Alberta general election, 1997

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March 11, 1997 (1997-03-11)

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

Turnout

53.75%

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party
		LIB	NDP
Leader	Ralph Klein	Grant Mitchell	Pam Barrett
Party	Progressive Conservative	Liberal	New Democratic
Leader since	December 14, 1992	November 13, 1994	1996
Leader's seat	Calgary-Elbow	Edmonton-McClung	Edmonton-Highlands
Last election	51 seats, 44.5%	32 seats, 39.7%	0 seats, 11.0%
Seats before	52	31	0
Seats won	63	18	2
Seat change	11	13	2
Popular vote	483,914	309,748	83,292
Percentage	51.2%	32.8%	8.8%
Swing	6.7	6.9%	2.2%

Premier before election

Ralph Klein
Progressive Conservative

Premier-designate

Ralph Klein
Progressive Conservative

The Alberta general election of 1997 was the twenty-fourth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. It was held on March 11, 1997 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.

Ralph Klein's second election as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party was considerably more successful than his first. The PC Party won over half the popular vote, and 63 of the 83 seats in the legislature for its eighth consecutive term in government.

The Liberal Party of Grant Mitchell lost about 7% of the popular vote it had won in the 1993 election. The party's legislative caucus was reduced from 32 members to 18.

Pam Barrett led the New Democratic Party back into the legislature with two seats (both in Edmonton), despite winning an even smaller share of the popular vote than in 1993.

The Social Credit Party also re-emerged, but did not win any seats.

Overall voter turnout was 53.75%.

Notes:

* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.

x - less than 0.005% of the popular vote

For complete electoral history, see individual districts

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