Alberta’s United Conservative Party and the New Democratic Party are effectively tied, a MainStResearch poll suggests. And Albertans have strong feelings about the Sovereignty Act, but are more or less evenly split.
Alberta’s United Conservative Party and the New Democratic Party are effectively tied, aThe UCP is backed by 47 per cent of decided voters and the NDP by 45 per cent, within the poll’s margin of error.
“The real battleground in the election coming up is going to be Calgary,” said Prof. Trevor Harrison of the University of Lethbridge.
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