2026-09-17 · National Post
🔮 That election, 30.7 per cent of the riding voted for the Progressive Conservatives and 30.4 per cent voted for the Wildrose Party, thus allowing NDP candidate Graham Sucha to slip into power with a vote share of just 31.27 per cent (he’d lose the riding by 40 points after just one term).
But with the Alberta NDP on Monday clinching a decisive byelection victory that nobody saw coming, it may represent the first material sign of a conservative bloc that is being fractured by the question of Alberta independence.
“The NDP has won Calgary Shaw, one of the most conservative big city ridings in this country. assertive