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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (9 children)

I said it was a near 50/50 split. It happened to fall on the Danielle Smith side of that split, and so she won the election. If just a few percent more had gone NDP then it would have been the other way around. This is fairly typical of how elections work, I'm not sure what more needs to be explained.

The actual popular vote split was 52.63%/44.05%, though of course thanks to first-past-the-post the split of the number of seats in the legislature wasn't as close as that. The maps look bluer because of the huge sparsely-populated rural regions that voted Conservative, but remember, land doesn't vote. Those huge sparsely-populated rural regions don't have as many representatives as the cities.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I’ll have faith in AB again if you guys vote in Nenshi next time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I'm not asking anyone to "have faith." I'm just asking you to recognize that statements like:

Albertans remain fine with her election interference and helping foreign govts take over Canada

Are an inaccurate and frankly downright offensive stereotype. Albertans are not "fine" with helping foreign governments take over Canada. That statement is tarring an entire population with a vile accusation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The same thing we do to Murcans. The all need to burn because they voted for Trump.

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