[Bobblehead]

I do live in the riding.

I think there were as many signs out for this election as any other, and I had more door knocking, fliers and phone calls (candidate and polling) then any election to date.

That said, actual election day kind of snuck up on me. The local campaigning becomes so incessant that mid-afternoon yesterday I remember it was election day. And not that a by-election is ever high on the news cycle, but with Brussels and the Federal Budget out yesterday, it was buried even further.

This riding voted in a Liberal MP, and a lot of people seem to carry those allegiances. But if I was simply going by lawn signage, I would have guessed WRP followed closely by NDP.

Manmeet Bhullar was very popular here - previous MLAs were essentially invisible; back-benchers who, outside of elections or Stampede breakfasts you would never see or hear about. Bhullar was different - he was a minister and still seemed to be more visible in the riding. So that may be where the "vote for the person" impression may come from. He was personally very popular.