In Heather McPherson’s campaign launch she said Blake Desjarlais should be a Member of Parliament today, and Trisha Estabrooks, and so many others should be Members of Parliament.
Of course, strategic voting to stop Trump took many votes
from the NDP. But even if the NDP had gotten the votes it got in 2021, in
Alberta First Past The Post would have elected only Heather and Blake. We need
to talk about the Mixed
Member Proportional system the NDP promises to introduce.
On the votes cast in 2021, transposed to the 2025 ridings,
in the 12 ridings of Metropolitan Edmonton the NDP got 28.6% of the vote, and
the Liberals 18.9%. With a regional MMP model the NDP would indeed have elected
Heather, Blake, and Trisha, and maybe even Dot Anderson. The Liberals would have
elected Eleanor Olszewski and Amarjeet Sohi.
But that’s not all. In the 12 ridings of Metropolitan
Calgary the NDP’s 16.6% would have elected candidates like Keira Gunn and Becki
Zimmerman, while the Liberals would have elected Corey Hogan, George Chahal and
Lindsay Luhnau.
In the 8 ridings of South-Central Alberta the NDP’s 15.5% would
have elected Nathan Svoboda, while the Liberals would have elected Chris
Spearman.
And in the 5 ridings of Northern Alberta, the NDP’s 14.9% would
have elected someone like Landen Tischer. Total out of 37: 7 or 8 NDP, 6 Liberals.
(As an officer of Fair Vote Canada, I am refraining from publicly
endorsing any NDP leadership candidate.)
