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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 .
The British Columbia Social Credit Party was a conservative political party in the province of British Columbia, Canada.The provincial Social Credit movement was divided in its early years and was largely under the influence of the Alberta Social Credit League; it did not have a functional leadership before 1952.
Social Credit's first government in British Columbia was a very small minority, but they were elected to a majority a year later. After the minority, and 20 years of majority government, the party was defeated by the New Democratic Party of British Columbia. The NDP served only one term in Government, before the Social Credit Party was returned ...
British Columbia Social Constructive Party: 1936 Reformism, Social Democracy: 1936–1937 United Party of British Columbia: 1986 Progressive Democratic Alliance: 1993 Centrism: 1993–1997 Reform Party of British Columbia: 1983 Right-wing populism: 1994–1997 Democratic Reform British Columbia: 2005 Centrism, Progressivism, Populism: 2005
Aberhart received a positive response from Albertans to his social credit philosophies. In 1935, much to its own surprise, [9] the Alberta Social Credit Party won the 1935 provincial election, [4] forming the first Social Credit government in the world. [3] It went on to win nine subsequent elections, and governed until 1971. [4]
British Columbia Resources Investment Corporation (BCRIC or "Brick") (Social Credit Party), a holding company formed under the government of William R. Bennett, was a public boondoggle involving publicly l-distributed and soon-worthless shares of a former Crown Corporation. Shares briefly rallied and then dropped and settled at less than one ...
Vander Zalm joined the BC Social Credit Party (Socred) in 1974, and was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 1975 election for the riding of Surrey. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] The Socreds won back power after a three-year hiatus, and Vander Zalm served in the cabinet of Premier Bill Bennett as minister of human resources from ...
David Barrett led the social democratic New Democratic Party to victory, winning a majority government. The Social Credit Party, led by Premier W. A. C. Bennett, were defeated after governing British Columbia since the 1952 election. Social Credit's share of the popular vote fell by over 15 percentage points, and the party lost 28 of the seats ...