Rachel Notley’s NDP win Alberta election

[ibegurpard]

Source: http://metronews.ca/news/edmonton

Rachel Notley has won the 2015 Alberta election and will become the province’s next premier, with her party currently leading or winning in a majority of the province’s 87 ridings, especially in Edmonton.



Read more: http://metronews.ca/news/edmonton/1360291/rachel-notley-ndp-win-majority-alberta-election/

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This is huge! Alberta is the most conservative province in Canada and the NDP is a left-of-center political party.

[broadcaster75201]

1. As my Canadian friend put it ...

This would be like the Green Party winning the Governor's Mansion in TX as well as taking over the Legislature there.

[ibegurpard]

2. not too far off

but even Alberta is nothing compared to some of the batshit crazy conservative we have in this country.

[alfredo]

4. So happy for them.

[Grey]

3. Makes me so happy....

I've been NDP for 30 years and counting..

[Joe Shlabotnik]

5. So happy!

Hope this goes national in October. Never believe the media and pundits saying that it can't be done.

[Comrade Grumpy]

6. Wow. That is impressive. Alberta's been pretty conservative.

It's like the Texas of Canada.

[Maedhros]

7. I was in Edmonton in the 90s during the Ralph Klein era.

A NDP majority was unthinkable.

Nice work, Albertans!

[LiberalLovinLug]

8. unthinkable

As many are saying Bernie winning is....

[roamer65]

23. Ralph Klein...lol.

That guy was irritating. I swear everytime they showed him on CBC, he seemed to be drunk.

[Maedhros]

28. I imagine he was.

Smug bastard.

[rpannier]

9. It was a pounding too

I was surprised at how conservative the Wildrose Party is.
They must be the Teabaggers of Alberta

[laundry_queen]

22. They are

although the party itself tries (and often fails) to keep the religious nuts out. Wildrose is a big part of the reason PCs did so well at the last election - many people voted for PCs simply to keep the Wildrose out (they were polling to win a majority and that scared the shit out of people who flocked to the PCs). This election, Wildrose wasn't a threat (Thanks Jim Prentice and Danielle Smith!) so people felt free to vote NDP like they wanted to last time.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

10. Maybe this is Canada's millennials. "It's not your father's Alberta"....

They have no love for conservatives after watching the nonsense in the US.

[TrogL]

11. I was standing six feet away from Rachel when she gave her victory speech

If you saw it on TV I'm the tall guy in the orange safety vest.

[enigmatic]

12. You lucky devil!

I was going to go down to The Westin tonight but my wife and I decided to watch the results on TV.

Amazing, amazing night and a true seismic shift in Alberta. And Prentice literally resigning as leader of the PC's and giving up his seat that he held on to before the final votes had been counted was just the cherry on top to show why he was really parachuted in by Harper to do.

Still can't believe it. Wish Grant Notely and Jack Layton could have been there, both would have been so proud.

[Ken Burch]

25. And David Lewis, Tommy Douglas, and (though she was never a party leader)

The great Rosemary Brown of British Columbia, the first Afro-Canadian elected to legislative office in all of the Dominion.

Ed Broadbent must be utterly gobsmacked to see this day come as well.

[enigmatic]

26. Tommy's a hero of mine

Came up here way after he passed but I would have loved to voted for him.

[laundry_queen]

21. So jealous!

I work around the corner from her campaign office. Always wanted to stop in (to volunteer), but it's been busy at work and I never got the chance. Good for you!

[iandhr]

13. To quote Phil Rizzuto

Holy Cow.

[roamer65]

14. No way! Wow...I think hell just froze over.

Alberta actually electing a NDP government???? Holy shit.

The Cons are going to get trounced in the upcoming federal election.

I see a Liberal-NDP coalition gov't this fall. Harpo will be announcing his retirement very soon.

[malthaussen]

15. One of my Canadian buddies is swearing pigs are flying.

A big deal, maybe it foreshadows some Canadian pushback against the fascists.

-- Mal

[GliderGuider]

16. Boom! Ralph Klein's Thousand Year Reich is kaput!

[GliderGuider]

17. So Alberta is now being run by the Nötley Crüe... nt

[OnlinePoker]

18. A victory for feminism as well

By my count, 24 of the 53 NDP elect are women. This will be the most balanced ruling legislature in Canadian history.

[ibegurpard]

19. NO American media coverage

This is all you see on Canadian media today. It's also getting some coverage in British news. Not a single mention I could see on any of the corporate media sites in the US.
It's pretty big when a political earthquake like this hits our neighbor to the north and a very interesting political story to boot...and yet nothing.

[u4ic]

20. ?

The NY Times and the Washington Post reported on it.

[ibegurpard]

27. Not a peep on any of the mainstream "news" sites

Like CNN, MSN, or Fox
it's a lot bigger story than the play it's getting

[GliderGuider]

29. "Socialist woman wins majority victory in oil-rich province"

is not the kind of headline Fox or CNN would ever want to be associated with...

[u4ic]

30. I found it on an msn site,

but it could be that they're recognizing I'm in Canada and tailoring it to my location.

The so called mainstream sites aren't really news sites anyway. They're high drama/if it bleeds, it leads or vapid celebrity stories. I certainly don't know anyone who gets their news from them.

[roamer65]

24. ...and one Liberal elected.

He will no doubt vote with NDP most of the time.