{"id":171819,"date":"2026-08-18T00:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T00:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/171819\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T00:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T00:33:16","slug":"calgary-shaw-byelection-set-for-sept-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/171819\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary-Shaw byelection set for Sept. 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Voters in the riding of Calgary-Shaw will go to the polls Sept. 14 to choose a new provincial representative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Chief electoral officer Gordon McClure announced the byelection date Monday. The seat has been vacant since Rebecca Schulz left the UCP government in May, five months after resigning from cabinet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Businessman <a data-ylk=\"slk:Mike Derry bested Ward 13 Coun. Dan McLean;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/calgaryherald.com\/news\/mike-derry-secures-ucp-nomination-in-calgary-shaw-ousting-calgary-councillor\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Derry bested Ward 13 Coun. Dan McLean<\/a> to win the UCP nomination in June. Kyle Campbell is the NDP&#8217;s declared candidate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fledgling Progressive Tory Party of Alberta, led by former UCP cabinet minister Peter Guthrie, has said it expects to name a candidate soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Candidate nominations won&#8217;t close until 2 p.m. on Aug. 27 but the campaigning has already begun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Calgary-Shaw cannot afford an NDP MLA helping Naheed Nenshi oppose the pipelines, investment and energy jobs Alberta&#8217;s economy depends on,&#8221; the UCP said in a statement soon after the byelection date was confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Calgary-Shaw counts more than 39,000 eligible voters, according to Elections Alberta. Turnout in the May 2023 provincial election was 63 per cent when Schulz defeated the NDP&#8217;s David Cloutier by more than 3,000 votes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Advance voting will run from Sept. 8-12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Polls will be open Sept. 14 from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bookmark this website and support our journalism: Subscribe now so you don&#8217;t miss the Calgary news you need to know and sign up for our free newsletters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voters in the riding of Calgary-Shaw will go to the polls Sept. 14 to choose a new provincial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[50960,51,13259,54906,8868,13256,13261],"class_list":["post-171819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-byelection","tag-calgary","tag-calgary-shaw","tag-chief-electoral-officer","tag-elections-alberta","tag-rebecca-schulz","tag-ucp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}