Politics of Alberta

Politics of Alberta
Coat of arms of Alberta
Polity type	Province within a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Constitution	Constitution of Canada
Legislative branch
Name	Legislature Legislative Assembly
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	Frans Slatter
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.