Alberta election: NDP makes gains, UCP Cabinet to look ‘very different’
Global News
While the UCP held on to its rural and most of its Calgary seats, several ministers lost their ridings. The NDP will form the largest official Opposition in Alberta history.
The Alberta NDP was able to make significant gains in the provincial election Monday night, but not enough to form government.
Global News projects a majority UCP government.
“I think it shows the Conservative brand, particularly in rural Alberta, in Calgary, is still extremely strong,” said Mount Royal University political scientist Duane Bratt. “The NDP underperformed for what they thought in Calgary (and) really barely made a dent in rural Alberta.”
However, the NDP picked up at least 11 new seats, forming the largest official opposition Alberta has ever had.
While the UCP held on to its rural and most of its Calgary seats, several ministers lost their ridings.
“There were Cabinet ministers who didn’t run again: Travis Towes, Sonya Savage,” Bratt said. “And a number of them lost their jobs today: Jason Copping went down, Nicholas Milliken, Kaycee Madu went down, and Tyler Shandro and Rajan Sawhney and Nathan Neudorf — they’re in current tough battles.
“It will be a very different cabinet than what we saw before.
“With the UCP winning Calgary and winning rural, they got two-thirds of the province, but they’re absent in Edmonton and they’re even absent in some of the suburbs of Edmonton. That will be a challenge for the UCP,” Bratt added.
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