Politics of Alberta | |
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| Polity type | Province within a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy |
| Constitution | Constitution of Canada |
| Legislative branch | |
| Name | Legislature |
| Type | Unicameral |
| Meeting place | Alberta Legislature Building, Edmonton |
| Presiding officer | Speaker of the Legislative Assembly |
| Executive branch | |
| Head of state | |
| Currently | King Charles III represented by Salma Lakhani, Lieutenant Governor |
| Head of government | |
| Currently | Premier Danielle Smith |
| Appointer | Lieutenant Governor |
| Cabinet | |
| Name | Executive Council |
| Leader | Premier (as President of the Executive Council) |
| Appointer | Lieutenant Governor |
| Headquarters | Edmonton |
| Ministries | 26 |
| Judicial branch | |
| Court of Appeal | |
| Chief judge | Ritu Khullar |
| Seat | Law Courts, Edmonton |
| Court of King's Bench | |
| Chief judge | Mary T. Moreau |
| Seat | Edmonton |
| Provincial Court | |
| Seat | Edmonton |
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The politics of Alberta are centred on a provincial government resembling that of the other Canadian provinces, namely a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy. The capital of the province is Edmonton, where the provincial Legislative Building is located.
The unicameral legislature, the Alberta Legislature, is composed of the Lieutenant Governor and the Legislative Assembly, which has 87 members. Government is conducted after the Westminster model. The provincial government's revenue, although it is often described as predominantly coming from the province's resource base, actually is derived from a variety of sources. Nonrenewable resource revenue provided the government with 24 percent of its revenue in 2010–11, with about the same coming from individual income tax, 14 per cent from grants from the federal government, and about eight percent coming from both corporations and the government's own business activities. Alberta is the only province in Canada without a provincial sales tax (see also Sales taxes in Canada).
Alberta has a single-tier system of municipal government similar to that of most of the other provinces.