Rachel Notley’s NDP win Alberta election
Source: http://metronews.ca/news/edmonton
Rachel Notley has won the 2015 Alberta election and will become the provinces next premier, with her party currently leading or winning in a majority of the provinces 87 ridings, especially in Edmonton.
Read more: http://metronews.ca/news/edmonton/1360291/rachel-notley-ndp-win-majority-alberta-election/
This is huge! Alberta is the most conservative province in Canada and the NDP is a left-of-center political party.
broadcaster75201
(387 posts)This would be like the Green Party winning the Governor's Mansion in TX as well as taking over the Legislature there.
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)but even Alberta is nothing compared to some of the batshit crazy conservative we have in this country.
alfredo
(60,071 posts)Grey
(1,581 posts)I've been NDP for 30 years and counting..
Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)Hope this goes national in October. Never believe the media and pundits saying that it can't be done.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)It's like the Texas of Canada.
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)A NDP majority was unthinkable.
Nice work, Albertans!
LiberalLovinLug
(14,164 posts)As many are saying Bernie winning is....
roamer65
(36,744 posts)That guy was irritating. I swear everytime they showed him on CBC, he seemed to be drunk.
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)Smug bastard.
rpannier
(24,327 posts)I was surprised at how conservative the Wildrose Party is.
They must be the Teabaggers of Alberta
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)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
(32,723 posts)They have no love for conservatives after watching the nonsense in the US.
TrogL
(32,818 posts)If you saw it on TV I'm the tall guy in the orange safety vest.
enigmatic
(15,021 posts)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
(50,254 posts)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
(15,021 posts)Came up here way after he passed but I would have loved to voted for him.
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)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
(6,852 posts)Holy Cow.
roamer65
(36,744 posts)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
(17,175 posts)A big deal, maybe it foreshadows some Canadian pushback against the fascists.
-- Mal
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)OnlinePoker
(5,715 posts)By my count, 24 of the 53 NDP elect are women. This will be the most balanced ruling legislature in Canadian history.
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)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.
The NY Times and the Washington Post reported on it.
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)Like CNN, MSN, or Fox
it's a lot bigger story than the play it's getting
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)is not the kind of headline Fox or CNN would ever want to be associated with...
u4ic
(17,101 posts)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
(36,744 posts)He will no doubt vote with NDP most of the time.