1982 Alberta general election
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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1982 Alberta general election
| country = Alberta
| type = legislative
| party_colour = no
| party_name = no
| previous_election = 1979 Alberta general election
| previous_year = 1979
| previous_mps = 19th Alberta Legislative Assembly
| election_date = {{Start date|1982|11|2}}
| elected_mps = members
| next_election = 1986 Alberta general election
| next_year = 1986
| next_mps = 21st Alberta Legislative Assembly
| seats_for_election = 79 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
40 seats were needed for a majority
| turnout = 66.00%
| 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 = 74 seats, 57.4%
| seats_before1 = 73
| seats1 = 75
| seat_change1 = {{increase}}2
| popular_vote1 = 588,485
| percentage1 = 62.3%
| swing1 = {{increase}}4.9%
| image2 =
| colour2 = {{Canadian party colour|AB|NDP|nohash}}
| leader2 = Grant Notley
| party2 = {{Canadian party colour|AB|NDP|name}}
| leader_since2 = 1968
| leaders_seat2 = Spirit River-Fairview
| last_election2 = 1 seat, 15.8%
| seats_before2 = 1
| seats2 = 2
| seat_change2 = {{increase}}1
| popular_vote2 = 177,166
| percentage2 = 18.7%
| swing2 = {{increase}}2.9%
| image3 =
| colour3 = {{Canadian party colour|AB|Western Canada Concept|nohash}}
| leader3 = Gordon Kesler
| party3 = {{Canadian party colour|AB|Western Canada Concept|name}}
| leader_since3 = 1982
| leaders_seat3 = ran in Highwood (lost)
| last_election3 = pre-creation
| seats_before3 = 1
| seats3 = 0
| seat_change3 = {{decrease}}1
| popular_vote3 = 111,131
| percentage3 = 11.8%
| swing3 = —
| image4 =
| colour4 = {{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit|nohash}}
| leader4 = George Richardson
| party4 = {{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit|name}}
| leader_since4 = 1982
| leaders_seat4 = ran in Whitecourt (lost)
| last_election4 = 4 seats, 19.9%
| seats_before4 = 1
| seats4 = 0
| seat_change4 = {{decrease}}1
| popular_vote4 = 7,843
| percentage4 = 0.8%
| swing4 = {{decrease}}19.1%
| image5 =
| colour5 = {{Canadian party colour|AB|Reform Movement|nohash}}
| leader5 = Tom Sindlinger
| party5 = {{Canadian party colour|AB|Reform Movement|name}}
| leader_since5 = 1982
| leaders_seat5 = Calgary-Buffalo (lost re-election)
| last_election5 = pre-creation
| seats_before5 = 1
| seats5 = 0
| seat_change5 = {{decrease}}1
| popular_vote5 = 6,258
| percentage5 = 0.7%
| swing5 = —
| 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 1982 Alberta general election was held on November 2, 1982, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
Less than four years had passed since the Progressive Conservatives won their landslide victory in 1979. Premier Peter Lougheed decided to call a snap election to catch fledgling new parties off guard, most notably the separatist Western Canada Concept which was capitalizing on anger over Lougheed's perceived weakness in dealings with the federal government, in particular his acceptance of the hugely unpopular National Energy Program. The WCC's Gordon Kesler had won a by-election earlier in the year, and Lougheed decided that it would be wise to stage a showdown with the WCC sooner rather than later.
Lougheed then proceeded to mount a campaign based largely on scare tactics, warning Albertans angry with Ottawa but yet uneasy with the WCC that they could end up with a separatist government by voting for a separatist party. Lougheed would also promise to sell the government owned airline Pacific Western Airlines, which the Lougheed government had purchased in 1974.{{cite news |last1=Steward |first1=Gillian |title=Alberta gives up an airline |url=https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1983/12/19/alberta-gives-up-an-airline |access-date=2 July 2020 |work=Maclean's |date=December 19, 1983 |location=Calgary}} The strategy worked for the Tories, who won their fourth consecutive term in government, and returned to the 62% popular vote level it had attained in the 1975 election. This netted the Tories 75 seats in the legislature—in terms of percentage of seats won, the second-largest majority government in the province's history. In the process, they reduced the opposition to only four MLAs in total.
The Alberta Liberal Party was punished in the wake of the NEP. Barely able to field candidates in a third of the ridings, it went down to one of its worst showings in party history.
The Social Credit Party bottomed out after spending a decade in the wilderness after losing power in 1971. In a harbinger of things to come, Socred leader Robert Curtis Clark returned to the backbench shortly after the 1979 election, and retired from politics in 1981. Clark's old seat of Olds-Didsbury was resoundingly lost to the WCC in the ensuing by-election, dropping the Socreds to only three seats, one short of official party status. In March 1982, Socred parliamentary leader Raymond Speaker announced the Socreds would sit out the election. A resolution was put forward to disband the party, but failed. After the writs were issued for the 1982 election, two of the remaining three Socred MLAs, Speaker and Walt Buck, resigned from the party to run for reelection as independents. The third, Fred Mandeville, opted not to run for reelection. With no incumbents for the first time since 1935 and no full-time leader, the party's share of the popular vote fell from almost 20% to less than one percent. It was shut out of the legislature for the first time since 1935, never to return. Speaker and Buck, however, did win reelection, and later formed the Representative Party of Alberta after being denied opposition status.
The New Democratic Party, led by Grant Notley, became the official opposition when Ray Martin was elected to the legislature. Notley had been the sole NDP MLA for more than a decade.
The WCC, a party that advocated the separation of the four western provinces of Canada to form a new country, had surprised Canadians when Kesler won his by-election and took a seat in the Alberta legislature. Although Kesler lost his seat in this election after he changed electoral districts from Olds-Didsbury and ran in Highwood, the WCC won almost 12% of the popular vote.
The Alberta Reform Movement, a new party founded by ex-Progressive Conservative Tom Sindlinger was caught unaware when the election was called, and ended up losing its only seat in Calgary Buffalo.
Opinion polls
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| style="background:#ffd;" |Election 1982
| style="background:#ffd;" |November 2, 1982 | style="background:#ffd;" | | style="background:#ffd;" |62.28 | style="background:#ffd;" |18.75 | style="background:#ffd;" |11.76 | style="background:#ffd;" |1.81 | style="background:#ffd;" |0.83 | style="background:#ffd;" | | style="background:#ffd;" | | style="background:#ffd;" | | style="background:#ffd;" | |
| Alberta Report
|September 26, 1982 |style="background:#9999FF"|71 |15 |7 |5 |2 |{{N/A}} |{{N/A}} |{{N/A}} |{{formatnum:2370}} |
| Alberta Report
|September 26, 1982 |style="background:#9999FF"|52 |17 |20 |7 |3 |{{N/A}} |31 |{{N/A}} |{{formatnum:400}} |
| style="background:#ffd;" |Election 1979
| style="background:#ffd;" |March 14, 1979 | style="background:#ffd;" | | style="background:#ffd;" |57.40 | style="background:#ffd;" |15.75 | style="background:#ffd;" |— | style="background:#ffd;" |6.16 | style="background:#ffd;" |19.87 | style="background:#ffd;" | | style="background:#ffd;" | | style="background:#ffd;" | | style="background:#ffd;" | |
Results
Overall voter turnout was 66.00%.{{cite book|title=2008 General Report|url=http://www.elections.ab.ca/Public%20Website/files/Reports/Part8.pdf|author=Election Alberta|access-date=April 29, 2011|page=158|date=July 28, 2008}}
File:Alberta Legislature 1982.svg
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!rowspan=2 colspan=2|Party !rowspan=2|Party leader !rowspan=2|# of !colspan=4|Seats !colspan=3|Popular vote |
| align="center"|1979
|align="center"|Diss. |align="center"|Elected |align="center"|% Change |align="center"|# |align="center"|% |align="center"|% Change {{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|row-name}} |align="center"| Peter Lougheed |align="right"| 79 |align="right"| 74 |align="right"| 73 |align="right"| 75 |align="right"| +1.4% |align="right"| 588,485 |align="right"| 62.28% |align="right"| +4.88% {{Canadian party colour|AB|NDP|row-name}} |align="center"| Grant Notley |align="right"| 79 |align="right"| 1 |align="right"| 1 |align="right"| 2 |align="right"| +100% |align="right"| 177,166 |align="right"| 18.75% |align="right"| +3.00% {{Canadian party colour|AB|Independent|row}} | colspan=2|Independent |align="right"| 34 |align="right"| - |align="right"| 2 |align="right"| 2 |align="right"| - |align="right"| 36,590 |align="right"| 3.87% |align="right"| +3.10% {{Canadian party colour|AB|Western Canada Concept|row-name}} |align="center"| Gordon Kesler |align="right"| 78 |align="right"| * |align="right"| 1 |align="right"| - |align="right"| * |align="right"| 111,131 |align="right"| 11.76% |align="right"| * {{Canadian party colour|AB|Liberal|row-name}} |align="center"| Nicholas Taylor |align="right"| 29 |align="right"| - |align="right"| - |align="right"| - |align="right"| - |align="right"| 17,074 |align="right"| 1.81% |align="right"| -4.35% {{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit|row-name}} |align="center"| George Richardson |align="right"|23 |align="right"| 4 |align="right"| 1 |align="right"| - |align="right"| -100% |align="right"| 7,843 |align="right"| 0.83% |align="right"| -19.04% {{Canadian party colour|AB|Alberta Reform Movement|row-name}} |align="center"| Tom Sindlinger |align="right"| 14 |align="right"| * |align="right"| 1 |align="right"| - |align="right"| -100% |align="right"| 6,258 |align="right"| 0.66% |align="right"| * {{Canadian party colour|AB|Communist|row-name}} |align="center"| |align="right"| 8 |align="right"| - |align="right"| - |align="right"| - |align="right"| - |align="right"| 389 |align="right"| 0.04% |align="right"| -0.01% |
| colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|344 !align="right"|79 !align="right"|79 !align="right"|79 !align="right"| - !align="right"|944,936 !align="right"| 100% ! |
| align="center" colspan=11|Source: [https://web.archive.org/web/20051211143622/http://www.electionsalberta.ab.ca/welcome.html Elections Alberta] |
Note:
{{Bar percent|New Democratic|{{Canadian party colour|AB|NDP}}|18.75}}
{{Bar percent|WCC|{{Canadian party colour|AB|Western Canada Concept}}|11.76}}
{{Bar percent|Liberal|{{Canadian party colour|AB|Liberal}}|1.81}}
{{Bar percent|Social Credit|{{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit}}|0.83}}
{{Bar percent|Others|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Inde}}|4.57}}}}{{Bar box|title=Seats summary|titlebar=#ddd|width=600px|barwidth=410px|bars={{Bar percent|PC|{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC}}|94.94}}
{{Bar percent|New Democratic|{{Canadian party colour|AB|NDP}}|2.53}}
{{Bar percent|Independent|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Inde}}|2.53}}}}
Results by riding
{{Canadian politics/candlist header|province=AB|PC|NDP|Western Canada Concept|Liberal|Other}}
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|Athabasca||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Frank Appleby
5,342
56.96%
|
|Ed Caraher
1,952
20.81%
|
|Con Sehn
1,538
16.40%
|
|
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|Adam Hauch (SoCred)
529
5.64%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Banff-Cochrane||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Greg Stevens
8,369
72.06%
|
|David Evans
1,288
11.09%
|
|Larry Peterson
1,919
16.52%
|
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|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Barrhead||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Kenneth R. Kowalski
5,001
51.37%
|
|Harold E. Wharton
478
4.91%
|
|John Thomas Mitchell
633
6.50%
|
|Nicholas Taylor
3,331
34.22%
|
|Shirley Bassani (SoCred)
240
2.47%
Ernie Charman (ARM)
39
0.40%
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Bonnyville||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Ernie Isley
4,842
59.43%
|
|Tom Turner
2,547
31.26%
|
|Eric E. Enns
732
8.98%
|
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|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Bow Valley||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Tom N. Musgrove
4,541
60.06%
|
|Bradley Neubauer
266
3.52%
|
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|Murray Erickson (Ind.)
2,719
35.96%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit|background}}|
|-
|Calgary-Bow||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Neil Webber
9,412
70.02%
|
|Catherine Martini
2,293
17.06%
|
|Roy P. Rasmusen
1,059
7.88%
|
|Floyd Allen
380
2.83%
|
|Douglas Stewart Williams (SoCred)
253
1.88%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Calgary-Buffalo||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Brian Craig Lee
7,591
62.01%
|
|Barry Pashak
1,211
9.89%
|
|Anita Bozak
739
6.04%
|
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|Tom Sindlinger (ARM)
2649
21.64%
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|Alberta Reform Movement|background}}|
|-
|Calgary-Currie||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Dennis L. Anderson
9,701
75.51%
|
|Glenn Miller
1,417
11.03%
|
|Darwin M. Sorenson
1,018
7.92%
|
|Rork Hilford
686
5.34%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Calgary-Egmont||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|David John Carter
10,331
78.18%
|
|Leroy Thompson
1,128
8.54%
|
|Richard A. Langen
1,174
8.88%
|
|Bernie C. Tanner
396
3.00%
|
|Victor Lenko (ARM)
158
1.20%
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Calgary-Elbow||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|David J. Russell
7,521
69.64%
|
|Thora Miessner
1,054
9.76%
|
|Gregory J. Langen
829
7.68%
|
|John S. Webb
674
6.24%
|
|Don Carter (Ind.)
520
4.81%
Ray Neilson (SoCred)
172
1.59%
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Calgary-Fish Creek||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|William Edward Payne
17,376
79.63%
|
|Tom Polmear
1,501
6.88%
|
|Byron L. Chenger
2,252
10.32%
|
|Alan D.J. Sopczak
659
3.02%
|
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|-
|Calgary-Foothills||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Janet Koper
9,708
66.92%
|
|Joanne Hedenstrom
2,249
15.50%
|
|Robert Moyor
1,438
9.91%
|
|Larry Adorjan
540
3.72%
|
|Carol Stein (Ind.)
570
3.93%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Calgary-Forest Lawn||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|John Zaozirny
9,704
73.94%
|
|Ken Richmond
1,478
11.26%
|
|Henry Hein Braeutigam
1,244
9.48%
|
|J.V.W. Gairy
314
2.39%
|
|Ella Ayers (SoCred)
294
2.24%
Bruce Potter (Comm)
56
0.43%
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Calgary-Glenmore||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Hugh L. Planche
13,835
77.63%
|
|George Yanchula
1,532
8.60%
|
|Brian McClung
1,864
10.46%
|
|
|
|Barry J. Rust (ARM)
526
2.95%
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Calgary-McCall||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Stanley Kenneth Nelson
17,493
76.40%
|
|Dennis Bennett
2,673
11.67%
|
|Terry Wolsey
1,728
7.55%
|
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|
|Don Bryant (Ind.)
852
3.72%
Grand Tim Majanja (ARM)
120
0.52%
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Calgary-McKnight||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Eric Charles Musgreave
12,130
71.54%
|
|Eileen Nesbitt
2,451
14.46%
|
|John J. Jasienczyk
1,332
7.86%
|
|John J. Gleason
621
3.66%
|
|Jerry J. Glowacki (SoCred)
383
2.26%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Calgary-Millican||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Gordon Wells Shrake
6,323
68.38%
|
|David Davis Swan
1,626
17.58%
|
|Garnet E. Birch
779
8.42%
|
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|
|Zoritza Kasparian (Ind.)
417
4.51%
Doris Schupp (Comm)
50
0.54%
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Calgary-Mountain View||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Bohdan Zip
7,187
57.43%
|
|Phil Elder
3,372
26.95%
|
|Stephen B. Keeling
772
6.17%
|
|J. Curtis Joynt
420
3.36%
|
|Diane Ablonczy (Ind.)
706
5.64%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Calgary-North Hill||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Ed Oman
9,168
72.50%
|
|Agnes Middleton
1,753
13.86%
|
|Gordon Kennard
968
7.66%
|
|Dorothy Groves
701
5.54%
|
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|Calgary-North West||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Sheila Embury
11,711
74.85%
|
|Floyd A. Johnson
1,745
11.15%
|
|Walter Kostiuk
1,768
11.30%
|
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|A. Leith McClure (SoCred)
404
2.58%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Calgary-West||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Peter Lougheed
11,668
78.41%
|
|Ed Smith
1,175
7.90%
|
|Bruce Roper
1,106
7.43%
|
|Barbara Ann Scott
598
4.02%
|
|Leonard Petterson (SoCred)
251
1.69%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
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|Camrose||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Gordon Stromberg
10,547
63.53%
|
|Garry Oberg
3,070
18.49%
|
|Keith Schmidt
2,900
17.47%
|
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|Cardston||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|John Thompson
3,738
59.14%
|
|Leslie N. Howard
250
3.96%
|
|Steve Pinchak
2,309
36.53%
|
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|Chinook||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Henry Kroeger
4,837
73.54%
|
|Gladys Creasy
465
7.07%
|
|Jack Ramsey
1,266
19.25%
|
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|Sten Berg
5,434
35.67%
|
|David Morris
1,683
11.05%
|
|Sig Jorstad
1,783
11.71%
|
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|Walt A. Buck (Ind.)
6,312
41.44%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit|background}}|
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|Cypress||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Alan Hyland
4,170
64.27%
|
|Rudolf Schempp
637
9.82%
|
|Gifford Woodcock
590
9.09%
|
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|Orville Reber (Ind.)
1,080
16.65%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
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|Drayton Valley||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Shirley Cripps
4,906
66.75%
|
|Lynne Martin
1,155
15.71%
|
|George Perdicaris
1,265
17.21%
|
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|Drumheller||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Lewis (Mickey) Clark
8,148
68.14%
|
|Gerry Hamilton
1,124
9.40%
|
|Vern Hoff
2,630
21.99%
|
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|Edmonton-Avonmore||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Horst A. Schmid
6,606
52.92%
|
|Kathleen Wright
4,045
32.40%
|
|Jake Johnson
1,275
10.21%
|
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|Leif Oddson (SoCred)
466
3.73%
Rona Drennan (Comm)
40
0.32%
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
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|Edmonton-Belmont||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Walter R. Szwender
6,579
54.51%
|
|John Younie
3,893
32.25%
|
|Dennis Peter
986
8.17%
|
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|Elmer Knutson (Ind.)
512
4.24%
Joan Jenkins (Comm)
37
0.31%
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
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|Edmonton-Beverly||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Bill W. Diachuk
6,894
50.51%
|
|Winston Gereluk
5,638
41.31%
|
|Dexter B. Dombro
819
6.00%
|
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|Steve Kostiuk (SoCred)
268
1.96%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
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|Edmonton-Calder||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Tom Chambers
8,442
55.31%
|
|Christie Mjolsness
5,527
36.21%
|
|Walter Stack
1,274
8.35%
|
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|Edmonton-Centre||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Mary LeMessurier
5,414
49.72%
|
|Iain Taylor
3,578
32.86%
|
|Larry McIlroy
812
7.46%
|
|Brian McKercher
849
7.80%
|
|Lawlor J. McKenna (SoCred)
197
1.81%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
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|Edmonton-Glengarry||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Rollie Cook
5,997
58.38%
|
|Garth Stevenson
3,181
30.96%
|
|Gordon Reid
1,037
10.09%
|
|
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Edmonton-Glenora||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Lou Hyndman
7,724
61.88%
|
|H.D. (Tony) Smith
2,555
20.47%
|
|Fred Marshall
1,649
13.21%
|
|Jerry Paschen
534
4.28%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Edmonton-Gold Bar||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Alois Paul Hiebert
7,223
56.65%
|
|Allen Eng
3,563
27.94%
|
|Joe Wanner
996
7.81%
|
|Laurie Switzer
567
4.45%
|
|Chuck Bolton (Ind.)
387
3.04%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Edmonton-Highlands||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|David T. King
5,157
54.36%
|
|Marilyn Burnett
3,493
36.82%
|
|Dave Maetche
721
7.60%
|
|
|
|Naomi J. Rankin (Comm)
66
0.70%
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Edmonton-Jasper Place||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Leslie Gordon Young
6,723
57.53%
|
|Don Aitken
3,498
29.93%
|
|John B. Ludwig
987
8.45%
|
|
|
|Peter A. Keohan (SoCred)
241
2.06%
G. Crofton (ARM)
179
1.53%
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Edmonton-Kingsway||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Carl Paproski
4,294
41.62%
|
|Alex McEachern
3,879
37.59%
|
|Curtis Long
669
6.48%
|
|Bill Broad
318
3.08%
|
|Mark Byington (Ind.)
950
9.21%
George Klimuk (SoCred)
192
1.86%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Edmonton-Meadowlark||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Gerard Joseph Amerongen
10,817
58.44%
|
|Robert Henderson
4,590
24.80%
|
|Al Wilson
1,511
8.16%
|
|Naseer A. Chaudhary
776
4.19%
|
|William (Bill) Dickson (Ind.)
423
2.29%
Andy H. Groenink (SoCred)
345
1.86%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Edmonton-Mill Woods||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Milt Pahl
10,095
55.75%
|
|Gerry Gibeault
5,159
28.49%
|
|Dave Fletcher
1,894
10.46%
|
|Winston Mohabir
590
3.26%
|
|Terry Juba (SoCred)
329
1.82%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|
|Tony Falcone
4,782
45.25%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|NDP|background}}|
|Ray Martin
4,857
45.96%
|
|John Hudson
569
5.38%
|
|
|
|George J.P. Wowk (SoCred)
263
2.49%
David Wallis (Comm)
37
0.35%
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Edmonton-Parkallen||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Neil S. Crawford
8,229
55.30%
|
|Jim Russell
5,771
38.78%
|
|Merv Gray
823
5.53%
|
|
|
|Chris Frazer (Comm)
39
0.26%
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Edmonton-Sherwood Park||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Henry Woo
8,401
54.70%
|
|Ted Paszek
3,462
22.54%
|
|Al Oeming
3,029
19.72%
|
|
|
|Al Howell (ARM)
450
2.93%
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Edmonton-Strathcona||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Julian Koziak
7,105
47.73%
|
|Gordon S.B. Wright
6,643
44.63%
|
|Randy Coombes
743
4.99%
|
|
|
|Murray W. Scambler (ARM)
279
1.87%
Joe Hill (Comm)
64
0.43%
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Edmonton-Whitemud||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Keith Alexander
10,696
58.98%
|
|Leslie Bella
4,884
26.93%
|
|Erika Guidera
1,209
6.67%
|
|Philip Lister
791
4.36%
|
|Joe Trenchy (Ind.)
291
1.60%
Keith Schultz (SoCred)
241
1.33%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Edson||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Ian Reid
6,003
56.88%
|
|Eilir Thomas
3,232
30.62%
|
|Lynn Lewis
1,284
12.17%
|
|
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Grande Prairie||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Bob Elliott
9,555
58.11%
|
|Bernie Desrosiers
3,280
19.95%
|
|Jack Smith
2,249
13.68%
|
|Colin Nash
331
2.01%
|
|Jake Paetkau (Ind.)
504
3.06%
Roy Housworth (SoCred)
494
3.00%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Highwood||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Harry E. Alger
7,811
69.89%
|
|William C. McCutcheon
465
4.16%
|
|Gordon Kesler
2,006
17.95%
|
|
|
|Ronald G. Arkes (ARM)
183
1.64%
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Innisfail||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Nigel I. Pengelly
6,684
70.66%
|
|Lyle B. Bleich
738
7.80%
|
|George Conway-Brown
2,001
21.15%
|
|
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Lac La Biche-McMurray||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Norman A. Weiss
6,844
56.74%
|
|Dermond Travis
3,481
28.86%
|
|Jim Williams
1,021
8.46%
|
|Roland J. Woodward
584
4.84%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Lacombe||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Ron A. Moore
5,141
61.12%
|
|Glen R. Nelson
1,108
13.17%
|
|Terry Long
1,339
15.92%
|
|
|
|Howard P. Thompson (Ind.)
811
9.64%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Lesser Slave Lake||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Larry R. Shaben
3,150
57.48%
|
|Gary D. Kennedy
914
16.68%
|
|Garth Lodge
607
11.08%
|
|Joseph D. Blyan
466
8.50%
|
|George Keay (Ind.)
316
5.77%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Lethbridge-East||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Archibald Dick Johnston
8,716
69.57%
|
|Ed McRae
1,369
10.93%
|
|Mike Bennison
1,054
8.41%
|
|John I. Boras
962
7.68%
|
|Paul R. Belanger (ARM)
400
3.19%
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Lethbridge-West||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|John Gogo
8,302
69.37%
|
|Ian Whishaw
1,844
15.41%
|
|G.M. Genstad
938
7.84%
|
|
|
|Jerry Waldern (SoCred)
480
4.01%
Brenda L. Perkins (ARM)
377
3.15%
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|
|Cliff Wright
2,144
33.75%
|
|Beth Jantzie
168
2.64%
|
|Wayne Lawlor
851
13.40%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB| (Ind.)|background}}|
|Raymond Albert Speaker (Ind.)
3,174
49.97%
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit|background}}|
|-
|Lloydminster||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|James Edgar Miller
5,581
71.86%
|
|Robin Allan
905
11.65%
|
|Jerry Butz
1,249
16.08%
|
|
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Macleod||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|LeRoy Fjordbotten
6,136
71.34%
|
|Paul Abilgaard
546
6.35%
|
|Ellis Oviatt
1,293
15.03%
|
|Inez Watmough
144
1.67%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Medicine Hat||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|James Horsman
14,654
81.20%
|
|Clarence W. Smith
2,072
11.48%
|
|David F. Lees
996
5.52%
|
|
|
|Frank F. Cottingham (Ind.)
286
1.58%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Olds-Didsbury||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Stephen Stiles
5,096
46.91%
|
|Roy Agnew
233
2.14%
|
|Daryl M. Jaddock
2,714
24.98%
|
|
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|Western Canada Concept|background}}|
|-
|Peace River||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Al (Boomer) Adair
4,688
56.14%
|
|Richard Collins
1,541
18.46%
|
|J.A. Jim Kalman
1,657
19.84%
|
|Laura M. Deedza
211
2.53%
|
|Joseph (Little Joe) Kessler (Ind.)
225
2.69%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Pincher Creek-Crowsnest||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Frederick Deryl Bradley
4,388
64.52%
|
|Mike Cooper
1,636
24.06%
|
|Dennis Olson
650
9.56%
|
|Jerry Potts
109
1.60%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Ponoka||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Halvar C. Jonson
4,031
50.65%
|
|C.W. (Bill) Loov
876
11.01%
|
|Tom Butterfield
2,646
33.25%
|
|
|
|Paul M. Bateman (ARM)
235
2.95%
Eric Ostergaard (Ind.)
154
1.94%
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Red Deer||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Jim McPherson
10,659
54.70%
|
|Kendall Dunford
1,915
9.83%
|
|Wynne Richard Hanson
1,468
7.53%
|
|
|
|Bob Mills (Ind.)
5,396
27.69%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Redwater-Andrew||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|George Topolnisky
4,438
50.98%
|
|Steve Leskiw
2,507
28.80%
|
|Roger P. Pullishy
1,121
12.88%
|
|Lawrence D. McCallum
157
1.80%
|
|Michael Senych (Ind.)
467
5.36%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Rocky Mountain House||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|John Murray Campbell
6,443
65.99%
|
|Dolly Martin
1,191
12.20%
|
|Art Carritt
2,116
21.67%
|
|
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Smoky River||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Marvin Moore
3,950
57.79%
|
|Anne Hemmingway
1,537
22.49%
|
|Andrew Blum
1,316
19.25%
|
|
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|
|Doug Snider
3,260
41.61%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|NDP|background}}|
|Grant W. Notley
3,443
43.95%
|
|Dan Fletcher
1,093
13.95%
|
|
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|NDP|background}}|
|-
|St. Albert||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Myrna Fyfe
12,982
54.60%
|
|Kurt Hoeberg
4,438
18.67%
|
|Murray Sillito
2,465
10.37%
|
|
|
|William Ernest Jamison (Ind.)
3,406
14.33%
L.D. Callfas (SoCred)
434
1.83%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|St. Paul||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|John Drobot
4,269
55.97%
|
|Laurent (Jeff) Dubois
2,872
37.66%
|
|Iris Bourne
447
5.86%
|
|
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Stettler||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Graham L. Harle
4,915
71.40%
|
|Fred J. Rappel
617
8.96%
|
|Doug Carmichael
1,334
19.38%
|
|
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Stony Plain||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|William Frederick Purdy
10,210
59.73%
|
|Jim Bell
2,905
16.99%
|
|John G. Parkes
2,337
13.67%
|
|
|
|Ralph Eikeland (SoCred)
299
1.75%
Murray Fuhr (ARM)
202
1.18%
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Taber-Warner||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Robert Bogle
6,800
70.97%
|
|Catherine R. McCreary
486
5.07%
|
|Ronald Johnson
1,811
18.90%
|
|
|
|Emil D. Gundlock (ARM)
461
4.81%
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Three Hills||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Connie Osterman
8,693
77.47%
|
|James B. Schleppe
549
4.89%
|
|Vern Meek
1,949
17.37%
|
|
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Vegreville||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|John S. Batiuk
4,526
53.51%
|
|Bob Sarafinchan
2,418
28.59%
|
|Loren Yasinski
807
9.54%
|
|
|
|Barry M. Bernard (Ind.)
202
2.39%Robert E. Robert (SoCred)
487
5.76%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Vermilion-Viking||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Tom Lysons
4,357
58.20%
|
|Grant Bergman
1,205
16.10%
|
|Richard Van Ee
1,742
23.27%
|
|
|
|Patrick A. Moore (SoCred)
159
2.12%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Wainwright||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Robert A. (Butch) Fischer
4,589
61.68%
|
|John Wesley Connelly
476
6.40%
|
|Bill Veitch
2,145
28.83%
|
|Joseph A. Vermette
218
2.93%
|
|||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Wetaskiwin-Leduc||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Donald H. Sparrow
12,923
63.76%
|
|Earl R. Rasmuson
3,190
15.74%
|
|Bill Hosford
3,511
17.32%
|
|
|
|Barry Cook (Ind.)
576
2.84%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|Whitecourt||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|Peter Trynchy
4,635
51.46%
|
|Richard Davies
1,220
13.55%
|
|Andy Lee
2,276
25.27%
|
|John M. Powers
147
1.63%
|
|George L. Richardson (SoCred)
685
7.61%||{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|-
|}
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Byers |editor1-first=R. B. |title=Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs, 1982 |date=1984 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |location=Toronto |isbn=9781442671966 |url=https://archive.org/details/canadianannualre0000unse_r4m2|url-access=registration}}
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