Tonight’s the big night: Polls will close in Wild Rose Country at 8pm Mountain Time and my campaign work for the Alberta Liberal Party in my home province will be done. For those interested, feel free to use this open thread to discuss the results as they come in.
For results, I’ll be keeping my eye on CBC and Elections Alberta.
As a handy guide, here are the seats that I’ll be watching as potential (but not necessarily likely) flips tonight:
PC-held
Edmonton-Castle Downs
Edmonton-Mill Creek
Edmonton-Whitemud
Sturgeon-Spruce Grove-St. Albert
Sherwood Park
Calgary-Buffalo (Open)
Calgary-North Hill
Calgary-Montrose
Calgary-McCall
Calgary-MacKay
Calgary-Foothills
Calgary-Northwest
Calgary-Bow
Calgary-West
Calgary-Glenmore
Calgary-Egmont (Open)
Calgary-Fort
Calgary-Fish Creek
Lethbridge-West (Open)
Medicine Hat
Red Deer-North
Red Deer-South
West Yellowhead (Open)
Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo
Lacombe-Ponoka (strong Green challenge)
Dunvegan-Central Peace (Alliance challenge)
Peace River (Alliance challenge)
Liberal-Held
Calgary-Elbow
Calgary-Varsity
Calgary-Currie
Calgary-Mountain View
Edmonton-McClung
Edmonton-Meadowlark (Open)
St. Albert
Edmonton-Decore
Edmonton-Ellerslie
Lethbridge-East
NDP-Held
Edmonton-Strathcona (Open)
Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview
Edmonton-Calder
Alliance-Held
Cardston-Taber-Warner
Independent-Held
Edmonton-Manning
I’m enough of an elections geek to follow foreign elections, so I watched this one as well.
Hopefully there will be happy outcomes down here this year.
but looking at the results currently in… it looks like a route.
Looking through the results, there are quite a few ridings where the PC is ahead, but where the combined vote for Liberals, Green and NDP is higher than the combined vote for the PC and the WAP.
One example is Edmonton Calder where the PC is ahead with 40%, with the remaining 60% split among the Liberals, Greens and NDP.