He won the Olds-Didsbury electoral district defeating Stephen Stiles of the Progressive Conservatives and Lloyd Quantz of Social Credit and three other candidates.
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Harry Alger from the Progressive Conservatives defeated him with a five thousand vote plurality.
He defeated Western Canada Concept leader and Incumbent Gordon Kesler and four other candidates in a high profile race to win his first term in office.
Stiles first ran for the Progressive Conservatives in the February 1982 by-election in Olds-Didsbury that saw Gordon Kesler from the Western Canada Concept elected.
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