Alberta Alliance Party
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Alberta Alliance Party
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| Leader | Paul Hinman (2005-2008) |
| President | Randy Thorsteinson (2007-2008) |
| Founded | October 25, 2002 |
| Dissolved | Renamed Wildrose Alliance January 31, 2008 |
| Headquarters | #3, 1303 44 Ave NE Calgary AB |
| Ideology | Conservatism, Fiscally conservative |
| Colours | Blue & Green |
The Alberta Alliance was a right wing provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Many of its members were supporters of the now-defunct Canadian Alliance federal political party and its predecessor, the Reform Party of Canada. Members also joined from such other provincial fringe parties as the Alberta First Party, the Alberta Party and Social Credit. Alliance supporters tended to view themselves as "true conservatives", and believed the Progressive Conservative government of Premier Ed Stelmach to be out of touch with the needs of Albertans.
Paul Hinman was elected the party's leader at a leadership convention held on November 19, 2005.
On January 19, 2008, the party voted to change its name to the Wildrose Alliance Party when it absorbed the unregistered Wildrose Party of Alberta.
The party was registered on October 25, 2002. and its founding convention was held for two days beginning on February 14, 2003, in Red Deer, Alberta.
Former Social Credit Party leader Randy Thorsteinson was selected as the first leader of the party on the second day of the founding convention on February 15, 2003. Thorsteinson had experience in Alberta politics as he was leader of Social Credit from 1992 to 1999. He left the party in April 1999 in protest of an internal party proposal to limit the involvement of Mormons within the Party.
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