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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Given the NDP and Liberals are as different from each other as either is the PCs or Wildrose, what you end up with would not represent anything anyone on either side wants now.
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You're forgetting Alberta politics is basically which side of Centre-Right do you fall. I'd argue the Alberta NDP and Liberal (And Alberta Party) parties all fall in a pretty close area to the left of PCs. Sure there are some differences, but not insurmountable if they ever want to move the province's direction. We're not talking BC Green vs WRP scale differences between the 3 here....
Using 2012 results, a combined Lib/NDP/AP party would probably take half of Edmonton's seats (8/9), one of Lethbridge's, and 4 in Calgary. Presto, without any change in voter sentiment (ie Implosion of WRP), you've got the "Left Party" taking as much as the WRP did.
Add in a few factors pushing voters their way (become a viable option, PC leftists moving over, better candidates, no vote splitting) and we've got our selves a respectable opposition.