1971 Alberta general election

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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 17th Alberta Legislative Assembly. The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta led by Peter Lougheed won 49 of 75 seats with 46.4 per cent of the popular vote in the new legislature to form a majority government. Lougheed's Progressive Conservatives defeated the incumbent Social Credit Party led by Premier Harry Strom who won 25 seats with 41.1 per cent of the popular vote. The 1971 election was the first of 12 consecutive election victories for the Progressive Conservatives. They would govern for 44 years from 1971 to 2015, the longest run in government at the provincial level in Canada. The election also marked the end of Social Credit's dynasty in the province; the Socreds had governed without interruption since 1935.

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