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From 1932 to 1935, Aberhart tried to get the governing United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) to adopt social credit. [2] However, the 1935 UFA convention voted against adopting social credit and UFA Premier Richard Reid rejected the proposals as being outside the province's constitutional powers, so Aberhart entered Social Credit candidates in that year's provincial election.
The first round of legislation recommended by the commission and subsequently passed by the legislature included the Credit of Alberta Regulation Act, which required every bank and all their employees to be licensed by the provincial government and to be overseen by a Social Credit Board-appointed directorate, the Bank Employees Civil Rights Act, which prohibited unlicensed banks and their ...
The name Social Credit Party has been used by a number of political parties.. In Canada: Social Credit Party of Canada; Manitoba Social Credit Party; Parti crédit social uni ...
Social Credit was slow to adapt to the changes in Alberta as its two largest cities gained increasing influence. Despite losing close to half of the share of the popular vote they had won in the 1963 election, the Liberals managed to increase their number of seats from two to three as a result of the decline in the Social Credit vote.
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Wingblade ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the 1935 general election as the Social Credit candidate in the riding of Wetaskiwin. He won on the first ballot, defeating incumbent Liberal MLA Hugh Montgomery. [2] Wingblade stood for a second term in the 1940 general election. Wingblade won on the second ballot against two challengers. [3]
Ernest Manning had been Social Credit's leader and premier of Alberta since he was selected by his caucus to succeed deceased party founder William Aberhart in 1943. Though still not an old man, he had decided to retire as premier after a record-setting 25 years, sensing the mood of change that was beginning to grip the province - his son, Preston Manning, claimed in 2003 that his father was ...
He founded Social Credit's Quebec wing, Ralliement des créditistes in the late 1950s and was its president. He was supported by British Columbia Premier W.A.C. Bennett. Hahn was a former Social Credit MP from British Columbia who had lost his seat in the 1958 federal election. The actual count was not revealed and the ballots were burned.