  the alberta new democratic party or alberta ndp is a social-democratic political party in alberta, canada, which succeeded the alberta section of the co-operative commonwealth federation and the even earlier alberta wing of the canadian labour party and the united farmers of alberta. from the mid-1980s to 2004, the party abbreviated its name as the "new democrats" (nd). ==history== ===origins and early years=== the co-operative commonwealth federation (ccf) was founded in calgary on 1 august 1932 but organised in fits and starts in alberta due to lack of support from the united farmers of alberta (ufa, which was the governing party in alberta), and from the labour party, which had both sitting mps and mlas at the time. while most ufa members of parliament, led by william irvine, supported the ccf and ran for re-election (unsuccessfully) in the 1935 federal election as ccf candidates, the ufa was more ambivalent. the ccf did not run candidates under its name in the 1935 provincial election because of its ties with the ufa and the labour party. the ufa lost all their seats in the election and fell into disarray. federally, eight of the ufa members of parliament in the house of commons of canada ran as ufa-ccf candidates in the 1935 federal election - and were all defeated largely because of their association with the unpopular ufa government and the not-unrelated popularity of william aberhart's radical social credit movement.finkel, alvin, "alberta" in heaps, leo, our canada, 1991 isbn 1-55028-353-7; monto, tom, protest and progress, three labour radicals in early edmonton, (crang publishing/alhambra books), 2012 in 1936, william irvine, a ccf founder and defeated ufa member of parliament, was elected the alberta ccf's first president.[http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/events/party_nd.html co-operative c
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