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Originally Posted by Slava
I don't really think that people in Alberta are that homogenous...but the distorted results of the election system make it appear that way. Same as what took place in Ontario in the 90's when Chretien virtually swept.
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It's one thing for a province to be virtually homogenous during any given election cycle or even under any particular leader, as Ontario was during the Cretien years. That's fairly common. But Alberta is easily the most homogenous province historically: only one change in provincial government in the last 80 years (SoCred to Conservative), and no minority governments during that time, and only two changes in the party that we support federally in that time (Socred to Conservative to Reform - changes to alliance and conservative don't count, since those changes were basically reform party rebranding). Since 1993, the Reform/Alliance/CPCs have dominated the province in federal elections by scores of 22-4, 24-2, 24-2, 26-2, 28-0, and 28-0 (that last one is the almost certain outcome of the current election).
Though it's worth mentioning that it's not the most lopsided current streak: PEI is 24-0 for the Liberals going back to 88, but historically they aren't particularly one-sided and the Liberal domination doesn't extend to the provincial level.