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What to make of turn out in this election?

2015: 57%

2019: 68%

2023: 62-63%

I think Evan is absolutely right, the Alberta NDP did not give the voters anything substantive to vote for. You may argue, what about healthcare? The problem is that 95% of people have not visited an Emergency Room in the past 10 years. So if they are not directly affected, issue is not a priority.

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I disagree, Rachel is one of the best politicians in Canada. Media intoxicating people with conspiracy and misinformation. We know that indigenous nor immigrants vote. What’s left in Alberta are the uneducated white men. We need basic education on politics. We need Christian’s to wake up. I don’t blame Rachel at all, Thank the conservatives along with republicans hogging media. This is the death of Alberta, just like Ontario and Saskatchewan. People watch TV plain and simple. History shows Hilter controlled media and so does Putin in Russia. These voters need to hit bottom and the only way will be by healthcare. It just shows our provinces are heading in a dark dumpster fire. Our youth already suffering

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I absolutely reject the framing that the NDP needs to run a flawless, perfect campaign or else Albertans have no choice but to shoot themselves in the head.

The NDP didn’t run a perfect campaign, but they ran a pretty good one. Yes, there were areas they could have done better, but their messaging discipline was good and there wasn’t a single candidate scandal or distraction.

Where as the UCP ran, on a technical level, a terrible campaign.

At some point Albertans really are getting a government that represents them. If that government is awful it doesn’t inherently make it any less a reflection of what the population actively wants.

Democracy!

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The one big bright spot, to me anyways, are the NDP margins in southern Calgary. Some of those constituencies may as well be Lacombe, given how partisan-ly Conservative they generally have been, but they're hovering around 40% in most of them. Global realignment of course, but that has to be encouraging for future campaigns.

Excellent coverage of this campaign Evan, you've done some tremendous work!

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