1979 Alberta general election
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{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2023}}
{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1979 Alberta general election
| country = Alberta
| type = legislative
| party_colour = no
| party_name = no
| previous_election = 1975 Alberta general election
| previous_year = 1975
| previous_mps = 18th Alberta Legislative Assembly
| election_date = {{Start date|1979|3|14}}
| elected_mps = members
| next_election = 1982 Alberta general election
| next_year = 1982
| next_mps = 20th Alberta Legislative Assembly
| seats_for_election = 79 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
40 seats were needed for a majority
| turnout =
| image1 = Peter Lougheed - Premier of Alberta - 1983.jpg
| colour1 = {{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|nohash}}
| leader1 = Peter Lougheed
| party1 = {{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|name}}
| leader_since1 = 1965
| leaders_seat1 = Calgary-West
| last_election1 = 69 seats, 62.7%
| seats_before1 = 69
| seats1 = 74
| seat_change1 = {{increase}}5
| popular_vote1 = 408,097
| percentage1 = 57.4%
| swing1 = {{decrease}}5.25%
| image2 =
| colour2 = {{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit|nohash}}
| leader2 = Robert C. Clark
| party2 = {{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit|name}}
| leader_since2 = 1975
| leaders_seat2 = Olds-Didsbury
| last_election2 = 4 seats, 18.2%
| seats_before2 = 4
| seats2 = 4
| seat_change2 = ±0
| popular_vote2 = 141,284
| percentage2 = 19.87%
| swing2 = {{increase}}1.7%
| image4 =
| colour4 = {{Canadian party colour|AB|NDP|nohash}}
| leader4 = Grant Notley
| party4 = {{Canadian party colour|AB|NDP|name}}
| leader_since4 = 1968
| leaders_seat4 = Spirit River-Fairview
| last_election4 = 1 seat, 12.9%
| seats_before4 = 1
| seats4 = 1
| seat_change4 = ±0
| popular_vote4 = 111,984
| percentage4 = 15.75%
| swing4 = {{increase}}2.81%
| image5 =
| colour5 = {{Canadian party colour|AB|Liberal|nohash}}
| leader5 = Nicholas Taylor
| party5 = {{Canadian party colour|AB|Liberal|name}}
| leader_since5 = 1974
| leaders_seat5 = ran in Calgary-Glenmore (lost)
| last_election5 = 0 seats, 4.98%
| seats_before5 = 0
| seats5 = 0
| seat_change5 = ±0
| popular_vote5 = 43,792
| percentage5 = 6.16%
| swing5 = {{increase}}1.18%
| map_image =
| map_size =
| map_caption =
| title = Premier
| posttitle = Premier after election
| before_election = Peter Lougheed
| before_party = {{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|name}}
| after_election = Peter Lougheed
| after_party = {{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|name}}
}}
The 1979 Alberta general election was held on March 14, 1979, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, which had been expanded to 79 seats.
The Progressive Conservative Party of Peter Lougheed won its third consecutive term in government. During the campaign, some Progressive Conservatives spoke of winning "79 in '79", i.e., all 79 seats in the legislature. This harkened back to Social Credit's unofficial slogan from the 1963 election, "63 in '63". The Tories came up short of this goal, and actually lost over five percentage points of the popular vote. Nonetheless, they still won an overwhelming majority, with 74 seats.
Social Credit held on to the four seats they had won in the 1975 election, and formed the official opposition in the legislature. Grant Notley, leader of the Alberta New Democratic Party, was the only other opposition member.
Results
File:Alberta Legislature 1979.svg
| class="wikitable"
!rowspan=2 colspan=2|Party !rowspan=2|Party leader !rowspan=2|# of !colspan=3|Seats !colspan=3|Popular Vote |
| align="center"|1975
|align="center"|Elected |align="center"|% Change |align="center"|# |align="center"|% |align="center"|% Change {{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|row}} |align="center"| Peter Lougheed |align="right"| 79 |align="right"| 69 |align="right"| 74 |align="right"| +7.2% |align="right"| 408,097 |align="right"| 57.40% |align="right"| -5.25% {{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit|row}} |align="center"| Robert Curtis Clark |align="right"|79 |align="right"| 4 |align="right"| 4 |align="right"| - |align="right"| 141,284 |align="right"| 19.87% |align="right"| +1.70% {{Canadian party colour|AB|NDP|row}} |align="center"| Grant Notley |align="right"| 79 |align="right"| 1 |align="right"| 1 |align="right"| - |align="right"| 111,984 |align="right"| 15.75% |align="right"| +2.81% {{Canadian party colour|AB|Liberal|row-name}} |align="center"| Nicholas Taylor |align="right"| 78 |align="right"| - |align="right"| - |align="right"| - |align="right"| 43,792 |align="right"| 6.16% |align="right"| +1.18% {{Canadian party colour|AB|Independent|row}} | colspan=2|Independent |align="right"|8 |align="right" |
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
| align="right"|3,430
|align="right"| 0.48% |align="right"|+0.37% {{Canadian party colour|AB|Independent Conservative|row}} | colspan=2|Independent Conservative |align="right"|3 |align="right" |
| align="right"| -
|align="right" |
| align="right"|1,613
|align="right"|0.23% |align="right"|+0.05%1 {{Canadian party colour|AB|Independent Christian|row}} | colspan=2|Independent Christian |align="right"|1 |align="right"|* |align="right"| - |align="right"|* |align="right"|403 |align="right"|0.06% |align="right"|* {{Canadian party colour|AB|Communist|row-name}} |align="center"| |align="right"| 7 |align="right"| - |align="right"| - |align="right"| - |align="right"| 357 |align="right"| 0.05% |align="right"| -0.08% |
| colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|334 !align="right"| 75 !align="right"| 79 !align="right"| +5.3% !align="right"| 710,963 !align="right"| 100% ! |
| align="center" colspan=10|Source: [https://web.archive.org/web/20051211143622/http://www.electionsalberta.ab.ca/welcome.html Elections Alberta] |
Notes:
1 Percent compared to Independent Progressive Conservative during the 1975 Election.
* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.{{Bar box|title=Popular vote|titlebar=#ddd|width=600px|barwidth=410px|bars={{Bar percent|PC|{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC}}|57.40}}
{{Bar percent|Social Credit|{{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit}}|19.87}}
{{Bar percent|New Democratic|{{Canadian party colour|AB|NDP}}|15.75}}
{{Bar percent|Liberal|{{Canadian party colour|AB|Liberal}}|6.16}}
{{Bar percent|Others|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Inde}}|0.82}}}}{{Bar box|title=Seats summary|titlebar=#ddd|width=600px|barwidth=410px|bars={{Bar percent|PC|{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC}}|93.67}}
{{Bar percent|Social Credit|{{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit}}|5.06}}
{{Bar percent|New Democratic|{{Canadian party colour|AB|NDP}}|1.27}}}}
Results by riding
{{Canadian politics/candlist header|province=AB|PC|Social Credit|NDP|Liberal|Other}}
|-
|Athabasca||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Frank Appleby
4,153
55.39%
|
|Ernest W. Maser
989
13.19%
|
|Peter E. Opryshko
1,792
23.90%
|
|Robert Blain Logan
554
7.39%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Banff-Cochrane||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Greg Stevens
5,578
66.79%
|
|Thomas McArthur
1,462
17.51%
|
|Bob Ritchie
759
9.09%
|
|Morna F. Schechtel
543
6.50%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB||background}}|
|
|-
|Barrhead||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Hugh F. Horner
4,629
61.73%
|
|David Bouyea
1,658
22.11%
|
|Lionel Udenberg
1,008
13.44%
|
|John V. Murphy
136
1.81%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Bonnyville||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Ernie Isley
3,468
49.57%
|
|George Nordstrom
1,275
18.22%
|
|Tom Turner
1,828
26.13%
|
|Edward Stepanik
194
2.77%
|
|Donald Appleby (Ind.)
206
2.94%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|
|Paul Bartlett
2,484
35.92%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit|background}}|
|Fred T. Mandeville
4,123
59.62%
|
|Ron Wickson
201
2.91%
|
|Brian Nearing
86
1.24%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit|background}}|
|-
|Calgary-Bow||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Neil Webber
7,042
64.39%
|
|Jim Beale
1,816
16.61%
|
|Floyd A. Johnson
1,361
12.45%
|
|Clive Scott
633
5.79%
|
|Adela Polancec (Comm.)
47
0.43%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Calgary-Buffalo||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Tom Sindlinger
6,481
63.78%
|
|Jim Rocker
1,432
14.09%
|
|Brian Rees
1,052
10.35%
|
|Lloyd Hamilton
1,096
10.79%
|
|David Willis (Comm.)
62
0.61%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Calgary-Currie||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Dennis L. Anderson
6,885
59.57%
|
|Charles S. Dunkley
2,822
24.42%
|
|Glenn Miller
1,042
9.02%
|
|Jerry Arshinoff
789
6.83%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Calgary-Egmont||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Merv Leitch
8,083
73.30%
|
|Albert Downton
1,245
11.29%
|
|Muriel McCreary
844
7.65%
|
|Marta Coldham
833
7.55%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Calgary-Elbow||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|David J. Russell
5,941
65.67%
|
|Patricia (Pat) Sveen
1,321
14.60%
|
|William J. Oxendale
531
5.87%
|
|John S. Webb
1,227
13.56%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Calgary-Fish Creek||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|William Edward Payne
9,187
75.94%
|
|Al Green
1,190
9.84%
|
|Margaret Young
481
3.98%
|
|Jerry Sykes
1,225
10.13%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB||background}}|
|
|-
|Calgary-Foothills||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Stewart A. McCrae
7,518
61.89%
|
|Lorraine Law
2,835
23.34%
|
|Steve G. Arnett
982
8.08%
|
|Catherine M. Fitzpatrick
789
6.50%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Calgary-Forest Lawn||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|John Zaozirny
5,901
59.39%
|
|Don Howes
2,263
22.78%
|
|Doug Murdoch
813
8.18%
|
|Marg Bogstie
284
2.86%
|
|John Sutherland (Ind.)
577
5.81%
Bruce Potter (Comm.)
47
0.47%||{{Canadian party colour|AB||background}}|
|
|-
|Calgary-Glenmore||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Hugh L. Planche
8,212
55.74%
|
|Ernie Kaszas
1,280
8.69%
|
|Neil Ellison
442
3.00%
|
|Nicholas Taylor
4,774
32.40%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Calgary-McCall||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Andrew Little
7,918
70.39%
|
|Jim Richards
1,757
15.62%
|
|Dave Hammond
838
7.45%
|
|Ron Chahal
691
6.14%
|
|Michael J. Parker (Comm.)
20
0.18%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Calgary-McKnight||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Eric Charles Musgreave
7,248
61.61%
|
|Jerry Melchin
2,684
22.82%
|
|Jack Dale
1,097
9.33%
|
|John J. Gleason
664
5.64%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Calgary-Millican||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|David John Carter
4,034
61.80%
|
|Arthur J. Dixon
1,539
23.58%
|
|Stan Johns
595
9.11%
|
|Bob Cox
331
5.07%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Calgary-Mountain View||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Stan Kushner
5,141
54.54%
|
|Scott Saville
1,986
21.07%
|
|Martin Serediak
1,455
15.44%
|
|John Donnachie
804
8.53%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Calgary-North Hill||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Ed Oman
6,760
64.41%
|
|Dennis Shupe
1,799
17.14%
|
|Agnes Middleton
1,052
10.02%
|
|Dorothy Groves
747
7.12%
|
|John J. Jasienczyk (Ind.)
71
0.68%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Calgary-North West||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Sheila Embury
5,976
61.59%
|
|Harold Gunderson
2,043
21.06%
|
|Ken Richmond
721
7.43%
|
|George R.D. Goulet
950
9.79%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB||background}}|
|
|-
|Calgary-West||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Peter Lougheed
7,825
72.44%
|
|Frank F. Cottingham
930
8.61%
|
|Ed Smith
699
6.47%
|
|Barbara Ann Scott
874
8.09%
|
|Jacob H. Binnema (Ind. Christian)
406
3.78%
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Camrose||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Gordon Stromberg
7,998
60.06%
|
|Ralph A. Sorenson
3,121
23.44%
|
|Arthur C. Bunney
1,888
14.18%
|
|John R. Shores
278
2.09%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Cardston||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|John Thompson
2,832
53.89%
|
|Broyce G. Jacobs
2,196
41.79%
|
|Rosemarie M. Buchannan
102
1.94%
|
|Paul Shaw
115
2.19%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Chinook||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Henry Kroeger
4,024
66.11%
|
|Arlie Reil
1,310
21.52%
|
|John W. Oberg
406
6.67%
|
|Sheila Noonan
314
5.16%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB||background}}|
|
|-
|
|C.G. Thomlinson
3,947
34.90%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit|background}}|
|Walt A. Buck
6,033
53.35%
|
|Graham Griffiths
1,102
9.75%
|
|Alan M.F. Dunn
211
1.87%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit|background}}|
|-
|Cypress||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Alan Hyland
3,353
56.90%
|
|Vern Beck
1,907
32.36%
|
|Clarence W. Smith
499
8.47%
|
|Carl Pattison
123
2.09%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Drayton Valley||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Shirley Cripps
3,530
56.75%
|
|Phil Turner
1,284
20.64%
|
|Gerry Hutchinson
1,290
20.74%
|
|Harold Knopke
94
1.51%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Drumheller||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Lewis (Mickey) Clark
5,585
54.56%
|
|Ken Taylor
1,913
18.69%
|
|Ray Garrett
526
5.14%
|
|Charles J. Dirk
209
2.04%
|
|Vern Hoff (Ind.)
1,927
18.83%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|Independent Social Credit|background}}|
|-
|Edmonton-Avonmore||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Horst A. Schmid
5,382
53.91%
|
|Walter Zucht
1,691
16.94%
|
|Olga Blondheim
2,363
23.67%
|
|Betty Ann Dumbeck
511
5.12%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Edmonton-Belmont||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|William L. Mack
4,923
54.90%
|
|Ron Mix
1,813
20.22%
|
|Haddie Jahner
1,769
19.73%
|
|Charalee Graydon
369
4.12%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Edmonton-Beverly||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Bill W. Diachuk
3,756
50.29%
|
|Pat G.A. O'Hara
854
11.44%
|
|Gene Mitchell
2,592
34.71%
|
|Teresa McKerral
231
3.09%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Edmonton-Calder||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Tom Chambers
5,205
58.18%
|
|Dan R. Service
982
10.98%
|
|Bill Kobluk
2,180
24.37%
|
|Richard Guthrie
535
5.98%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Edmonton-Centre||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Mary LeMessurier
4,550
54.19%
|
|Robert J. Dunseith
838
9.98%
|
|Harry C. Midgley
2,273
27.07%
|
|Leonard Stahl
704
8.38%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Edmonton-Glengarry||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Rollie Cook
4,309
54.95%
|
|Victor Nakonechny
1,277
16.29%
|
|David Stewart
1,489
18.99%
|
|Ronald John Hayter
719
9.17%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB||background}}|
|
|-
|Edmonton-Glenora||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Lou Hyndman
6,597
61.23%
|
|Patrice Taylor
1,330
12.34%
|
|Doug Trace
1,838
17.06%
|
|David Panar
967
8.97%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Edmonton-Gold Bar||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Alois Paul Hiebert
6,044
55.93%
|
|Ace Cetinski
1,397
12.93%
|
|Kathleen Wright
2,343
21.68%
|
|Laurie Switzer
1,002
9.27%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Edmonton-Highlands||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|David T. King
4,644
56.28%
|
|Sam Motrich
770
9.33%
|
|Clifford Gladue
2,065
25.03%
|
|Ted Power
594
7.20%
|
|William A. Tuomi (Comm.)
84
1.02%
Roger Lavoie (Ind.)
65
0.79%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Edmonton-Jasper Place||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Leslie Gordon Young
5,049
60.16%
|
|Ralph Frank Watzke
1,037
12.36%
|
|Charlie Wood
1,735
20.67%
|
|Gerald F. Paschen
554
6.60%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Edmonton-Kingsway||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Kenneth R.H. Paproski
4,387
50.44%
|
|Martin Hattersly
975
11.21%
|
|Alex McEachern
2,563
29.47%
|
|Dorothy A. Richardson
684
7.86%
|
|Eddie Keehn (Ind.)
51
0.59%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Edmonton-Meadowlark||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Gerard Joseph Amerongen
7,075
59.97%
|
|Russ Forsythe
1,237
10.48%
|
|Jim Bell
2,098
17.78%
|
|Ron Charko
904
7.66%
|
|C.A. Douglas Ringrose (Ind.)
448
3.80%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Edmonton-Mill Woods||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Milt Pahl
4,299
56.16%
|
|Rudy Rodriques
573
7.49%
|
|L. (Les) Owre
1,552
20.27%
|
|Rose MacPherson
989
12.92%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB||background}}|
|
|-
|Edmonton-Norwood||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Catherine Chichak
3,950
46.61%
|
|Mike Ekelund
703
8.29%
|
|Ray Martin
3,194
37.69%
|
|Walter G. Coombs
486
5.73%
|
|Kimball Cariou (Comm.)
45
0.53%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Edmonton-Parkallen||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Neil S. Crawford
6,457
50.47%
|
|Morley MacCalder
1,483
11.59%
|
|Jim Russell
4,102
32.06%
|
|Philip Lister
724
5.66%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Edmonton-Sherwood Park||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Henry Woo
6,285
60.57%
|
|Oran Johnson
1,594
15.36%
|
|Jim Denholm
1,682
16.21%
|
|Stephen Lindop
795
7.66%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB||background}}|
|
|-
|Edmonton-Strathcona||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Julian Koziak
5,464
44.94%
|
|E.J.C. Charman
927
7.62%
|
|Gordon S.B. Wright
4,808
39.54%
|
|George Walton
739
6.08%
|
|Gerry Ball (Ind. P.C.)
155
1.28%
Joseph Hill (Comm.)
52
0.43%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Edmonton-Whitemud||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Peter Knaak
6,833
57.54%
|
|Larry Heth
939
7.91%
|
|Ted Paszek
2,122
17.87%
|
|Don Milliken
1,964
16.54%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Edson||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Ian Reid
4,517
53.62%
|
|W.L. Land
676
8.02%
|
|Ron Hodgins
2,958
35.11%
|
|Herbert Maris
260
3.09%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Grande Prairie||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Elmer Borstad
6,313
50.12%
|
|Donald Wood
3,380
26.84%
|
|Campbell Ross
2,266
17.99%
|
|Helen Rice
601
4.77%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Highwood||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|George Wolstenholme
5,103
66.35%
|
|Don Dixon
2,092
27.20%
|
|William C. McCutcheon
281
3.65%
|
|Joan Cowling
191
2.48%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Innisfail||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Nigel I. Pengelly
4,263
55.38%
|
|Stuart Little
2,921
37.94%
|
|Tim Guilbault
371
4.82%
|
|Janet Gratton
101
1.31%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Lac La Biche-McMurray||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Norman A. Weiss
3,431
49.68%
|
|Conrad Sehn
1,347
19.50%
|
|Claire E. Williscroft
1,777
25.73%
|
|Denise Diesel
320
4.63%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Lacombe||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|John William Cookson
4,458
64.11%
|
|Elmer Suominen
1,409
20.26%
|
|Arthur Wigmore
717
10.31%
|
|Roger C. Holteen
260
3.74%
|
|Gordon Crofton (Ind.)
85
1.22%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Lesser Slave Lake||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Larry R. Shaben
2,313
45.82%
|
|Peter Moore
1,743
34.53%
|
|Mike Poulter
799
15.83%
|
|Dan Backs
171
3.39%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Lethbridge-East||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Archibald Dick Johnston
5,870
59.35%
|
|Roxie McCallum
1,223
12.37%
|
|Roger Rickwood
692
7.00%
|
|Frank Merkl
666
6.73%
|
|Ken Kotkas (Ind. Con.)
1,375
13.99%
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Lethbridge-West||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|John Gogo
5,682
64.60%
|
|Jerry Waldern
1,625
18.47%
|
|Ron Clark
971
11.04%
|
|Bob Wilson
511
5.81%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|
|Richard Papworth
1,684
29.37%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit|background}}|
|Raymond Albert Speaker
3,748
65.38%
|
|Beth Jantzie
236
4.12%
|
|John W. Fujimargari
43
0.75%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit|background}}|
|-
|Lloydminster||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|James Edgar Miller
4,674
78.49%
|
|Patrick A. Moore
445
7.47%
|
|Elinar A. Jonson
680
11.42%
|
|Gregory R. Berry
131
2.20%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Macleod||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|LeRoy Fjordbotten
4,189
58.79%
|
|Roelof A. Heinen
2,369
33.25%
|
|Kathleen M. Cairns
384
5.39%
|
|Alfred Saddleback
171
2.40%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Medicine Hat||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|James Horsman
10,107
72.59%
|
|Lee Anderson
1,904
13.67%
|
|Frances Ost
1,134
8.14%
|
|Louise Mercier
729
5.24%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB||background}}|
|
|-
|
|Bill Edgar
2,514
27.50%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit|background}}|
|Robert Curtis Clark
6,399
70.00%
|
|Gregory Hoffarth
152
1.66%
|
|Stephen Shaw
55
0.60%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit|background}}|
|-
|Peace River||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Al (Boomer) Adair
3,901
59.77%
|
|Garry Gaudet
784
12.01%
|
|Richard Collins
1,604
24.57%
|
|Donald W. Freeland
234
3.59%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Pincher Creek-Crowsnest||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Frederick Deryl Bradley
3,567
60.43%
|
|Robert (Bob) Westrop
1,503
25.46%
|
|Ian Downie
628
10.64%
|
|Ann Gill
181
3.07%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Ponoka||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Donald J. McCrimmon
3,317
50.17%
|
|Roy Kinley
1,856
28.07%
|
|Bruce A. Beck
1,279
19.34%
|
|Gus Itzek
113
1.71%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Red Deer||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Norman F. Magee
5,727
43.14%
|
|Bob Mills
5,406
40.72%
|
|Ken McMillan
1,861
14.02%
|
|Hubert Bouten
258
1.94%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Redwater-Andrew||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|George Topolnisky
3,945
52.31%
|
|Erwin Hannig
547
7.25%
|
|Steve Leskiw
2,870
38.05%
|
|Rudolph Pisesky
148
1.96%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Rocky Mountain House||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|John Murray Campbell
4,080
52.99%
|
|Lavern J. Ahlstrom
2,628
34.13%
|
|John Younie
871
11.31%
|
|Roger Hamilton
104
1.35%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Smoky River||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Marvin Moore
3,032
51.85%
|
|Bernard Lamoureux
854
14.60%
|
|Anne Hemmingway
1,743
29.81%
|
|Stephen V. Marchand
214
3.66%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|
|Jim Reynolds
2,668
39.43%
|
|Aubrey Milner
356
5.26%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|NDP|background}}|
|Grant W. Notley
3,657
54.05%
|
|Terry Fletcher
68
1.01%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|NDP|background}}|
|-
|St. Albert||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Myrna Fyfe
9,361
58.68%
|
|Reginald C. Petch
1,686
10.57%
|
|Robert (Bob) Borreson
3,178
19.92%
|
|Gerry Thibault
1,681
10.54%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|St. Paul||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Charles E. Anderson
3,173
46.26%
|
|John Hull
582
8.49%
|
|Laurent (Jeff) Dubois
2,854
41.61%
|
|Orest Boyko
219
3.19%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Stettler||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Graham L. Harle
4,262
69.94%
|
|David Thomas
1,191
19.54%
|
|Fred J. Rappel
503
8.25%
|
|Douglas Cramer
110
1.81%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Stony Plain||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|William Frederick Purdy
6,927
58.94%
|
|Oscar Venoasen
2,274
19.35%
|
|Sara Johnson
1,218
10.36%
|
|Andy R. McKinnon
1,250
10.64%
|
|Eleanor T. Louden (Ind. Con.)
83
0.71%
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Taber-Warner||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Robert Bogle
5,010
64.98%
|
|Paul Primeau
2,108
27.34%
|
|Larry Schowalter
214
2.78%
|
|Jessie Snow
335
4.35%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Three Hills||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Connie Osterman
4,401
59.32%
|
|Henry Goerzen
2,660
35.85%
|
|Hugh Sommerville
222
2.99%
|
|Ward Sykes
124
1.67%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Vegreville||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|John S. Batiuk
3,835
48.99%
|
|Robert E. Robert
1,210
15.46%
|
|Harry Babchuk
2,490
31.81%
|
|Alan Arthur Vinet
269
3.44%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Vermilion-Viking||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Tom Lysons
3,292
51.46%
|
|Doug Livingstone
2,087
32.62%
|
|Grant Bergman
877
13.71%
|
|Ralph A. Wilson
118
1.84%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Wainwright||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Charles Stewart
3,489
56.36%
|
|Keith Cornish
2,103
33.97%
|
|Alan Richards
509
8.22%
|
|Sultan Tejani
77
1.24%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Wetaskiwin-Leduc||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Dallas Schmidt
8,216
58.69%
|
|Reinhold Ortlieb
2,702
19.30%
|
|Earl R. Rasmuson
2,372
16.94%
|
|Brian King
677
4.84%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Whitecourt||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Peter Trynchy
3,834
57.64%
|
|George L. Richardson
1,214
18.25%
|
|Ken Forscutt
1,442
21.68%
|
|
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|}
See also
Further reading
- {{cite book |last1=Byers |first1=R.B. |title=Canadian annual review of politics and public affairs. 1979 |date=1981 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |location=Toronto |isbn=978-1-4426-7193-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/canadianannualre0000unse_w1r4 |url-access=registration}}
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