The Alberta United Conservative Party would form a majority government with fewer seats than it received in 2019 if an election took place today, according to projections from 338Canada. .The Alberta UCP would win 45 seats, a decrease from 63 in 2019, according to the Wednesday projections. They said the Alberta NDP would garner 42 seats, an increase from 24 in 2019. .No other parties would win a seat in the Alberta Legislature. The other parties the projections cited were the Alberta Party, the Alberta Greens, and the Wildrose Independence Party of Alberta (WIPA). .The projections went on to say the Alberta UCP would win the popular vote at 48%. They added the Alberta NDP would finish in second place at 44%. .The Alberta Party would receive 4%. No other parties would register a measurable percentage. .Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has a safe hold on Brooks-Medicine Hat, beating out Alberta Party leader Barry Morishita. NDP leader Rachel Notley would win her seat in Edmonton-Strathcona. .Green leader Jordan Wilkie would lose Edmonton-Rutherford to the NDP candidate. WIPA interim leader Jeevan Singh Mangat would be defeated in Innisfail-Sylvan Lake to the UCP candidate. .The projections come after Notley announced Friday her government will hire 4,000 more teachers and 3,000 educational assistants over the next four years. .READ MORE: Notley vows to hire more teachers, support staff if elected premier.“We will invest more than $700 million into our classrooms,” she said. .“This will take a major step towards reversing the UCP devastation imposed on our classrooms and the children and students inside them.” .The data is a statistical model of electoral projections based on opinion polls, election history, and demographic information. No margin of error was assigned to it.
