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The Alberta general election of 1971 was the seventeenth general election for the Province of Alberta Canada. It was held on August 30 1971 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.The Progressive Conservative Party led by Peter Lougheed broke the 36-year hegemony on Alberta politics of the Social Credit Party. Ernest C. Manning had resigned as Social Credit leader and premier in 1968 a year after leading the Socreds to their ninth consecutive majority government.