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membersMarch 3, 2008
members→ 28th 83 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
42 seats were needed for a majorityTurnout 40.59% Majority party Minority party Leader Ed Stelmach Kevin Taft Party Progressive Conservative Liberal Leader since December 2, 2006 March 27, 2004 Leader's seat Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville Edmonton-Riverview Last election 62 seats, 46.8% 16 seats, 29.4% Seats before 60 16 Seats won 72 9 Seat change +12 -7 Popular vote 501,063 251,158 Percentage 52.7% 26.4 Swing +5.9% -3.0% Third party Fourth party Leader Brian Mason Paul Hinman Party NDP Wildrose Alliance Leader since September 2004 2008 Leader's seat Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood Cardston-Taber-Warner (lost re-election) Last election 4 seats, 10.2% 1 seats, 8.7% Seats before 4 1 Seats won 2 0 Seat change -2 -1 Popular vote 80,578 64,407 Percentage 8.5% 6.8% Swing -1.7% -1.9%
Map of Alberta's riding coloured in to indicate winning party and popular vote.
Premier before election
Elected Premier
The Alberta general election of 2008 was the twenty-seventh general election for the province of Alberta, Canada. It was held on March 3, 2008 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
It was expected to be called early because the governing Progressive Conservatives held a leadership election on December 2, 2006, in which Ed Stelmach was elected to replace Ralph Klein as party leader and Premier. The election was called when Stelmach formally advised Lieutenant Governor Norman Kwong to dissolve the Legislature, which happened on February 4, 2008.[1]
With 53% of the popular vote, the Progressive Conservatives won a decisive majority over the Liberal and other parties, despite early suggestions of a closer race.[citation needed]
The 2008 election had the lowest voter turnout in the province's history, with only 40.59% of eligible voters casting a ballot.[2]
Contents
Results
On election night the Progressive Conservatives were able to increase their majority by winning seats previously held by opposition parties. The Tories also increased their share of the popular vote, and even though the Tories' share of this vote was still significantly less than it was in 2001 they managed to win just two fewer seats than they won in that election. The reasons for this development include the fact that the Tories' continued to poll a significant share of the rural electorate and also because the Tories' support in the major cities was much more evenly divided between Calgary and Edmonton this time. The Conservative gains came mostly in and around Edmonton where the party recorded its best result since 1982.
The Alberta Liberals who held onto official opposition status sustained a net loss of seven of their 16 existing seats, especially in the Edmonton area where they were reduced to just three seats, but they were able to win five seats in Calgary (a net gain of one seat and the largest total won by that party in that city in the past 50 years). The Liberals also held their existing seat in Lethbridge for a total of nine seats.
The other parties that were represented in the legislature also suffered losses on election night. The Alberta New Democrats lost two of their four Edmonton seats, and the Wildrose Alliance Party was shut out of the legislature when their leader Paul Hinman was very narrowly defeated in his own constituency of Cardston-Taber-Warner.
For the first time in history, a majority of the Alberta Liberal caucus will be from Calgary and the number of combined Liberal and NDP MLAs from Edmonton will not exceed the number of these parties' legislators from Calgary.
Summary
Party Party leader # of
candidatesSeats Popular vote 2004 Dissol. 2008 % Change # % % Change Progressive Conservative Ed Stelmach 83 621 60 72 +20% 501,063 52.72 +5.92% Liberal Kevin Taft 82 161 16 9 -43.8% 251,158 26.43 -2.96% NDP Brian Mason 83 4 4 2 -50% 80,578 8.48 -1.72% Wildrose Alliance Paul Hinman 61 1 1 - -100% 64,407 6.78 -1.92%2 Greens George Read 79 - - - - 43,222 4.55 +1.80% Social Credit Len Skowronski 8 - - - - 2,043 0.21 -1.02% Separation Bruce Hutton 1 - - - - 119 0.01 -0.52% Communist Naomi Rankin 2 - - - - 96 0.01 xx Alberta Party Bruce Stubbs 1 - - - - 42 0.00 -0.28% Independent 7 - 1 - -100% 7,635 0.80 +0.69% Vacant 1 Total 407 83 83 83 - 950,363 100.00 Note:
- 1 Liberal Chris Kibermanis originally had a five-vote margin over Progressive Conservative Thomas Lukaszuk. A judicial recount on January 24, 2005, determined Thomas Lukaszuk the winner.
- 2 Results change is compared to the Alberta Alliance in 2004.
Vote and seat summaries
Policy and other major announcements
Alberta Liberal Party
- Immediate elimination of health care premiums
- Increasing per capita spending on policy in Calgary from $16 to $20
- Re-legislation of tuition policy so it is made in open session
- Implementation of a public pharmacare program
- Using tobacco taxes, spend approximately $200 million to create a Community Wellness Fund which will seek to expand Family & Community Support Services and fund healthy living and lifestyle programs
- Redirect the $250 million Natural Gas Rebate Program towards incentives for energy efficiency
- Triple funding for the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
- Increase the number of health care workers
- Investment of 30% of all natural resource revenues in:
- investment in the Heritage Fund so that income taxes can remain permanently low
- elimination of the infrastructure deficit by 2014
- establishment of an uncapped endowment for post-secondary education
- establishment of a $500 million endowment fund for arts, social sciences, and humanities
- Elimination of the education section of the property tax for seniors (appox. $700 a year)
- Increasing the tax credit for seniors' caregivers to $9,355 from $4,355.
- Making both Calgary and Edmonton into independent cities via a "Big Cities" Charter
- Hiring 300 more police officers for Calgary and Edmonton
- Fixed election dates
Cost: Net costs are zero as a result of re-allocating existing dollars and increased royalty revenues.
New Democratic Party of Alberta
- Making life affordable
- Create 4,000 new child care spaces.
- Cap rates of $25/day ($500/month) for infant care and $9/day ($180/month) for after school care.
- Regulate after-school care for children.
- Increase start-up grants for daycare centres and day homes.
- Provide additional sustainable grants to day cares to increase wages for childcare workers.
- Introduce rent controls.
- Introduce limits on condominium conversions.
- Full value royalties
- Follow example set by Alaska and replace the royalty system.
- Create an all-party, special committee of the legislature to investigate royalties and report back in three months.
- Add a variable royalty structure that would increase the royalty revenues when oil prices pass a peak threshold.
- Increase royalties on other non-renewable resources such as coal.
- Green energy plan
- Create a green energy fund that will receive $2 billion a year primarily through enhanced royalties. Use that money to fund energy efficient retro-fitting and alternative energy production systems for individual houses and building.
- Fund alternative power generation projects such as solar and wind farms.
- Place hard caps on greenhouse gas emissions with penalties for companies that exceed targets — details to be worked out later.
- Slow down the pace of development
- Big dollar signs out of politics
- End campaign contributions from unions and corporations.
- Table legislation binding all leadership and nomination contests to the same disclosure rules and donation limits of political parties.
- Immediately end health-care premiums.
- Create a new pharmaceutical agency to purchase drugs in bulk, negotiate prices with drug companies and find less costly options to brand-name drugs.
- Roll back tuition levels to 1999–2000 levels.
- Cap interest for student loans at prime.
- Invest $100 million in student housing immediately.
- Eliminate fees and fund-raising for learning essentials.
- Phase out funding for private schools.
- Hire 800 additional police officers
- Mandate basic value-added and upgrading for all bitumen mined in Alberta to be done in the province.
- Add an interim per barrel tax on all bitumen exported outside the province.
- Establish a bitumen pricing system.
- Start a public automobile insurance system.
- Provide stable funding for non-profit First Nation and Metis agencies.
- Tie AISH and social assistance rates to a market basket measure.
- Introduce $30 million in new funding for the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
Cost: $477 million surplus, based on increased royalty rates, bitumen royalty premium and reverse corporate tax cuts.
Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta
- Elimination of health care premiums over four years
- Increase the number of health care workers
- Construct 18 new schools in Calgary and Edmonton, including health focused schools
- $6 billion a year to build and improve urban transit, highways, schools, parks and seniors facilities
- Tax credits to businesses and homeowners who renovate to utilize energy efficient appliances
- Reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 200 megatons by 2050
- Increase oil and gas revenue by $2 billion
- Introduce royalty that would increase with the price of oil
- Create a secretariat for action on homelessness
- Create a new cultural policy that includes recreation and sport along with arts and performance
- Double the tax credit for those supporting dependent family members
Cost: Total commitments represent 4.2 per cent of the budget for 2008–09 or $1.5 billion.
Wildrose Alliance Party of Alberta
- Immediately eliminate health care premiums
- Raise the basic personal income tax exemption to $20,000
- Cut the provincial corporate tax rate from 10% to 8%
- Allow income splitting for taxpayers who care for dependents in times of medical or other crisis
- Direct savings from slowing spending growth to the Heritage Fund so that personal income taxes can eventually be eliminated
- Allow governance and service delivery at the municipal and community levels as much as possible
- As part of the party's universal health care plan, implement a pilot program in one of the smaller health regions that will be modelled after funding following the patients rather than the per capita funding currently in place today. Similarly, establish a school choice voucher pilot.
- Provide significant debt relief to Alberta-trained medical professionals who commit to practising in the province at least five years
- Establish fixed election dates, allow for citizen initiatives via referendums, and enact the right to recall elected officials
Costs: Cost of promises not released.
Green Party of Alberta
- Green tax shift (i.e. lower income and business taxes in exchange for higher resource taxes)
- Community-based development
- Balanced budgets and fiscal responsibility
- Recovery of waste energy through co-generation
- Assessing royalty waste on a reservoir by reservoir basis
- Provide low interest loans to businesses for energy retrofits
- Provide no interest loans to homes for energy conservation
- Ban the use of cosmetic pesticides
- Increase spending in the Child Welfare Department
- Pass a Protected Lands Act that will clarify different land uses. The act will include:
- Increase land designated as protected
- Protect the Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y) corridor
- Authority and resources to enforce the legislation for protected areas officers
- Increasing the supply of affordable housing
- More housing cooperatives and co-housing type developments
- Ensuring units are maintained by organizations that have a vested interest in sustaining them
- Working with the municipalities to make urban development plans that preserve farmland
- Investing in public transit
- Ensuring a continued supply of fresh water
Results by region
Party name Cgy. Edm.1 Leth. R.D. North Central South Total Progressive Conservative Seats: 18 13 1 2 10 20 8 72 Popular vote: 45.81% 42.74% 46.16% 55.46% 65.83% 65.13% 60.85% 52.66% Liberal Seats: 5 3 1 0 0 0 0 9 Popular vote: 33.90% 33.47% 34.34% 25.30% 13.95% 16.60% 15.75% 26.37% New Democrats Seats: 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 Popular vote: 4.21% 18.01% 8.87% 5.79% 11.00% 5.59% 3.74% 8.52% Total seats: 23 18 2 2 10 20 8 83 Parties that won no seats: Wildrose Alliance Popular vote: 8.96% 1.51% 7.61% 7.74% 5.65% 5.86% 16.02% 6.77% Green Popular vote: 4.87% 3.16% 3.02% 5.71% 3.19% 6.12% 3.63% 4.58% Social Credit Popular vote: 0.20% 0.06% xx xx 0.39% 0.54% xx 0.22% Separation Popular Vote: xx xx xx xx xx 0.05% xx 0.01% Communist Popular vote: 0.02% 0.02% xx xx xx xx xx 0.01% Alberta Party Popular vote: xx 0.02% xx xx xx xx xx 0.01% Independents Popular vote: 2.04% 0.96% xx xx xx 0.12% xx 0.87% 1 "Edmonton" corresponds to only the city of Edmonton. (Only the ridings whose names begin with "Edmonton".) The four suburban ridings around the city as listed below are grouped with central Alberta in this table.
Opinion polls
Polling Firm Last Date of Polling Link Prog. Cons. Liberal New Democratic Alliance Green Election results March 3, 2008 53% 26% 9% 7% 5% Angus Reid Strategies February 29, 2008 [1] 43% 28% 13% 10% 7% Strategic Counsel February 28, 2008 [2] 50% 25% 8% 10% 8% Leger Marketing February 25, 2008 [3] 55% 24% 7% 8% 6% Angus Reid Strategies February 20, 2008 [4] 42% 31% 9% 10% 8% Ipsos-Reid February 17, 2008 [5] 49% 28% 14% 5% 4% Environics February 7, 2008 [6] 52% 25% 10% 6% 7% Leger Marketing January 24, 2008 [7] 49% 28% 11% 5% 8% Strategic Counsel January 13, 2008 [8] 58% 19% 9% 5% 9% Last election 22 November 2004 48.8% 29.4% 10.2% 8.7% 2.8% Target ridings
The following is a list of ridings that were narrowly lost by the indicated party in the 2004 election. For instance, under the Liberal column are the nine seats in which they came closest to winning but did not. Listed is the name of the riding, followed by the party which was victorious (in parentheses) and the margin, in terms of percentage of the vote, by which the party lost.
These ridings were likely targeted by the specified party because the party lost them by a very slim margin in the 2004 election.
Up to ten are shown, with a maximum margin of victory of 15%.
* Indicates incumbent not running again.
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta Alberta Liberal Party - Cardston-Taber-Warner, (WA) 1.5%
- Edmonton-Meadowlark, (Lib) 1.8%
- Edmonton-Ellerslie, (Lib) 2.0%
- Edmonton-Manning, (Lib) 2.6%
- St. Albert, (Lib) 2.7%
- Edmonton-Calder, (NDP) 3.0%
- Edmonton-McClung, (Lib) 4.1%
- Lethbridge-East, (Lib) 5.0%
- Calgary-Varsity, (Lib) 5.3%
- Calgary-Currie, (Lib) 5.7%
- Edmonton-Castle Downs, (PC) <0.1%
- Calgary-McCall, (PC) 4.1%
- Spruce Grove-Sturgeon-St. Albert, (PC) 4.4%
- Edmonton-Whitemud, (PC) 5.7%
- Edmonton-Mill Creek, (PC) 6.5%
- Calgary-Buffalo, (PC) 7.7%
- Edmonton-Calder, (NDP) 9.6%
- Red Deer-South, (PC) 10.8%
- Sherwood Park, (PC) 11.2%
Alberta New Democratic Party Wildrose Alliance Party - Edmonton-Glenora, (Lib) 4.2%
- Edmonton Ellerslie, (Lib) 11.7%
- Edmonton Manning, (Lib) 14.2%
- Dunvegan-Central Peace, (PC) 4.1%
MLAs not running again
Liberal
- Maurice Tougas, Edmonton-Meadowlark
NDP
Progressive Conservative
- Tony Abbott, Drayton Valley-Calmar
- Mike Cardinal, Athabasca-Redwater
- Harvey Cenaiko, Calgary-Buffalo
- David Coutts, Livingstone-Macleod
- Victor Doerksen, Red Deer-South
- Denis Ducharme, Bonnyville-Cold Lake
- Clint Dunford, Lethbridge-West
- Gordon Graydon, Grande Prairie-Wapiti
- Carol Haley, Airdrie-Chestermere
- Denis Herard, Calgary-Egmont
- LeRoy Johnson, Wetaskiwin-Camrose
- Rob Lougheed, Strathcona
- Greg Melchin, Calgary-North West
- Richard Magnus, Calgary-North Hill
- Lyle Oberg, Strathmore-Brooks
- Hung Pham, Calgary-Montrose
- Ivan Strang, West Yellowhead
- Gary Mar, Calgary-Mackay
Timeline
- November 19, 2005 Paul Hinman, Cardston-Taber-Warner MLA is elected leader of the Alberta Alliance Party replacing Randy Thorsteinson at a leadership convention in Red Deer, Alberta.
- March 29, 2006 Premier Ralph Klein is given a 55% leadership review, he later announced his retirement for the fall of 2006.
- September 20, 2006 Premier Ralph Klein gives notice to the Progressive Conservatives, announces he will leave when a new leader is picked.
- November 23, 2006 Dan Backs is removed from the Liberal caucus and is forced to sit as an Independent
- December 15, 2006 Ed Stelmach replaces Ralph Klein as premier.
- January 15, 2007 Former Premier Ralph Klein and former Deputy Premier Shirley McClellan resign their legislature seats.
- June 12, 2007 By-elections are held in the seats vacated on January 15. While Jack Hayden easily holds the Drumheller-Stettler riding for the Progressive Conservatives, Craig Cheffins takes Premier Klein's old seat, Calgary Elbow, for the Liberals.[9]
- November 3, 2007 Len Skowronski is elected Leader of Social Credit replacing Lavern Ahlstrom
- December 3, 2007 Gary Mar resigns his seat of Calgary Mackay after he was appointed as Alberta's representative to Washington, D.C..
- January 19, 2008 The Wildrose Party of Alberta and the Alberta Alliance Party merge to form the Wildrose Alliance Party of Alberta.
- February 4, 2008 The writ is dropped.
- February 21, 2008 Stelmach, Taft, Mason, and Hinman square off in a leaders' debate.
- March 3, 2008, 8:22 p.m.: CTV Calgary declares a PC majority barely twenty minutes after the polls close. A CTV reporter asks Ed Stelmach about it, but the Premier has no real answer.
- 8:29 p.m.: Less than half an hour after the polls close, and less than 25 minutes after the first polling station reports, CBC News declares a PC majority; Ed Stelmach begins a brief speech thanking party workers in Calgary while the CBC anchor is making the declaration.
- 9:45 p.m.: Kevin Taft concedes victory. Despite the poor result, he announces his intention to remain party leader.
- 10:36 p.m.: Ed Stelmach formally claims victory in Edmonton.
Nominated candidates
Party Seats Second Third Fourth Progressive Conservative 72 11 0 0 Liberal 9 58 13 2 New Democratic Party 2 4 34 16 Wildrose Alliance 0 7 30 17 Greens 0 2 4 47 Independents 0 1 2 1 Party Average # of votes Progressive Conservative 6,063 Liberal 3,059 Wildrose Alliance 1,055 New Democrat 976 Greens 551 Social Credit 256 Separation 120 Alberta Party 51 Communist 48 Names in bold indicate party leaders and cabinet ministers. [3]
Northern Alberta
Electoral district Candidates Incumbent PC Liberal NDP Wildrose Green Other Athabasca-Redwater Jeff Johnson
7,484Bill Bonko
1,379Peter Opryshko
1,225Mike Radojcic
517Phyllis Penchuk
403Mike Cardinal Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock Ken Kowalski
8,312Leslie Penny
1,804Rod Olstad
927Dan Evans
479Carl Haugen (SC)
309Ken Kowalski Bonnyville-Cold Lake Genia Leskiw
4,437Justin Yassoub
698Jason Sloychuk
389Jennifer Brown
350Denis Ducharme Dunvegan-Central Peace Hector Goudreau
4,147Bob Woken
288Nathan Macklin
1,202Dale Lueken
2,339Hector Goudreau Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo Guy Boutilier
4,519Ross Jacobs
1,758Mel Kraley
550Reginald (Reg) Normore
300Guy Boutilier Grande Prairie Smoky Mel Knight
4,769John Croken
1,089Neil Peacock
832Todd Loewen
1,049Rebecca Villebrun
285Mel Knight Grande Prairie Wapiti Wayne Drysdale
5,145Augustine Ebinu
1,304Manuella Campbell
829Art Proctor
436Gordon Graydon Lac La Biche-St. Paul Ray Danyluk
6,527Alex Broadbent
1,627Della Drury
1,003Ray Danyluk Lesser Slave Lake Pearl Calahasen
3,384Steve Noskey
1,109Habby Sharkawi
426Bonnie Raho
273Pearl Calahasen Peace River Frank Oberle
3,265Adele Boucher Rymhs
1,248Georg Beinart
539Frank Oberle Western and Central Alberta
Electoral district Candidates Incumbent PC Liberal NDP Wildrose Green Other Banff-Cochrane Janis Tarchuk
4,727Patricia K. Robertson
2,753Anne Wilson
575Dan Cunin
1,353Zrinko Amerl (Ind.)
172Janis Tarchuk Drayton Valley-Calmar Diana McQueen
5,931Norma Block
846Luanne Bannister
390Dean Schmale
1,053Edwin Erickson
1,877Tony Abbott Foothills-Rocky View Ted Morton
6,916Herb Coburn
2,200Ricardo de Menezes
196Joseph McMaster
1,797Larry Ashmore
937Ted Morton Innisfail-Sylvan Lake Luke Ouellette
6,967Garth Davis
1,539Tophie Davies
702Wayne Edmundson
1,215Lisa Grant
545Anthony Haggarty (Ind)
122Luke Ouellette Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills Richard Marz
7,837Tony Vonesch
1,038Andy Davies
268Curt Engel
2,572Kate Haddow
518Richard Marz Red Deer North Mary-Anne Jablonski
4,715Richard Farrand
1,770Shawn Nielsen
560Urs Lehner
630Rueben Tschetter
463Mary Anne Jablonski Red Deer South Cal Dallas
7,139Diane Kubanek
3,414Teresa Bryanton
597Ed Klop
949Evan Bedford
609Victor Doerksen Rocky Mountain House Ty Lund
6,188Norm McDougall
849Jorge Souza
279Fanie van Heerden
1,156Jennifer Ripley
699Wilf Tricker (SC)
643
Bruce Hutton (SPA)
119Ty Lund Stony Plain Fred Lindsay
8,467Bill Fraser
2,552Shelina Brown
976Sandy Pariseau
793Nora Shea
571Fred Lindsay West Yellowhead Robin Campbell
4,206Lisa Higgerty
1,932Ken Kuzminski
1,054Earle Cunningham
326Scott Pickett
296Ivan Strang Whitecourt-Ste. Anne George VanderBurg
6,019Mike Grey
1,106Leah Redmond
661Link Byfield
2,146George VanderBurg East Central Alberta
Electoral district Candidates Incumbent PC Liberal NDP Wildrose Green Other Battle River-Wainwright Doug Griffiths
7,968Horst Schreiber
1,260Doris Bannister
431Will Munsey
483Doug Griffiths Drumheller-Stettler Jack Hayden
6,986Tom Dooley
1,463Richard Bough
276Dave France
1,062Amanda Bolton
353Jack Hayden Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville Ed Stelmach
11,169Earl J. Woods
1,343Clayton Marsden
1,233Ryan Scheie
551Ed Stelmach Lacombe-Ponoka Ray Prins
8,202Edith McPhedran
1,200Steve Bradshaw
560Daniel Freisen
911Joe Anglin
3,226Ray Prins Leduc-Beaumont-Devon George Rogers
9,045Joyce Assen
2,329Lisa Erickson
1,057Sharon MacLise
1,008Kevin Colton
495George Rogers Vermilion-Lloydminster Lloyd Snelgrove
7,013Robert Sawatzky
826Wendy Myshak
482Ngaio Hotte
364Lloyd Snelgrove Wetaskiwin-Camrose Verlyn Olson
7,726Keith Elliott
1,646Sarah Mowat
1,078Tyler Knelsen
818Midge Lambert
458LeRoy Johnson Central Edmonton
Electoral district Candidates Incumbent PC Liberal NDP Wildrose Green Other Edmonton Beverly Clareview Tony Vandermeer
4,182Dawit Isaac
1,996Ray Martin
3,845Brian Dell
289Frederick Pivot
183Robin Porteous (SC)
57Ray Martin Edmonton Centre Bill Donahue
3,291Laurie Blakeman
5,042Deron Bilous
2,163James Iverson
200David Parker
472Margaret Saunter (AP)
42Laurie Blakeman Edmonton-Glenora Heather Klimchuk
4,604Bruce Miller
4,508Arlene Chapman
1,743Elden Van Hauwaert
275Peter Johnston
408Bruce Miller Edmonton Gold Bar David Dorward
5,261Hugh MacDonald
6,279Sherry McKibben
1,923David Zylstra
525Hugh MacDonald Edmonton Highlands-Norwood Andrew Beniuk
2,978Brad Smith
1,132Brian Mason
4,754Travis Loewen
245Mohamad Maie
221Brian Mason Edmonton Mill Creek Gene Zwozdesky
6,857Aman Gill
4,058Stephen Anderson
1,822Glen Argan
726Naomi Rankin (Com)
41Gene Zwozdesky Edmonton-Mill Woods Carl Benito
4,752Weslyn Mather
3,996Christina Gray
1,474Robert Leddy
321David Hruska
289Weslyn Mather Edmonton Riverview Wendy Andrews
5,171Kevin Taft
7,471Erica Bullwinkle
1,284Kyle Van Hauwaert
329Cameron Wakefield
506Kevin Taft Edmonton Rutherford Fred Horne
5,225Rick Miller
5,167Mike Butler
1,178John Baloun
379Kate Wyrostok
348Rick Miller Edmonton Strathcona T.J. Keil
3,031Tim Vant
2,452Rachel Notley
5,862Adrian Cole
540Raj Pannu Suburban Edmonton and environs
Electoral district Candidates Incumbent PC Liberal NDP Wildrose Green Other Edmonton-Calder Doug Elniski
4,557Jim Kane
1,839David Eggen
4,356Mike Brown
402David Eggen Edmonton Castle Downs Thomas Lukaszuk
7,159Chris Kibermanis
5,090Ali Haymour
1,341Bob Reckhow
297Thomas Lukaszuk Edmonton Decore Janice Sarich
4,577Bill Bonko
3,895Sidney Sadik
1,301Trey Capenhurst
241Bill Bonko Edmonton Ellerslie Naresh Bhardwaj
4,581Bharat Agnihotri
3,592Marilyn Assheton-Smith
1,891Krista Leddy
471Paul Boos
335Cheryl Ullah (SC)
62Bharat Agnihotri Edmonton Manning Peter Sandhu
4,107Sandeep Dhir
2,260Rick Murti
2,307Phil Gamache
289Odette Boily
235Dan Backs (Ind.)
2,275Dan Backs Edmonton McClung David Xiao
7,173Mo Elsalhy
5,947Bridget Stirling
924Kristine Jassman
272Bryan Wyrostok
342Mo Elsalhy Edmonton Meadowlark Raj Sherman
6,174Debbie Cavaliere
3,423Pascal Ryffel
1,010Richard Guyon
306Amanda Doyle
347Maurice Tougas Edmonton-Whitemud David Hancock
12,054Nancy Cavanaugh
6,997Hana Razga
1,023Valerie Kennedy
543David Hancock Sherwood Park Iris Evans
9,312Louise Rogers
3,843Katharine Hay
904Rick Hoines
689Iris Evans Spruce Grove-Sturgeon-St. Albert Doug Horner
9,369Ray Boudreau
4,528Peter Cross
960Allan West
545Doug Horner St. Albert Ken Allred
8,403Jack Flaherty
5,598Katy Campbell
959Ross Vincent
576Jack Flaherty Strathcona Dave Quest
9,951Jon Friel
2,995Denny Holmwood
911Kate Harrington
763Gordon Barrett (SC)
415Rob Lougheed Southern Alberta
Electoral district Candidates Incumbent PC Liberal NDP Wildrose Green Other Airdrie-Chestermere Rob Anderson
9,374John Burke
1,973Bryan Young
609Jeff Willerton
2,362David Brandreth
660Carol Haley Cardston-Taber-Warner Broyce Jacobs
4,374Ron Hancock
436Suzanne Sirias
190Paul Hinman
4,325Billy Turner
180Paul Hinman Cypress-Medicine Hat Leonard Mitzel
5,640Dick Mastel
2,023Manuel Martinez
347Dan Pierson
679Bright Pride
215Leonard Mitzel Highwood George Groeneveld
7,715Stan Shedd
1,647Carolyn Boulton
391Daniel Doherty
1,405John Barret
691George Groeneveld Lethbridge East Jason Herasemluk
4,715Bridget Pastoor
5,582Tom Moffatt
687Grant Shaw
748Helen McMenamin
292Bridget Pastoor Lethbridge West Greg Weadick
5,002Bal Boora
4,022James Moore
1,179Matt Fox
855Brennan Tilley
392Clint Dunford Little Bow Barry McFarland
5,150Everett Tanis
1,080Duane Petluk
322Kevin Kinahan
2,051Marie Read
267Barry McFarland Livingstone-Macleod Evan Berger
6,037Mike Judd
1,534Phil Burpee
476Jack Macleod
988Bryan Hunt
371David Coutts Medicine Hat Rob Renner
5,388Karen Charlton
3,625Diana Arnott
484Clint Rabb
746Karen Kraus
285Rob Renner Strathmore-Brooks Arno Doerksen
7,623Gerry Hart
991Brian Stokes
313Amanda Shehata
935Chris Bayford
362Lyle Oberg Suburban Calgary
Electoral district Candidates Incumbent PC Liberal NDP Wildrose Green Other Calgary-Bow Alana DeLong
6,687Greg Flanagan
5,173Teale Phelps Bondaroff
507Barry Hilenski
1,425Randy Weeks
845Len Skowronski (SC)
171Alana DeLong Calgary-Cross Yvonne Fritz
4,004Rob Reinhold
1,567Shelina Hassanali
476Gordon Huth
605Susan Stratton
395Yvonne Fritz Calgary-Foothills Len Webber
6,088Mike Robinson
4,909Stephanie Sundburg
251Kevin Legare
972Ian Groll
411Len Webber Calgary-Fort Wayne Cao
4,123Carole Oliver
1,770Julie Hrdlicka
1,178Travis Chase
715J. Mark Taylor
491Wayne Cao Calgary-Hays Arthur Johnston
6,968Bill Kurtze
3,586Tyler Kinch
366Devin Cassidy
1,366Keeley Bruce
564Arthur Johnston Calgary-Lougheed David Rodney
7,190Lori Czerwinski
3,926Clint Marko
336Derrick Jacobson
1,620Bernie Amell
520Gordon Laurie (Ind.)
100David Rodney Calgary-Mackay Teresa Woo-Paw
6,247Tianna Melnyk
4,048Daena Diduck
426Rob Gregory
1,609Ryan Smith
578Vacant Calgary-McCall Shiraz Shariff
4,161Darshan Kang
4,279Preet Sihota
275Ina Given
542Heather Brocklesby
385Shiraz Shariff Calgary-Montrose Manmeet Bhullar
2,627Michael Embaie
1,396Al Brown
512Said Abdulbaki
818Fred Clemens
262Ron Leech (Ind)
2,010Hung Pham Calgary-North West Lindsay Blackett
8,415Dale Martin D'Silva
5,552Colin Anderson
637Chris Jukes
2,703George Read
902Greg Melchin Calgary-Shaw Cindy Ady
7,010John Roggeveen
2,958Jenn Carlson
334Richard P. Dur
1,268Jennifer Oss-Saunders
491Cindy Ady Calgary-West Ron Liepert
8,428Beth Gignac
5,693Chantelle Dubois
401Bob Babcock
2,273James Kohut
773Ron Liepert Central Calgary
Electoral district Candidates Incumbent PC Liberal NDP Wildrose Green Other Calgary-Buffalo Sean Chu
3,646Kent Hehr
4,583Robert Lawrence
387Stephen Ricketts
611Antoni Grochowski (SC)
158Harvey Cenaiko Calgary-Currie Arthur Kent
4,552Dave Taylor
5,564Marc Power
531Ken Mazeroll
670Graham MacKenzie
896Dave Taylor Calgary-East Moe Amery
4,583Bill Harvey
2,433Christopher Dovey
425Mike McCraken
681Ross Cameron
333Bonnie Collins (Com)
55Moe Amery Calgary-Egmont Jonathan Denis
5,415Cathie Williams
3,289Jason Nishiyama
447Barry Chase
676Mark McGillvray
582Craig Chandler (Ind.)
2,008Denis Herard Calgary-Elbow Alison Redford
6,130Craig Cheffins
5,711Garnet Wilcox
290Dale Nelson
963Jonathon Sheffield
526Barry Erskine (Ind)
948Craig Cheffins Calgary-Fish Creek Heather Forsyth
6,884Laura Shutiak
4,038Eric Leavitt
423Jamie Buchan
1,261Kerry Fraser
556Heather Forsyth Calgary-Glenmore Ron Stevens
6,436Avalon Roberts
4,213Holly Heffernan
477Ryan Sadler
1,025Arden Bonokoski
550Ron Stevens Calgary-Mountain View Leah Lawrence
4,252David Swann
7,086John Donovan
661Cory Morgan
892Juliet Burgess
865David Swann Calgary-North Hill Kyle Fawcett
4,281Pat Murray
3,573John Chan
1,381Jane Morgan
976Kevin Maloney
732Jim Wright (SC)
228Richard Magnus Calgary-Nose Hill Neil Brown
4,586Len Borowski
2,761Tristan Ridley
388John Murdoch
954Nick Burman
624Neil Brown Calgary-Varsity Jennifer Diakiw
5,353Harry B. Chase
6,907Tim Stock-Bateman
530Brennan Ltyle
1,043Sean Maw
758Harry B. Chase References
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