GUNTER: Too many right-of-centre Alberta conservatives stayed home on election day abpoli ableg abvotes
In the 1989 election, then PC premier Don Getty was unpopular with the conservative wing of his party. His party lost more than seven per cent of the popular vote from 1985, some of which went to Laurence Decore and the Liberals .
In 1993, Ralph Klein’s first election as premier, Decore’s Liberals made big gains, but that time at the expense of the NDP. The Libersl vote went up nearly 12 per cent, while the NDP total came down 15 per cent from the previous election.Article contentThe stay-home conservative phenomenon also cropped up in 2008 and 2015.There were 113,000 fewer UCP voters May 29 than had elected the Kenney government in 2019. And the NDP vote did go up by 157,000 from 2019.
If even half of those voters get up off their couches next election, the UCP could have an extra 50,000 votes or so in Calgary and in the “doughnut” around Edmonton. That would wipe out the 1,600-vote statistical anomaly seen this time.
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