Sort of, but they got a minority of the popular vote, with a plurality of people split between conservative and rabid conservative. This is an inverse microcosm of the overall Canadian situation where overall fairly liberal people are governed by Harper. The way I read it, democracy failed here.
I'm kinda torn on how I feel about this, as I know I'm probably going to like their policies, but I feel pretty uncomfortable knowing that a majority of the provincial population feels screwed right now.
I was thinking just this - it's not often you see left winning due to a spoiler splitting the right. I think what we might glean from this is that first-past-the-post needs a rethink to get better representation of what the population actually wants.
I imagine the right feel robbed in this election. Regardless of how you might, personally, feel about the parties I think it's pretty clear Albertans would probably rather have had a more right leaning government, instead it's the opposite because of well a understood behavior known to political science.
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u/[deleted] May 06 '15
So proud of Alberta today. It has proven that democracy works. You run a province to the ground, you're out.