The 1989 Alberta general election was held on March 20, 1989, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
Many political observers were surprised by the early election call as less than three years had passed since the previous election. Premier Don Getty, in his second election as Progressive Conservative Party leader, led it to its sixth consecutive term in government, although supported by less than half the votes cast in the election.
Despite losing a significant share of the popular vote, the PC's benefited from a split vote between the two main opponents Liberals and NDP. Together those two parties received 55 percent of the vote to the Conservative's 44 percent.
The Conservatives sustained a net loss of only two seats in the legislature. Most notably, the premier lost his own seat of Edmonton-Whitemud to Liberal candidate Percy Wickman, the first time that this had happened to a sitting Premier of Alberta since Richard G. Reid in 1935, which had seen the ruling United Farmers of Alberta completely swept from the legislature. The PC's were reduced to just two seats in Edmonton, however despite their losses in urban areas they remained largely dominant in Calgary while their losses were somewhat offset by gains in rural areas, notably at the expense of the moribund Representative Party. Getty himself would quickly return to the Legislature by winning a by-election in a safe rural seat.
The New Democratic Party led by Ray Martin largely held its share of the popular vote, with its gains being balanced by its losses and the party left with the same number of seats (16) as in the previous in the legislature.
The Liberal Party, under new leader Laurence Decore, was the principal beneficiary of the voters' continuing distrust of Don Getty. The Liberals' share of the popular vote increased to over 28%, more than the NDP, but whereas the NDP continued to dominate in Edmonton the Liberal vote was more evenly distributed and the party's legislative caucus increased from four to only eight members.
The Representative Party, which had elected 2 candidates in the previous election, did not run any candidates in 1989 (although it remained registered). Leader Ray Speaker defected to the Progressive Conservatives, while Walt Buck retired. The party disbanded soon after the election.
Overall voter turnout was 53.60%.
Note:
<nowiki>*</nowiki> Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.
|- |Athabasca-Lac La Biche||| |Mike Cardinal<br />4,237<br />45.07% | |Leo Piquette<br />3,342<br />35.55% | |Tom Maccagno<br />1,791<br />19.05% | |||| |Leo Piquette |- |Banff-Cochrane||| |Brian Evans<br />4,389<br />50.82% | |Steven Scott<br />1,802<br />20.86% | |Jim N. Tanner<br />2,411<br />27.91% | |||| |Greg Stevens |- |Barrhead||| |Kenneth R. Kowalski<br />5,294<br />57.41% | |Harold E. Wharton<br />1,673<br />18.14% | |Dave Perrin<br />1,660<br />18.00% | |J. Harvey Yuill (SoCred)<br />578<br />6.27%||| |Kenneth R. Kowalski |- |Bonnyville||| |Ernie Isley<br />3,362<br />50.20% | |Lori Hall<br />1,553<br />23.19% | |Denis Lapierre<br />1,769<br />26.41% | |||| |Ernie Isley |- |Bow Valley||| |Tom N. Musgrove<br />3,405<br />60.33% | |Larry D. Kern<br />666<br />11.80% | |George Timko<br />1,561<br />27.66% | |||| |Tom N. Musgrove |- |Calgary-Bow||| |Bonnie Laing<br />3,968<br />34.76% | |Scott Jeffrey<br />3,513<br />30.77% | |Timothy Walter Bardsley<br />3,892<br />34.09% | |||| |Neil Webber |- |Calgary-Buffalo | |Kate Thrasher<br />3,601<br />31.25% | |Iain Dunbar<br />877<br />7.61%||| |Sheldon Chumir<br />7,014<br />60.86% | |||| |Sheldon Chumir |- |Calgary-Currie||| |Dennis L. Anderson<br />5,072<br />49.45% | |Bruce McGuigan<br />1,716<br />16.73% | |Mairi Matheson<br />3,434<br />33.48% | |||| |Dennis L. Anderson |- |Calgary-Egmont||| |David John Carter<br />5,272<br />52.35% | |Vinay Dey<br />1,864<br />18.51% | |Clive R. Mallory<br />2,907<br />28.87% | |||| |David John Carter |- |Calgary-Elbow||| |Ralph Klein<br />4,505<br />49.52% | |David Jones<br />719<br />7.90% | |Gilbert J. Clark<br />3,682<br />40.47% | |Larry R Heather (Ind.)<br />174<br />1.91%||| |David J. Russell |- |Calgary-Fish Creek||| |William Edward Payne<br />6,996<br />47.86% | |Tom Polmear<br />2,071<br />14.17% | |Wayne Gillis<br />5,517<br />37.74% | |||| |William Edward Payne |- |Calgary-Foothills||| |Patricia Black<br />5,341<br />37.13% | |Theresa Catherine Baxter<br />4,133<br />28.74% | |Harvey Locke<br />4,866<br />33.83% | |||| |Janet Koper |- |Calgary-Forest Lawn | |Moe Amiri<br />3,177<br />35.01%||| |Barry Pashak<br />3,994<br />44.02% | |Gene Czaprowski<br />1,584<br />17.46% | |Jim Othen (Ind.)<br />294<br />3.24%||| |Barry Pashak |- |Calgary-Glenmore||| |Dianne Mirosh<br />5,189<br />45.39% | |Barry Bristman<br />1,197<br />10.47% | |Brendan Dunphy<br />4,587<br />40.12% | |Greg Pearson (Ind.)<br />437<br />3.82%||| |Dianne Mirosh |- |Calgary-McCall||| |Stanley Kenneth Nelson<br />5,109<br />44.53% | |Ken Richmond<br />3,311<br />28.86% | |A. Giga<br />3,032<br />26.42% | |||| |Stanley Kenneth Nelson |- |Calgary-McKnight | |Mark Petros<br />4,704<br />37.91% | |Roy Brown<br />2,371<br />19.11%||| |Yolande Gagnon<br />5,303<br />42.74% | |||| |Eric Charles Musgreave |- |Calgary-Millican||| |Gordon Wells Shrake<br />3,840<br />42.93% | |Bill Flookes<br />3,713<br />41.51% | |Dale Muti<br />1,366<br />15.27% | |||| |Gordon Wells Shrake |- |Calgary-Montrose||| |Rick Orman<br />5,044<br />54.49% | |Frank Gereau<br />2,585<br />27.92% | |Jamil Farhat<br />1,605<br />17.34% | |||| |Rick Orman |- |Calgary-Mountain View | |Vicky Adamson<br />4,171<br />33.22%||| |Robert Andrew Hawkesworth<br />6,469<br />51.53% | |Kevin Murphy<br />1,862<br />14.83% | |||| |Robert Andrew Hawkesworth |- |Calgary-North Hill||| |Frederick Alan Stewart<br />4,918<br />44.59% | |Emily Drzymala<br />2,720<br />24.66% | |Pauline Kay<br />3,030<br />27.47% | |John J. Jasienczyk (Ind.)<br />328<br />2.97%||| |Frederick Alan Stewart |- |Calgary-North West | |Stan Cassin<br />6,985<br />41.80% | |Kelly Hegg<br />2,281<br />13.65%||| |Frank Bruseker<br />7,417<br />44.38% | |||| |Stan Cassin |- |Calgary-Shaw||| |Jim Dinning<br />7,412<br />52.81% | |Gordon M. Christie<br />1,728<br />12.31% | |Robert J. (Bob) Crump<br />4,865<br />34.67% | |||| |Jim Dinning |- |Calgary-West||| |Elaine McCoy<br />6,133<br />46.12% | |Joseph Yanchula<br />2,564<br />19.28% | |Bernie Myers<br />4,550<br />34.22% | |||| |Elaine McCoy |- |Camrose||| |Ken Rostad<br />6,494<br />63.16% | |Bill Scotten<br />2,141<br />20.82% | |Carol Ayers<br />1,605<br />15.61% | |||| |Ken Rostad |- |Cardston||| |Jack Ady<br />3,483<br />74.42% | |Don Ferguson<br />517<br />11.05% | |Beth Wendorff<br />667<br />14.25% | |||| |Jack Ady |- |Chinook||| |Shirley McClellan<br />3,585<br />70.98% | |H. James Powers<br />765<br />15.15% | |Mel H. Buffalo<br />691<br />13.68% | |||| |Henry Kroeger |- |Clover Bar||| |Kurt Gesell<br />3,717<br />34.53% | |W.H. (Skip) Gordon<br />3,505<br />32.56% | |Stephen Lindop<br />3,533<br />32.82% | |||| |Walt A. Buck |- |Cypress-Redcliff||| |Alan Hyland<br />2,514<br />48.87% | |Rudolf Schempp<br />659<br />12.81% | |Lloyd B. Robinson<br />1,968<br />38.26% | |||| |Alan Hyland |- |Drayton Valley||| |Tom Thurber<br />4,563<br />45.48% | |Lynne Martin<br />2,622<br />26.13% | |G. (Bear) Werschler<br />2,826<br />28.17% | |||| |Shirley Cripps |- |Drumheller||| |Stan Schumacher<br />5,049<br />59.07% | |Sid Holt<br />1,658<br />19.40% | |Roger Nelson<br />1,800<br />21.06% | |||| |Stan Schumacher |- |Dunvegan||| |Glen Clegg<br />4,049<br />56.12% | |Jim Gurnett<br />2,603<br />36.08% | |R. Gerald Eherer<br />550<br />7.62% | |||| |Glen Clegg |- |Edmonton-Avonmore | |James Albers<br />3,831<br />30.17%||| |Marie Laing<br />5,290<br />41.66% | |Don Massey<br />3,562<br />28.05% | |||| |Marie Laing |- |Edmonton-Belmont | |Walter R. Szwender<br />3,093<br />23.65%||| |Thomas Sigurdson<br />5,319<br />40.67% | |Cathy Greco<br />4,644<br />35.51% | |||| |Thomas Sigurdson |- |Edmonton-Beverly | |Gary Kump<br />3,835<br />29.57%||| |Ed W. Ewasiuk<br />6,408<br />49.41% | |Daryl Robb<br />2,520<br />19.43% | |Bonny Royce (Ind.)<br />188<br />1.45%||| |Ed W. Ewasiuk |- |Edmonton-Calder | |Aldo De Luca<br />2,709<br />21.66%||| |Christie Mjolsness<br />5,338<br />42.69% | |Lance D. White<br />4,435<br />35.47% | |||| |Christie Mjolsness |- |Edmonton-Centre | |Don Clarke<br />3,217<br />30.29%||| |William Roberts<br />4,440<br />41.80% | |Mary Molloy<br />2,821<br />26.56% | |||| |William Roberts |- |Edmonton-Glengarry | |John Belzerowski<br />3,759<br />24.72% | |John Younie<br />3,974<br />26.14%||| |Laurence Decore<br />7,401<br />48.67% | |Robin Boodle (Comm.)<br />30<br />0.20% || |John Younie |- |Edmonton-Glenora||| |Nancy Betkowski<br />5,128<br />47.50% | |George Millar<br />2,709<br />25.09% | |Hal Annett<br />2,935<br />27.19% | |||| |Nancy Betkowski |- |Edmonton-Gold Bar | |Cathy Wyatt<br />4,381<br />30.29% | |Chris Tomaschuk<br />2,170<br />15.00%||| |Bettie Hewes<br />7,833<br />54.16% | |Naomi Rankin (Comm.)<br />55<br />0.38% || |Bettie Hewes |- |Edmonton-Highlands | |Ziad N. Jaber<br />2,415<br />27.28%||| |Pam Barrett<br />4,997<br />56.44% | |Ken Kozak<br />1,673<br />18.90% | |||| |Pam Barrett |- |Edmonton-Jasper Place | |Leslie Gordon Young<br />4,503<br />31.64%||| |John McInnis<br />4,966<br />34.90% | |Karen Leibovici<br />4,747<br />33.36% | |||| |Leslie Gordon Young |- |Edmonton-Kingsway | |Allen Wasnea<br />2,818<br />28.92%||| |Alex McEachern<br />4,314<br />44.28% | |Joan Cowling<br />2,585<br />26.53% | |||| |Alex McEachern |- |Edmonton-Meadowlark | |Joan Majeski<br />4,421<br />31.24% | |William A. (Bill) Mullen<br />1,829<br />12.92%||| |Grant Mitchell<br />7,877<br />55.66% | |||| |Grant Mitchell |- |Edmonton-Mill Woods | |Bas Roopnarine<br />3,475<br />24.73%||| |Gerry Gibeault<br />5,824<br />41.44% | |Murray W. Scambler<br />4,729<br />33.65% | |||| |Gerry Gibeault |- |Edmonton-Norwood | |Dan Papirnik<br />1,519<br />20.64%||| |Ray Martin<br />4,229<br />57.47% | |Luis C. Baptista<br />1,594<br />21.66% | |||| |Ray Martin |- |Edmonton-Parkallen||| |Doug Main<br />6,169<br />40.06% | |Jim Selby<br />4,979<br />32.33% | |Nadene Thomas<br />4,203<br />27.29% | |||| |Neil S. Crawford |- |Edmonton-Strathcona | |Jack Scott<br />3,724<br />28.86%||| |Gordon S.B. Wright<br />6,696<br />51.89% | |Philip Lister<br />2,437<br />18.88% | |||| |Gordon S.B. Wright |- |Edmonton-Whitemud | |Donald Ross Getty<br />8,005<br />43.28% | |Nao Fernando<br />2,099<br />11.35%||| |Percy Wickman<br />8,350<br />45.14% | |||| |Donald Ross Getty |- |Fort McMurray||| |Norman A. Weiss<br />4,245<br />49.30% | |Ann Dort-Maclean<br />2,740<br />31.82% | |James Carbery<br />1,606<br />18.65% | |||| |Norman A. Weiss |- |Grande Prairie||| |Bob Elliott<br />5,319<br />52.52% | |Evelyn Vardalas<br />2,696<br />26.62% | |Irv Macklin<br />1,611<br />15.91% | |Murray Gauvreau (SoCred)<br />482<br />4.76%||| |Bob Elliott |- |Highwood||| |Don Tannas<br />5,481<br />60.00% | |Janis Belgum<br />1,591<br />17.42% | |Don Dearle<br />2,024<br />22.16% | |||| |Harry E. Alger |- |Innisfail||| |Gary Severtson<br />4,169<br />57.38% | |Larry Whaley<br />1,294<br />17.81% | |Bruce A. Jackson<br />1,761<br />24.24% | |||| |Nigel I. Pengelly |- |Lacombe||| |Ron A. Moore<br />4,014<br />59.71% | |Cliff Reid<br />1,217<br />18.10% | |Roger Young<br />1,467<br />21.82% | |||| |Ron A. Moore |- |Lesser Slave Lake||| |Pearl M. Calahasen<br />3,249<br />47.51% | |Philip G.S. Lukken<br />1,294<br />18.92% | |Denise C. Wahlstrom<br />2,286<br />33.43% | |||| |Larry R. Shaben |- |Lethbridge-East||| |Archibald Dick Johnston<br />4,993<br />49.17% | |Sylvia A. Campbell<br />2,170<br />21.37% | |John I. Boras<br />2,973<br />29.28% | |||| |Archibald Dick Johnston |- |Lethbridge-West||| |John Gogo<br />4,741<br />45.33% | |Joyce Green<br />2,483<br />23.74% | |Rhonda Ruston<br />3,210<br />30.69% | |||| |John Gogo |- |Little Bow||| |Raymond Albert Speaker<br />3,907<br />79.43% | |Keith Ford<br />426<br />8.66% | |Elzien Schopman<br />579<br />11.77% | |||| |Raymond Albert Speaker |- |Lloydminster||| |Doug Cherry<br />3,584<br />66.75% | |Gordon E. Swaters<br />849<br />15.81% | |Steve McLachlin<br />923<br />17.19% | |||| |Doug Cherry |- |Macleod||| |LeRoy Fjordbotten<br />4,459<br />67.20% | |Mike Dawson<br />1,292<br />19.47% | |Darrell Piehl<br />856<br />12.90% | |||| |LeRoy Fjordbotten |- |Medicine Hat||| |James Horsman<br />6,465<br />40.88% | |Wally Regehr<br />4,088<br />25.85% | |Garth Vallely<br />5,213<br />32.96% | |||| |James Horsman |- |Olds-Didsbury||| |Roy Brassard<br />4,960<br />60.01% | |Tom Monto<br />842<br />10.19% | |Garfield Marks<br />1,182<br />14.30% | |Ray Young (SoCred)<br />1249<br />15.11%||| |Roy Brassard |- |Peace River||| |Al (Boomer) Adair<br />3,749<br />57.62% | |Adele Gale Boucher<br />1,613<br />24.79% | |Erich Wahl<br />1,127<br />17.32% | |||| |Al (Boomer) Adair |- |Pincher Creek-Crowsnest||| |Frederick Deryl Bradley<br />3,262<br />52.56% | |Mike Cooper<br />2,119<br />34.14% | |Stan Stoklosa<br />811<br />13.07% | |||| |Frederick Deryl Bradley |- |Ponoka-Rimbey||| |Halvar C. Jonson<br />3,729<br />59.81% | |Doug Hart<br />1,667<br />26.74% | |Ervan Stobbe<br />808<br />12.96% | |||| |Halvar C. Jonson |- |Red Deer-North||| |Stockwell Day<br />3,652<br />48.10% | |Gerry Clayton<br />1,427<br />18.80% | |Bernie Fritze<br />2,260<br />29.77% | |Cory Lanterman (Ind.)<br />231<br />3.04%||| |Stockwell Day |- |Red Deer-South||| |John Oldring<br />4,637<br />49.39% | |Linda Ross<br />1,840<br />19.60% | |Roxanne V. Prior<br />2,874<br />30.61% | |||| |John Oldring |- |Redwater-Andrew||| |Steve Zarusky<br />4,366<br />52.83% | |Chris Ewasiuk<br />2,359<br />28.55% | |Dennis Holowaychuk<br />1,525<br />18.45% | |||| |Steve Zarusky |- |Rocky Mountain House||| |Ty Lund<br />4,392<br />59.59% | |Dolly (Martin) Brown<br />1,727<br />23.43% | |Bob Paston<br />1,224<br />16.61% | |||| |John Murray Campbell |- |Sherwood Park||| |Peter Elzinga<br />6,462<br />46.60% | |Ted Paszek<br />3,088<br />22.27% | |John Convey<br />4,299<br />31.00% | |||| |Peter Elzinga |- |Smoky River||| |Walter Paszkowski<br />3,575<br />50.82% | |Bill Termeer<br />1,721<br />24.47% | |Duane Dutka<br />1,398<br />19.87% | |Roy Housworth (SoCred)<br />332<br />4.72%||| |Marvin Moore |- |St. Albert||| |Dick Fowler<br />6,590<br />45.20% | |Cheryl Wharton<br />3,552<br />24.36% | |Len Bracko<br />4,278<br />29.34% | |Archie Baldwin (Ind.)<br />147<br />1.01%||| |Bryan Strong |- |St. Paul||| |John Drobot<br />2,931<br />45.95% | |Victor Chrapko<br />1,124<br />17.62% | |Paul Langevin<br />2,304<br />36.12% | |||| |John Drobot |- |Stettler||| |Brian C. Downey<br />3,875<br />57.75% | |Fred J. Rappel<br />1,089<br />16.23% | |Frank Pickering<br />1,731<br />25.80% | |||| |Brian C. Downey |- |Stony Plain | |Jim Heron<br />4,604<br />36.54%||| |Stan Woloshyn<br />4,699<br />37.29% | |Dan Fitze<br />2,732<br />21.68% | |John Torringa (SoCred)<br />557<br />4.42%||| |Jim Heron |- |Taber-Warner||| |Robert Bogle<br />4,932<br />73.44% | |Charlene Vickers<br />782<br />11.64% | |Patrick (Pat) Flanagan<br />981<br />14.61% | |||| |Robert Bogle |- |Three Hills||| |Connie Osterman<br />4,986<br />56.45% | |Fred Mertz<br />1,851<br />20.96% | |Peter Burch<br />1,245<br />14.10% | |Poul Wesch (SoCred)<br />741<br />8.39%||| |Connie Osterman |- |Vegreville | |Gordon Miller<br />3,806<br />41.61%||| |Derek Fox<br />4,865<br />53.19% | |Frederick G. Paasche<br />448<br />4.90% | |||| |Derek Fox |- |Vermilion-Viking||| |Steve West<br />4,086<br />63.44% | |Grant Bergman<br />1,078<br />16.74% | |Greg Michaud<br />1,252<br />19.44% | |||| |Steve West |- |Wainwright||| |Robert A. (Butch) Fischer<br />4,009<br />67.54% | |Willy Kelch<br />1,182<br />19.91% | |Joseph A. Vermette<br />726<br />12.23% | |||| |Robert A. (Butch) Fischer |- |West Yellowhead | |Ian Reid<br />3,109<br />36.72%||| |Jerry J. Doyle<br />3,989<br />47.12% | |Sharron Johnstone<br />1,103<br />13.03% | |Harvey Ball (Ind.)<br />240<br />2.83%||| |Ian Reid |- |Westlock-Sturgeon | |Leo Seguin<br />4,958<br />41.08% | |Tom Turner<br />1,696<br />14.05%||| |Nicholas Taylor<br />5,401<br />44.75% | |||| |Nicholas Taylor |- |Wetaskiwin-Leduc||| |Donald H. Sparrow<br />5,761<br />46.59% | |Bruce Hinkley<br />3,133<br />25.34% | |George Carrier<br />3,446<br />27.87% | |||| |Donald H. Sparrow |- |Whitecourt||| |Peter Trynchy<br />3,877<br />49.72% | |Gwen E. Symington<br />1,456<br />18.67% | |Jurgen Preugschas<br />2,432<br />31.19% | |||| |Peter Trynchy |-