The 1971 Alberta general election was the seventeenth general election held in the Province of Alberta, Canada on August 30, 1971, to elect seventy-five members of the Alberta Legislature to form the
Peter Lougheed Premier of Alberta 1983
Harry Strom portrait
Grant Notley circa 1969
The 1967 Alberta general election was held on May 23, 1967, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta to the 16th Alberta Legislature. The election was called after the 15th Alberta Legi
1971 Alberta general election
…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…
Ernest Manning