Wildrose leads fundraising in second quarter as PCs fall far behind

Alberta's Wildrose party is leading the pack in fundraising, collecting 17 times more in political donations than the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta since April.

The Wildrose party collected $467,131 in political donations from April 1 to June 30, according to recently-releasedsecond quarter results. The PCs raised $27,376, a steep drop from the $105,436 raised in the first quarter, from Jan. 1 to March 31.

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The Wildrose party exceeded their first quarter results, in which theparty raised $448,912 in political donations between Jan. 1 to March 31.

The NDP came in second formost money raised, taking in $363,824 this quarter, a slight drop from the $398,843 raised in the first quarter.TheAlberta Liberal Partyraised $57,561thisquarter.

July 15 was the deadline for the province's political parties to disclose their fundraising amounts for the second quarter.