Alberta Election

Alright. First off, I wish to apologize about my being a month late with my updates. I allowed myself to become distracted by other things. But I promise that I will do my best not to let this happen again in the future. But anyways. The provincial election for Alberta recently ended.

 This election was thought to be a time that would take the party that is currently in power, the Progressive Conservatives, and replace them with a relatively new party, the WildRose party. The PC party has been in a majority government for a long time, which is probably not a good thing, as no-one else is getting represented except for the people who believed in the PC party platform. Be that as it may, the only other alternative that was getting very much media coverage was the WildRose party. This party is far more of what one might consider a "right wing" party, (that is to say a party whose platform involves privatization of industries: health care, police, fire department, etc.) than the PC. The WildRose party intended to take advantage of the fact that most people were quite unhappy with the PC party, bringing to attention the various things that they did wrong in their previous term.

Apparently, according to the pre-voting polls, the WildRose were thought to be the preferred party, perhaps even winning the election with a minority government. The PC was apparently in second place, with 36% of the "votes," followed by the liberals with 11%, the NDP at 9%, and the Alberta party at 1%. This may have later been affected by developments that came to light at the end of the campaign. Towards the end of the election campaign, a blog was found, written by the Wildrose representative for one of the Edmonton riding's, stating something rather, nasty. In addition to that, another candidate made a racist remark in stating why he was better suited to represent his riding. Combine that with the opinions of the the mayors of both Calgary and Edmonton, and the effect that they may have had on their riding's, it may have made a large difference in the election.

Either way, the PC party has become the leader of the province again, in a majority government at that. It may be possible that people were to worried about the possibility of what might happen if the WildRose party came to power. I can only truly speculate, but now the PC are back, the WildRose are the official opposition, and all the other parties are forgotten, as they have had almost no media coverage.

Don't worry too much about that though, as I will give you all some information about what is was the NDP, Liberals, and Alberta party all stood for this past election, and will do my best to get it up within the week.