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- Alberta_general_election,_1982 abstract "The Alberta general election of 1982 was the twentieth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. It was held on November 2, 1982 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.Less than four years had passed since the Progressive Conservatives won their landslide victory in 1979. Premier Peter Lougheed decided to call a snap election to catch fledgling new parties off guard, most notably the separatist Western Canada Concept which was capitalizing on anger over Lougheed's perceived weakness in dealings with the federal government, in particular his acceptance of the hugely unpopular National Energy Program. The WCC's Gordon Kesler had won a by-election earlier in the year, and Lougheed decided that it would be wise to stage a showdown with the WCC sooner rather than later. Lougheed then proceeded to mount a campaign based largely on scare tactics, warning Albertans angry with Ottawa but yet uneasy with the WCC that they could end up with a separatist government by voting for a separatist party. The strategy worked for the Tories, who won their fourth consecutive term in government, and returned to the 62% popular vote level it had attained in the 1975 election. This netted the Tories 75 seats in the legislature--in terms of percentage of seats won, the second-largest majority government in the province's history. In the process, they reduced the opposition to only four MLAs in total. The Alberta Liberal Party was punished in the wake of the NEP. Barely able to field candidates in a third of the ridings, it went down to one of its worst showings in party history.The Social Credit Party collapsed. Its share of the popular vote fell from almost 20% to less than one percent. In a harbinger of things to come, former Socred leader Robert Curtis Clark's seat of Olds-Didsbury had been resoundingly lost to the WCC in the by-election. After the writs were dropped for the 1982 election, two of the remaining three Socred MLAs, parliamentary leader Raymond Speaker and Walt Buck, resigned from the party to run for reelection as independents. The third, Fred Mandeville, opted not to run for reelection. With no incumbents for the first time since 1935 and no full-time leader, the party was shut out of the legislature for the first time since 1935, and has never elected another MLA. Speaker and Buck, however, did win reelection, and later formed the Representative Party of Alberta after being denied opposition status.The New Democratic Party, led by Grant Notley, became the official opposition when it doubled its legislative caucus from one member to two.The WCC, a party that advocated the separation of the four western provinces of Canada to form a new country, had surprised Canadians when Kesler won his by-election and took a seat in the Alberta legislature. Although Kesler lost his seat in this election after he changed electoral districts from Olds-Didsbury and ran in Highwood, the WCC won almost 12% of the popular vote.The Alberta Reform Movement, a new party founded by ex-Progressive Conservative Tom Sindlinger was caught unaware when the election was called, and ended up losing its only seat in Calgary Buffalo.".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 country Alberta.
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 firstLeader Peter_Lougheed.
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 secondLeader Grant_Notley.
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 startDate "1982-11-02".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 title "Alberta general election, 1982".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 wikiPageExternalLink welcome.html.
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 wikiPageID "1396077".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 wikiPageRevisionID "590931435".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 afterElection Peter_Lougheed.
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 beforeElection Peter_Lougheed.
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 country "Alberta".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 electedMps 20th_Alberta_Legislature.
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 electionDate "1982-11-02".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 electionName "Alberta general election, 1982".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 hasPhotoCollection Alberta_general_election,_1982.
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 lastElection "1".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 lastElection "4".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 lastElection "74".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 lastElection "pre-creation".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 leader Gordon_Kesler.
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 leader Grant_Notley.
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 leader Peter_Lougheed.
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 leader Tom_Sindlinger.
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 leader George_Richardson_(Alberta_politician).
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 leaderSince "1965".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 leaderSince "1968".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 leaderSince "1982".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 leadersSeat Calgary-West.
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 leadersSeat Spirit_River-Fairview.
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 leadersSeat "Calgary-Buffalo".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 leadersSeat "ran in Highwood".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 leadersSeat "ran in Whitecourt".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 nextElection "Alberta general election, 1986".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 nextMps "21".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 nextYear "1986".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 partyColour "no".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 partyName "no".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 percentage "0.7".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 percentage "0.8".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 percentage "11.8".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 percentage "18.7".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 percentage "62.3".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 popularVote "111131".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 popularVote "177166".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 popularVote "588485".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 popularVote "6258".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 popularVote "7843".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 previousElection "Alberta general election, 1979".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 previousMps "19".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 previousYear "1979".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 seatChange "+1".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 seatChange "+2".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 seatChange "-1".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 seats "0".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 seats "2".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 seats "75".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 seatsBefore "1".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 seatsBefore "73".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 seatsForElection "40".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 seatsForElection "79".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 swing "+2.9%".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 swing "+4.9%".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 swing "-19.1".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 swing "—".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 title "Premier".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 turnout "66.0".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 type "legislative".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 subject Category:1982_elections_in_Canada.
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 subject Category:Elections_in_Alberta.
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 subject Category:Snap_elections.
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 type Election.
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 type Event.
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 type SocietalEvent.
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 type Event.
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 type Event.
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 type Thing.
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 comment "The Alberta general election of 1982 was the twentieth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. It was held on November 2, 1982 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.Less than four years had passed since the Progressive Conservatives won their landslide victory in 1979.".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 label "Alberta general election, 1982".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 label "Élection générale albertaine de 1982".
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 sameAs Élection_générale_albertaine_de_1982.
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 sameAs m.04z816.
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 sameAs Q3586299.
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- Alberta_general_election,_1982 wasDerivedFrom Alberta_general_election,_1982?oldid=590931435.
- Alberta_general_election,_1982 isPrimaryTopicOf Alberta_general_election,_1982.