Elections Alberta certifies vote, NDP takes two Calgary seats subjected to recount
The results of last Monday’s provincial election in Alberta are now official, Elections Alberta announced Thursday.
This election saw 1,777,321 votes cast, for a turnout of 59.5 per cent, the agency says.
Included in that number were 758,640 advance votes — a record breaking number — with just short of 22 per cent of people using the ‘Vote Anywhere’ service.
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Elections Alberta Returning Officers have completed the official count process over the last 10 days, including recounts for the areas of Calgary-Acadia and Calgary-Glenmore, where the winner and the runner up were separated by less than 100 votes.
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Ultimately, Diana Batten unseated former UCP health minister and justice minister Tyler Shandro in Calgary-Acadia.
Calgary-Glenmore was also won by the NDP in Nagwan Al-Guneid, replacing the UCP’s Whitney Issik, who previously served as minister of environment and parks.
All Election Day, mobile voting, and special ballots were recounted for these areas in the presence of candidates and scrutineers, according to Elections Alberta.
Now that the official results have been made public, candidates have until June 16 to make an application to the Court of King’s Bench for a judicial recount, should they want one.
