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The 2019 Alberta general election was held on April 16, 2019, to elect 87 members to the 30th Alberta Legislature.[2] In its first general election contest, the Jason Kenney-led United Conservative Party (UCP) won 54.88% of the popular vote and 63 seats, defeating incumbent Premier Rachel Notley. The governing Alberta New Democratic Party (NDP) were reduced to 24 seats and formed the Official Opposition. The United Conservative Party was formed in 2017 from a merger of the Progressive Conservative Party and the Wildrose Party after the NDP's victory in the 2015 election ended nearly 44 years of Progressive Conservative rule.
The NDP won 24 seats in total: including all but one of the seats in Edmonton (19), three seats in Calgary (Calgary-Buffalo, Calgary-McCall and Calgary-Mountain View), and the seats of Lethbridge-West and St. Albert. The UCP won the remaining 63 seats in the province. Two other parties that won seats in the 2015 election, the Alberta Party and the Alberta Liberals, failed to win any seats, making this election the first Alberta general election since 1993 where only two parties won seats.
The Election Act fixes the election date to a three-month period, between March 1 and May 31 in the fourth calendar year after the preceding election day, which in this case was May 5, 2015. However, this did not affect the powers of the Lieutenant Governor to dissolve the Legislative Assembly before this period.[3]
This election resulted in the highest voter turnout since 1982[4] at 68%, rising from 57% in the last general election held in 2015.[1][5] It marked only the fifth change of government since Alberta became a province in 1905, and also the first time an incumbent government failed to win a second term.
Across the province, 1,896,542 votes were cast in this election.[6]
- ^ a b Elections Alberta (June 16, 2020). "Provincial Results". Archived from the original on June 8, 2020. Retrieved June 16, 2020.
- ^ "Elections Alberta". Archived from the original on March 22, 2019. Retrieved March 22, 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Election Act, R.S.A. 2000, c. E-1, s. 38.1, as amended by S.A. 2011, c. 19
- ^ Elections Alberta (April 11, 2016). "Provincial General Election 2015" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on April 30, 2019. Retrieved April 29, 2019.
- ^ French, Janet (April 24, 2019). "Complete tally paints more detailed picture of how Albertans voted". Calgary Herald. Archived from the original on April 25, 2019. Retrieved April 25, 2019.
- ^ "Historical Results". Elections Alberta. Retrieved June 8, 2023.
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