Ernest Manning Social Credit Ernest Manning Social Credit The 1952 Alberta general election was held on August 5, 1952, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.

Ernest C. Manning in his third election as leader of the Social Credit Party, and its first election since the Social Credit Party paid off Alberta's first debt in 1949, led it to its fifth consecutive election victory, increasing its share of the popular vote, and winning fifty two of the sixty one seats in the legislature.

The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation won two seats, one that of leader Elmer Roper.

[1] An Act was passed in 1950 that provided for the increase in the number of MLAs from 57 to 61, upon the next election.

Thirteen districts went beyond first-preference counts in order to determine winning candidates: All major parties other than the Progressive Conservatives fielded full slates.