Alberta election

[Hatman 🍁]

Results:

Progressive Conservatives: 61 (-12) 47% (-15%)
Liberals: 17  (+12)  29%  (+2%)
New Democrats: 4 (+2) 10% (+2%)
Alberta Alliance: 1 (no change) 9% (+9%)


Notes: The PC's only won 2 seats in Edmonton, and the Liberals won three in Calgary. The Alliance, despite being shut out of the debate was able to win in Cardston (along the Montana border) with a no-name candidate. All 4 NDP seats in Edmonton. Conservatives won all the rural seats except for Cardston.

[Hatman 🍁]

Those are very good results. And its good for democracy to see a brand new party (the Alberta Alliance) to pick up a seat despite being shut out of the debates. (even though I disagree with their policies). The Social Credit leader finished second in his riding, and the Greens did very well in many ridings.

I was suprised to find out that, the Liberals used to win seats in Calgary (provincially) just not many- and none at all last time. 

I created a map for the election for wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Alta2004.PNG