Alberta The Alberta wing first ran for office in by-elections to the 19th Alberta Legislature. One member of the party,
Gordon Kesler, was elected in a 1982 provincial by-election in
Olds-Didsbury riding that drew national attention. Kesler became leader of the Alberta WCC with his election to the legislature. The best showing for the party came later in the same year in the
1982 Alberta general election, where they ran almost a full slate of candidates and took 11.8 per cent of the vote. But the party did not elect any MLAs, and Kesler lost his own seat. In 1984, Kesler was replaced by
Jack Ramsay, later a federal
Reform Member of Parliament. Some of the more doctrinaire figures in the party opposed Ramsay's leadership, claiming that he was not genuinely committed to western independence. The party ran 20 candidates in the
1986 Alberta general election, but won less than one percent of the popular vote. In 1987, a group of Alberta members who were dissatisfied with the party's leadership and direction left the party to establish the
Western Independence Party.
British Columbia In British Columbia, the party continued to exist far longer than in other provinces. It ran candidates from the early 1980s until the mid-2000s, under the leadership of Doug Christie. It never won a seat.
Manitoba The Manitoba branch of the party only ran in the
1986 Manitoba general election and some by-elections, never winning a substantial portion of the votes.
Saskatchewan The Saskatchewan branch of the party attracted two sitting members of the Legislative Assembly who represented the party for a few months in 1986 before being kicked out of the party. ==See also==