Alberta New Democratic Party
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53.5488°N 113.5181°W / 53.5488; -113.5181
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Alberta New Democratic Party | |
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Active provincial party | |
Leader | Rachel Notley |
President | Nancy Janovicek |
Founded | 1 August 1932 (1932-08-01) (as Alberta Co-operative Commonwealth Federation) |
Preceded by | Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, United Farmers of Alberta |
Headquarters | 10544 114 Street NW Suite 201 Edmonton, Alberta T5H 3J7 |
Youth wing | New Democratic Youth of Alberta |
Membership (2024) | 85,144[1] |
Ideology | Social democracy |
Political position | Centre-left[A][2] |
National affiliation | New Democratic Party |
Colours | Orange |
Seats in Legislature | 38 / 87 |
Website | |
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^ A: The party is sometimes described as left-wing[3] in Alberta due to province's more conservative leaning nature. |
The Alberta New Democratic Party (French: Nouveau Parti démocratique de l'Alberta), commonly shortened to Alberta NDP, is a social democratic political party in Alberta, Canada. It is the provincial Alberta affiliate of the federal New Democratic Party, and the successor to the Alberta section of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and the even earlier Alberta wing of the Canadian Labour Party and the United Farmers of Alberta. From the mid-1980s to 2004, the party abbreviated its name as the "New Democrats" (ND).
The party served as Official Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1982 to 1993. It was shut out of the legislature following the 1993 election, returning in the 1997 election with two seats. The party won no more than four seats in subsequent elections until the 2015 election, in which it won 54 of the 87 seats in the legislature and formed a majority government. Until 2015, Alberta had been the only province in western Canada—the party's birthplace—where the NDP had never governed at the provincial level. The Alberta NDP was defeated after a single term in the 2019 election by the United Conservative Party—the first time that a governing party in Alberta had been unseated after a single term.