British Columbia Social Credit League
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British Columbia Social Credit Party
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| Unregistered provincial party | |
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| Leader | Vacant (2000-present) |
| Chairperson | Carrol Woolsey (last) |
| Founded | 1935 |
| Dissolved | June 7, 2013 |
| Headquarters | Unit 101 - 8091 Granville Avenue, Richmond, BC, V6Y 1P5 |
| Ideology |
Right-wing populism Social Credit Conservatism |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| Colours | Blue and Red |
The British Columbia Social Credit Party, whose members are known as Socreds, was the governing political party of British Columbia, Canada, for more than 30 years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election. For four decades, the party dominated the British Columbian political scene, with the only break occurring between the 1972 and 1975 elections when the New Democratic Party of British Columbia was in power.
Although founded to promote social credit policies of monetary reform, the Social Credit Party became a political vehicle for fiscal conservatives and later social conservatives in BC, who discarded the social credit ideology.
The party essentially collapsed within one term of its 1991 defeat. It has not been represented in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia since 1996, and only existed in a nominal fashion until 2013 when the party was deregistered for failing to nominate more than two candidates in the provincial election.
Prior to 1952, the social credit movement in British Columbia was divided between various factions. The Social Credit League of British Columbia nominated candidates for the first time in the 1937 election, but did not do so in the 1941 election.
In the 1945 election, these factions formed an alliance to field 16 candidates, who won a total of 6,627 votes (1.42% of the provincial total.)
This alliance broke down before the 1949 election, and three separate groups nominated candidates:
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