More than 1,000 NDP supporters attended the party's leadership debate in Calgary. Candidates from left: Gil McGowan, Jodi Calahoo Stonehouse, Sarah Hoffman, Kathleen Ganley, Naheed Nenshi.
After Rachel Notley, Calgary members now dominate her party. How will this reshape Alberta politics?More than 1,000 NDP supporters attended the party's leadership debate in Calgary on May 11. Candidates, from left, Gil McGowan, Jodi Calahoo Stonehouse, Sarah Hoffman, Kathleen Ganley and Naheed Nenshi took part. You don't have to go far back — 2012, or four elections ago — to find a time when the Alberta NDP hardly registered in Calgary.
There was buzz among party insiders that the party's centre of gravity would shift, particularly with the star candidacy of former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi, who joined the opposition party this spring to seek the leadership. "It says that a lot of people are really excited in Calgary," said Ganley. Her own riding, Calgary-Mountain View, has 3,501 NDP members, the most in Alberta — and more than the
The NDP has struggled to make inroads outside the major cities, and this membership data largely bears that out. The party has sold fewer than 300 memberships in 11 rural or smaller-centre ridings, including several ridings in northwest Alberta that the NDP won in 2015, when Notley's party formed government.
For the last several years, Notley and her team have organized heavily in Calgary, trying to win back more support after a near-wipeout in the city in the 2019 election. Ahead of the 2023 vote, many Edmonton MLAs door-knocked regularly in the southern city, not expecting much competition in their own ridings.
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