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EDMONTON — Elections Alberta says it has two recommendations on how to deal with the province’s next general vote ahead of a contentious report about new electoral boundaries being released to the public Monday.
The agency’s chief electoral officer suggests in a letter sent to Speaker Ric McIver, which was then shared by the Opposition NDP, that the Oct. 18, 2027 vote should be held with the current boundaries or the vote should be postponed.
Gordon McClure says, in either way, the agency will be allowed a sufficient timeline to execute the election with integrity and safeguards in place.
He says there’s already friction over the new boundaries suggested in the report, which has been put before an all-party legislative committee but not released publicly, and those disagreements could create delays.
Opposition NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi said this week that the report, which he was briefed on, gerrymanders ridings near two cities in southern Alberta — Lethbridge and Calgary.
He said if those boundaries are redrawn, NDP support would dilute in favour of the UCP, and he threatened legal action, while Premier Danielle Smith questioned why Nenshi was challenging the report’s integrity before its release.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 31, 2026.
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