Andy SMay 30, 2023
last night could have gone better, but the hyperbole is a bit much. getting 38 seats and 44% of the vote in a province that's had various flavours of conservative governments for almost its entire history is something to be hopeful for. #AbElection2023 #abvote
Ian H  May 30, 2023

Hey #ABPoli #ABLeg #ABElection2023 there is a big gap in media coverage of the results. Every source I've checked gives results by party and riding, but not by candidate name. What's up with that? We are actually voting for the local candidates.

Elections Alberta does do the breakdown, in a very clumsy way. How hard would it be for them to output a list, sorted by riding name, with candidate names and provisional vote totals?

Alison CreeksideMay 30, 2023

Blake Shaffer, U of Calgary prof working on climate policy, made an #ABElection2023 chart to show the rural/urban divide

"NDP needed 2611 votes across 6 ridings to win a majority.
Over 1,000,000 registered voters did not vote." #abelxn

Dave Herrick  May 30, 2023

When you're growing up in a small town in AB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUJIOSjgAdI

"Bad skin bad eyes gay and fatty, people look at your funny.. when you're in a small town."
#ABElection2023

Lou Reed & John Cale - "Small Town"

YouTube
Dave Herrick  May 30, 2023

People whose homes are literally burning down voted for the party that cut funding to firefighting

#ABleg #abpoli #ABElection2023

Show threadπŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Jason Bouwmeester 🍁May 30, 2023

@CanadianPolling @jeffsamsonow how long before that number is adjusted to 48-38-1? Assuming Smith is still going to kick Johnson out...

#ableg #abpoli #abelxn #ABElection2023

Show threadπŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Jason Bouwmeester 🍁May 30, 2023

@ThisIsWillAdams Also, when it comes down to it, only 32.6% of eligible voters voted for the UCP (926,918 UCP voters/2,840,927 eligible) - even though 60%+ of eligible voters voted. So, 1/3rd of eligible voters dictated the next four years of Alberta politics...

#ableg #abpoli #abelxn #ABElection2023

πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Jason Bouwmeester 🍁May 30, 2023

Should I really give the 14,218 voters who voted for a candidate who compared trans kids to pieces of poop in a cookie the benefit of the doubt? Surely they just didn't know she said those things?

#abpoli #ableg #abelxn #ABElection2023

Show threadπŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Jason Bouwmeester 🍁May 30, 2023

@GuitarKat @dabertime In Calgary-Cross, Calgary-East there was a bigger difference in votes than Greens had. In Calgary-Bow and Calgary North-West, Alberta Party did have more than the diff so it only affected two seats.

#abpoli #ableg #abelxn #ABElection2023

πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Jason Bouwmeester 🍁May 30, 2023

@xenu gawd, I saw a voter interviewed last night saying he was a small business owner (which, if NDP had won last night, he would have had 0% small business tax) and voted UCP because last NDP term his business suffered (even though we were under a recession and the price of oil had tanked).

#ableg #abpoli #abelxn #ABElection2023