alberta general election, 1975

The 18th general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada, was held on March 25, 1975 to elect members of the Alberta legislature. The Progressive Conservative Party of Peter Lougheed won its second term in government with over 62% of the popular vote, winning 69 of the 75 seats in the legislature. The Social Credit Party, which had dominated Alberta politics for 36 years, lost over half the share of the popular vote that it had won in the previous election. Its legislative caucus was reduced from 25 members to only four.

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
Progressive Conservative	Peter Lougheed	align="right"\| 75	align="right"\| 49	align="right"\| 69	align="right"\| +40.8%	align="right"\| 369,764	align="right"\| 62.65%	align="right"\| +16.25%
Social Credit		align="right"\|70	align="right"\| 25	align="right"\| 4	align="right"\| -84.0%	align="right"\| 107,211	align="right"\| 18.17%	align="right"\| -22.93%
New Democratic	Grant Notley	align="right"\| 75	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| 76,360	align="right"\| 12.94%	align="right"\| +1.52%
Independent		align="right"\| 13	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| 1	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 6,643	align="right"\| 1.13%	align="right"\| +1.06%
Liberal	Nick Taylor	align="right"\| 46	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| -	align="right"\|	align="right"\| 29,424	align="right"\| 4.98%	align="right"\| +3.97%
Communist		align="right"\| 14	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| -	align="right"\| n.a.	align="right"\| 768	align="right"\| 0.13%	align="right"\| n.a.
Total		293	75	75	-	590,170	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, 1975

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