In the first months since the United Conservative Party government returned corporate donations to provincial politics , Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s party raised more than $471,000 from injury lawyers, car dealers and other businesses, making up more than one-quarter of all UCP donations in the latest period.

Those corporate contributions total more than the $437,000 fundraising gap between the United Conservatives ($1.63 million) and the NDP ($1.19 million) in this year’s third quarter, according to newly released figures from Elections Alberta.

Legislation by the Smith government brought back corporate and union contributions starting this July after a ban on that practice, which the former NDP government had enacted in 2015.

The UCP has leveraged this new rule far more t

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