Conservatives control Calgary again, Liberals lead in single seat

Joel Dryden · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 29, 2025 7:33 AM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

The Conservative Party maintained its longstanding dominance successful Calgary successful tonight's national election, capturing 10 of the city's 11 ridings.

But the Liberal campaigner Corey Hogan holds a slim pb successful Calgary Confederation implicit Conservative campaigner and erstwhile Alberta provincial furniture curate Jeremy Nixon with 1 canvass remaining to beryllium counted aboriginal Tuesday morning.

"I americium looking guardant to being a beardown Alberta dependable successful the authorities caucus, and making definite that Alberta issues are good understood," Hogan said. 

"And, that we tin mend a spot what has been historically a spot of a disagreement betwixt ... firm Calgary and downtown Ottawa. I deliberation that there's a batch we tin bash to amended relations there."

George Chahal, who was the lone Liberal to assertion a spot successful Calgary successful 2021 successful Skyview, transitioned to the newly-drawn riding of Calgary McKnight for this election. He was defeated by Conservative Dalwinder Gill, a section existent property agent.

Had helium won, Chahal would person go Calgary's first-ever two-term Liberal MP. 

This year, polling suggested the Liberals were successful the pb successful Calgary McKnight, portion Calgary Skyview, Calgary Centre and Calgary Confederation were competitory races. 

"As I've ever said, polls thin to underestimate conservatives successful Alberta and it seems that that's the lawsuit again," said seasoned pollster Janet Brown.

In what was thought to beryllium a highly contested seat, Conservative incumbent Greg McLean was victorious successful Calgary Centre implicit Liberal Lindsay Luhnau.

Speaking anterior to the results being confirmed, McLean said helium was pleased to spot affirmative results unfolding for Conservatives successful Calgary.

"It is simply a metropolis that has been held backmost by this Liberal government's policies. I person to wonder, what bash Calgarians person to spot to recognize that the Liberal authorities is not moving this state forward, is not moving this metropolis forward?" helium said.

The Conservatives besides easy held onto their territory successful Calgary Signal Hill, Calgary Heritage, Calgary Shepard and different ridings, wherever candidates skated by with double-digit victories.

Monte Solberg, a Conservative furniture subordinate nether erstwhile premier curate Stephen Harper, said the menace of tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump changed the speech this predetermination season.

"However, it is interesting and, arsenic an Alberta conservative, heartening that the beating bosom of conservatism is inactive live successful the large cities successful Alberta, and inactive a reliable root of votes for blimpish leaders," helium said.

Normally a foregone decision connected predetermination night, Alberta became an country of absorption for the Liberal and Conservative parties arsenic the run played out. 

Liberal Leader Mark Carney visited the Red & White Club astatine McMahon Stadium successful aboriginal April, portion Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre held a rally astatine a hangar adjacent the Calgary airdrome precocious past week.

Carney was owed to marque a 2nd quality successful Calgary connected Sunday, but cancelled that lawsuit successful the aftermath of the Lapu-Lapu Day festival killings successful Vancouver.

Other confederate Alberta ridings

The remainder of confederate Alberta besides went Conservative blue.

In Lethbridge, erstwhile politician Chris Spearman wasn't capable to go the first-ever Liberal campaigner to triumph the solidly-blue riding, which was erstwhile again claimed by Conservative incumbent Rachel Thomas.

"It's yet conscionable specified an honour and a joy. I truly look guardant to it," Thomas said.

Meanwhile, the monolithic national riding of Yellowhead, which was redrawn up of the 2025 election, was claimed by Conservatives William Stevenson by a large margin. The riding covers a ample conception of occidental and cardinal Alberta, including the towns of Banff, Canmore, Jasper, Hinton, Edson, Rocky Mountain House, Carstairs and Sundre.

Longtime Conservative incumbent MP Blaine Calkins was dubbed the victor successful the riding of Ponoka-Didsbury. The Conservatives besides won by large numbers successful Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner, Foothills and Bow River.