Alberta general election, 1993

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June 15, 1993 (1993-06-15)

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83 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
42 seats needed for a majority

Turnout

60.21%

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Leader	Ralph Klein	Laurence Decore	Ray Martin
Party	Progressive Conservative	Liberal	New Democratic
Leader since	December 14, 1992	October 9, 1988	1984
Leader's seat	Calgary-Elbow	Edmonton-Glengarry	Edmonton-Norwood (lost re-election)
Last election	59 seats, 44.3%	8 seats, 28.7%	16 seats, 26.3%
Seats before	59	8	16
Seats won	51	32	0
Seat change	8	24	16
Popular vote	439,981	392,899	108,883
Percentage	44.5%	39.7%	11.0%
Swing	0.2%	11.0%	15.3%

Premier before election

Ralph Klein
Progressive Conservative

Premier-designate

Ralph Klein
Progressive Conservative

The Alberta general election of 1993 was the twenty-third general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. It was held on June 15, 1993 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. It is notable because it was seen by some as a contest between the former mayors of Calgary and Edmonton, Ralph Klein and Laurence Decore, respectively. Before eventually being defeated in 2015, it remained the closest the Progressive Conservatives had come to losing since coming to power in 1971.

In 1992, the Liberal Party was led by Laurence Decore, a former mayor of Edmonton. Despite being the smallest of the three parties in the legislature, the Liberals made major gains by criticizing the Conservatives' fiscal responsibility, the province's rapidly rising debt, and the government's involvement in the private sector which resulted in some companies defaulting on government loans.

In September 1992, Don Getty resigned as provincial premier and leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, after polls showed that he would not win re-election. The party convention chose Environment Minister and former Calgary mayor Ralph Klein to succeed Getty. Klein campaigned for the leadership in part by making arguments similar to Decore's. He favoured a near-immediate balancing of the provincial budget and rapid debt repayment thereafter, and declared his government "out of the business of business". By the time Klein dropped the writs, his party had regained the lead on polls.

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