The Alberta general election of 1979 was the nineteenth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. It was held on March 14 1979 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Peter Lougheed won its third consecutive term in government. Despite losing over five percentage points of the popular vote, the PC Party increased its legislative caucus, winning seventy four of the seventy nine seats. During the campaign, some Progressive Conservatives spoke of winning "79 in '79", i.e., all seventy nine seats in the legislature, harkening back to Social Credit's unofficial slogan, from the 1963 election, "63 in '63".

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

Party		Party leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular vVote
				1975	Elected	% Change	#	%	% Change	Progressive Conservative	Peter Lougheed	79	69	74	+7.2%	408,097	57.40%	-5.25%	Social Credit	Robert Curtis Clark	79	4	4	-	141,284	19.87%	+1.70%	New Democrats	Grant Notley	79	1	1	-	111,984	15.75%	+2.81%	Liberal	Nicholas Taylor	78	-	-	-	43,792	6.16%	+1.18%	Independent		8	-	-	-	3,430	0.48%	+0.37%	Independent Conservative		3	-	-	-	1,613	0.23%	+0.05%1	Independent Christian		1	*	-	*	403	0.06%	*	Communist		7	-	-	-	357	0.05%	-0.08%
Total			334	75	79	+5.3%	710,963	100%
Source: Elections Alberta

Notes:

¹ Percent compared to Independent Progressive Conservative during the 1975 Election.

^* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.

Members elected

For complete electoral history, see individual districts

	District	Member	Party	Athabasca	Frank Appleby	Progressive Conservative	Banff-Cochrane	Greg Stevens	Progressive Conservative	Barrhead	Hugh Horner	Progressive Conservative	Bonnyville	Ernie Isley	Progressive Conservative	Bow Valley	Fred Mandeville	Social Credit	Calgary Bow	Neil Webber	Progressive Conservative	Calgary Buffalo	Tom Sindlinger	Progressive Conservative	Calgary Currie	Dennis Anderson	Progressive Conservative	Calgary-Egmont	Merv Leitch	Progressive Conservative	Calgary Elbow	David John Russell	Progressive Conservative	Calgary Fish Creek	William Edward Payne	Progressive Conservative	Calgary-Foothills	Stewart McCrae	Progressive Conservative	Calgary-Forest Lawn	John Zaozirny	Progressive Conservative	Calgary-Glenmore	Hugh Planche	Progressive Conservative	Calgary McCall	Andrew Little	Progressive Conservative	Calgary-McKnight	Eric Musgreave	Progressive Conservative	Calgary Millican	David J. Carter	Progressive Conservative	Calgary-Mountain View	Stan Kushner	Progressive Conservative	Calgary North Hill	Ed Oman	Progressive Conservative	Calgary North West	Sheila Embury	Progressive Conservative	Calgary West	Peter Lougheed	Progressive Conservative	Camrose	Gordon Stromberg	Progressive Conservative	Cardston	John Thompson	Progressive Conservative	Chinook	Henry Kroeger	Progressive Conservative	Clover Bar	Walt Buck	Social Credit	Cypress	Alan Hyland	Progressive Conservative	Drayton Valley	Shirley Cripps	Progressive Conservative	Drumheller	Lewis Clark	Progressive Conservative	Edmonton-Avonmore	Horst Schmid	Progressive Conservative	Edmonton-Belmont	William Mack	Progressive Conservative	Edmonton-Beverly	Bill Diachuk	Progressive Conservative	Edmonton-Calder	Tom Chambers	Progressive Conservative	Edmonton Centre	Mary LeMessurier	Progressive Conservative	Edmonton-Glenora	Lou Hyndman	Progressive Conservative	Edmonton-Glengarry	Rollie Cook	Progressive Conservative	Edmonton-Gold Bar	Al Hiebert	Progressive Conservative	Edmonton-Highlands	David Thomas King	Progressive Conservative	Edmonton Jasper Place	Leslie Young	Progressive Conservative	Edmonton-Kingsway	Kenneth Paproski	Progressive Conservative	Edmonton Meadowlark	Gerard Amerongen	Progressive Conservative	Edmonton-Mill Woods	Milt Pahl	Progressive Conservative	Edmonton-Norwood	Catherine Chichak	Progressive Conservative	Edmonton-Parkallen	Neil Stanley Crawford	Progressive Conservative	Edmonton-Sherwood Park	Henry Woo	Progressive Conservative	Edmonton-Strathcona	Julian Koziak	Progressive Conservative	Edmonton-Whitemud	Peter Knaak	Progressive Conservative	Edson	Ian Reid	Progressive Conservative	Grande Prairie	Elmer Borstad	Progressive Conservative	Highwood	George Wolstenholme	Progressive Conservative	Innisfail	Nigel Pengelly	Progressive Conservative	Lac La Biche-McMurray	Norm Weiss	Progressive Conservative	Lacombe	Jack Cookson	Progressive Conservative	Lesser Slave Lake	Larry Shaben	Progressive Conservative	Lethbridge East	Archibald D. Johnston	Progressive Conservative	Lethbridge West	John Gogo	Progressive Conservative	Little Bow	Raymond Speaker	Social Credit	Lloydminster	Bud Miller	Progressive Conservative	Macleod	LeRoy Fjordbotten	Progressive Conservative	Medicine Hat	Jim Horsman	Progressive Conservative	Olds-Didsbury	Robert Curtis Clark	Social Credit	Peace River	Al Adair	Progressive Conservative	Pincher Creek-Crowsnest	Frederick Bradley	Progressive Conservative	Ponoka	Don McCrimmon	Progressive Conservative	Red Deer	Norman Magee	Progressive Conservative	Redwater-Andrew	George Topolnisky	Progressive Conservative	Rocky Mountain House	John Murray Campbell	Progressive Conservative	Smoky River	Marvin Moore	Progressive Conservative	Spirit River-Fairview	Grant Notley	NDP	St. Albert	Myrna Fyfe	Progressive Conservative	St. Paul	Charles Anderson	Progressive Conservative	Stettler	Graham Harle	Progressive Conservative	Stony Plain	William Purdy	Progressive Conservative	Taber-Warner	Robert Bogle	Progressive Conservative	Three Hills	Connie Osterman	Progressive Conservative	Vegreville	John Batiuk	Progressive Conservative	Vermilion-Viking	Tom Lysons	Progressive Conservative	Wainwright	Charles Stewart	Progressive Conservative	Wetaskiwin-Leduc	Dallas Schmidt	Progressive Conservative	Whitecourt	Peter Trynchy	Progressive Conservative

See also

• List of Alberta political parties