2019 Alberta Vote Compass

[FlamesAddiction]

Alberta Liberal Party (LIB)
69%

Alberta New Democratic Party (NDP)
69%

Alberta Party (AP)
64%

United Conservative Party (UCP)
45%

Freedom Conservative Party of Alberta (FCP)
27%

Alberta Advantage Party (AAP)
Did not participate

Green Party of Alberta (GRN)
Did not participate

[iggy_oi]

Freedom Party of Alberta?! Who’s been screwing with this thing?(if you answer “I don’t know” for every question this is the party you get aligned with)

In all seriousness some of these questions can’t be accurately answered with the options available. Ex: Environmental issues should be solved by industry, not government. IMO they should be solved by industry, the problem is that historically industry hasn’t always done so willingly. It’s like asking “should employers improve labour standards for their employees?”. Of course they should, but history has proven that more often than not it doesn’t happen naturally.

[Regorium]

Originally Posted by snootchiebootchies

Yeah, the questions are too vague. For example, I agree with the carbon tax but it needs some serious modifications. The carbon tax needs to actually promote behaviour change. Taxing natural gas for home heating when there is no real feasible alternative available that is less carbon-intensive than natural gas smacks of a cash grab.

This defeats the point of the carbon tax. It's supposed to hit your pocketbook. You are supposed to turn down the heat and put on a sweater rather than emit carbon, or buy a higher efficiency furnace.

You're supposed to consider public transit or carpooling rather than a 40 minute solo commute.

If it doesn't hurt, then it actually doesn't promote any behaviour change.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by snootchiebootchies

Yeah, the questions are too vague. For example, I agree with the carbon tax but it needs some serious modifications. The carbon tax needs to actually promote behaviour change. Taxing natural gas for home heating when there is no real feasible alternative available that is less carbon-intensive than natural gas smacks of a cash grab.

Y’all realise there are “neutral” and/or “I don’t know” answers right?

It also lets you look through each issue individually at the end and see where each party falls in it. For carbon tax I picked a non-answer as I know it’s required but I like the Federal version better than Alberta’s.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by Kerplunk

Apparently I mostly agree with the Alberta Party, while being closest on the grid to UCP.

This was my result also. There were a couple questions I was kind of mixed and I think that if I picked my other answer there I was more in line with the UCP (hope my usual sparring partners are sitting down!)

[snootchiebootchies]

Originally Posted by Regorium

This defeats the point of the carbon tax. It's supposed to hit your pocketbook. You are supposed to turn down the heat and put on a sweater rather than emit carbon, or buy a higher efficiency furnace.

You're supposed to consider public transit or carpooling rather than a 40 minute solo commute.

If it doesn't hurt, then it actually doesn't promote any behaviour change.

I disagree. Even if you already have a high efficiency furnace and have weatherized your home, you are still being hit with the carbon tax. They should have benchmarks like they do with industry -- if your emission intensity is greater than the benchmark, you pay for the incremental cost. If you are below, you should not have to pay.

[Lubicon]

About equally close to UCP and Alberta party for me. My dilemma appears to be a conflict between social issues and economic issues as that seems to be where my differences mainly lie between each of the two parties. I'm much closer to one party socially and much closer to the other economically.

[octothorp]

Scores between 61% and 65% for all three of Liberals, AP, and NDP, which pretty-much matches how I feel about those three.

[troutman]

Lib: 78
ndp: 69
ap: 62
ucp: 46


Clearly I am a Red Menace!

[agulati]

Alberta party at 67% followed by UCP at 63% and NDP at 59%. Knowing myself it makes sense. I guess I am going to start going through the Alberta Party platform a bit more. I wish they had an actual shot.

[nik-]

I align closest to AP as well, almost 80%. They won't get my vote though because of Mandell. Forcing out Clark and the Edmonton Arena deal where they got taken to the woodshed are two things that rub me the wrong way.

Maybe get someone else AP.

[Travis Munroe]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Y’all realise there are “neutral” and/or “I don’t know” answers right?

It also lets you look through each issue individually at the end and see where each party falls in it. For carbon tax I picked a non-answer as I know it’s required but I like the Federal version better than Alberta’s.

Well aware...

I do know and am not neutral on many topics, just wanted to see more in the form of the question to make a decision.

I checked I don't know to a number of questions that were too vague to answer and am wondering if that is why the FCP showed up so high on my radar as a previous poster mentioned "I dont know" lines up with FCP lol.

[Looch City]

LIB 75%
NDP 68%
AP 63%
UCP 47%
FCP 32%

I'm leaning AP for this election, although I still need to learn more about them and the candidates.

[puckedoff]

If this thread of results is any indication, shows that most people fall into that middle "I want good economic policy without dinosaur regressive views". How come parties can never gain traction with this platform!?! I find it very frustrating.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by puckedoff

If this thread of results is any indication, shows that most people fall into that middle "I want good economic policy without dinosaur regressive views". How come parties can never gain traction with this platform!?! I find it very frustrating.

The Alberta Party's public outreach has been very poor. I'm willing to bet most people don't even know they exist.

[dsavillian]

Pretty close to the NDP/Liberals, with AP a close third.

[Superflyer]

I guess I am 74% liberal???
Alberta Party 69%
NDP 65%
UCP 50%
Freedom 30%

Huh, not the results I thought

[Resolute 14]

Just on some play testing with results, this might be the first time I haven't seen a massive bias in the results. Going straight neutral on all questions, for example, puts you at 52% UCP, 50% AP. Vote Compass usually tries to pull everybody left.

Oddly, they also have the UCP much closer to centre than they typically put the CPC federally. Which is actually rather unexpected.

[habernac]

Liberal
Alberta
NDP
UCP

[Slava]

Originally Posted by puckedoff

If this thread of results is any indication, shows that most people fall into that middle "I want good economic policy without dinosaur regressive views". How come parties can never gain traction with this platform!?! I find it very frustrating.

I think that it's one thing to have it in your platform, and another thing when it comes to delivery. In my case, while I align most closely with the Alberta Party, that's a super inexperienced group and it's hard to think that the "unicorns and rainbows" platform they have could translate to anything meaningful.