List of political parties in Alberta

This article lists political parties in Alberta.

Active parties

Represented parties in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

See also: 2023 Alberta general election

Name[1]		Founded	Ideology	Leader	MLAs	In Legislature	In Government
	United Conservative	2017	Conservatism	Danielle Smith	47	2017–present	2019–present
	New Democratic	1962	Social Democracy	Naheed Nenshi	38	1971–1993, 1997–present	2015–2019

Other parties registered with Elections Alberta

See also: 2023 Alberta general election

Name[1]		Founded	Ideology	Leader	MLAs	In Legislature	In Government
	Liberal	1905	Liberalism	John Roggeveen	0	1905–1944, 1948–1971, 1986–2019	1905–1921
	Alberta Party	1985	Centrism	Lindsay Amantea (interim)	0	2011–2012, 2015–2019	—
	Alberta Advantage	2017	Conservatism[2]	Marilyn Burns	0	—	—
	Independence	2019	Alberta Separatism[3]	Vacant	0	—	—
	Communist	1930	Communism	Naomi Rankin	0	—	—
	Green	2011	Green politics	Vacant	0	—	—
	Pro-Life[a]	2017	Anti-Abortion	Murray Ruhl	0	—	—
	Reform	2016	Social conservatism	Randy Thorsteinson	0	—	—
	Wildrose Independence	2020	Alberta Separatism	Jeevan Mangat (interim)	0	—	—
	Republican[b]	2022	Alberta separatism, Pro-Americanism	Cameron Davies	0	—	—
	Wildrose Loyalty Coalition	2023	Economic liberalism	Paul Hinman	0	—	—
	Solidarity Movement	2023	Social conservatism	Artur Pawlowski	0	—	—

1. Formed from the Social Credit Party of Alberta.
2. Known as the Buffalo Party from 2022 to 2025.

Reserved party names

Name[4]		Expiry Date	Ideology
Alberta 1st Party	A1P	7 August 2025
Alberta Unity Party	AUP	22 November 2025
Non-Partisan Association	NPA	3 June 2025
People’s Alliance Party of Alberta	PAP	22 November 2025
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta	PCAA	26 November 2025
The Albertan Commonsense Party	ACP	22 November 2025

Municipal parties and slates

Name		Date Registered	Type	Ideology	Leader
Calgary[5]
	A Better Calgary Party	March 26, 2025	Municipal party	Conservatism[6]	Gordon Elliott
	The Calgary Party	November 19, 2024	Municipal party	Centrism[7]	Brian Thiessen
	Communities First	February 18, 2025	Municipal party	Conservatism[6]	Sonya Sharp
Edmonton[8]
	Better Edmonton Party	May 28, 2025	Municipal party		Tim Cartmell
	Edmonton First	April 24, 2025	Slate
	Principled Accountable Coalition for Edmonton	January 27, 2025	Municipal party	Localism[9]

Related federal parties

Name		Founded	Ideology
	Western Independence Party	1987	Western Canada separatism

Historical parties

Parties represented in the Legislature

Name		Years active	Succeeded by	Ideology	In Legislature	In Government
	Alberta Alliance	2002–2008	Wildrose	Conservatism	2004–2008	—
	Alberta Reform Movement	1981–1982	—	Conservatism	1981–1982	—
	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	1932–1962	New Democratic Party	Social democracy, democratic socialism	1944–1959	—
	Dominion Labor	1919–1935	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	Social democracy	1919–1935	—
	Freedom Conservative	1999–2020[a]	Wildrose Independence	Albertan autonomism[b], Conservatism, Right-libertarianism	2018–2019	–
	Independent Movement	1940–1948	—	Liberalism, conservatism	1940–1948	—
	Labour Representation		Dominion Labor	Social democracy	1917–1919	—
	Non-Partisan League	1916–1921	United Farmers of Alberta	Agrarianism, social democracy	1917–1921	—
	Progressive Conservative	1905–2019	United Conservative	Liberal conservatism, Red Toryism	1905–1940, 1952–1963, 1967–2019	1971–2015
	Representative	1984–1989	—	Conservatism, populism	1986–1989	—
	Social Credit	1934–2017	Pro-Life Alberta	Social conservatism, Social credit (historical)	1935–1982	1935–1971
	Socialist	1909–1921	—	Socialism	1909–1913	—
	United Farmers of Alberta	1919–1937	—	Agrarianism, progressivism	1921–1935	1921–1935
	Veterans' and Active Force	1944–1948	—	Veteran advocacy	1944–1948	—
	Western Canada Concept	1982–1986	—	Alberta separatism, Western separatism	1982	—
	Wildrose	2008–2017	United Conservative	Conservatism, right-wing populism	2009–2017	—

Parties never represented in the Legislature

Name		Years active	Succeeded by
	Alberta First	1999–2018[c]	Freedom Conservative
	Alberta Independence	2000–2001	Independence Party (2017)
	Alberta Independence Party	1989 election[10]	—
	Greens	1986–2009	Evergreen (2011)
	Confederation of Regions	1986–1996	—
	Forum Party of Alberta	1995–2004	—
	Heritage Party	1985–1986	—
	Independent Labour Party	1921	Leader Ernest Brown became active in Communist Party
	Natural Law	1993–1997	—
	Progressive Labour Party of Alberta	1932–1940	—
	Unparty	1982 election[10]	—

Parties represented by elected Senate nominees

• Reform Party of Alberta (1984–2004)

See also

• Elections Alberta

Notes

1. Merged with Wexit Alberta to form the Wildrose Independence Party
2. Historically the party used to promote entirely on Albertan Independence, until they adopted Albertan autonomism instead, as part of the party's transformation under Derek Fildebrandt's leadership.
3. Known as the Separation Party from 2004 to 2013, and the Western Freedom Party in 2018.