I hate to say it but even in a "normal election" for the ndp and liberals, Diotte would have won Edmonton Griesbach. He's sitting at 46% of the vote in 186/188 polls reporting and it's unlikely that those last two will materially change that.

It would have required a near perfect conversion of either NDP->liberal or Liberal->ndp to keep it orange or flip it red. And that just wasn't super likely in such a bipolar election in a previously mixed riding.

The Liberals winning in Edmonton Center is nice though, even if I'd have preferred it go orange. I didn't actually expect them to. I thought the splits would favour the conservatives there. The fact that the Lib+NDP vote there was about 60% is promising for the riding in the future though.

In my riding of Edmonton Strathcona we managed to stay orange but it was a lot more competitive than it was in 2021 and that's pretty scary. It did indeed turn out to be one of the safest NDP seats in Canada though.

The rest of Edmonton was, sadly, not even a contest. Every other riding was over 50% CPC. Sohi made a terrible gamble.

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