Alberta’s next provincial general election is expected to be called between March 1, 2019 and May 31, 2019. If you know any candidates who have announced their intentions to stand for party nominations, please comment below or send me an email at david.cournoyer@gmail.com. I will add them and links to their social media sites to the list.
Here is a list of party candidates who are seeking nominations or have been nominated to run in the next provincial election (updated on January 20, 2019):
Candidates nominated for 2019 election
Alberta Party: 58/87
Freedom Conservative Party: 1/87
Green Party: 7/87
Liberal Party: 10/87
New Democratic Party: 39/87
United Conservative Party: 79/87
Airdrie-Cochrane
NDP nomination candidate [Nomination meeting on January 31, 2019]: Steven Durrell [Facebook]
UCP: Peter Guthrie [Facebook, Instagram, Twitter]
Airdrie-East
Alberta Party: Alex Luterbach [Twitter]
UCP: Angela Pitt [Facebook, Twitter]
Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock
NDP nomination candidate: Colin Piquette
UCP: Glenn van Dijken [Facebook, Twitter]
Banff-Kananaskis
Alberta Party: Brenda Stanton
NDP: Cameron Westhead [Facebook, Twitter]
UCP: Miranda Rosin [Facebook]
Bonnyville-Cold Lake-St. Paul
Alberta Party: Glenn Anderson
NDP nomination candidate (Nomination meeting on Jan. 29, 2019): Kari Whan
UCP: David Hanson [Facebook, Twitter]
Brooks-Medicine Hat
Alberta Party : Jim Black
UCP: Michaela Glasgo [Facebook, Twitter]
Calgary-Acadia
Alberta Party: Lana Bentley [Twitter]
Liberal Party nomination candidate [Nomination meeting on Jan. 21, 2019]: Lorissa Good
NDP: Brian Pincott [Twitter]
UCP: Tyler Shandro [Facebook, Twitter]
Calgary-Beddington
Alberta Party: Karen McPherson [Facebook, Twitter]
NDP nomination candidate (Nomination meeting on Feb. 3, 2019): Amanda Chapman, Heather Erlen
UCP: Randy Kerr [Twitter],
Calgary-Bow
Alberta Party: Paul Godard
NDP nomination candidate (Nomination meeting on Jan. 26, 2019): Deborah Drever [Facebook, Twitter]
UCP: Demetrios Nicolaides [Facebook, Instagram, Twitter]
Calgary-Buffalo
Alberta Party: Omar Masood [Facebook, Twitter]
NDP: Joe Ceci [Facebook, Twitter]
UCP: Tom Olsen [Facebook, Twitter]
Calgary-Cross
Liberal Party nomination candidate [Nomination meeting on Jan. 21, 2019]: Naser Al-Kukhun
NDP: Ricardo Miranda
UCP: Mickey Amery
Calgary-Currie
Alberta Party: Lindsay Luhnau [Twitter]
Liberal Party nomination candidate (Nomination meeting on Jan. 23, 2019): Joshua Codd
NDP: Brian Malkinson [Facebook, Twitter]
UCP: Nicholas Milliken [Twitter]
Calgary-East
Alberta Party: Gar Gar [Facebook, Twitter]
Green Party: William Carnegie
NDP nomination candidate (Nomination meeting on Feb. 16, 2019):
UCP: Peter Singh
Calgary-Edgemont
Alberta Party: Joanne Gui
NDP nomination candidate (Nomination Meeting on Feb. 2, 2019): Julia Hayter [Facebook, Twitter],
UCP: Prasad Panda [Facebook, Twitter]
Calgary-Elbow
Alberta Party: Greg Clark [Facebook, Twitter]
NDP : Janet Eremenko [Twitter]
UCP:Doug Schweitzer [Facebook, Twitter]
Calgary-Falconridge
Liberal: Deepak Sharma
NDP: Parmeet Singh Boparai [Facebook]
UCP: Devinder Toor
Calgary-Fish Creek
NDP nomination candidate: Gurmit Bhachu
UCP: Richard Gotfried
Calgary-Foothills
Alberta Party: Jennifer Wyness
NDP nomination candidate (Nomination meeting on Feb. 3, 2019): Sameena Arif
UCP: Jason Luan
Calgary-Glenmore
Alberta Party: Scott Appleby
Green: Allie Tulick
NDP nomination candidate (Nomination meeting on Feb. 3, 2019):
UCP: Whitney Issik
Calgary-Hays
Alberta Party: Chris Nowell [Twitter]
NDP nomination candidate (Nomination meeting on Feb. 2, 2019): Tory Tomblin
UCP: Ric McIver
Calgary-Klein
Alberta Party: Kara Levis [Facebook, Instagram, Twitter]
NDP: Craig Coolahan [Facebook, Twitter]
UCP: Jeremy Nixon [Facebook. Twitter]
Calgary-Lougheed
Alberta Party: Rachel Timmermans
UCP: Jason Kenney
Calgary-McCall
NDP: Irfan Sabir [Facebook, Twitter]
UCP: Jasraj Singh Hallan [Twitter]
Calgary-Mountain View
Alberta Party: Angela Kokott [Facebook, Twitter]
Green: Thana Boonlert [Facebook, Twitter]
Liberal: David Khan
NDP: Kathleen Ganley [Facebook, Twitter]
UCP: Caylan Ford [Facebook, Twitter]
Calgary-North
Alberta Party: Gary Arora
Liberal: Saliha Haq
UCP nomination candidate: Devin Green, Tanis Fiss, Paul Frank [Facebook, Twitter], Jun Lin, Tommy Low, Manpreet Sidhu, Muhammad Yaseen
Calgary-North East
Alberta Party: Nate Pike [Facebook, Twitter]
Liberal: Gul Khan
NDP: Gurbachan Brar [Facebook]
UCP: Rajan Sawhney
Calgary-North West
Alberta Party: Andrew Bradley
NDP nomination candidate: Sandra Jansen
UCP: Sonya Savage
Calgary-Peigan
Alberta Party: Ron Reinhold
NDP nomination candidate (Nomination meeting on Jan. 19, 2019): Joseph Pimlott [Twitter]
UCP: Tanya Fir [Facebook, Twitter]
Calgary-Shaw
Alberta Party: Bronson Ha
Green nomination candidate (Nomination meeting on Jan. 21, 2019): John Daly
NDP nomination candidate (Nomination meeting on Jan. 27, 2019): Graham Sucha
UCP: Rebecca Schulz
Calgary-South East
Alberta Party: Rick Fraser
UCP: Eva Kiryakos
Calgary-Varsity
Alberta Party: Beth Barberree
Green: Cheryle Chagnon-Greyeyes
NDP: Anne McGrath [Twitter]
UCP: Jason Copping [Facebook]
Calgary-West
NDP nomination candidate (Nomination meeting on Feb. 9, 2019):
UCP: Mike Ellis
Camrose
Alberta Party: Kevin Smook
NDP nomination candidate (Nomination meeting on Feb. 2, 2019):: Morgan Bamford
UCP: Jackie Lovely [Facebook]
Cardston-Siksika
UCP: Joseph Schow [Facebook]
Central Peace-Notley
NDP: Marg McCuaig Boyd [Facebook, Twitter]
UCP: Todd Loewen
Chestermere-Strathmore
FCP: Derek Fildebrandt
UCP: Leela Aheer [Facebook, Twitter]
Cypress-Medicine Hat
NDP nomination candidate (Nomination meeting on Feb 9, 2019): Peter Mueller
UCP: Drew Barnes
Drayton Valley-Devon
Liberal: Ronald Brochu
NDP: Kieran Quirke [Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter]
UCP: Mark Smith
Drumheller-Stettler
Alberta Party: Mark Nikota [Twitter]
UCP: Nathan Horner
Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview
Alberta Party: Jeffery Walters
NDP: Deron Bilous [Facebook, Twitter]
UCP: David Egan [Facebook, Instagram, Twitter]
Edmonton-Castle Downs
Alberta Party: Moe Rahall
NDP nomination candidate (Nomination meeting on Jan.23, 2019): Nicole Goehring
UCP: Ed Ammar
Edmonton-City Centre
Alberta Party: Bob Philp [Facebook]
Green Party: Chris Alders
NDP: David Shepherd [Facebook, Twitter]
UCP: Lily Le [Facebook, Instagram, Twitter]
Edmonton-Decore
Alberta Party: Ali Haymour
NDP nomination candidate: Chris Nielson
UCP: Karen Principe [Facebook]
Edmonton-Ellerslie
Alberta Party nomination candidate (Nomination meeting on Jan. 26, 2019): Richard Corbin, Chuck McKenna, Todd Ross
NDP: Rod Loyola [Facebook, Twitter]
UCP nomination candidate: Sherry Adams, Faton Bislimi, Sanjay Patel
Edmonton-Glenora
Alberta Party: Glen Tickner
NDP: Sarah Hoffman [Facebook, Twitter]
UCP: Marjorie Newman
Edmonton-Gold Bar
Alberta Party: Diana Ly [Facebook, Instagram]
NDP: Marlin Schmidt [Facebook]
UCP: David Dorward
Edmonton-Highands-Norwood
Alberta Party: Tish Prouse [Twitter]
NDP: Janis Irwin [Facebook, Instagram, Twitter]
UCP nomination candidate: Michael Kalyn, George Lam, Atul Ranade, Del Shupenia
Edmonton-Manning
Alberta Party: Manwar Khan
NDP: Heather Sweet [Facebook, Twitter]
UCP: Harjinder Grewal
Edmonton-Meadows
Alberta Party: Amrit Matharu
NDP nomination candidate: Chand Gul
UCP nomination candidate: Joel Mullan, Arundeep Sandhu, Sant Sharma
Edmonton-McClung
Alberta Party: Stephen Mandel [Facebook, Twitter]
NDP: Lorne Dach
UCP: Laurie Mozeson [Facebook]
Edmonton-Mill Woods
Alberta Party: Anju Sharma
Liberal: Abdi Bakal
NDP: Christina Gray [Facebook, Twitter]
UCP nomination candidate: Muhammad Afzal, Tariq Chaudhry, David Fletcher, Sophia Kahn, Nazia Naqvi, Baljit Singh, Heather Sworin
Edmonton-North West
Alberta Party: Judy Kim-Meneen
Liberal: Brandon Teixeira
NDP: David Eggen [Facebook, Instagram, Twitter]
UCP: Ali Eltayeb
Edmonton-Riverview
Alberta Party: Katherine O’Neill
NDP: Lori Sigurdson [Facebook, Twitter]
UCP: Kara Barker [Facebook]
Edmonton-Rutherford
Alberta Party: Aisha Rauf [Twitter]
NDP: Richard Feehan
UCP: Hannah Presakarchuk
Edmonton-South
Alberta Party: Pramod Kumar
NDP: Thomas Dang [Facebook, Twitter]
UCP: Tunde Obasan [Facebook]
Edmonton-South West
Alberta Party: Mo Elsalhy
NDP nomination candidate (Nomination meeting on Feb. 9, 2019): John Archer [Twitter]
UCP: Kaycee Madu [Facebook]
Edmonton-Strathcona
NDP nomination candidate: Rachel Notley
UCP nomination candidate: Jovita Mendita
Edmonton-West Henday
Alberta Party: Winston Leung [Facebook, Instagram, Twitter]
Liberal: Leah McRorie [Twitter]
NDP: Jon Carson [Facebook, Twitter]
UCP: Nicole Williams [Facebook, Instagram, Twitter]
Edmonton-Whitemud
Alberta Party: Jonathan Dai
NDP nomination candidate (Nomination meeting on Feb. 7, 2019): Rakhi Pancholi [Facebook]
UCP: Elizabeth Hughes [Facebook]
Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche
NDP nomination candidate (Nomination meeting on Feb. 17, 2019):
UCP: Laila Goodridge
Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo
NDP nomination candidate (Nomination meeting on Feb. 17, 2019):
UCP: Tany Yao
Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville
Alberta Party: Marvin Olsen
NDP: Jessica Littlewood
UCP: Jackie Armstrong-Homeniuk [Facebook]
Grande Prairie
Alberta Party Nomination candidate (Nomination meeting on Jan. 29, 2019): Grant Berg [Facebook]
NDP nomination candidate (Nomination meeting on Feb. 3, 2019):
UCP: Tracy Allard [Facebook, Instagram]
Grande Prairie-Wapiti
Alberta Party: Jason Jones
UCP: Travis Toews
Highwood
NDP nomination candidate (Nomination meeting on Jan. 26, 2019): Erik Overland
UCP: RJ Sigurdson [Facebook, Instagram, Twitter]
Innisfail-Sylvan Lake
UCP: Devin Dreeshen
Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland
Alberta Party: Don McCargar
NDP: Oneil Carlier [Facebook, Twitter]
UCP: Shane Getson
Lacombe-Ponoka
Alberta Party: Myles Chykerda
UCP: Ron Orr
Leduc-Beaumont
Alberta Party: Robb Connelly
NDP: Shaye Anderson [Facebook, Twitter]
UCP: Brad Rutherford [Facebook, Twitter]
Lethbridge-East
NDP: Maria Fitzpatrick [Facebook, Twitter]
UCP nomination candidate: Bryan Litchfield, Kimberly Lyall, Nathan Neudorf
Lethbridge-West
Liberal: Patricia Chizek
NDP: Shannon Phillips [Facebook, Twitter]
UCP: Karri Flatla
Lesser Slave Lake
NDP: Danielle Larivee
UCP: Pat Rehn
Livingstone-Macleod
Alberta Party: Tim Meech
Liberal: Dylin Hauser
UCP: Roger Reid
Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin
NDP: Bruce Hinkley
UCP: Richard Wilson [Facebook, Twitter]
Morinville-St. Albert
Alberta Party nomination candidate (Nomination meeting on Jan. 19, 2019): Neil Korotash [Twitter], Wayne Rufiange
Green Party: Cass Romyn
NDP: Shawna Gawreluck [Facebook, Twitter]
UCP: Dale Nally
Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills
Alberta Party: Chase Brown
UCP: Nathan Cooper
Peace River
UCP: Daniel Williams
Red Deer North
Alberta Party: Paul Hardy [Twitter]
NDP nomination candidate: Kim Schreiner
UCP: Adriana LaGrange [Facebook, Twitter]
Red Deer South
Alberta Party: Ryan McDougall [Facebook]
NDP: Barb Miller
UCP nomination candidate: Bruce Buruma [Twitter], Adele Poratto [Facebook, Instagram, Twitter], Jason Stephan, Norman Wiebe [Facebook]
Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre
FCP nomination candidate: Joe Anglin
UCP: Jason Nixon
St. Albert
Green: Cameron Jefferies
NDP: Marie Renaud [Facebook, Twitter]
UCP:Jeff Wedman
Sherwood Park
Alberta Party: Sue Timanson [Facebook, Instagram, Twitter]
NDP: Annie McKitrick
UCP: Jordan Walker [Facebook, Twitter]
Spruce Grove-Stony Plain
Alberta Party: Ivan Boles
NDP: Erin Babcock
UCP: Searle Turton [Facebook, Twitter]
Strathcona-Sherwood Park
Alberta Party: Dave Quest
UCP: Nate Glubish [Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter]
Taber-Warner
UCP: Grant Hunter
Vermilion-Lloydminster-Wainwright
UCP: Garth Rowswell
West Yellowhead
Alberta Party: Kirstie Gomuwka [Twitter]
Liberal nomination candidate [Nomination meeting on Jan. 26, 2019]: Zack Seizmagraff
NDP nomination candidate: Eric Rosendahl
UCP: Martin Long [Facebook]
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The next election could happen on, before or even AFTER May 31, 2019. Fixed election dates are not binding given the abuses of the past.
Stephen Mandel has said he will seek the AB Party nomination in Edmonton-McClung, whether he wins the leadership or not.
“Mandel says even if he loses the leadership race, he will run for the Alberta Party in the 2019 election in his home riding of Edmonton-McClung, which is currently held by NDP backbencher Lorne Dach.”
http://www.metronews.ca/news/edmonton/2018/01/10/former-edmonton-mayor-and-pc-cabinet-minister-runs-for-alberta-party-leadership.html
Sharon Smith will be seeking the UCP nomination in Leduc/Beaumont. She ran in this riding as a Wildrose Candidate last provincial election, finishing second to the NDP candidate
I will running as a independent in edmonton ellerslie
Calgary – Peigan
Spelling correction of (Piegan). Assuming that the word Peigan came from the Peigan Nation which is now known as the Piikani Nation of the Blackfoot confederacy. This would be one of those I before E except after C, or, or, or, or exceptions.
Correction for Edmonton Northwest. The UCP Candidate is Ali Eltayeb (his last name is spelled incorrectly on your post.) Here is his Facebook link https://www.facebook.com/alieltayebYeg/?hc_ref=ARR8zbKMCXP3RnRSdE4cMPTWyjvLcEnDCM5tkOLScrDg5Oe9kCqbiFN9UYAkMT2n1pc&fref=nf .
Hi there. Here is the link to Kate Potter’s fb page (Grande Prairie-Wapiti). Thanks for doing this! facebook.com/katepotter.ucp
HAHAHA Cheryl Durkee for Calgary Bow UCP! She even says in this facebook video that she will be the next MLA for Bow, while trying to crash Drever’s press conference over two years ago. https://www.facebook.com/wagonswest/videos/795008017297655/
Demetrios Nicolaides wins UCP nomination in Calgary Bow
David Dorward is recycling himself as a UCP nominee after being defeated in 2015 by Marlin Schmidt, now a Minister in the Notley government. I hope someone else runs against Dorward as he cannot win with his record.
Well, Dorward got nominated so Alex got that wrong. Remember he had pink hair! What a goon. Marlin Schmidt will be tough to beat and Dorward did such a crap job with Premier Build-my-Penthouse 2011-2015 that Marlin is a shoe-in!
Not to nitpick at all but the error is too gross to let pass. Marlin Schmidt is a “shoo-in”. Dorward might not be a great candidate but when Notley was elected she had about 6 bonafide cabinet ministers so maybe the tide will raise all boats and the Kenney effect will resonate even though individual nomination candidates aren’t that great.
New addition for Calgary- Shaw is LEISHMAN, BRAD under UCP
Dave,
I don’t know how you keep up with this political website.
You have done a great job in compiling this data.
Thank you.
Fahad.
I noticed Edmonton Strathcona is missing from this list. Are there any candidates for this riding yet?
An addition to the Peace River riding information. Lisa Wardley website http://www.lisawardley.ca
Thank you Dave for putting this together.
I noticed you aren’t including links to my social media accounts. My Twitter profile is @MLA_Karen and my Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/mlakarenmcpherson/
FortMMurray – Wood Buffalo
Steve Thompson for Edmonton Mcclung’s social media links are missing so here they are:
Website https://www.thompsonalberta.ca/
Twitter
@ThompsonAlberta
Facebook
https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=550016555
Thanks!
Hi Dave,
Great job on your website. I appreciate how you keep Albertans informed.
I am running as the nominee candidate for the UCP in the Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin constituency. Can you please change my name into a link for sandrakim.ca.
Thank you,
Sandra Kim
sandrakimucp@gmail.com
Tom Olsen wins the nomination in Calgary Buffalo over Megan McCaffery. He will be up against Joe Ceci
Kathy MacDonald https://twitter.com/ElectKathy
https://www.facebook.com/electkathy/
This is a great service you’re doing. FYI, the website for Caylan Ford (UCP candidate in Calgary-Mountain View) is http://www.caylanford.com
Calgary Klein Julie Huston is not running in this contest. She did not file the paperwork.
When do nominations close for the Vermilion/Lloydminister riding
I don’t believe a date has been announced yet.
Thanks for your work on the site. It is valuable to a lot of folks.
Can anyone explain why the conservatives were wiped out in 2015? Was it a sudden shift in ideology or corruption?
I don’t think it was the ideology, mostly greed, arrogance and the history of corruption. They had no plan and no trust.
Redford was a leftist PCA who would have been more at home with the LIberals. Prentice was more centrist but the well had been poisoned by Redford AND with the Wildrose floor crossers. Then Jim made his look in the mirror retort and called an election a year ahead of schedule trying to take advantage of Wildrose disorganization which resulted in the 3 way vote split that was a benefit to at least 20 NDP that were elected when the conservative vote was evenly fractured. RIP Jim Prentice but you miscalculated.
Vote split between PCA and WRP (27% vs 24%) combined it should have been 51% conservative vote. Where the NDP candidate got more than 30% of the vote in a riding it often beat the two conservative parties. A number of voters voted NDP to teach the governing PCA a lesson. Boy did they ever teach them a lesson. That is why Jason Kenney saw the solution as a re-unified conservative party. Those not happy with some of Jason’s decisions and policies may well vote NDP. Alberta Party or Liberal but it takes roughly 40% of the vote to win a majority. The polls have shown the UCP higher than 40% since 2017 when the parties voted to merge and then elect Jason Kenney as leader.
Roger Reid – Livingstone Macleod
https://www.facebook.com/Roger4LivMac/
roger4livingstonemacleod@gmail.com
Twitter: @roger4LM
Just noticed you only have 86/87 ridings on the list…. you are missing Innisfail/Sylvan Lake
Calgary Varsity UCP candidate is Jason Copping, runners-up John Volponi, Michael Kim, John Huang, Leslie Doell, Grace Lane
Laila Goodridge wins UCP nomination Ft. McMurray Lac-La-Biche
Tyler Shandro wins Calgary Acadia UCP nomination
Demetrios Nicolaides wins Calgary Bow UCP nomination
I believe the revised count of UCP nominations is 55/86 with 31 to be announced. Someone mentioned that one CA was missing – Innisfail/Sylvan Lake currently held by Devin Dreeshan who won the bye-election after Don MacIntyre and Brian Jean both resigned. Goodridge had to re-win the nomination and won while Dreeshan’s status has not been announced. If he has to face a nomination contest he will sit as an MLA for the first time on Oct. 29th not knowing whether he will be able to run in the spring election. At least Goodridge knows she will be around to run in the election. She won 66% of the vote in the bye-election while Dreeshan crushed Nicole Money with 80% of the vote. It was announced that Mooney was elected to the NDP executive even though she is a pro-life Catholic.
Calgary Currie nomination date is November 5, 2018
I printed the whole list to count for myself and have a different total for UCP nominated candidates than Daveberta.ca. The list should be 58 UCP nominated with 28 nominations not yet complete. Calgary Cross nomination is November 3rd. Calgary Currie is November 5th, Morinville-St Albert is November 5&6. That would bring the UCP nominations to 61 with 25 yet to go. [5 in Calgary, 8 in Edmonton city, 3 in greater Edmonton, 2 in Lethbridge]. Innisfail-Sylvan Lake is still not on the list of constituencies.
Still missing is the Innisfail-Sylvan Lake CA, UCP nominations are now correct 60 nominated and 26 nominations yet to be held. NDP nominated is correct at 24 with 18 CA nominations yet to be held. There are 44 CAs where the NDP have not listed a nominated candidate or nomination contest.
Update:
Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland
UCP: nomination candidate: Shane Getson http://www.shanegetson.org voteshanegetson@gmail.com
Tunde Obasan won the UCP nomination for Edmonton-South today.
Where or when can we see the results of the UCP nomination for Vermilion-Loyd-Wainwright district
Edmonton-North West – Brandon Teixeira has been officially nominated
Please correct the spelling of Red Deer South Candidate Ryan McDougall.
Also, Facebook link is http://www.facebook.com/RyanforMLA
Thanks guys. Great job on the podcasts.
Seems odd that the NDP have only nominated 33 at this late date so unlikely to be a March drop of the writ?
Hi Dave, Calgary North’s NDP nomination meeting was moved to Feb.4. Thanks