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Danielle Smith is Mark Carney's secret weapon
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I said it was a near 50/50 split. It happened to fall on the Danielle Smith side of that split, and so she won the election. If just a few percent more had gone NDP then it would have been the other way around. This is fairly typical of how elections work, I'm not sure what more needs to be explained.
The actual popular vote split was 52.63%/44.05%, though of course thanks to first-past-the-post the split of the number of seats in the legislature wasn't as close as that. The maps look bluer because of the huge sparsely-populated rural regions that voted Conservative, but remember, land doesn't vote. Those huge sparsely-populated rural regions don't have as many representatives as the cities.
I’ll have faith in AB again if you guys vote in Nenshi next time.
I'm not asking anyone to "have faith." I'm just asking you to recognize that statements like:
Are an inaccurate and frankly downright offensive stereotype. Albertans are not "fine" with helping foreign governments take over Canada. That statement is tarring an entire population with a vile accusation.
I’d imagine most of Alberta is left leaning like the rest of the country and similarly has their left votes split over multiple parties, making it a lot easier for conservatives to win. Same problem we all have really. It just takes a really small nudge of conservatism to tip the scales
Is that what’s up?
Nope, there's currently only really two parties. In fact, vote splitting between the UCP and Greens might actually have given the NDP some seats. About 52 percent wanted the UCP and about 44 percent wanted the NDP.