Danielle Smith and the United Conservative Party won a majority victory in Alberta’s election Monday. AlbertaElection AbElection
The election result means Alberta will continue its fractious relationship with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose government has faced attacks from Ms. Smith over Ottawa’s approach to climate change and the oil sector.
“It is clear that no party is going to have an institutional and historical advantage for generations like we saw with the PCs, and that includes the Conservative movement here,” Mr. Solberg said. Checking results on his phone in a hallway outside the NDP election night headquarters in Edmonton, former Progressive Conservative cabinet minister and deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk described the outcome of the election as “existential.”
Ms. Notley rode the “orange wave” to victory in 2015, toppling the Progressive Conservatives after 44 years in power in Alberta. She won the seat in a byelection in November, more than seven years after she left the Alberta legislature. Take Erika Barootes, a long-time Alberta conservative political operative, who this time around headed up issues management in the UCP’s election war room. She put the mood down to the entirely different political reality that faced Albertans this time around.
For the UCP, this time an election win is far from guaranteed – hence the vastly different vibe from 2019 at UCP election night headquarters. The outcome of this year’s vote has been “operating in the margin of error this entire time,” Ms. Barootes said. “But I think what people sometimes forget is six or eight months ago, how far behind the UCP was in the polls … so it’s actually quite impressive to get to this head-to-head battle.
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