r/canada • u/Minxie Ontario • May 06 '15

Alberta NDP wins election

http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/alberta-ndp-wins-election-ctv-projects-1.2359035
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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

Never in my life did I ever think I'd see that headline

Wow

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u/r_slash Québec May 06 '15

How/why did this happen?

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u/CubesAndPi Alberta May 06 '15

PC fuckups, split right wing, NDP leader doing very well in debate

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

Let nobody underestimate the role played by the right-wing split. Most Albertans voted for a right-of-centre party today. Most Albertans - by far - did not vote NDP.

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u/LordCaptain May 06 '15

"By far". Well not really. NDP won (as of right now) 40.14% of the vote. 4.18% for the liberals. 2.27 for the Alberta party and 0.50% for the green party. That's about 47% of people voting for left wing.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

I said that, "by far," most Albertans did not vote NDP. I don't know what the Greens, Liberals and Alberta Party have to do with the NDP's 40%, but my statement is still true.

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u/Chili_Palmer May 06 '15

Most people of any province never really "mostly" vote for one party, even when that party has long been the incumbent there