Alberta's blue wave has Conservatives projected to win nearly every seat in Edmonton

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A bluish question is acceptable to astir expanse the city, arsenic the Conservatives are projected to instrumentality backmost seats that antecedently flipped, arsenic good arsenic clasp connected to traditionally bluish seats.

Conservatives won each but 4 of Alberta's 34 ridings successful the 2021 election

Emily Rae Pasiuk · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 29, 2025 12:47 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

A bluish question is acceptable to astir sweep Edmonton, arsenic the Conservatives are projected to win almost every spot successful the region, arsenic good arsenic cardinal and bluish Alberta.

Conservative campaigner Kerry Diotte is projected to triumph Edmonton Griesbach, a spot helium held from 2015 to 2021 past narrowly mislaid to NDP campaigner Blake Desjarlais past election.

Desjarlais's run was distributing anti-vote-splitting worldly conscionable days earlier the election. As of 10 p.m. Monday night, Diotte was winning about 46.4 per cent of the ballot Desjarlais had 32.3 per cent and Liberal campaigner Patrick Lennox had 19.1 per cent.

Conservatives won each but 4 of Alberta's 34 ridings successful the 2021 election, with 3 of the 4 non-Conservative ridings successful Edmonton.

Heather McPherson cruised to triumph successful 2021 successful Edmonton Strathcona, with 60 per cent of the vote, and CBC is projecting that she volition triumph her riding erstwhile again. At 10 p.m., McPherson had astir 45 per cent of the vote.

McPherson told CBC Monday nighttime that Canadians were voting this predetermination retired of a consciousness of fear, and New Democrats win erstwhile Canadians are voting retired of a consciousness of hope.

A pistillate successful orangish speaks to microphones.

There has not yet been a telephone successful Edmonton Centre, wherever erstwhile Liberal furniture curate Randy Boissonnault is not moving again. The contention is betwixt Conservative Sayid Ahmed, Liberal Eleanor Olszewski and the NDP's Trisha Estabrooks. Olszewski has a constrictive pb implicit Ahmed arsenic of 10:45 p.m.

Edmonton Mayor Amarjeet Sohi is projected to suffer his bid for a Liberal spot successful Edmonton Southeast. Conservative campaigner Jagsharan Singh Mahal is projected to triumph there.

Conservatives person been projected to triumph successful each the different Edmonton ridings:

Billy Morin is projected to triumph successful Edmonton Northwest.
Zaid Aboultaif successful Edmonton Manning.
Matt Jeneroux successful Edmonton Riverbend.
Tim Uppal successful Edmonton Gateway.
Kelly McCauley successful Edmonton West.

Northern and cardinal Alberta ridings results

The CBC determination table has besides projected the winning campaigner successful these cardinal and bluish Alberta ridings:

Ponoka-Didsbury: Conservative Blaine Calkins.
Red Deer: Conservative Burton Bailey.
Battle River-Crowfoot: Conservative Damien Kurek.
Leduc-Wetaskiwin: Conservative Mike Lake.
Parkland: Conservative Dane Lloyd.
St. Albert-Sturgeon River: Conservative Michael Cooper.
Peace River-Westlock: Conservative Arnold Viersen.
Lakeland: Conservative Shannon Stubbs.
Fort McMurray-Cold Lake: Conservative Laila Goodridge.
Grande Prairie: Conservative Chris Warkentin.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Emily Rae Pasiuk is simply a newsman for CBC Edmonton who besides transcript edits, produces video and reads quality connected the radio. She has filmed 2 documentaries. Emily reported successful Saskatchewan for 3 years earlier moving to Edmonton successful 2020. Tips? Ideas? Reach her astatine [email protected].

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