List of political parties in Alberta

Parties represented in the Legislative Assembly

	Founded	Ideology	Leader	MLAs
Alberta New Democratic Party	1962	Social democracy	Rachel Notley	54
Wildrose Party	2008	Conservatism, libertarianism	Brian Jean	22
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta	1905	Conservatism	Ric McIver (interim)	9
Alberta Liberal Party	1905	Liberalism	David Swann (interim)	1
Alberta Party	1985	Centrism	Greg Clark	1

Name		Founded	Ideology	Leader	In Legislature	In Government
	Alberta Social Credit Party	1934	Social credit, conservatism	Len Skowronski	1935-1982	1935-1971

	Founded	Ideology	Leader
Alberta First Party	2004	Alberta separatism	Bart Hampton
Communist Party – Alberta	1930	Communism, socialism	Naomi Rankin
Green Party of Alberta	2011	Green politics	Janet Keeping
Reform Party of Alberta	2016	Social conservatism	Randy Thorsteinson

Name		Founded	Ideology	In Legislature	In Government
	United Farmers of Alberta	1919	Agrarianism, progressivism	1921-1935	1921-1935

Alberta Alliance Party (2002-2008, represented 2004-2008)
Alberta Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (founded 1932, represented in the Legislature 1944-1949, 1950s)
Alberta Labor Representation League (1917-1919, represented 1917-1919 (Alex Ross))
Alberta Non-Partisan League (1916-1919, represented 1917-1921)
Alberta Reform Movement (1981-1982, represented 1981)
Dominion Labor Party (1919-1935, represented 1919-1921 (Alex Ross), 1921-1935)
Independent Citizen's Association (1940-1948, represented 1940-1948)
Socialist Party of Alberta (1909-1921, represented 1909-1913)
United Farmers of Alberta (1919-1935, government 1921-1935, represented 1921-1935, merged into the CCF)
Representative Party of Alberta (1984-1989, represented 1986-1989)
Veterans' and Active Force (1944-1948, represented 1944-1948)
Western Canada Concept (1982-1986, represented 1982)

Alberta First Party (1999-2004)
Alberta Independence Party (2000-2001)
Alberta Greens (1986-2009)
Confederation of Regions Party (1986-1996)
Forum Party of Alberta (1995-2004)
The Heritage Party of Alberta (1985-1986)
Independent Labour Party (Edmonton, 1921,leader Ernest Brown became active in Communist Party)
Natural Law Party (1993-1997)
Progressive Labour Party of Alberta (1932-1940)

Politics of Alberta

Lieutenant Governor	Lois Mitchell Former lieutenant governors

Premier	Rachel Notley Former Premiers List of Premiers by time in office

Legislature	Current assembly Former legislatures Executive Council (Cabinet) Speaker of the Assembly Bob Wanner Opposition Leader Brian Jean Former Opposition Leaders

Political parties	New Democrats Rachel Notley Wildrose Brian Jean Progressive Conservatives Ric McIver Liberals David Swann Alberta Party Greg Clark Alberta First Communists Naomi Rankin Green Janet Keeping Social Credit Len Skowronski Reform Randy Thorsteinson

Elections	29th general election (2015) Past elections Electoral districts Current electoral divisions

Other Canadian politics: Federal AB BC MB NB NL NS ON PE QC SK NT NU YU

Provincial political parties in Alberta

Legislative Assembly	New Democratic (54) Wildrose (22) Progressive Conservative (9) Liberal (1) Alberta Party (1)

Other recognized parties	Alberta First Communist Green Reform Social Credit

Historical parties represented in the legislature	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Dominion Labor Independent Citizen's Association Labor Representation Reform Movement Representative Socialist United Farmers Veterans' and Active Force Western Canada Concept

Political parties in Canada (by jurisdiction)

Federal

Provincial	Alberta British Columbia Manitoba New Brunswick Newfoundland and Labrador Nova Scotia Ontario Prince Edward Island Quebec Saskatchewan

Territorial	Yukon

Municipal	Montreal Vancouver

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