Former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi named Alberta NDP leader in landslide victory
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Alberta’s New Democratic Party has found a new leader in former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi. Nenshi was elected with 62,746 votes.
Alberta’s New Democratic Party has found a new leader in former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi.
A little more than 62,000 members selected Nenshi as the new leader Saturday afternoon, ending a months-long leadership race between Edmonton MLAs Jodi Calahoo Stonehouse and Sarah Hoffman, and Calgary MLA Kathleen Ganley.
Nenshi, who won the leadership race with 62,746 votes, becomes the first from Calgary to lead the New Democrats, securing the win with roughly 86 per cent of the vote on the first ballot of the party’s biggest and most competitive leadership contest.
Calahoo Stonehouse received 1,222 votes, Ganley received 5,899 votes and Hoffman received 3,063 votes.
Out of the 85,144 members eligible to vote, 72,930 people voted in this leadership race, which was a record voting turnout, according to Amanda Freistadt, the Alberta NDP’s chief returning officer.
Nenshi lost no time in launching attacks against his newest political foe, using his victory speech to describe Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Government as small-minded.
“This extraordinary movement that we created together is an example of what is possible when we stop thinking small and start thinking big,” he told the crowd on Saturday.
Nenshi said Saturday’s large voter turnout means party members are here to stay.
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