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For Your Information Election ResultsElections Alberta reports the United Conservative Party (UCP) received 55.2 per cent of total votes cast, the NDP 32.7 per cent, and the Alberta Party 9.1 per cent. The Liberals received one per cent of the vote; other small parties together gained 1.9 per cent and independents 0.4 per cent. The electoral results are quite different for Calgary, Edmonton and the rest of the province. The NDP retained 18 of 19 seats in Edmonton, plus one seat in the Edmonton suburb of St. Albert. In Calgary, the UCP was elected in 23 ridings, with the NDP elected in three ridings. With the exception of Lethbridge West where the NDP candidate was successful in a close race, every other seat in the province went to the UCP. A total of 1,880,508 votes were cast. Alberta has a population of 4,334,025, an increase of more than 200,000 since the 2015 election, and 2,643,453 registered voters. Elections Alberta estimates voter turnout at 71.1 per cent of registered voters, compared to 57 per cent in 2015. This is the highest voter turnout since 1935 when 82 per cent of registered voters cast a ballot. At the time of dissolution of the Legislature and the calling of the election, the governing New Democrats held 52 of Alberta's 87 ridings and the official opposition UCP held 25. The Alberta Party held four seats, the Alberta Liberals one seat, the Freedom Conservative Party one seat, along with three Independents. One seat was vacant. Of the 63 UCP candidates elected, 51 are taking their seat in the Legislature for the first time. Of the twelve who were previously elected including party leader Jason Kenney, only three come from the old PC Party, which merged with the Wildrose Party to become the UCP. The 63 seats for the UCP is a gain of 38 seats over the total held by Conservative and Wildrose Parties in 2015. Also, 1,030,560 people voted for the UCP or 54.8 per cent of voters, compared to the 774,118 people who voted for either the Conservative Party or the Wildrose Party in 2015. The NDP's 24 seats is a loss of 28, with 19 of these seats being won in Edmonton. Twenty-one of the 24 elected NDP MLAs were in the last Legislature. The NDP received 615,428 votes, or 32.7 per cent of votes cast, only slightly more than the 605,515 it received in 2015, indicating that the increase in votes in the 2019 election went mostly to the UCP.
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