12 Facts About Wildrose Party

Wildrose Party was a conservative provincial political party in Alberta, Canada.

In December 2014, nine Wildrose MLAs, including the leader, Danielle Smith, left the party to join the Progressive Conservative caucus under its recently-elected leader, Jim Prentice.

The combined United Conservative Wildrose Party held its inaugural leadership election on October 28,2017.

Two parties had similar policies and the Wildrose Party had key personnel previously involved with the Alberta Alliance.

Wildrose Party remained the party's leader in an interim capacity until the leadership convention.

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Wildrose Party was unveiled at the party's annual conference, which was attended by 700 people: up from 175 the previous year.

Polling immediately before the election suggested that the gap had narrowed somewhat, but that the Wildrose Party was still poised to end the PCs' 41-year tenure in government.

The Wildrose Party only won two seats in Calgary and were completely shut out of Edmonton.

The Wildrose Party was expected to win two out of the four seats; however the PCs retained all four.

Alberta electoral law did not permit parties to formally merge, the PC and Wildrose Party parties did not formally dissolve upon creation of the new UCP.

The Wildrose Party proposed numerous changes to how the province delivers health care, which it claimed will remain compliant with the Canada Health Act, as well as controls on government spending.

However, by March 2012, the Wildrose Party was polling the support of four-in-ten Albertans, showing significant improvement and a credible challenger to the PCs.