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| office = [[Alberta Party|Leader of the Alberta Party]]

| term_start = 2009

| term_end = January 28, 2010

| predecessor = [[Bruce Stubbs]]

| successor = [[Edwin Erickson (Alberta politician)|Edwin Erickson]]

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'''Robert Leddy''' is a provincial politician from [[Alberta]], [[Canada]]. The former interim leader of the [[Alberta Party]], he was elected in [[Red Deer, Alberta|Red Deer]], [[Alberta]] on August 29, 2009.

==Political career==

Leddy became interim president of the [[Conservative Party of Canada]] [[Edmonton—Mill Woods—Beaumont]] electoral district association in September 2004. At the October 2004 annual general meeting in Beaumont, Alberta, Leddy was elected vice-president of the CPC Edmonton-Mill Woods-Beaumont EDA. In 2005 he left the Conservative Party of Canada to pursue provincial politics.

Leddy founded the [[Alberta Alliance Party]] constituency associations of [[Edmonton Ellerslie]] in June 2006 and [[Edmonton-Mill Woods]] in October 2006, where he became the official candidate for the riding. He served as president of the Alberta Alliance Party Edmonton Region from 2007 until the merger with the [[Wildrose Party of Alberta]] and the Alberta Alliance Party in January 2008.

Leddy served the [[Wildrose Alliance Party of Alberta]] as a northern zone director and as elections organizer for the Edmonton region during the [[2008 Alberta general election|2008 Alberta provincial election]].

Leddy ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the [[2008 Alberta general election]] in the electoral district of [[Edmonton-Mill Woods]]. He finished a distant fourth place out of fifth, taking 2.95% of the popular vote. The election would see Liberal incumbent [[Weslyn Mather]] defeated by Progressive Conservative [[Carl Benito]].

On August 29, 2009 Leddy was elected as the interim leader of the [[Alberta Party]], a minor right-wing provincial party, during its transition away from right-wing politics. He replaced long time leader [[Bruce Stubbs]]. He was succeeded by the former deputy leader of the [[Alberta Green Party]], [[Edwin Erickson (Alberta politician)|Edwin Erickson]], who was elected to facilitate the ideological shift of the party and its merger with the Renew Alberta movement. Leddy is the Alberta Party's nominated candidate for [[Edmonton-Mill Woods]] in the [[2012 Alberta general election]].<ref>http://www.albertaparty.ca/candidates Alberta Party Candidates</ref>

==References==

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==External links==

*[http://www.albertaparty.ab.ca the Alberta Party website]

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