He won the electoral district of Edson by a wide margin defeating three other candidates to hold it for the governing Progressive Conservative party .
Reid ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature for the first time in the 1979 Alberta general election .
Reid won the electoral district of Edson by a wide margin defeating three other candidates to hold it for the governing Progressive Conservative party .
Reid ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature for the first time in the 1979 Alberta general election .