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The Social Credit Party of Canada (French: Parti Crédit social du Canada), colloquially known as the Socreds, [3] was a populist political party in Canada that promoted social credit theories of monetary reform.
The Western Social Credit League, an outgrowth of Alberta Social Credit, ran candidates in the 1935 federal election taking many votes from the Progressive Party of Canada and the United Farmers movement.
Thompson's Social Credit Party continued to stagnate, electing only five MPs to the House of Commons in the 1965 federal election – one up from the 1962 and 1963 performance in English Canada. Bennett, leader of the party's second-most powerful provincial branch, cut off his party's financial and organizational support to the federal party in ...
Alberta Social Credit was a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada, that was founded on social credit monetary policy put forward by Clifford Hugh Douglas and on conservative Christian social values. The Canadian social credit movement was largely an out-growth of Alberta Social Credit.
The British Columbia Social Credit Party was a conservative political party in British Columbia, Canada.It was the governing party of British Columbia for all but three years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election.
In the 1940 federal election many Social Credit Party MPs ran for re-election under the New Democracy party led by former Conservative William Duncan Herridge as part of a joint effort. All 3 New Democracy candidates elected were Social Credit incumbents, Social Credit leader John Horne Blackmore and MPs Walter Frederick Kuhl and Robert Fair ...
The Social Credit Party of Canada fielded 164 candidates in the 1972 federal election, and won 15 seats to remain as the fourth-largest party in the House of Commons of Canada. Some of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.
The Social Credit Party of Canada fielded 230 candidates in the 1962 Canadian federal election, and unexpectedly won 30 seats to become the third-largest party in the House of Commons of Canada. Most of the party's success came in the province of Quebec, where Real Caouette led a populist campaign under the Social Credit banner. Information ...