 Former St. Albert mayor Ray Gibbon announced his intention to challenge him party's nomination in 1975, and another former mayor, Richard Plain, blamed Jamison for his defeat in 1977, accusing him of using his control of what was then St. Albert's only newspaper to orchestrate a victory for Ronald Harvey, from whom Jamison had bought the paper eleven years previous.Myrna Fyfe defeated Jamison for the nomination in the 1979 election, as Jamison left the Legislature.Jamison would run unsuccessfully for provincial office twice more in his career