The 1971 Alberta general election was the seventeenth general election held in the Province of

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, Canada on August 30, 1971, to elect seventy-five members of the

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to form the 17th Alberta Legislative Assembly. The

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led by

Peter Lougheed Edgar Peter Lougheed ( ; July 26, 1928 – September 13, 2012) was a Canadian lawyer and Progressive Conservative politician who served as the tenth premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985, presiding over a period of reform and economic growth. ...

won 49 of 75 seats with 46.4 per cent of the popular vote in the new legislature to form a

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. Lougheed's Progressive Conservatives defeated the incumbent Social Credit Party led by Premier Harry Strom who won 25 seats with 41.1 per cent of the popular vote. The 1971 election ushered in the Progressive Conservative dynasty in Alberta, which continuously held a majority government for 44 years from 1971 to 2015. The election also marked the end of the Social Credit dynasty which had continuously held a majority government for 36 years from 1935 to 1971.

Background

1967 Alberta general election

In the May 1967 election, Progressive Conservative leader

and his supporters worked to convince candidates to run in all 65 constituencies; however, the Progressive Conservatives were only able to nominate 47 candidates. This was two more than the

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which had 45, but less than the full slates put forward by the Social Credit Party and the New Democratic Party. Lougheed was subsequently elected to the legislature in Calgary-West garnering 62 per cent of the vote, and the Progressive Conservatives captured 26 per cent of the vote province-wide with five other successful candidates. With six elected MLAs, Lougheed became

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. The group of elected Conservatives known as the "original six" included Calgary MLAs

Len Werry Leonard Frank Werry (May 30, 1927 – February 25, 1973) was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1967 until his death in 1973 and was a cabinet minister in the gove ...

and David Russell, Edmonton area MLAs

Lou Hyndman Louis Davies Hyndman, (July 1, 1935 – November 24, 2013) was a Canadian lawyer and politician from Alberta. He served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for 19 years and was a member of Premier Peter Lougheed and Don Getty's ...

and

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, and the party's only rural candidate and former federal Member of Parliament Hugh Horner. The ''

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'' remarked positively on Lougheed's success following the 1967 election, stating Albertans had a responsible and credible alternative as opposition.

Lead up to 1971

Ernest C. Manning had resigned as Social Credit leader and

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in 1968 after 25 years in office, a year after leading the Socreds to their ninth consecutive

. His successor, Harry E. Strom, had been unable to revive a government increasingly seen as tired, complacent and old-fashioned. The Socreds had been in government for almost two generations, having won their first victory more than a decade before the discovery of Leduc No. 1, which led to a massive oil boom in Alberta. Though the legislature's mandate from the 1967 election was not due to expire until May 1972, five years after it started, convention in Canadian politics is for legislatures to be dissolved every four years or less. Accordingly, Strom resolved to call an election in 1971, sometime between May and September. He briefly considered a spring campaign, in the hopes that the planting season would have farmers feeling optimistic and therefore inclined to support the incumbent government. However, after concluding that farmers would not react well to going to the polls in the middle of planting or harvest season, Strom finally settled on August 30. The Progressive Conservatives, on the other hand, had significant momentum going into the 1971 election. Lougheed's Progressive Conservative caucus further grew from the "Original Six" with the election of Robert Dowling in the October 1969 Edson by-election, Bill Dickie, a long-time friend of Lougheed, crossing the floor from the Liberals to join his caucus in November 1969, and Banff-Cochrane independent representative Clarence Copithorne joining the party in April 1971. This growth saw the popular Lougheed-led Progressive Conservatives enter the August 1971 election with 10 incumbents.

Campaign

Social Credit campaign

A campaign committee was assembled, and recommended a budget of $580,000. The party recruited star candidates, including Calgary alderman George Ho Lem and former Calgary Stampeder star Don Luzzi (Edmonton alderman and future mayor Cec Purves was defeated in his bid to win the Social Credit nomination in Edmonton-Strathcona from

Strathcona Centre Strathcona Centre was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting from 1959 to 1971. History It was created in 195 ...

incumbent Joseph Donovan Ross), but was handicapped in these efforts by Strom's unwillingness to offer cabinet posts or other incentives to potential new candidates. Strom's lack of personal charisma was also a liability: tellingly, of the large budget recommended by the central committee, only $72,000 was recommended for use on television advertising, where Strom did not shine. The party tried to revitalize the Premier's image through publicity movies, though efforts were mixed. In one, which was pulled after a single showing, Strom appeared scowling in his living room, urging Albertans to lower their expectations of government. Another, produced by Tommy Banks and showing Strom in a variety of settings talking about the province's changing face, was more successful. The campaign did not give Social Credit partisans much reason for optimism. Strom did not draw the crowds that Progressive Conservative opposition leader

did, although an August 25 rally in Edmonton's Jubilee Auditorium featuring speeches by Strom and Manning was full. After criticizing the Conservatives' medicare platform, which promised free medicare to Albertans older than 65, as spendthrift, Strom announced Social Credit's barely cheaper alternative: medicare to Albertans older than 65 for one dollar per month. The ''

'', which had earlier published a poll showing that a plurality of Edmontonians intended to vote Progressive Conservative, endorsed Lougheed for Premier.

Progressive Conservative campaign

The Progressive Conservative Party had been preparing for an election to be called since mid-1970. The party developed slogans and branding which was one of the first instances in Alberta where political printing and branding was centrally controlled, with individual constituencies unable to develop their own materials. This centralization was intended to reinforce the party's key messages and ensure repetition in the eyes of voters. An advertising budget of $120,000 was set to provide $80,000 for television advertisements and the rest of other materials for constituencies across the province. Lougheed's focus on television contrasted Social Credit's use of radio for the less gregarious Strom. Lougheed's team was careful with messaging, stressing the idea of the Progressive Conservative providing an "alternative" rather than "opposition". Lougheed developed a 40-day schedule that brought him to each constituency to "meet and greet" with potential voters.

Election

The 16th Legislature was prorogued on April 27, 1971, and dissolved three months later on July 22 with an election day set on August 30, 1971.

Electoral boundaries

A number of electoral districts were redistributed following 1970 amendments to ''The Elections Act,'' which were informed by the 1968 ''Report of the Alberta Committee on Redistribution Procedure'' written by the Special Committee on Redistribution chaired by Social Credit member Frederick C. Colborne. The number of members elected to the legislature was increased from 65 to 75,

Voting and eligibility

Amendments to the ''Age of Majority Act'' lowered the

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from 21 to 18 years.

Aftermath

The collapse of the other opposition parties made the Progressive Conservatives the only credible challenger to the Social Credit. The Progressive Conservatives took 46 per cent of the popular vote and won 49 of the 75 seats in the legislature, enough for a strong majority government. This would be the first of twelve consecutive victories for the PCs; they would remain in government without interruption until their defeat in 2015, making them the longest serving political dynasty in Canadian history. The 1971 election is considered a classic example of a

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. Social Credit garnered a record number of votes in this election compared to previous elections, which had been plagued by low turn-outs. However, the Progressive Conservatives converted this slim lead into a large lead in seats due to their success in the province's two largest cities:

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, where the Progressive Conservatives won every seat, and

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, where they took all but five. While many of the Social Credit losses came by small margins, those losses were enough to cost the party almost half of its caucus. Strom resigned as Social Credit leader a few months after the defeat. Election night saw Social Credit defeated, taking 25 seats to the Progressive Conservative's 49. Though Social Credit's share of the vote had only slipped slightly, losing five points, Lougheed benefited from a substantial reduction in the

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' vote and a near-collapse of the Liberals'. The party was also decimated in the province's two largest cities, losing all of its seats in Edmonton and all but five in Calgary. Strom conceded defeat in Edmonton and returned home to

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. The defeat sent Social Credit into headlong decline. Its membership in the Assembly shrank over the next ten years and disappeared altogether by

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. The

was shut out of the legislature. One Liberal, Bill Dickie, had crossed the floor to the PCs. Another, William Switzer, died in 1969. The remaining Liberal, Michael Maccagno, resigned to run, unsuccessfully as it turned out, for the federal Parliament.

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leader Grant Notley was the only one in his party to win election. He sat as the only New Democrat in the legislature until

. His daughter

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would lead the NDP to victory over the Progressive Conservatives in 2015, ending its 44 years in office.

Results

Daylight saving time plebiscite

Alberta voters participated in a province-wide plebiscite on the question of whether or not to endorse a proposal to adopt

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(summer time). Voters endorsed the proposal by a wide margin, 61 per cent approving of the change.

Background

In 1948, the Government of Alberta formally set the province's time zone with the passage of ''The Daylight Saving Time Act'', which mandated the entire province observe

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, and prevented any municipality from observing daylight saving time or any other time zone. The legislation came after Calgary (

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and

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), and Edmonton (

) held municipal plebiscites that approved the move to daylight saving time. Alberta's urban municipalities were largely in favour of daylight saving time and pressured the provincial government to hold a provincial plebiscite or permit municipalities to observe daylight saving time. The effort in the legislature was spearheaded by Liberal MLA and Calgary Alderman Bill Dickie, who in March 1964 brought forward a motion to permit municipalities to hold plebiscites on the issue; the motion was defeated by the Social Credit government. At the time, Social Credit MLA William Patterson described daylight saving time as "that fandangled thing", and Minister Allen Russell Patrick stated municipal daylight saving time would be difficult for tourists to understand. In February 1966, the Social Credit government finally gave in to the calls for a provincial plebiscite on daylight saving time, approving a motion submitted by Bill Dickie. The government responded on March 29, 1966, with Minister Alfred Hooke introducing ''An Act to amend The Daylight Saving Time Act'' (Bill 75) which amended the ''Daylight Saving Time Act'' to permit the government to hold a plebiscite on the issue. Alberta voters were asked the question "Do you favour Province-wide Daylight Saving Time?", during the

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. A narrow majority of 51.25 per cent of voters rejected daylight saving time. Most of the opposition was located in rural areas, while strong support for daylight saving time was seen in the cities of Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge, and Medicine Hat. By 1967, each province besides Alberta and Saskatchewan had adopted daylight saving time. Many Alberta businesses provided for modified summer hours to coordinate with other provinces with daylight saving time, including the

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which started at 7 a.m. to align with exchanges in Toronto and Montreal.

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released a statement expressing the difficulty of distributing flight schedules with flights in Alberta. After 25 years as Premier, Social Credit leader

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stepped down on December 12, 1968, and his successor Harry Strom was sworn in as Premier. Only a few months later in April 1969, Strom announced Albertans would once again be asked to vote on daylight saving time in conjunction with the next scheduled provincial general election. During the announcement, Strom stated he was neutral on the topic and did not have a preference one way or another.

Campaign

Once again Calgary residents and businessmen Bill Creighton and David Matthews led a campaign for daylight saving times, just as they did in 1967, arguing the benefits of an additional hour of late sunlight for sports. Creighton learned from the successful and well-funded "no" campaign in 1967 led by the Alberta Council for Standard Time and Calgary lawyer and drive-in movie operator R. H. Barron. Creighton and Matthews formed the "Yes for Daylight Saving Society" to advocate during the leadup to the 1971 plebiscite, mirroring the organized approach of the "no" campaign in 1967. The Edmonton chapter had a $1,000 budget for advertising and even crowned a "Miss Daylight Saving Time", who made appearances throughout Edmonton. The arguments made for daylight saving time were similar to 1967, more amateur sport time, saving 150 hours of electricity each summer and aligning Alberta with the eight other provinces that observed daylight saving time. The primary opposition to daylight saving time was described by members of the "Yes for Daylight Saving Society" as farmers, housewives and drive-in movie operators. In the 1967 campaign, the Alberta Council for Standard Time raised $30,000 for advertisements, but opposition was much less vocal during the 1971 campaign. Unifarm, an agricultural organization, publicly opposed daylight saving time, but it was not willing to spend significantly on a counter-campaign.

Aftermath

The 1971 plebiscite on daylight saving time resulted in an overwhelming majority of the Alberta population approving the transition. A statement from Unifarm, a farmer representative organization that opposed daylight saving time, stated that the organization anticipated the proposal would pass and downplayed the consequences for farmers. The new Progressive Conservative government highlighted the change to observe daylight saving in the

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in early March 1972, and Attorney-General Merv Leitch announced on March 14, 1972 that Alberta would officially switch to daylight saving time on April 30, 1972, DST to last until October 29, 1972.

Results

For break down of results see individual districts

Results by riding

Calgary

, - ,

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, , , , Roy Wilson
5,539
47.84% , , Bill Wearmouth
4,563
39.41% , , , , Fred Spooner
1,407
12.15% , , , , , , , - ,

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, , Don Luzzi
5,238
42.31%, , , , Ronald H. Ghitter
5,705
46.09% , , , , Jane Ann Summers
1,364
11.02% , , , , , , , - ,

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, , Frederick C. Colborne
4,679
43.43%, , , , Fred H. Peacock
5,255
48.78% , , , , Margaret I. Jackson
791
7.34% , , , , , , , - , Calgary-Egmont , , Pat O'Byrne
5,503
40.94%, , , , Merv Leitch
6,791
50.52% , , , , Ron Stuart
1,060
7.89% , , , , , , , - ,

Calgary-Elbow Calgary-Elbow is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada. The seat is held by NDP MLA Samir Kayande, who won the seat in the 2023 provincial election The riding was created in 1971 from the southeast ...

, , L.A. Thorssen
4,480
41.63%, , , , David J. Russell
5,547
51.54% , , , , Dolores LeDrew
688
6.39% , , , , , , , - , Calgary-Foothills , , Jay Salmon
5,885
39.30%, , , , Len F. Werry
7,693
51.38% , , , , James Staples
1,370
9.15% , , , , , , , - ,

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, , Raymond A. Kingsmith
5,122
37.21%, , , , William Daniel Dickie
7,658
55.64% , , , , George C. McGuire
806
5.86% , , , , , , William Daniel Dickie , - , Calgary-McCall, , , , George Ho Lem
5,116
43.70% , , John Kushner
4,187
35.76% , , Natalie Chapman
151
1.29% , , Ted Takacs
1,984
16.95% , , , , , , , - ,

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, , Jim Richards
5,368
41.60%, , , , Calvin E. Lee
6,134
47.54% , , Philip T. Keuber
246
1.91% , , Walter H. Siewert
1,097
8.50% , , , , , , , - , Calgary-Millican, , , , Arthur J. Dixon
4,539
48.74% , ,

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2,973
31.93% , , Carole Walter
153
1.64% , , Clarence Lacombe
1,543
16.57% , , , , , , , - , Calgary-Mountain View, , , , Albert W. Ludwig
4,990
51.11% , , George Swales
3,533
36.19% , , , , E.C. Baldwin
1,149
11.77% , , , , , , , - ,

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, , Robert A. Simpson
4,900
42.88%, , , , Roy Alexander Farran
4,961
43.41% , , , , Barry Pashak
1,341
11.74% , , Carl L. Riech (Ind.)
121
1.06%, , , , , - , Calgary-West , , Charles Grey
4,319
33.68%, , , ,

7,049
54.96% , , Brian Stevenson
333
2.60% , , Joe Yanchula
1,066
8.31% , , , , , ,

Edmonton

, - , Edmonton-Avonmore , , Joe G. Radstaak
3,681
39.87%, , , , Horst A. Schmid
3,913
42.39% , , John Kloster
257
2.78% , , Bill McLean
1,303
14.11% , , , , , , , - , Edmonton-Belmont , , Werner G. Schmidt
4,052
33.42%, , , , Albert Edward Hohol
6,018
49.63% , , , , Gordon S.B. Wright
1,960
16.16% , , , , , , , - , Edmonton-Beverly , , Lou W. Heard
3,050
28.95%, , , , Bill W. Diachuk
4,471
42.44% , , John Lambert
185
1.76% , , Barrie Chivers
2,769
26.28% , , , , , , , - ,

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, , Edgar H. Gerhart
3,653
32.03%, , , , Tom Chambers
5,931
52.01% , , , , Bill Glass
1,772
15.54% , , , , , , , - , Edmonton-Centre , , Gerry Mulhall
2,622
28.91%, , , , Gordon Miniely
5,281
58.23% , , Leonard Stahl
197
2.17% , , Linda Gaboury
931
10.27% , , , , , , Ambrose Holowach , - ,

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, , Lou Letourneau
4,001
31.09%, , , ,

7,661
59.53% , , Sol Estrin
322
2.50% , , Mary Lou Pocklington
848
6.59% , , , , , , , - , Edmonton-Gold Bar , , William F. Young
3,778
35.31%, , , , William Yurko
5,789
54.10% , , , , Tom Hennessey
1,082
10.11% , , , , , , , - , Edmonton-Highlands , , Ambrose Holowach
2,748
38.05%, , , , David T. King
2,848
39.43% , , Gerald Lorente
154
2.13% , , Leroy Pearch
1,368
18.94% , , , , , , , - , Edmonton-Jasper Place , , John B. Ludwig
3,789
33.72%, , , , Leslie Gordon Young
5,758
51.25% , , Edwin Robert Daniels
241
2.15% , , Kenneth Joseph Kerr
1,402
12.48% , , , , , , John William Horan , - , Edmonton-Kingsway , , Ethel Sylvia Wilson
3,535
30.92%, , , , Kenneth R.H. Paproski
6,316
55.25% , , Roderick Woodcock
199
1.74% , , Paulette Atterbury
1,290
11.28% , , , , , , , - , Edmonton-Meadowlark , , Alexander Romaniuk
3,839
34.05%, , , , Gerard Joseph Amerongen
6,371
56.52% , , , , Alan J. Idiens
1,035
9.18% , , , , , , , - , Edmonton-Norwood , , Irene Domecki
3,618
35.80%, , , , Catherine Chichak
4,334
42.89% , , , , Sam Lee
1,954
19.34% , , , , , ,

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, - , Edmonton-Ottewell , , Ronald Penner
4,188
32.73%, , , , John G. Ashton
7,009
54.77% , , , , Donald Haythorne
1,314
10.27% , , , , , , , - , Edmonton-Parkallen , , Gordon V. Rasmussen
3,875
35.84%, , , , Neil S. Crawford
5,300
49.02% , , Vic Yanda
221
2.04% , , Hart Horn
1,311
12.13% , , , , , , , - , Edmonton-Strathcona , , Joseph Donovan Ross
2,973
32.55%, , , , Julian Koziak
4,541
49.72% , , , , Timothy Christian
1,574
17.23% , , , , , , , - , Edmonton-Whitemud , , Donald Murray Hamilton
4,690
33.06%, , , , Donald Ross Getty
8,201
57.81% , , James N. Tanner
235
1.66% , , Joseph Mercredi
936
6.60% , , , , , , , -

Rest of Alberta

, - , Athabasca , , Allan Gerlach
2,585
36.76%, , , , Frank Appleby
3,261
46.37% , , , , Peter E. Opryshko
1,136
16.15% , , , , , , Antonio Aloisio , - , Banff-Cochrane , , Slim Martin
2,647
37.52%, , , , Clarence Copithorne
3,801
53.88% , , , , Beverly Coulter
420
5.95% , , , , , , Clarence Copithorne , - ,

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, , Simon Tuininga
1,651
29.10%, , , , Hugh F. Horner
3,360
59.23% , , , , Herman Burke
643
11.33% , , , , , , , - , Bonnyville , , Lorne Mowers
2,355
43.31%, , , , Donald Hansen
2,523
46.40% , , , , Claire Gaines
539
9.91% , , , , , , Romeo B. Lamothe , - , Bow Valley, , , , Fred T. Mandeville
3,584
67.66% , , Don Murray
1,674
31.60% , , , , , , , , , , , - , Camrose , , Laurence Rhierson
3,965
41.52%, , , , Gordon Stromberg
4,552
47.67% , , , , Keith Boulter
988
10.35% , , , , , , Chester I. Sayers , - , Cardston, , , , Edgar W. Hinman
2,831
53.56% , , Larry L. Lang
2,392
45.25% , , , , , , , , , , Alvin F. Bullock , - , Clover Bar, , , , Walt A. Buck
4,041
48.86% , , J. Devereux
3,468
41.93% , , , , A. Karvonen
736
8.90% , , , , , , Walt A. Buck , - ,

Cypress Cypress is a common name for various coniferous trees or shrubs from the ''Cupressus'' genus of the '' Cupressaceae'' family, typically found in temperate climates and subtropical regions of Asia, Europe, and North America. The word ''cypress'' ...

, , , , Harry E. Strom
2,777
60.15% , , Dave Berntson
1,635
35.41% , , , , Tony de Souza
196
4.25% , , , , , , Harry E. Strom , - , Drayton Valley , , Thomas Johnson
1,304
26.62%, , , , Rudolph Zander
2,603
53.14% , , , , Alvin Harmacy
963
19.66% , , , , , , , - ,

Drumheller Drumheller is a town on the Red Deer River in the badlands of east-central Alberta, Canada. It is located northeast of Calgary and south of Stettler. The Drumheller portion of the Red Deer River valley, often referred to as Dinosaur Vall ...

, , , , Gordon Edward Taylor
5,044
63.56% , , Wayne Ohlhauser
2,285
28.79% , , , , Dick Hehr
547
6.89% , , , , , , , - , Edson , , Rollie Mohr
1,947
28.58%, , , , Robert W. Dowling
3,900
57.24% , , , , Walter Seewitz
749
10.99% , , , , , , Robert W. Dowling , - ,

Grande Prairie Grande Prairie is a city in Northern Alberta, northwestern Alberta, Canada, within the southern portion of an area known as Peace River Country. It is located at the intersection of Alberta Highway 43, Highway 43 (part of the CANAMEX Corridor) ...

, , William Bowes
4,104
38.42%, , , , Winston Backus
4,553
42.63% , , , , Arthur Macklin
1,992
18.65% , , , , , , Ira McLaughlin , - , Hanna-Oyen, , , , Clinton Keith French
2,231
45.58% , , John Edward Butler
2,216
45.27% , , , , Gordon Snell
414
8.46% , , , , , , , - , Highwood, , , , Edward P. Benoit
2,941
47.82% , , Eldon C. Couey
2,789
45.35% , , , , D. Larry McKillop
389
6.33% , , , , , , , - , Innisfail , , William Kenneth Ure
2,915
46.95%, , , , Clifford L. Doan
3,235
52.10% , , , , , , , , , , , - , Lac La Biche-McMurray, , , , Dan Bouvier
2,679
52.97% , , Elmer Roy
1,927
38.10% , , , , Kenneth B. Orchard
414
8.19% , , , , , , , - , Lacombe , , Ivan Stonehocker
2,582
42.02%, , , , John William Cookson
3,094
50.36% , , , , Ragnar Johanson
452
7.36% , , , , , , Allan Russell Patrick , - ,

Lesser Slave Lake Lesser Slave Lake is located in northern Alberta, Canada, northwest of Edmonton. It is the second largest lake entirely within Alberta boundaries (and the largest easily accessible by vehicle), covering and measuring over long and at its wid ...

, , , , Dennis Barton
1,830
40.98% , , Garth Roberts
1,434
32.11% , , Stan Daniels
246
5.51% , , Marie Carlson
670
15.00% , , Allan Crawford (Ind.)
231
5.17%, , , , , - ,

Lethbridge-East Lethbridge-East is a Provinces and territories of Canada, provincial electoral district (Canada), electoral district in Alberta, Canada, covering the eastern half of the city of Lethbridge. The district is one of 87 in the province mandated to r ...

, , , , John V. Anderson
5,341
50.27% , , Richard Barton
4,374
41.17% , , , , Douglas Poile
805
7.58% , , , , , , , - , Lethbridge-West, , , , Richard David Gruenwald
4,169
54.39% , , R.J. Gray
2,751
35.89% , , , , Klaas Buijert
670
8.74% , , , , , , , - , Little Bow, , , , Raymond Albert Speaker
3,400
58.42% , , John C. Green
2,114
36.32% , , , , Edward H. Rodney
295
5.07% , , , , , , Raymond Albert Speaker , - ,

Lloydminster Lloydminster is a city in Canada which has the unusual geographic distinction of straddling the provincial border between Alberta and Saskatchewan. The city is incorporated by both provinces as a single city with a single municipal administra ...

, , Campbell A. Hancock
2,585
42.95%, , , , James Edgar Miller
2,774
46.09% , , , , Lloyd Robertson
635
10.55% , , , , , , , - ,

Macleod MacLeod, McLeod and Macleod ( ) are surnames in the English language. The names are anglicised forms of the Scottish Gaelic ', meaning "son of Leòd", derived from the Old Norse ''Liótr'' ("ugly"). One of the earliest occurrences of the surnam ...

, , , , Leighton E. Buckwell
3,399
50.67% , , Danny Le Grandeur
2,808
41.86% , , , , Sid J. Cornish
470
7.01% , , , , , , Leighton E. Buckwell , - , Medicine Hat-Redcliff, , , , William Wyse
6,447
48.68% , , James Horsman
4,140
31.26% , , Theodore Anhorn
462
3.49% , , Frank Armstrong
2,128
16.07% , , , , , , , - , Olds-Didsbury, , , ,

Robert Curtis Clark Robert Curtis "Bob" Clark (July 2, 1937 – July 10, 2020) was a Canadian teacher, civil servant and politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1960 to 1981 including time as a Cabinet Minister in Premier Ernest Manning's ...

4,346
59.36% , , Rudolf Pedersen
2,578
35.21% , , , , William C. McCutcheon
366
5.00% , , , , , ,

, - ,

Peace River The Peace River () is a river in Canada that originates in the Rocky Mountains of northern British Columbia and flows to the northeast through northern Alberta. The Peace River joins the Athabasca River in the Peace-Athabasca Delta to form the ...

, , Robert H. Wiebe
2,437
38.04%, , , , Al (Boomer) Adair
3,188
49.77% , , , , Hans Jorgensen
722
11.27% , , , , , , Robert H. Wiebe , - , Pincher Creek-Crowsnest, , , , Charles Duncan Drain
2,379
42.82% , , Morgan Johnson
1,791
32.24% , , , , Clarence W. Smith
1,355
24.39% , , , , , , Charles Duncan Drain , - , Ponoka , , Neville S. Roper
2,695
43.69%, , , , Donald J. McCrimmon
2,712
43.96% , , Bernice Luce
142
2.30% , , Ed Nelson
598
9.69% , , , , , , Neville S. Roper , - ,

Red Deer The red deer (''Cervus elaphus'') is one of the largest deer species. A male red deer is called a stag or Hart (deer), hart, and a female is called a doe or hind. The red deer inhabits most of Europe, the Caucasus Mountains region, Anatolia, Ir ...

, , Fulton Rollings
3,627
34.79%, , , , James L. Foster
4,994
47.90% , , Len Patterson
761
7.30% , , Ethel Taylor
1,022
9.80% , , , , , , William Kenneth Ure , - , Redwater-Andrew , , Michael Senych
2,271
34.67%, , , , George Topolnisky
3,277
50.02% , , , , Norman T. Flach
968
14.78% , , , , , , , - ,

Rocky Mountain House Rocky Mountain House is a town in west-central Alberta, Canada. It is approximately west of Red Deer at the confluence of the Clearwater and North Saskatchewan Rivers, and at the crossroads of Highway 22 (Cowboy Trail) and Highway 11 (David ...

, , Harvey Staudinger
2,472
40.01%, , , ,

Helen Hunley Wilma Helen Hunley (September 6, 1920 – October 22, 2010) was a Canadian politician and the 12th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, the first woman to serve in that post. Early life She was born in Acme, Alberta, to James Edgar Hunley and Est ...

3,014
48.78% , , , , David Elliot
657
10.63% , , , , , , Alfred J. Hooke , - , Sedgewick-Coronation, , , , Ralph A. Sorenson
2,272
47.51% , , Herb Losness
2,005
41.93% , , , , Ron Chalmers
489
10.23% , , , , , , Jack C. Hillman , - ,

Smoky River The Smoky River is a river in western Alberta, Canada. It is a major tributary of the Peace River (Canada), Peace River. The name refers to the presence of "smouldering beds of coal in the riverbank" noted by the Cree people, an Indigenous peop ...

, , Bernard Lamoureux
1,604
26.88%, , , , Marvin Moore
2,254
37.77% , , , , Victor Tardif
2,074
34.76% , , , , , , , - ,

Spirit River-Fairview Spirit River-Fairview was a provincial electoral district in northwestern Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first-past-the-post method of voting from 1971 to 1986. History Spi ...

, , Adolph O. Fimrite
2,246
35.99% , , Don Moore
1,439
23.06% , , , , , , Grant W. Notley
2,400
38.46% , , Michael Zuk (Ind.)
110
1.76%, , , , , - , St. Albert , , Keith Everitt
3,592
33.36%, , , , William Ernest Jamison
4,623
42.94% , , Robert A. Russell
1,660
15.42% , , Elsie McMillan
878
8.15% , , , , , , Keith Everitt , - , St. Paul , , Raymond Reierson
2,041
35.07%, , , ,

Mick Fluker Allison Ira "Mick" Fluker (January 6, 1926 – October 16, 1990) was a politician from Alberta, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta The Legislative Assembly of Alberta is the deliberative assembly of the province of Alb ...

2,661
45.72% , , Lawrence P. Coutu
209
3.59% , , Laurent (Jeff) Dubois
898
15.43% , , , , , , Raymond Reierson , - , Stettler , , Galen C. Norris
2,631
47.10%, , , , Jack G. Robertson
2,925
52.36% , , , , , , , , , , Galen C. Norris , - , Stony Plain , , Ralph A. Jespersen
2,788
40.12%, , , , William Frederick Purdy
3,348
48.17% , , , , Michael Crowson
770
11.08% , , , , , , Ralph A. Jespersen , - , Taber-Warner, , , , Douglas Miller
4,077
54.48% , , Robert Bogle
3,367
45.00% , , , , , , , , , , Douglas Miller , - ,

Three Hills Three Hills is a town in southern Alberta, Canada. It takes its name from the three somewhat-larger-than-normal hills to its north. History Three Hills post office dates from 1904. Three Hills was incorporated as a village in 1912, the yea ...

, , Raymond Ratzlaff
2,970
47.93%, , , , Allan Warrack
2,978
48.06% , , , , K. Robert Friesen
220
3.55% , , , , , , Raymond Ratzlaff , - ,

Vegreville Vegreville () is a town in central Alberta, Canada. It is on Highway 16A approximately east of Edmonton, Alberta's capital city. It was incorporated as a town in 1906, and that year also saw the founding of the ''Vegreville Observer'', a week ...

, , Alex W. Gordey
2,191
32.05%, , , , John S. Batiuk
3,042
44.49% , , , , W.B. Welsh
1,537
22.48% , , , , , , , - , Vermilion-Viking, , , , Ashley H. Cooper
2,420
46.68% , , Tom Newcomb
2,232
43.06% , , , , Harry E. Yaremchuk
507
9.78% , , , , , , , - , Wainwright, , , , Henry A. Ruste
3,311
63.04% , , Clifford Silas Smallwood
1,366
26.01% , , , , Gary Luciow
547
10.42% , , , , , , Henry A. Ruste , - , Wetaskiwin-Leduc, , , , James D. Henderson
5,334
47.25% , , Emanuel Pyrcz
4,590
40.66% , , , , Lionel Udenberg
1,336
11.83% , , , , , , , - ,

Whitecourt Whitecourt is a town in Northern Alberta, Canada that is surrounded by Woodlands County. It is approximately northwest of Edmonton and southeast of Grande Prairie at the junction of Alberta Highway 43, Highway 43 and Alberta Highway 32, Highw ...

, , Clyde Feero
2,125
33.76%, , , , Peter Trynchy
3,096
49.19% , , Arthur Yates
101
1.60% , , Robert Price
929
14.76% , , , , , , , -

References

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Background

1967 Alberta general election

Lead up to 1971

Campaign

Social Credit campaign

Progressive Conservative campaign

Election

Electoral boundaries

Voting and eligibility

Aftermath

Results

Daylight saving time plebiscite

Background

Campaign

Aftermath

Results

Results by riding

Calgary

Edmonton

Rest of Alberta

See also

References

Further reading