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.
Notes:<br /> <sup>1</sup> Percent compared to Independent Progressive Conservative during the 1975 Election. <br /> <sup>*</sup> Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.
|- |Athabasca||| |Frank Appleby<br />4,153<br />55.39% | |Ernest W. Maser<br />989<br />13.19% | |Peter E. Opryshko<br />1,792<br />23.90% | |Robert Blain Logan<br />554<br />7.39% | |||| |Frank Appleby |- |Banff-Cochrane||| |Greg Stevens<br />5,578<br />66.79% | |Thomas McArthur<br />1,462<br />17.51% | |Bob Ritchie<br />759<br />9.09% | |Morna F. Schechtel<br />543<br />6.50% | |||| | |- |Barrhead||| |Hugh F. Horner<br />4,629<br />61.73% | |David Bouyea<br />1,658<br />22.11% | |Lionel Udenberg<br />1,008<br />13.44% | |John V. Murphy<br />136<br />1.81% | |||| |Hugh F. Horner |- |Bonnyville||| |Ernie Isley<br />3,468<br />49.57% | |George Nordstrom<br />1,275<br />18.22% | |Tom Turner<br />1,828<br />26.13% | |Edward Stepanik<br />194<br />2.77% | |Donald Appleby (Ind.)<br />206<br />2.94%||| |Donald Hansen |- |Bow Valley | |Paul Bartlett<br />2,484<br />35.92%||| |Fred T. Mandeville<br />4,123<br />59.62% | |Ron Wickson<br />201<br />2.91% | |Brian Nearing<br />86<br />1.24% | |||| |Fred T. Mandeville |- |Calgary-Bow||| |Neil Webber<br />7,042<br />64.39% | |Jim Beale<br />1,816<br />16.61% | |Floyd A. Johnson<br />1,361<br />12.45% | |Clive Scott<br />633<br />5.79% | |Adela Polancec (Comm.)<br />47<br />0.43%||| |Neil Webber |- |Calgary-Buffalo||| |Tom Sindlinger<br />6,481<br />63.78% | |Jim Rocker<br />1,432<br />14.09% | |Brian Rees<br />1,052<br />10.35% | |Lloyd Hamilton<br />1,096<br />10.79% | |David Willis (Comm.)<br />62<br />0.61%||| |Ronald H. Ghitter |- |Calgary-Currie||| |Dennis L. Anderson<br />6,885<br />59.57% | |Charles S. Dunkley<br />2,822<br />24.42% | |Glenn Miller<br />1,042<br />9.02% | |Jerry Arshinoff<br />789<br />6.83% | |||| |Fred H. Peacock |- |Calgary-Egmont||| |Merv Leitch<br />8,083<br />73.30% | |Albert Downton<br />1,245<br />11.29% | |Muriel McCreary<br />844<br />7.65% | |Marta Coldham<br />833<br />7.55% | |||| |Merv Leitch |- |Calgary-Elbow||| |David J. Russell<br />5,941<br />65.67% | |Patricia (Pat) Sveen<br />1,321<br />14.60% | |William J. Oxendale<br />531<br />5.87% | |John S. Webb<br />1,227<br />13.56% | |||| |David J. Russell |- |Calgary-Fish Creek||| |William Edward Payne<br />9,187<br />75.94% | |Al Green<br />1,190<br />9.84% | |Margaret Young<br />481<br />3.98% | |Jerry Sykes<br />1,225<br />10.13% | |||| | |- |Calgary-Foothills||| |Stewart A. McCrae<br />7,518<br />61.89% | |Lorraine Law<br />2,835<br />23.34% | |Steve G. Arnett<br />982<br />8.08% | |Catherine M. Fitzpatrick<br />789<br />6.50% | |||| |Stewart A. McCrae |- |Calgary-Forest Lawn||| |John Zaozirny<br />5,901<br />59.39% | |Don Howes<br />2,263<br />22.78% | |Doug Murdoch<br />813<br />8.18% | |Marg Bogstie<br />284<br />2.86% | |John Sutherland (Ind.)<br />577<br />5.81%<br />Bruce Potter (Comm.)<br />47<br />0.47%||| | |- |Calgary-Glenmore||| |Hugh L. Planche<br />8,212<br />55.74% | |Ernie Kaszas<br />1,280<br />8.69% | |Neil Ellison<br />442<br />3.00% | |Nicholas Taylor<br />4,774<br />32.40% | |||| |Hugh L. Planche |- |Calgary-McCall||| |Andrew Little<br />7,918<br />70.39% | |Jim Richards<br />1,757<br />15.62% | |Dave Hammond<br />838<br />7.45% | |Ron Chahal<br />691<br />6.14% | |Michael J. Parker (Comm.)<br />20<br />0.18%||| |Andrew Little |- |Calgary-McKnight||| |Eric Charles Musgreave<br />7,248<br />61.61% | |Jerry Melchin<br />2,684<br />22.82% | |Jack Dale<br />1,097<br />9.33% | |John J. Gleason<br />664<br />5.64% | |||| |Eric Charles Musgreave |- |Calgary-Millican||| |David John Carter<br />4,034<br />61.80% | |Arthur J. Dixon<br />1,539<br />23.58% | |Stan Johns<br />595<br />9.11% | |Bob Cox<br />331<br />5.07% | |||| |Thomas Charles Donnelly |- |Calgary-Mountain View||| |Stan Kushner<br />5,141<br />54.54% | |Scott Saville<br />1,986<br />21.07% | |Martin Serediak<br />1,455<br />15.44% | |John Donnachie<br />804<br />8.53% | |||| |John Kushner |- |Calgary-North Hill||| |Ed Oman<br />6,760<br />64.41% | |Dennis Shupe<br />1,799<br />17.14% | |Agnes Middleton<br />1,052<br />10.02% | |Dorothy Groves<br />747<br />7.12% | |John J. Jasienczyk (Ind.)<br />71<br />0.68%||| |Roy Alexander Farran |- |Calgary-North West||| |Sheila Embury<br />5,976<br />61.59% | |Harold Gunderson<br />2,043<br />21.06% | |Ken Richmond<br />721<br />7.43% | |George R.D. Goulet<br />950<br />9.79% | |||| | |- |Calgary-West||| |Peter Lougheed<br />7,825<br />72.44% | |Frank F. Cottingham<br />930<br />8.61% | |Ed Smith<br />699<br />6.47% | |Barbara Ann Scott<br />874<br />8.09% | |Jacob H. Binnema (Ind. Christian)<br />406<br />3.78% || |Peter Lougheed |- |Camrose||| |Gordon Stromberg<br />7,998<br />60.06% | |Ralph A. Sorenson<br />3,121<br />23.44% | |Arthur C. Bunney<br />1,888<br />14.18% | |John R. Shores<br />278<br />2.09% | |||| |Gordon Stromberg |- |Cardston||| |John Thompson<br />2,832<br />53.89% | |Broyce G. Jacobs<br />2,196<br />41.79% | |Rosemarie M. Buchannan<br />102<br />1.94% | |Paul Shaw<br />115<br />2.19% | |||| |John Thompson |- |Chinook||| |Henry Kroeger<br />4,024<br />66.11% | |Arlie Reil<br />1,310<br />21.52% | |John W. Oberg<br />406<br />6.67% | |Sheila Noonan<br />314<br />5.16% | |||| | |- |Clover Bar | |C.G. Thomlinson<br />3,947<br />34.90%||| |Walt A. Buck<br />6,033<br />53.35% | |Graham Griffiths<br />1,102<br />9.75% | |Alan M.F. Dunn<br />211<br />1.87% | |||| |Walt A. Buck |- |Cypress||| |Alan Hyland<br />3,353<br />56.90% | |Vern Beck<br />1,907<br />32.36% | |Clarence W. Smith<br />499<br />8.47% | |Carl Pattison<br />123<br />2.09% | |||| |Alan Hyland |- |Drayton Valley||| |Shirley Cripps<br />3,530<br />56.75% | |Phil Turner<br />1,284<br />20.64% | |Gerry Hutchinson<br />1,290<br />20.74% | |Harold Knopke<br />94<br />1.51% | |||| |Rudolph Zander |- |Drumheller||| |Lewis (Mickey) Clark<br />5,585<br />54.56% | |Ken Taylor<br />1,913<br />18.69% | |Ray Garrett<br />526<br />5.14% | |Charles J. Dirk<br />209<br />2.04% | |Vern Hoff (Ind.)<br />1,927<br />18.83%||| |Gordon Edward Taylor |- |Edmonton-Avonmore||| |Horst A. Schmid<br />5,382<br />53.91% | |Walter Zucht<br />1,691<br />16.94% | |Olga Blondheim<br />2,363<br />23.67% | |Betty Ann Dumbeck<br />511<br />5.12% | |||| |Horst A. Schmid |- |Edmonton-Belmont||| |William L. Mack<br />4,923<br />54.90% | |Ron Mix<br />1,813<br />20.22% | |Haddie Jahner<br />1,769<br />19.73% | |Charalee Graydon<br />369<br />4.12% | |||| |Albert Edward Hohol |- |Edmonton-Beverly||| |Bill W. Diachuk<br />3,756<br />50.29% | |Pat G.A. O'Hara<br />854<br />11.44% | |Gene Mitchell<br />2,592<br />34.71% | |Teresa McKerral<br />231<br />3.09% | |||| |Bill W. Diachuk |- |Edmonton-Calder||| |Tom Chambers<br />5,205<br />58.18% | |Dan R. Service<br />982<br />10.98% | |Bill Kobluk<br />2,180<br />24.37% | |Richard Guthrie<br />535<br />5.98% | |||| |Tom Chambers |- |Edmonton-Centre||| |Mary LeMessurier<br />4,550<br />54.19% | |Robert J. Dunseith<br />838<br />9.98% | |Harry C. Midgley<br />2,273<br />27.07% | |Leonard Stahl<br />704<br />8.38% | |||| |Gordon Miniely |- |Edmonton-Glengarry||| |Rollie Cook<br />4,309<br />54.95% | |Victor Nakonechny<br />1,277<br />16.29% | |David Stewart<br />1,489<br />18.99% | |Ronald John Hayter<br />719<br />9.17% | |||| | |- |Edmonton-Glenora||| |Lou Hyndman<br />6,597<br />61.23% | |Patrice Taylor<br />1,330<br />12.34% | |Doug Trace<br />1,838<br />17.06% | |David Panar<br />967<br />8.97% | |||| |Lou Hyndman |- |Edmonton-Gold Bar||| |Alois Paul Hiebert<br />6,044<br />55.93% | |Ace Cetinski<br />1,397<br />12.93% | |Kathleen Wright<br />2,343<br />21.68% | |Laurie Switzer<br />1,002<br />9.27% | |||| |William Yurko |- |Edmonton-Highlands||| |David T. King<br />4,644<br />56.28% | |Sam Motrich<br />770<br />9.33% | |Clifford Gladue<br />2,065<br />25.03% | |Ted Power<br />594<br />7.20% | |William A. Tuomi (Comm.)<br />84<br />1.02%<br />Roger Lavoie (Ind.)<br />65<br />0.79%||| |David T. King |- |Edmonton-Jasper Place||| |Leslie Gordon Young<br />5,049<br />60.16% | |Ralph Frank Watzke<br />1,037<br />12.36% | |Charlie Wood<br />1,735<br />20.67% | |Gerald F. Paschen<br />554<br />6.60% | |||| |Leslie Gordon Young |- |Edmonton-Kingsway||| |Kenneth R.H. Paproski<br />4,387<br />50.44% | |Martin Hattersly<br />975<br />11.21% | |Alex McEachern<br />2,563<br />29.47% | |Dorothy A. Richardson<br />684<br />7.86% | |Eddie Keehn (Ind.)<br />51<br />0.59%||| |Kenneth R.H. Paproski |- |Edmonton-Meadowlark||| |Gerard Joseph Amerongen<br />7,075<br />59.97% | |Russ Forsythe<br />1,237<br />10.48% | |Jim Bell<br />2,098<br />17.78% | |Ron Charko<br />904<br />7.66% | |C.A. Douglas Ringrose (Ind.)<br />448<br />3.80%||| |Gerard Joseph Amerongen |- |Edmonton-Mill Woods||| |Milt Pahl<br />4,299<br />56.16% | |Rudy Rodriques<br />573<br />7.49% | |L. (Les) Owre<br />1,552<br />20.27% | |Rose MacPherson<br />989<br />12.92% | |||| | |- |Edmonton-Norwood||| |Catherine Chichak<br />3,950<br />46.61% | |Mike Ekelund<br />703<br />8.29% | |Ray Martin<br />3,194<br />37.69% | |Walter G. Coombs<br />486<br />5.73% | |Kimball Cariou (Comm.)<br />45<br />0.53%||| |Catherine Chichak |- |Edmonton-Parkallen||| |Neil S. Crawford<br />6,457<br />50.47% | |Morley MacCalder<br />1,483<br />11.59% | |Jim Russell<br />4,102<br />32.06% | |Philip Lister<br />724<br />5.66% | |||| |Neil S. Crawford |- |Edmonton-Sherwood Park||| |Henry Woo<br />6,285<br />60.57% | |Oran Johnson<br />1,594<br />15.36% | |Jim Denholm<br />1,682<br />16.21% | |Stephen Lindop<br />795<br />7.66% | |||| | |- |Edmonton-Strathcona||| |Julian Koziak<br />5,464<br />44.94% | |E.J.C. Charman<br />927<br />7.62% | |Gordon S.B. Wright<br />4,808<br />39.54% | |George Walton<br />739<br />6.08% | |Gerry Ball (Ind. P.C.)<br />155<br />1.28%<br />Joseph Hill (Comm.)<br />52<br />0.43%||| |Julian Koziak |- |Edmonton-Whitemud||| |Peter Knaak<br />6,833<br />57.54% | |Larry Heth<br />939<br />7.91% | |Ted Paszek<br />2,122<br />17.87% | |Don Milliken<br />1,964<br />16.54% | |||| |Donald Ross Getty |- |Edson||| |Ian Reid<br />4,517<br />53.62% | |W.L. Land<br />676<br />8.02% | |Ron Hodgins<br />2,958<br />35.11% | |Herbert Maris<br />260<br />3.09% | |||| |Robert W. Dowling |- |Grande Prairie||| |Elmer Borstad<br />6,313<br />50.12% | |Donald Wood<br />3,380<br />26.84% | |Campbell Ross<br />2,266<br />17.99% | |Helen Rice<br />601<br />4.77% | |||| |Winston Backus |- |Highwood||| |George Wolstenholme<br />5,103<br />66.35% | |Don Dixon<br />2,092<br />27.20% | |William C. McCutcheon<br />281<br />3.65% | |Joan Cowling<br />191<br />2.48% | |||| |George Wolstenholme |- |Innisfail||| |Nigel I. Pengelly<br />4,263<br />55.38% | |Stuart Little<br />2,921<br />37.94% | |Tim Guilbault<br />371<br />4.82% | |Janet Gratton<br />101<br />1.31% | |||| |Clifford L. Doan |- |Lac La Biche-McMurray||| |Norman A. Weiss<br />3,431<br />49.68% | |Conrad Sehn<br />1,347<br />19.50% | |Claire E. Williscroft<br />1,777<br />25.73% | |Denise Diesel<br />320<br />4.63% | |||| |Ron Tesolin |- |Lacombe||| |John William Cookson<br />4,458<br />64.11% | |Elmer Suominen<br />1,409<br />20.26% | |Arthur Wigmore<br />717<br />10.31% | |Roger C. Holteen<br />260<br />3.74% | |Gordon Crofton (Ind.)<br />85<br />1.22%||| |John William Cookson |- |Lesser Slave Lake||| |Larry R. Shaben<br />2,313<br />45.82% | |Peter Moore<br />1,743<br />34.53% | |Mike Poulter<br />799<br />15.83% | |Dan Backs<br />171<br />3.39% | |||| |Larry R. Shaben |- |Lethbridge-East||| |Archibald Dick Johnston<br />5,870<br />59.35% | |Roxie McCallum<br />1,223<br />12.37% | |Roger Rickwood<br />692<br />7.00% | |Frank Merkl<br />666<br />6.73% | |Ken Kotkas (Ind. Con.)<br />1,375<br />13.99% || |Archibald Dick Johnston |- |Lethbridge-West||| |John Gogo<br />5,682<br />64.60% | |Jerry Waldern<br />1,625<br />18.47% | |Ron Clark<br />971<br />11.04% | |Bob Wilson<br />511<br />5.81% | |||| |John Gogo |- |Little Bow | |Richard Papworth<br />1,684<br />29.37%||| |Raymond Albert Speaker<br />3,748<br />65.38% | |Beth Jantzie<br />236<br />4.12% | |John W. Fujimargari<br />43<br />0.75% | |||| |Raymond Albert Speaker |- |Lloydminster||| |James Edgar Miller<br />4,674<br />78.49% | |Patrick A. Moore<br />445<br />7.47% | |Elinar A. Jonson<br />680<br />11.42% | |Gregory R. Berry<br />131<br />2.20% | |||| |James Edgar Miller |- |Macleod||| |LeRoy Fjordbotten<br />4,189<br />58.79% | |Roelof A. Heinen<br />2,369<br />33.25% | |Kathleen M. Cairns<br />384<br />5.39% | |Alfred Saddleback<br />171<br />2.40% | |||| |Thomas James John Walker |- |Medicine Hat||| |James Horsman<br />10,107<br />72.59% | |Lee Anderson<br />1,904<br />13.67% | |Frances Ost<br />1,134<br />8.14% | |Louise Mercier<br />729<br />5.24% | |||| | |- |Olds-Didsbury | |Bill Edgar<br />2,514<br />27.50%||| |Robert Curtis Clark<br />6,399<br />70.00% | |Gregory Hoffarth<br />152<br />1.66% | |Stephen Shaw<br />55<br />0.60% | |||| |Robert Curtis Clark |- |Peace River||| |Al (Boomer) Adair<br />3,901<br />59.77% | |Garry Gaudet<br />784<br />12.01% | |Richard Collins<br />1,604<br />24.57% | |Donald W. Freeland<br />234<br />3.59% | |||| |Al (Boomer) Adair |- |Pincher Creek-Crowsnest||| |Frederick Deryl Bradley<br />3,567<br />60.43% | |Robert (Bob) Westrop<br />1,503<br />25.46% | |Ian Downie<br />628<br />10.64% | |Ann Gill<br />181<br />3.07% | |||| |Frederick Deryl Bradley |- |Ponoka||| |Donald J. McCrimmon<br />3,317<br />50.17% | |Roy Kinley<br />1,856<br />28.07% | |Bruce A. Beck<br />1,279<br />19.34% | |Gus Itzek<br />113<br />1.71% | |||| |Donald J. McCrimmon |- |Red Deer||| |Norman F. Magee<br />5,727<br />43.14% | |Bob Mills<br />5,406<br />40.72% | |Ken McMillan<br />1,861<br />14.02% | |Hubert Bouten<br />258<br />1.94% | |||| |James L. Foster |- |Redwater-Andrew||| |George Topolnisky<br />3,945<br />52.31% | |Erwin Hannig<br />547<br />7.25% | |Steve Leskiw<br />2,870<br />38.05% | |Rudolph Pisesky<br />148<br />1.96% | |||| |George Topolnisky |- |Rocky Mountain House||| |John Murray Campbell<br />4,080<br />52.99% | |Lavern J. Ahlstrom<br />2,628<br />34.13% | |John Younie<br />871<br />11.31% | |Roger Hamilton<br />104<br />1.35% | |||| |Helen Hunley |- |Smoky River||| |Marvin Moore<br />3,032<br />51.85% | |Bernard Lamoureux<br />854<br />14.60% | |Anne Hemmingway<br />1,743<br />29.81% | |Stephen V. Marchand<br />214<br />3.66% | |||| |Marvin Moore |- |Spirit River-Fairview | |Jim Reynolds<br />2,668<br />39.43% | |Aubrey Milner<br />356<br />5.26%||| |Grant W. Notley<br />3,657<br />54.05% | |Terry Fletcher<br />68<br />1.01% | |||| |Grant W. Notley |- |St. Albert||| |Myrna Fyfe<br />9,361<br />58.68% | |Reginald C. Petch<br />1,686<br />10.57% | |Robert (Bob) Borreson<br />3,178<br />19.92% | |Gerry Thibault<br />1,681<br />10.54% | |||| |William Ernest Jamison |- |St. Paul||| |Charles E. Anderson<br />3,173<br />46.26% | |John Hull<br />582<br />8.49% | |Laurent (Jeff) Dubois<br />2,854<br />41.61% | |Orest Boyko<br />219<br />3.19% | |||| |Mick Fluker |- |Stettler||| |Graham L. Harle<br />4,262<br />69.94% | |David Thomas<br />1,191<br />19.54% | |Fred J. Rappel<br />503<br />8.25% | |Douglas Cramer<br />110<br />1.81% | |||| |Graham L. Harle |- |Stony Plain||| |William Frederick Purdy<br />6,927<br />58.94% | |Oscar Venoasen<br />2,274<br />19.35% | |Sara Johnson<br />1,218<br />10.36% | |Andy R. McKinnon<br />1,250<br />10.64% | |Eleanor T. Louden (Ind. Con.)<br />83<br />0.71% || |William Frederick Purdy |- |Taber-Warner||| |Robert Bogle<br />5,010<br />64.98% | |Paul Primeau<br />2,108<br />27.34% | |Larry Schowalter<br />214<br />2.78% | |Jessie Snow<br />335<br />4.35% | |||| |Robert Bogle |- |Three Hills||| |Connie Osterman<br />4,401<br />59.32% | |Henry Goerzen<br />2,660<br />35.85% | |Hugh Sommerville<br />222<br />2.99% | |Ward Sykes<br />124<br />1.67% | |||| |Allan Warrack |- |Vegreville||| |John S. Batiuk<br />3,835<br />48.99% | |Robert E. Robert<br />1,210<br />15.46% | |Harry Babchuk<br />2,490<br />31.81% | |Alan Arthur Vinet<br />269<br />3.44% | |||| |John S. Batiuk |- |Vermilion-Viking||| |Tom Lysons<br />3,292<br />51.46% | |Doug Livingstone<br />2,087<br />32.62% | |Grant Bergman<br />877<br />13.71% | |Ralph A. Wilson<br />118<br />1.84% | |||| |Tom Lysons |- |Wainwright||| |Charles Stewart<br />3,489<br />56.36% | |Keith Cornish<br />2,103<br />33.97% | |Alan Richards<br />509<br />8.22% | |Sultan Tejani<br />77<br />1.24% | |||| |Charles Stewart |- |Wetaskiwin-Leduc||| |Dallas Schmidt<br />8,216<br />58.69% | |Reinhold Ortlieb<br />2,702<br />19.30% | |Earl R. Rasmuson<br />2,372<br />16.94% | |Brian King<br />677<br />4.84% | |||| |Dallas Schmidt |- |Whitecourt||| |Peter Trynchy<br />3,834<br />57.64% | |George L. Richardson<br />1,214<br />18.25% | |Ken Forscutt<br />1,442<br />21.68% | | | |||| |Peter Trynchy |-