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<\/p>\nIt has been a year since former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi became the leader of Alberta\u2019s New Democratic Party, and now he is set to lead his party inside the legislature as the new MLA for Edmonton-Strathcona.<\/p>\n
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Unofficial results indicate Nenshi has easily won his seat in Monday\u2019s byelection in the riding previously held by former Alberta NDP leader Rachel Notley.<\/p>\n
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As of 10:28 p.m., unofficial voting results on Elections Alberta\u2019s website showed Nenshi had secured 7,952 votes with 52 of 52 polls in the riding reporting. The candidate with the second-most votes at that time was the United Conservative Party\u2019s Darby Crouch with 1,314 votes.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m deeply honoured and grateful for the trust this community has placed in me,\u201d read part of a statement from Nenshi in a news release issued shortly after 10 p.m. \u201cIt means the world to have the opportunity to serve Edmonton-Strathcona and all Albertans as a Member of the Legislative Assembly.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m ready to get to work building an Alberta where everyone has a real shot at a good life. Where jobs are strong, life is affordable, and opening your utility bill doesn\u2019t make your stomach drop. Where health care is accessible, and yes, where every family finally has a family doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Premier Danielle Smith congratulated Nenshi on his victory with a post on the social media platform X<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI look forward to constructive debate and, above all, working to advance Alberta\u2019s interests: growing our economy, building critical infrastructure and securing a stronger future for all Albertans,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cI also want to recognize Darby Crouch and her team in Edmonton-Strathcona. While the results didn\u2019t go our way, she ran a passionate, principled campaign and gave voters a real choice.\u201d<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n Global News also projects that United Conservative Party candidate Tara Sawyer has won and kept her governing party\u2019s seat in Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills. As of 10:29 p.m., unofficial results indicated Sawyer had received 9,173 votes and that the NDP\u2019s Bev Toews was in second place with 2,966 votes. Cameron Davies, the leader of the separatist Republic Party of Alberta, was in third place with 2,631 votes. As of 10:29 p.m., there were 58 of 60 polls reporting in that riding.<\/p>\n \n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\tHow Iran could retaliate after U.S. strikes on its nuclear program\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\tVictim of fatal Alberta rock slide identified as 33-year-old man from Surrey, B.C.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Smith took to social media to congratulate Sawyer on her win.<\/p>\n \u201cTara ran a focused, grassroots campaign and will be a strong voice for rural Alberta in the legislature,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n The Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills seat was previously held by longtime UCP legislature member Nathan Cooper, who resigned in the spring to take on the role of being Alberta\u2019s representative in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n In all, there are three byelections being held in Alberta on Monday. The third is in Edmonton-Ellerslie where Global News projects NDP candidate Gurtej Singh Brar has won, holding the seat for that party. The NDP had been hoping to continue to keep all ridings in Alberta\u2019s capital orange while the UCP had hoped to make inroads in the city.<\/p>\n As of 10:32 p.m., unofficial results showed that with 54 of 55 polls reporting, Brar had received 3,107 votes with the UCP\u2019s Naresh Bhardwaj having received the second-most number of votes with 2,352.<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n In a statement issued shortly before 10:30 p.m., Brar said he believes voters in his riding \u201csent a clear message to Danielle Smith and the UCP: our community is demanding better.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI will be a strong voice in the legislature for southeast Edmonton,\u201d he said. \u201cI will work every day to stay connected, to listen and to fight for what matters most.\u201d<\/p>\n Once results in all three ridings are officially confirmed, the new seat count in the legislature will see the governing UCP holding 47, the NDP with 38, and two sitting as Independents.<\/p>\n \u2013with a file from The Canadian Press\u2019 Lisa Johnson<\/p>\n \n\t\t© 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been a year since former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi became the leader of Alberta\u2019s New Democratic…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10904,10905,10906,10907,2147,10908,10909,50,80,10910],"class_list":{"0":"post-9868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alberta-byelections","9":"tag-alberta-legislature","10":"tag-alberta-ndp","11":"tag-alberta-politics","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-edmonton-strathcona","14":"tag-naheed-nenshi","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-ucp"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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