#abelection2023 — Public Fediverse posts
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Hey #ABPoli #ABLeg #ABElection2023 there is a big gap in media coverage of the results. Every source I've checked gives results by party and riding, but not by candidate name. What's up with that? We are actually voting for the local candidates.
Elections Alberta does do the breakdown, in a very clumsy way. How hard would it be for them to output a list, sorted by riding name, with candidate names and provisional vote totals?
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Blake Shaffer, U of Calgary prof working on climate policy, made an #ABElection2023 chart to show the rural/urban divide
"NDP needed 2611 votes across 6 ridings to win a majority.
Over 1,000,000 registered voters did not vote." #abelxn -
last night could have gone better, but the hyperbole is a bit much. getting 38 seats and 44% of the vote in a province that's had various flavours of conservative governments for almost its entire history is something to be hopeful for. #AbElection2023 #abvote
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People whose homes are literally burning down voted for the party that cut funding to firefighting
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@CanadianPolling @jeffsamsonow how long before that number is adjusted to 48-38-1? Assuming Smith is still going to kick Johnson out...
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@ThisIsWillAdams Also, when it comes down to it, only 32.6% of eligible voters voted for the UCP (926,918 UCP voters/2,840,927 eligible) - even though 60%+ of eligible voters voted. So, 1/3rd of eligible voters dictated the next four years of Alberta politics...
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Should I really give the 14,218 voters who voted for a candidate who compared trans kids to pieces of poop in a cookie the benefit of the doubt? Surely they just didn't know she said those things?
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@GuitarKat @dabertime In Calgary-Cross, Calgary-East there was a bigger difference in votes than Greens had. In Calgary-Bow and Calgary North-West, Alberta Party did have more than the diff so it only affected two seats.
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@xenu gawd, I saw a voter interviewed last night saying he was a small business owner (which, if NDP had won last night, he would have had 0% small business tax) and voted UCP because last NDP term his business suffered (even though we were under a recession and the price of oil had tanked).
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@jace well I mean a good chunk of rural Alberta burned due to the UCP killing off the elite wildfire unit and reducing funding for wildfire prevention/fighting... and they still voted UCP.
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@chad @mac_thebruce except Acadia and Glenmore did go to NDP (phew?) but Cross, East there was a bigger difference in votes than Greens had. In Calgary-Bow and Calgary North-West, Alberta Party did have more than the diff (not quite double). /sigh.
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@ThisIsWillAdams Sure, the under 2/3rds who actually voted.
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So... UCP disbands the elite AB Wildfire fighting team and budget for firefighting, yet over 60,000 Albertans living in the affected ridings (many of who had to evacuate for at least a week) still voted UCP?
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After everything she and her cronies have said, done and threatened to do... Not the result I was hoping to wake up to😐 #abpoli #ABElection2023
https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/danielle-smith-s-ucp-holds-onto-power-in-alberta-1.6417266 -
WTF, last time I checked the average citizen isn't a financial advisor: "Bill 1 for a second UCP term, dubbed the 'Taxpayer Protection Act,' would ensure no provincial government can increase personal or business taxes without a referendum."
Ugggg....
#abpoli #ableg #abelxn #ABElection2023
https://globalnews.ca/news/9731337/alberta-election-2023-danielle-smith-ucp-wins/
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@markgrieveson @gemelliz coming down to the wire and the ground game is going to decide it all 🫣 #AbElection2023 #ABpoli
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#Alberta going to the polls today - let’s go! #AbPoli #abelection2023 #ABDanielleSmith #rachelnotley
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In Canadian history, 14 women have served as a premier. Three became premier by defeating an incumbent premier.
Three times, 2 women have become premier & Opp. leader in a provincial election: PEI (1993), Alberta (2012, 2023).
Alberta has had the most female premiers with 3.#abvotes #alberta #abelection2023 #abpoli #daniellesmith #rachelnotley
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A word from Rachel Notley, particularly for Conservative voters. We need a government who can represent the needs of all Albertans, not just fringe groups.
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Alberta Election Facts: Day 29!
The longest uninterrupted stretch of time that a party was in the Official Opposition was from 1921 to 1944, when the Liberals were the Official Opposition against the ruling United Farmers & Social Credit.
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Guess we got ourselves a ballgame #AbElxn #AbElection2023 #ABDanielleSmith #NDP #UCP
“The hard-right turn of the United Conservative Party has put a province that was once a sure win for Canada’s conservatives up for grabs in Monday’s elections. Beyond a referendum on the ideological shift of the party, the vote could also serve as a gauge of the conservative standing nationwide.”
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This bit from The Orchard ahead of #AbElection2023 is worth remembering
https://theorchard.substack.com/p/the-ucps-dismal-economic-record
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@CanadianPolling that’s a huge swath of uncommitted votes to pick up come Monday! #AbElection2023
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The latest polls in Alberta are showing the UCP leading the NDP 49-46.
I cannot believe that a government can screw up as many times as this one has and still have the confidence of over half the voters. The lives of Albertans are MEASURABLY WORSE under the last few years of UCP governance, in ways that can be directly linked to their policies and mismanagement of the province.
PLEASE prove the polls wrong and get out and VOTE. This election matters! VOTE!!!
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There was zero lineup to vote. Seriously #yql folks, get out to the advance polls and get’er done #ABElection2023
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It can't be said enough.
"Things Danielle Smith isn’t campaigning on but are still on the agenda:
1-replacing the RCMP
2-making you pay for Dr visits
3-the stupid sovereignty act
4-more coal mines
5-stealing CPP to prop up Oil and GasIt’s all still her plan."
#AbElection2023
#DanielleSmithIsUnfitToLeadSeriously, why are we hung up what they say on the campaign trail, when they've already shown us everything?
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@TheGentYYC
There's about 4 1/2 million people in Alberta.
84,193 UCP party members voted in the 2022 leadership race.
After 6 rounds of instant runoff voting, Danielle Smith won with 42,423 votes to get 54% of total votes cast.
I realize this is an unusual way of looking at it, but that's not even 1% of the total population of Alberta.
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CW: re: Bullying threatening language in #ABElection2023
@Carolepayne Shitposting threats like this one would not be so much of an issue if the lines were not so hopelessly blurred between the Alberta government, the #UCP, #TakeBackAlberta, and the various more unhinged rw activist groups supporting them.
#abpoli #ABElection2023