford. From 2004 to 2012,he was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta,representing the constituency of Calgary-West,as a Progressive Conservative legislator. On April 12,2014,Liepert won the federal Conservative nomination in Calgary Signal Hill,defeating incumbent Rob Anders,and was elected to parliament in 2015. He was re-elected in 2019 and 2021.
George Kenneth (Ken) Allred is a politician in Alberta,Canada,who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta,in which he sat as a member of the Progressive Conservative caucus. He is also a former municipal councillor in St. Albert,Alberta and former candidate for the House of Commons of Canada.
The Dominion Labor Party (Alberta) was a minor political party. It was founded on June 11,1918 when Edmonton's Labour Representation League renamed itself the Alberta wing of the DLP. Its executive included Mr. Marshall,Mr. Mercer,Mr. Dan Knott,later mayor of the city,White,Findlay and Farmilo,and Elmer Roper,later mayor Edmonton.
An Alberta Liberal Party leadership election was held at the Alberta Liberal Party's 2017 Annual General Meeting in order choose a permanent successor to Raj Sherman who resigned on January 26,2015. Sherman,who was under investigation over alleged illegal campaign donations,indicated in a statement to the media that he was resigning as leader immediately for personal reasons and did not run for re-election as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta at the provincial election held on May 5,2015. The leadership election was originally scheduled for April 23,2016 but has been delayed for a year to give prospective candidates more time to organize. David Khan was elected.
The 2019 Alberta general election was held on April 16,2019,to elect 87 members to the 30th Alberta Legislature. In its first general election contest,the Jason Kenney-led United Conservative Party (UCP) won 54.88% of the popular vote and 63 seats,defeating incumbent Premier Rachel Notley. The governing Alberta New Democratic Party (NDP) were reduced to 24 seats and formed the Official Opposition. The United Conservative Party was formed in 2017 from a merger of the Progressive Conservative Party and the Wildrose Party after the NDP's victory in the 2015 election ended nearly 44 years of Progressive Conservative rule.
Laila Goodridge is a Canadian politician in Alberta,Canada,who has served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Fort McMurray—Cold Lake from the Conservative Party since 2021.
