Peter Lougheed
As party leader

Peter Lougheed

Section Title: As party leader
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1982 Alberta provincial election

Party	Party leader	# of candidates	Seats	Popular vote

1979	1982	% Change	#	%	% Change

Progressive Conservative	Peter Lougheed	79	74	75	+1.4%	588,485	62.28%	+4.88%

New Democrats	Grant Notley	79	1	2	+100%	177,166	18.75%	+3.00%

Independent	34	2	36,590	3.87%	+3.10%

Western Canada Concept	Gordon Kesler	78	111,131	11.76%

Liberal	Nicholas Taylor	29	17,074	1.81%	−4.35%

Social Credit	23	4	−100%	7,843	0.83%	−19.04%

Alberta Reform Movement	Tom Sindlinger	14	6,258	0.66%	*

Communist	8	389	0.04%	−0.01%

Total	344	79	79	944,936	100%

1979 Alberta provincial election

Party	Party leader	# of candidates	Seats	Popular vote

1975	1979	% 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%

Independent Christian	1	403	0.06%

Communist	7	357	0.05%	−0.08%

Total	334	75	79	+5.3%	710,963	100%

1975 Alberta provincial election

Party	Party leader	# of candidates	Seats	Popular vote

1971	1975	% Change	#	%	% Change

Progressive Conservative	Peter Lougheed	75	49	69	+40.8%	369,764	62.65%	+16.25%

Social Credit	Werner Schmidt	70	25	4	−84.0%	107,211	18.17%	−22.93%

New Democrats	Grant Notley	75	1	1	0%	76,360	12.94%	+1.52%

Independent Social Credit	1	*	1	100%	4,428	0.75%	*

Liberal	Nicholas Taylor	46	29,424	4.98%	+3.97%

Independent Progressive Conservative	3	1,059	0.18%

Communist	14	768	0.13%

Independent	4	625	0.11%	+1.06%

Independent Liberal	2	416	0.07%

Constitutional Socialist	Mike Uhryn	3	115	0.02%

Total	293	75	75	590,200	100%

1971 Alberta provincial election

Party	Party leader	# of candidates	Seats	Popular vote

1967	1971	% Change	#	%	% Change

Progressive Conservative	Peter Lougheed	75	6	49	+717%	296,934	46.40%	+20.40%

Social Credit	Harry Strom	75	55	25	−54.5%	262,953	41.10%	−3.5%

New Democrats	Grant Notley	70	1	73,038	11.42%	−4.56%

Liberal	Bob Russell	20	3	−100%	6,475	1.01%	−9.80%

Independent	3	1	−100%	462	0.07%	−1.31%

Total	243	65	75	+15.4%	639,862	100%

1967 Alberta provincial election

Party	Party leader	# of candidates	Seats	Popular vote

1963	1967	% Change	#	%	% Change

Social Credit	Ernest C. Manning	65	60	55	−8.3%	222,270	44.60%	−10.21%

Progressive Conservative	Peter Lougheed	47	6	129,544	26.00%	+13.29%

Liberal	Michael Maccagno	45	2	3	+50.0%	53,847	10.81%	−8.95%

Independent	7	1	6,916	1.38%	+0.40%

New Democrats	Neil Reimer	65	79,610	15.98%	+6.53%

Coalition	2	1	−100%	3,654	0.73%	+0.19%

Independent Progressive Conservative	2	1,118	0.22%

Liberal/Progressive Conservative	1	699	0.14%	−0.14%

Independent Social Credit	2	693	0.14%	−0.65%

Total	236	63	65	+3.2%	498,351	100%

Sentence(s)

Peter Lougheed led the Progressive Conservative Party with 49 of 75 seats in the 1971 election, defeating the Social Credit Party.

final_sentence: Peter Lougheed led the Progressive Conservative Party with 49 of 75 seats in the 1971 election, defeating the Social Credit Party.