With the first three days of Alberta’s election campaign already behind us, the political parties are busy filling their slates of candidates in districts across Alberta.
As of tonight, the New Democratic Party is the only party with a full slate of 87 candidates. The Alberta Party has 86 candidates in place, with Lethbridge-East left as the only vacant district. And the United Conservative Party nominated Leila Houle as its candidate in Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood tonight and will hold its two final nomination contests in Edmonton-Ellerslie and Edmonton-Mill Woods this weekend.
The Liberal Party has nominated 47 candidates and the Green Party has nominated 24 candidates.
The Freedom Conservative Party has nominated 18 candidates, including actor and oil activist Bernard Hancock in Grande Prairie. The Alberta Advantage Party has nominated 15 candidates, and the Reform Party now has one candidate with the nomination of Lauren Thorsteinson in Innisfail-Sylvan Lake.
The Alberta Independence Party has nominated 51 candidates and will now be officially recognized as a political party on the ballot on April 16, 2019.
I am also told that the Communist Party of Alberta has nominated four candidates to run in the upcoming election.
I plan to have a more comprehensive post with the latest updates to the list of candidates from this week posted in the next few days.
2 replies on “Most parties continuing to nominate candidates in first week of Alberta’s election”
The UCP started early, and seemed to have quite a jump on its main opponents—the NDP & the Alberta Party—in getting its candidates nominated. But they had some late setbacks, caused by bozo candidates who either erupted or were outed as such, and so they had to scramble to replace those names in a number of electoral districts. In contrast, both the NDP’s & the AP’s nominations have been remarkably free of drama.
I think some of your links are off. I checked a couple of NDP Calgary candidatelinks that took me to Edmonton candidates for UCP