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1979 Alberta general election

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Field	Value
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
outgoing_members	18th Alberta Legislative Assembly
election_date
elected_mps	[members](19th-alberta-legislative-assembly)
next_election	1982 Alberta general election
next_year	1982
seats_for_election	79 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
40 seats were needed for a majority
image1	Peter Lougheed - Premier of Alberta - 1983.jpg
colour1
leader1	Peter Lougheed
party1
leader_since1	1965
leaders_seat1	Calgary-West
last_election1	69 seats, 62.7%
seats_before1	69
seats1	74
seat_change1	5
popular_vote1	408,097
percentage1	57.4%
swing1	5.25%
image2	SC
colour2
leader2	Robert C. Clark
party2
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	1.7%
image4	Grant Notley circa 1969.jpg
colour4
leader4	Grant Notley
party4
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	2.81%
image5	LIB
colour5
leader5	Nicholas Taylor
party5
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	1.18%
title	Premier
posttitle	Premier after election
before_election	Peter Lougheed
before_party
after_election	Peter Lougheed
after_party

40 seats were needed for a majority 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

centre

Party	Party leader	# of
candidates	Seats	Popular Vote	334	75	79	+5.3%	710,963	100%
1975	Elected	% Change	#	%	% Change	Progressive Conservative	Peter Lougheed	79	69	74	+7.2%
Total
Source: [Elections Alberta](https://web.archive.org/web/20051211143622/http://www.electionsalberta.ab.ca/welcome.html)

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=

Results by riding

|- |Athabasca||| |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% | ||||

Frank Appleby
Banff-Cochrane
Greg Stevens
5,578
66.79%

| |Thomas McArthur 1,462 17.51% | |Bob Ritchie 759 9.09% | |Morna F. Schechtel 543 6.50% | |||| | |- |Barrhead||| |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% | ||||

Hugh F. Horner
Bonnyville
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%|||

Donald Hansen
Bow Valley

| |Paul Bartlett 2,484 35.92%||| |Fred T. Mandeville 4,123 59.62% | |Ron Wickson 201 2.91% | |Brian Nearing 86 1.24% | ||||

Fred T. Mandeville
Calgary-Bow
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%|||

Neil Webber
Calgary-Buffalo
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%|||

Ronald H. Ghitter
Calgary-Currie
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% | ||||

Fred H. Peacock
Calgary-Egmont
Merv Leitch
8,083
73.30%

| |Albert Downton 1,245 11.29% | |Muriel McCreary 844 7.65% | |Marta Coldham 833 7.55% | ||||

Merv Leitch
Calgary-Elbow
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% | ||||

David J. Russell
Calgary-Fish Creek
William Edward Payne
9,187
75.94%

| |Al Green 1,190 9.84% | |Margaret Young 481 3.98% | |Jerry Sykes 1,225 10.13% | |||| | |- |Calgary-Foothills||| |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% | ||||

Stewart A. McCrae
Calgary-Forest Lawn
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%||| | |- |Calgary-Glenmore||| |Hugh L. Planche 8,212 55.74% | |Ernie Kaszas 1,280 8.69% | |Neil Ellison 442 3.00% | |Nicholas Taylor 4,774 32.40% | ||||

Hugh L. Planche
Calgary-McCall
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%|||

Andrew Little
Calgary-McKnight
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% | ||||

Eric Charles Musgreave
Calgary-Millican
David John Carter
4,034
61.80%

| |Arthur J. Dixon 1,539 23.58% | |Stan Johns 595 9.11% | |Bob Cox 331 5.07% | ||||

Thomas Charles Donnelly
Calgary-Mountain View
Stan Kushner
5,141
54.54%

| |Scott Saville 1,986 21.07% | |Martin Serediak 1,455 15.44% | |John Donnachie 804 8.53% | ||||

John Kushner
Calgary-North Hill
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%|||

Roy Alexander Farran
Calgary-North West
Sheila Embury
5,976
61.59%

| |Harold Gunderson 2,043 21.06% | |Ken Richmond 721 7.43% | |George R.D. Goulet 950 9.79% | |||| | |- |Calgary-West||| |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% ||

Peter Lougheed
Camrose
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% | ||||

Gordon Stromberg
Cardston
John Thompson
2,832
53.89%

| |Broyce G. Jacobs 2,196 41.79% | |Rosemarie M. Buchannan 102 1.94% | |Paul Shaw 115 2.19% | ||||

John Thompson
Chinook
Henry Kroeger
4,024
66.11%

| |Arlie Reil 1,310 21.52% | |John W. Oberg 406 6.67% | |Sheila Noonan 314 5.16% | |||| | |- |Clover Bar | |C.G. Thomlinson 3,947 34.90%||| |Walt A. Buck 6,033 53.35% | |Graham Griffiths 1,102 9.75% | |Alan M.F. Dunn 211 1.87% | ||||

Walt A. Buck
Cypress
Alan Hyland
3,353
56.90%

| |Vern Beck 1,907 32.36% | |Clarence W. Smith 499 8.47% | |Carl Pattison 123 2.09% | ||||

Alan Hyland
Drayton Valley
Shirley Cripps
3,530
56.75%

| |Phil Turner 1,284 20.64% | |Gerry Hutchinson 1,290 20.74% | |Harold Knopke 94 1.51% | ||||

Rudolph Zander
Drumheller
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%|||

Gordon Edward Taylor
Edmonton-Avonmore
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% | ||||

Horst A. Schmid
Edmonton-Belmont
William L. Mack
4,923
54.90%

| |Ron Mix 1,813 20.22% | |Haddie Jahner 1,769 19.73% | |Charalee Graydon 369 4.12% | ||||

Albert Edward Hohol
Edmonton-Beverly
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% | ||||

Bill W. Diachuk
Edmonton-Calder
Tom Chambers
5,205
58.18%

| |Dan R. Service 982 10.98% | |Bill Kobluk 2,180 24.37% | |Richard Guthrie 535 5.98% | ||||

Tom Chambers
Edmonton-Centre
Mary LeMessurier
4,550
54.19%

| |Robert J. Dunseith 838 9.98% | |Harry C. Midgley 2,273 27.07% | |Leonard Stahl 704 8.38% | ||||

Gordon Miniely
Edmonton-Glengarry
Rollie Cook
4,309
54.95%

| |Victor Nakonechny 1,277 16.29% | |David Stewart 1,489 18.99% | |Ronald John Hayter 719 9.17% | |||| | |- |Edmonton-Glenora||| |Lou Hyndman 6,597 61.23% | |Patrice Taylor 1,330 12.34% | |Doug Trace 1,838 17.06% | |David Panar 967 8.97% | ||||

Lou Hyndman
Edmonton-Gold Bar
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% | ||||

William Yurko
Edmonton-Highlands
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%|||

David T. King
Edmonton-Jasper Place
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% | ||||

Leslie Gordon Young
Edmonton-Kingsway
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%|||

Kenneth R.H. Paproski
Edmonton-Meadowlark
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%|||

Gerard Joseph Amerongen
Edmonton-Mill Woods
Milt Pahl
4,299
56.16%

| |Rudy Rodriques 573 7.49% | |L. (Les) Owre 1,552 20.27% | |Rose MacPherson 989 12.92% | |||| | |- |Edmonton-Norwood||| |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%|||

Catherine Chichak
Edmonton-Parkallen
Neil S. Crawford
6,457
50.47%

| |Morley MacCalder 1,483 11.59% | |Jim Russell 4,102 32.06% | |Philip Lister 724 5.66% | ||||

Neil S. Crawford
Edmonton-Sherwood Park
Henry Woo
6,285
60.57%

| |Oran Johnson 1,594 15.36% | |Jim Denholm 1,682 16.21% | |Stephen Lindop 795 7.66% | |||| | |- |Edmonton-Strathcona||| |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%|||

Julian Koziak
Edmonton-Whitemud
Peter Knaak
6,833
57.54%

| |Larry Heth 939 7.91% | |Ted Paszek 2,122 17.87% | |Don Milliken 1,964 16.54% | ||||

Donald Ross Getty
Edson
Ian Reid
4,517
53.62%

| |W.L. Land 676 8.02% | |Ron Hodgins 2,958 35.11% | |Herbert Maris 260 3.09% | ||||

Robert W. Dowling
Grande Prairie
Elmer Borstad
6,313
50.12%

| |Donald Wood 3,380 26.84% | |Campbell Ross 2,266 17.99% | |Helen Rice 601 4.77% | ||||

Winston Backus
Highwood
George Wolstenholme
5,103
66.35%

| |Don Dixon 2,092 27.20% | |William C. McCutcheon 281 3.65% | |Joan Cowling 191 2.48% | ||||

George Wolstenholme
Innisfail
Nigel I. Pengelly
4,263
55.38%

| |Stuart Little 2,921 37.94% | |Tim Guilbault 371 4.82% | |Janet Gratton 101 1.31% | ||||

Clifford L. Doan
Lac La Biche-McMurray
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% | ||||

Ron Tesolin
Lacombe
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%|||

John William Cookson
Lesser Slave Lake
Larry R. Shaben
2,313
45.82%

| |Peter Moore 1,743 34.53% | |Mike Poulter 799 15.83% | |Dan Backs 171 3.39% | ||||

Larry R. Shaben
Lethbridge-East
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% ||

Archibald Dick Johnston
Lethbridge-West
John Gogo
5,682
64.60%

| |Jerry Waldern 1,625 18.47% | |Ron Clark 971 11.04% | |Bob Wilson 511 5.81% | ||||

John Gogo
Little Bow

| |Richard Papworth 1,684 29.37%||| |Raymond Albert Speaker 3,748 65.38% | |Beth Jantzie 236 4.12% | |John W. Fujimargari 43 0.75% | ||||

Raymond Albert Speaker
Lloydminster
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% | ||||

James Edgar Miller
Macleod
LeRoy Fjordbotten
4,189
58.79%

| |Roelof A. Heinen 2,369 33.25% | |Kathleen M. Cairns 384 5.39% | |Alfred Saddleback 171 2.40% | ||||

Thomas James John Walker
Medicine Hat
James Horsman
10,107
72.59%

| |Lee Anderson 1,904 13.67% | |Frances Ost 1,134 8.14% | |Louise Mercier 729 5.24% | |||| | |- |Olds-Didsbury | |Bill Edgar 2,514 27.50%||| |Robert Curtis Clark 6,399 70.00% | |Gregory Hoffarth 152 1.66% | |Stephen Shaw 55 0.60% | ||||

Robert Curtis Clark
Peace River
Al (Boomer) Adair
3,901
59.77%

| |Garry Gaudet 784 12.01% | |Richard Collins 1,604 24.57% | |Donald W. Freeland 234 3.59% | ||||

Al (Boomer) Adair
Pincher Creek-Crowsnest
Frederick Deryl Bradley
3,567
60.43%

| |Robert (Bob) Westrop 1,503 25.46% | |Ian Downie 628 10.64% | |Ann Gill 181 3.07% | ||||

Frederick Deryl Bradley
Ponoka
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% | ||||

Donald J. McCrimmon
Red Deer
Norman F. Magee
5,727
43.14%

| |Bob Mills 5,406 40.72% | |Ken McMillan 1,861 14.02% | |Hubert Bouten 258 1.94% | ||||

James L. Foster
Redwater-Andrew
George Topolnisky
3,945
52.31%

| |Erwin Hannig 547 7.25% | |Steve Leskiw 2,870 38.05% | |Rudolph Pisesky 148 1.96% | ||||

George Topolnisky
Rocky Mountain House
John Murray Campbell
4,080
52.99%

| |Lavern J. Ahlstrom 2,628 34.13% | |John Younie 871 11.31% | |Roger Hamilton 104 1.35% | ||||

Helen Hunley
Smoky River
Marvin Moore
3,032
51.85%

| |Bernard Lamoureux 854 14.60% | |Anne Hemmingway 1,743 29.81% | |Stephen V. Marchand 214 3.66% | ||||

Marvin Moore
Spirit River-Fairview

| |Jim Reynolds 2,668 39.43% | |Aubrey Milner 356 5.26%||| |Grant W. Notley 3,657 54.05% | |Terry Fletcher 68 1.01% | ||||

Grant W. Notley
St. Albert
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% | ||||

William Ernest Jamison
St. Paul
Charles E. Anderson
3,173
46.26%

| |John Hull 582 8.49% | |Laurent (Jeff) Dubois 2,854 41.61% | |Orest Boyko 219 3.19% | ||||

Mick Fluker
Stettler
Graham L. Harle
4,262
69.94%

| |David Thomas 1,191 19.54% | |Fred J. Rappel 503 8.25% | |Douglas Cramer 110 1.81% | ||||

Graham L. Harle
Stony Plain
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% ||

William Frederick Purdy
Taber-Warner
Robert Bogle
5,010
64.98%

| |Paul Primeau 2,108 27.34% | |Larry Schowalter 214 2.78% | |Jessie Snow 335 4.35% | ||||

Robert Bogle
Three Hills
Connie Osterman
4,401
59.32%

| |Henry Goerzen 2,660 35.85% | |Hugh Sommerville 222 2.99% | |Ward Sykes 124 1.67% | ||||

Allan Warrack
Vegreville
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% | ||||

John S. Batiuk
Vermilion-Viking
Tom Lysons
3,292
51.46%

| |Doug Livingstone 2,087 32.62% | |Grant Bergman 877 13.71% | |Ralph A. Wilson 118 1.84% | ||||

Tom Lysons
Wainwright
Charles Stewart
3,489
56.36%

| |Keith Cornish 2,103 33.97% | |Alan Richards 509 8.22% | |Sultan Tejani 77 1.24% | ||||

Charles Stewart
Wetaskiwin-Leduc
Dallas Schmidt
8,216
58.69%

| |Reinhold Ortlieb 2,702 19.30% | |Earl R. Rasmuson 2,372 16.94% | |Brian King 677 4.84% | ||||

Dallas Schmidt
Whitecourt
Peter Trynchy
3,834
57.64%

| |George L. Richardson 1,214 18.25% | |Ken Forscutt 1,442 21.68% | | | ||||

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