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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Watch albertans maintain their diehard majority support for the UCP.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago

The last federal election was about the threat to Canadian sovereignty. 92% of Alberta seats went PC.

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 5 points 6 days ago

Not if I can fucking help it.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

That "diehard majority" was a few thousand votes in the most recent election. The one before that, they actually weren't the majority - Alberta had an NDP government.

Insisting that Alberta is eternally UCP will only help make it a self-fulfilling prophecy.

[–] Ariselas@piefed.ca 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

they are busy gerrymandering the new district borders so that they won't need the majority vote to stay in government.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Gerrymandering can push the needle but it can't hold back the tide. It can actually backfire if the projections that the gerrymanderers were working with turn out to be inaccurate, since it's specifically "betting" on a particular arrangement of votes.

[–] BurgerBaron@quokk.au 3 points 5 days ago

It's also not happening yet or maybe ever. The party voted for it but the courts do not favour the UCP especially with the separatist PsyOP going on.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How many non PC/UCP governments has Alberta elected since 1965?

One.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 points 6 days ago

Pretty specific cutoff date there. Look at the full history of elections in Alberta, there was a run of PC governments in that specific window that you've conveniently specified but before that the political landscape was completely different. And in recent history too, it's unstable.

But if you want to write the province off and permanently leave it to conservatives, that's a choice I guess.