Canadian by-elections, 2012

[Peter the Lefty]

Interesting Calgary Centre is the most left wing seat in Calgary. I wonder if the NDP will bother trying to win it.

Besides Edmonton Strathcona.  It would really be something if the NDP managed to win it.  Don't wanna get my hopes up though.  The most recent polls I've seen seem to show the NDP's growth being rather stagnant in Alberta, at about the same as it was last May.  Plus, given the way Redford, Wall, and Clark (and especially the media) are going absolutely berserk over tarsands oilsands rhetoric right now, I wouldn't count on a breakthrough in Alberta at this point.

[Peter the Lefty]

Oh wait...Calgary Centre.  Sorry, I've been sleep deprived lately must have misread it and I guess I though this was Edmonton Centre you guys were talking about (which actually is the second-most left-wing riding in Alberta after Strathcona, followed by Edmonton East).  Nvm.  Tory shoe-in.  It'd be a waste of resources for the NDP to try and win this, unless they think that this could be the next Outremont '07 and that two federal elections from now, Alberta will become an NDP stronghold (which won't happen.)