Peter Lougheed Progressive Conservative Peter Lougheed Progressive Conservative The 1979 Alberta general election was held on March 14, 1979, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, which had been expanded to 79 seats.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Peter Lougheed won its third consecutive term in government.

The Tories came up short of this goal, and actually lost over five percentage points of the popular vote.

Social Credit held on to the four seats they had won in the 1975 election, and formed the official opposition in the legislature.

Grant Notley, leader of the Alberta New Democratic Party, was the only other opposition member.