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EDMONTON — Peter Lougheed, who muscled Alberta onto centre stage in this country in the 1970s and ’80s, won by a landslide in a national search for Canada’s best premier, while Ontario’s Bill Davis came in second.

Mr. Lougheed, 84, who founded Alberta’s 41-year-old Progressive Conservative dynasty, ran far ahead of the pack, taking top scores right across the country on leadership skills, including from Ontario experts on the 30-member panel that ranked the premiers, said Ian MacDonald, editor of Policy Options, the magazine of the Montreal-based Institute for Research and Policy Options.

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“The results were clear and resounding. Lougheed won on all leadership categories and all 30 experts put him in the top five premiers,” said Mr. MacDonald. “It doesn’t get any clearer than that.”

Of the 13 panellists from Ontario, 11 chose Mr. Lougheed as No. 1 — another signal that the former