Most notably, the premier lost his own seat of Edmonton-Whitemud to Liberal candidate Percy Wickman, the first time that this had happened to a sitting Premier of Alberta since Richard G. Reid in 1935, which had seen the ruling United Farmers of Alberta completely swept from the legislature.

The PC's were reduced to just two seats in Edmonton, however despite their losses in urban areas they remained largely dominant in Calgary while their losses were somewhat offset by gains in rural areas, notably at the expense of the moribund Representative Party.

Getty himself would quickly return to the Legislature by winning a by-election in a safe rural seat.

The Liberal Party, under new leader Laurence Decore, was the principal beneficiary of the voters' continuing distrust of Don Getty.

Leader Ray Speaker defected to the Progressive Conservatives, while Walt Buck retired.