Elections Alberta

Alberta’s United Conservative Party emerged bloodied but still standing in Monday’s bitterly contested provincial election.

Oilpatch support for Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's agenda ballooned after she won her party's leadership and put the so-called RStar program — a plan to give tax breaks to energy companies for fulfilling cleanup work they are already obliged to do — high on the government agenda.

Danielle Smith, sworn in on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, as Alberta's new premier, said she will shake up the top tier of the health system within three months and amend provincial human rights law to protect those who choose not to get vaccinated.

Premier Jason Kenney threw Alberta politics into a tailspin on Wednesday when he narrowly won a United Conservative Party leadership review vote only to announce he was quitting the top job anyway.

Volunteers began checking voter identification on Thursday, May 12, 2022, in a mail-in leadership review of Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and, if so inclined, the public could watch a livestream of the work on the United Conservative Party website.

Jyoti Gondek is to become Calgary's first female mayor and Edmonton voters appear to have elected Amarjeet Sohi, the city's first person of colour to win.

Documents show Alberta's Opposition United Conservative Party raised more money in the fourth quarter of last year than the governing New Democrats did in all of 2018.

Caucus members from Alberta's two conservative parties got together for the first time on Monday, July 24, 2017, but one Progressive Conservative bowed out before the joint meeting even took place.