After a tumultuous year that saw Danielle Smith become premier, a spring election is on the horizon for Alberta, and it remains to be seen whether Smith will be returned to power or the NDP’s Rachel Notley will triumph as she did in 2015.
One pundit says Calgary will be the deciding battleground.
Smith won the United Conservative Party (UCP) leadership on Oct. 6, 2022, with 53.77 percent of the vote and has had only six months to establish a governing track record. She inherited a party that had become deeply divided, but had previously taken 63 of 87 seats in the 2019 election with 54.88 percent of the vote….