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Major Parties in Alberta Provincial Elections

By selenized on Mar 04, 2008
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Time Scale	Data Aggregation
Yearly	Average High Low Total Count Distinct None

Date	Independent	Liberal	Conservative	United Farmers	Social Credit	PC

2001		7				74
2008		9				72
1905		22	3
1913		39	17
1989		8				59
1997		18				63
2004		16				62
1963		2			60
1971					25	49
1979					4	74
1986		4				61
1993		32				51
1935		5	2		56
1952	1	3	1		53	1
1959	1	1			61	1
1967	1	3			55	6
1975	1				4	69
1917	1	34	19
1926	1	7	5	43
1982	2					75
1948	2	2			51
1955	2	15	3		37
1909	2	36	2
1944	3				51
1930	3	11	6	39
1921	4	15		38
1940	19	1			36
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Sources: Elections Alberta (http://elections.ab.ca/)

Depicted as the raw number of seats in the legislature. —selenized

Comments (2)

sara

sara says

This is a very interesting graph! What happened to the United Farmers in 1930?

posted 6 months ago

selenized

selenized says

A combination of the great depression and a sex scandal meant that they went from 39 seats in the 1930 election to zero in the following (social credit would take control for the next 35 years).

posted 6 months ago