It has been a year since former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi became the leader of Alberta’s New Democratic Party, and now he is set to lead his party inside the legislature as the new MLA for Edmonton-Strathcona.
Global News projects Nenshi has won his seat in Monday’s byelection in the riding previously held by former Alberta NDP leader Rachel Notley.
As of 9:43 p.m., unofficial voting results on Elections Alberta’s website showed Nenshi had secured 4,512 votes with 34 of 52 polls in the riding reporting. The candidate with the second-most votes at that time was the United Conservative Party’s Darby Crouch with 838 votes.
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Global News also projects that United Conservative Party candidate Tara Sawyer has won and kept her governing party’s seat in Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills. As of 9:43 p.m., unofficial results indicated Sawyer had received 4,919 votes with the separatist Republic Party of Alberta leader Cameron Davies having 1,376 votes and the NDP’s Bev Toews in third place with 1,371 votes with 36 of 60 polls reporting.
The Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills seat was previously held by longtime UCP legislature member Nathan Cooper, who resigned in the spring to take on the role of being Alberta’s representative in Washington, D.C.
In all, there are three byelections being held in Alberta on Monday. The third is in Edmonton-Ellerslie where the NDP hopes to continue to keep all ridings in Alberta’s capital orange while the UCP hopes to make inroads in the city.
More to come…
–with a file from The Canadian Press’ Lisa Johnson
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