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Originally Posted by wireframe
The Alberta Party ran only 36 candidates in 2015 compared to 87 in 2019. Running a candidate in every riding increased their vote totals.
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So they clearly lost steam (or something?)
So in 2015 that works out to 923 votes per candidate (or 700 votes per candidate not named Greg Clark)
In 2019 it was 1977 votes per candidate (or 1958 for not Mandel)
Obviously the circumstances were very different in competing against divided parties vs. UCP, but it's still hard to see a five-fold increase as such a failure. The truth is the party never had steam...just one really strong essentially independent candidate.