The
Labor-Progressive Party
The Labor-Progressive Party (french: Parti ouvrier-progressiste) was the legal Front organization, front of the Communist Party of Canada from 1943 to 1959.
Origins and initial success
In the 1940 Canadian federal election, 1940 federal elect ...
ran 68 candidates in the
1945 federal election. One candidate,
Fred Rose, was elected. Some of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.
Alberta
Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...
Vegreville
Vegreville ( uk, Веґревіль) is a town in central Alberta, Canada. It is on Highway 16A approximately east of Edmonton, Alberta's capital city. It was incorporated as a town in 1906, and that year also saw the founding of the ''Vegrev ...
: William Halina
William Halina was a frequent candidate for the Labor-Progressive Party and its antecedents, running twice at the federal level and twice at the provincial level. He described himself as an accountant in the 1940 election, and as a manager in 1945.
Note: Provincial elections in Alberta were determined by a
single transferable ballot
Single transferable vote (STV) is a multi-winner electoral system in which voters cast a single vote in the form of a ranked-choice ballot. Voters have the option to rank candidates, and their vote may be transferred according to alternate p ...
in this period, and Edmonton elected five members. The results listed above refer only to the first round totals.
Wetaskiwin
Wetaskiwin ( ) is a city in the province of Alberta, Canada. The city is located south of the provincial capital of Edmonton. The city name comes from the Cree word ''wītaskiwinihk'', meaning "the hills where peace was made".
Wetaskiwin is ...
: Henry Lundgren
Henry Lundgren was a farmer.
History of Federal Ridings since 1945: WETASKIWIN (1945/06/11)
Parliament of Canada
The Parliament of Canada (french: Parlement du Canada) is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the King, the Senate, and the House of Commons. By constitutional convention, the ...
, accessed 23 July 2009. He received 546 votes (3.00%), finishing fifth against Social Credit
Social credit is a distributive philosophy of political economy developed by C. H. Douglas. Douglas attributed economic downturns to discrepancies between the cost of goods and the compensation of the workers who made them. To combat what he ...
incumbent Norman Jaques.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Labor Progressive Party Candidates, 1945 Canadian Federal Election