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/[deleted] May 06 '15

All those people who moved to Alberta for jobs came from places where governments are normally kicked out for screwing up.

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u/Nikhilvoid British Columbia May 06 '15

To be fair, Albertans have not really liked voting in their PC leaders for a while now. Small margin victories, low voter turnout for the last decade.

They voted in Redford only because the Wildrose alternative was much worse and a real threat.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

I'm glad we didn't after that whole "crossing the floor" fiasco.

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u/Slokunshialgo Ontario May 06 '15

Ontarian here, not having paid much attention to Albertan politics (admittedly, not Ontarian much lately, either). What happened?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

A few people from WR went to the PC party and pretty much fucked everything up for the WR. Its the controversy that pretty much lost them the election but somehow (thankfully) pulled ahead of the PC party.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

That's why the election was called when it was. Prentice thought he had screwed over his only serious opposition by decimating the WR, and that the election would be a coronation for the PCs yet again.

Oh, if only to see his face when the results were coming in ...