Alberta's blue wave has Conservatives projected to win nearly every seat in Edmonton
Emily Rae Pasiuk | CBC News | Posted: April 29, 2025 4:47 AM | Last Updated: April 29
Conservatives won all but four of Alberta's 34 ridings in the 2021 election
A blue wave is set to nearly sweep Edmonton, as the Conservatives are projected to win almost every seat in the region, as well as central and northern Alberta.
Conservative candidate Kerry Diotte is projected to win Edmonton Griesbach, a seat he held from 2015 to 2021 then narrowly lost to NDP candidate Blake Desjarlais last election.
Desjarlais's campaign was distributing anti-vote-splitting material just days before the election. As of 11:55 p.m. Monday night, Diotte captured about 46.3 per cent of the vote, with 180 out of 188 polls reporting. Desjarlais had about 33 per cent and Liberal candidate Patrick Lennox had 18.4 per cent.
"It feels amazing. It was a roller-coaster. We worked hard. It was a team effort. It's a team sport, right?" Diotte told CBC on Monday night.
"And this is especially evident in this campaign. We were going in as the underdogs against an incumbent. But I had a great team, amazing team. Never had so many volunteers."
Diotte said he heard time and time again that the top issues for voters are affordability, energy, and crime.
"Those are the meat and potatoes issues that people care about, right? I think that's what tipped it in our favour," he said.
Conservatives won all but four of Alberta's 34 ridings in the 2021 election, with three of the four non-Conservative ridings in Edmonton.
Heather McPherson cruised to victory in 2021 in Edmonton Strathcona, with 60 per cent of the vote, and CBC is projecting that she will win her riding once again. At 11.55 p.m., McPherson had about 46.4 per cent of the vote.
"I'm very disappointed that there isn't more representation with other parties because Albertans deserve to have people fighting for them at every single table," she said Monday night.
"It's a lot of work on me. I feel the obligation and the pressure of that, that there are … a huge percentage of the population is progressive and they didn't get that with our electoral system. And so that's something I really want Canadians to think about."
McPherson said she heard many times on many doorsteps that people were voting to stop something, rather than voting for their values.
"They were trying to vote to stop something. They weren't trying to build something. And I want us to have a government where we're building something," she said.
Edmonton Centre was called late Monday night as a win for the Liberals. It's former Liberal cabinet minister Randy Boissonnault's old seat, and Eleanor Olszewski is projected to take up the mantle. As of 11:55 p.m., Olszewski was leading with 44.3 per cent of the vote and 177 out of 187 polls reporting.
Edmonton Mayor Amarjeet Sohi is projected to lose his bid for a Liberal seat in Edmonton Southeast. Conservative candidate Jagsharan Singh Mahal is projected to win there.
Conservatives have been projected to win in all the other Edmonton ridings:
- Billy Morin is projected to win in Edmonton Northwest.
- Ziad Aboultaif in Edmonton Manning.
- Matt Jeneroux in Edmonton Riverbend.
- Tim Uppal in Edmonton Gateway.
- Kelly McCauley in Edmonton West.
Aboultaif, who has represented Edmonton Manning since 2015, said he ran a boots-on-the-ground campaign.
"Campaigning is about hard work. We've been on the road for 36 days, working hard, hitting every door and responding to every call," he said.
"I did not look at the polls at all. I do believe the door. I believe what Canadians are telling me. I believe what Edmonton Manning is telling me. That's how I campaign, and the results show that I was right because the door is right."
Northern and central Alberta ridings results
The CBC decision desk has also projected the winning candidate in these central and northern Alberta ridings:
- Ponoka-Didsbury: Conservative Blaine Calkins.
- Red Deer: Conservative Burton Bailey.
- Battle River-Crowfoot: Conservative Damien Kurek.
- Leduc-Wetaskiwin: Conservative Mike Lake.
- Parkland: Conservative Dane Lloyd.
- St. Albert-Sturgeon River: Conservative Michael Cooper.
- Peace River-Westlock: Conservative Arnold Viersen.
- Lakeland: Conservative Shannon Stubbs.
- Fort McMurray-Cold Lake: Conservative Laila Goodridge.
- Grande Prairie: Conservative Chris Warkentin.