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Originally Posted by Slava
Sure but there are a lot of factors. Everyone knew Prentice would win. People are not terribly excited when it's a known outcome. Surely some of the decline is peoples disillusionment with the party as well. But I believe that there is also a factor of people just disillusioned with politics in general. Both the Liberals and Wildrose had roughly 8000 people vote. The NDP has a leadership race right now, and I doubt they top that number. The Alberta Party had like 250 people out for their leadership a couple years ago. It just makes me wonder if numbers are down across the board?
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I think it's the premier was already picked. In this situation where you pay to vote and have to work to get registered it makes sense that the turnout was low compared to the last 3 where there were tight 2 way races with the terrible system letting the 3rd person win. But these races which had real differences between where the province would go mattered to all Albertans. So of course you had more people joining to vote.
I sat this one out after voting the last two mainly because I am lazy.