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The two parties merged into a single national party under the Social Credit name, and Caouette won the leadership on the first ballot. In the 1972 election, the Social Credit Party won 15 seats—all in Quebec—and 7.6% of the popular vote.
Bennett joined in order to use the party as a political vehicle. He quickly jettisoned the original ideology, and reorganized the party into the conservative populist British Columbia Social Credit Party. Social Credit's first government in British Columbia was a very small minority, but they were
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.
Douglas proposed that the long-term consequence of this policy is a trade war, typically resulting in real war – hence, the social credit admonition, "He who calls for Full-Employment calls for War!", expressed by the Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, led by John Hargrave. The former represents excessive capital ...
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 ...
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 ...
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; Ralliement créditiste; Ralliement créditiste du Québec; Social Credit Party of Alberta; Social Credit Party of Saskatchewan; Social Credit Party of British Columbia
McGillivray spoke to the convention on social credit economics, and claimed that using social credit to wipe out poverty would eliminate socialism in Canada. The convention attracted 979 delegates of which 655 (70%) were from Quebec, 149 from Ontario, 121 from Western Canada, 51 from the Atlantic provinces, and three from the United States.