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For Your Information Distribution of Seats and Registered Political Parties at Dissolution of LegislatureAt the time the election was called, the governing New Democrats held 52 of Alberta's 87 ridings and the official opposition, the United Conservative Party (UCP) held 25. The Alberta Party held four seats, the Alberta Liberals one seat, the Freedom Conservative Party one seat, and there were three Independents. One seat was vacant. At the time of dissolution of the legislature, only 54
of the
86 MLAs represented the political party for which they ran in the
2015 election. The Progressive Conservative Party and Wildrose
Party were destroyed and replaced by the UCP in 2017, led by Jason
Kenney. Those who ended up sitting as Independents either left or were
removed from the parties they ran for. Three PCs did not join the UCP,
with two joining the Alberta Party and one the NDP. One MLA was kicked
out of the UCP and formed his own party. Alberta has a population of 4,334,025, an increase of more than 200,000 since the 2015 election. There are roughly 2,615,000 people in Alberta who are registered to vote in a provincial election, according to Elections Alberta.
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