Open thread on the ALP leadership race – I will update once I see some results. Rest assured, you will get results here, long before CNN has them!<\/p>\n
UPDATE:<\/em><\/strong> The hotly contested David versus David ALP leadership race has ended with David Swann<\/span><\/span> emerging as the winner on the first ballot.<\/p>\n David Swann<\/span><\/span> <\/a>– 2,468 (54%) This comes as a bit of a surprise, as everyone expected the race to be a lot closer than this, and most people I’d talked to thought Taylor’s well run campaign would give him a ground game advantage. In the end, it appears that Swann<\/span><\/span> managed to bring a lot of new faces into the party and that they were simply more motivated to vote.<\/p>\n While I would have voted for Taylor myself were I still living in Alberta, I’ve always had immense respect for David Swann<\/span><\/span> as a person. As I said in my profile of him, you will never find a more genuine individual, politician or not. Although I have a lot of doubts about his electability in a right-of-centre province, I have nothing but the best of wishes for David, and I think he would make a fantastic Premier.<\/p>\n So what does it all mean?<\/p>\n I will say that a Swann<\/span><\/span> victory is certainly more intriguing than a Taylor one would have been. Swann<\/span><\/span> has been far more radical in his talk about working with the other opposition parties and of renaming the Alberta Liberal Party. He is probably the least conventional politician leading a major political party (using the term loosely<\/em>) in Canada right now, so it’s really hard to predict how he’ll fare. But given the current predictability of Alberta politics and that province’s history of Black Swan<\/a> elections, a little unpredictability might not be a bad thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Open thread on the ALP leadership race – I will update once I see some results. Rest assured, you will get results here, long before CNN has them! UPDATE: The hotly contested David versus David ALP leadership race has ended with David Swann emerging as the winner on the first ballot. David Swann – 2,468 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Dave Taylor<\/a> – 1,616 (35%)
Mo Elsalhy<\/span><\/span> <\/a>– 491 (11%)<\/p>\n