The thing is plenty of byelections aren’t great for a sitting government. There’s a huge difference between a byelection and general election. People use it to “send a message” or that kind of thing because they’re not changing government. We’ve seen before in ridings like Calgary Glenmore where the opposition parties do incredibly well, but the general election comes around and it’s not the same situation.
And frankly, the party that should be extremely concerned after last night is the Alberta Party. You had a byelection on the home turf of your leader and got wrecked. That’s not boding well.
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