List of Social Credit/Créditistes MPs

This article lists Wikipedia articles about members of the Social Credit Party of Canada in the Canadian House of Commons

1935 17 MPs elected (15 Alberta, 2 Saskatchewan)

1938 by-election switch

1940 election 11 MPs elected (17-8+2)

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 candidate elected were Social Credit incumbents, Social Credit leader John Horne Blackmore and MPs Walter Frederick Kuhl and Robert Fair. The three continued to sit with the Social Credit Party following the election.

1945 election 13 MPs elected

1946 by-election +1

1949 election 10 MPs elected

1953 election 16 MPs elected

1957 election 19 MPs elected

1958 election 19-19=0

1962 election 30 MPs (26 Quebec, 2 Alberta, 2 British Columbia)

1963 election 24 MPs.

Shortly after this election the party split into two camps, the Quebec-based Ralliement Créditiste led by Réal Caouette and consisting of 16 of the 19 Quebec Social Credit MPs and the Alberta-based Social Credit led by Robert N. Thompson. See Social Credit Party of Canada split, 1963

1965 election Party split 9 Ralliement Créditiste (Quebec); 5 Social Credit (2 Alberta, 3 British Columbia)

1968 election 14 Ralliement Créditiste; 0 Social Credit

1972 election 15 (party reunited but all MPs elected are from Quebec)

1974 election 13 (Quebec only)

1978 by-election

1979 election 6 (Quebec only)

1980 election 0

No Social Credit MPs were elected in 1980 or subsequently.

See also

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