2012 Alberta general election
Summary
Notes: Results at the count. Results change is compared to the Alberta Greens in 2008.

2012 Alberta general election

Section Title: Summary
Table Section Text: Notes: Results at the count. Results change is compared to the Alberta Greens in 2008.

Party	Party leader	Number of candidates	Seats	Popular vote

2008	Dissol.	2012	% Change	#1	%	Change (pp)

Progressive Conservative	Alison Redford	87	72	66	61	–7.85	567,060	43.95	–8.77

Wildrose	Danielle Smith	87	—	4	17	+325	442,429	34.29	+27.51

Liberal	Raj Sherman	87	9	8	5	–37.5	127,645	9.89	–16.54

New Democratic	Brian Mason	87	2	2	4	+100	126,752	9.82	+1.34

Alberta Party	Glenn Taylor	38	—	1	—	–100	17,172	1.33	+1.32

Evergreen	Larry Ashmore	25	—2	—	—	—	5,082	0.394	–4.162

Independent	12	—	1	—	–100	3,511	0.272	–0.53

Social Credit	Len Skowronski	3	—	—	—	—	294	0.0228	–0.19

Communist	Naomi Rankin	2	—	—	—	—	210	0.0163	+0.01

Separation	Bart Hampton3	13	—	—	—	—	68	0.00527	0.00

Vacant	1

Total	429	83	83	87	+4.82	1,290,223	100.00%

Sentence(s)

In the 2012 Alberta General Election, there were 429 people running for 87 seats.

final_sentence: In the 2012 Alberta General Election, there were 429 people running for 87 seats.