Writ has been dropped. Election day will be Monday, April 23.
Thought I would start a discussion for this, but also for this first entry to be a place to for general information that voters might be seeking.
ELECTIONS ALBERTA
Contact information for all parties can be found here:
http://www.elections.ab.ca/Public%20Website/603.cfm
We are going from 83 to 87 constituencies. You can find out which one you are in here:
http://streetkey.elections.ab.ca/
Where to vote.
Registered MLA candidates
Registered Senate candidates
BLOGS RESOURCES
Dave Cournoyer; a political blogger has been doing an awesome job gather information on candidates and their social media presence.
Daveberta.ca
Edit: Be sure to go all the way to bottom of Dave's list to see the
Senate candidates.
CP's very own
c.t.ner has this site:
AlbertaTweets.ca
Offers great graphics of where parties (leaders) stand in the social media.
Three Hundred Eight has seat projects for all elections, not just our upcoming on.
http://threehundredeight.blogspot.ca/
This is a group of bloggers who covered the last civic election they will be cover the provincial front too. Bloggers are from political stripes.
CalgaryPolitics.com
Election Almanac ~ Seat projections.
ELECTION IN MAINSTREAM MEDIA
CBC Alberta Votes 2012
Calgary Herald politics page (I might have to update this url if they create an election specific page.)
Edmonton Journal Interactive Map to find your local candidates.
Decision Alberta Global TV Edmonton election landing page.
April 12 Leaders Debate Believe this will be broadcast page. Of course will also be on TV Global hosting. This page also lists other public forums.
Edmonton Journal Platform Tracker - self explanatory.
Cool interactive
video from Edmonton Journal.
PARTY EVENT CALENDARS
Alberta Party
EverGreen Party link to main page, no event specific page available.
Liberal Party
New Democratic Party
Progressive Conservative Party
Wildrose Party
Senate Candidates
EverGreen Party
Independent -
Len Bracko
Independent -
Ian Urquhart
Progressive Conservative Scroll all the way to bottom.
Wildrose
Remember you get to vote for
three (3) senate candidates.
I will add other links as we go along.
.... and feel free to ask me anything. If I don't know the answer, I usually have a pretty good idea of where to look or who to go to.