alberta general election, 1967

The 16th general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada, was held on May 23. 1967 to elect members of the Alberta legislature. Ernest C. Manning led the Social Credit Party to its ninth consecutive (and final) term in government, winning 55 of the 65 seats in the legislature, despite getting less than 45% of the popular vote. The Progressive Conservative Party, now led by dynamic young lawyer, Peter Lougheed, emerged as the main oppoistion to Social Credit, winning over a quarter of the popular vote, and six seats. Despite losing close to half of the share of the popular vote they had won in the 1963 election, the Liberals managed to increase their number of seats from two to three as a result of the decline in the Social Credit vote.

owspan="2"\|Party	rowspan="2"\|Party Leader	rowspan="2"\|# of candidates	colspan="3"\|Seats	colspan="3"\|Popular Vote
lign="center"\|Previous	align="center"\|After	align="center"\|% Change	align="center"\|#	align="center"\|%	align="center"\|Change
Social Credit	Ernest C. Manning	align="right"\|65	align="right"\| 60	align="right"\| 55	align="right"\| -8.3%	align="right"\| 222,270	align="right"\| 44.60%	align="right"\| -10.21%
Progressive Conservative	Peter Lougheed	align="right"\| 47	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| 6	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 129,544	align="right"\| 26.00%	align="right"\| +13.29%
Liberal		align="right"\| 45	align="right"\| 2	align="right"\| 3	align="right"\| +50.0%	align="right"\| 53,847	align="right"\| 10.81%	align="right"\| -8.95%
Independent		align="right"\| 7	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 6,916	align="right"\| 1.38%	align="right"\| +0.40%
New Democratic	Neil Reimer	align="right"\| 65	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 79,610	align="right"\| 15.98%	align="right"\| +6.53%
Coalition		align="right"\| 2	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -100%	align="right"\| 3,654	align="right"\| 0.73%	align="right"\| +0.19%
Independent Progressive Conservative		align="right"\| 2	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| 1,118	align="right"\| 0.22%	align="right"\| n.a.
Liberal/Progressive Conservative		align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 699	align="right"\| 0.14%	align="right"\| -0.14%
Independent Social Credit		align="right"\| 2	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 693	align="right"\| 0.14%	align="right"\| -0.65%
Total		236	63	65	+3.2%	498,351	100.00%
align="center" colspan="9"\|Source: Elections Alberta

Notes: "Previous" refers to to standings at previous election, not to standings in the Legislature at dissolution. n.a. = not applicable - the party was not recognized in the previous election

Alberta General Election, 1967

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