2025 Alberta provincial by-elections

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2025 Alberta provincial by-elections
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  2024 June 23, 2025 Next  

3 of the 87 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
 First partySecond partyThird party
 
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Leader Naheed Nenshi Danielle Smith Cameron Davies
Party New Democratic United Conservative Republican
Leader since June 22, 2024 October 6, 2022 April 11, 2025
Last election49.73% [a] 46.60% [a] 0.18% [b]
Seats up210
Races won210
Seat changeSteady2.svgSteady2.svgSteady2.svg
Popular vote15,34013,9163,061
Percentage45.80%41.55%9.14%
SwingDecrease2.svg 3.93%Decrease2.svg 5.05%Increase2.svg 8.96%
Seat change summary in
the Legislative Assembly

87 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
44 seats needed for a majority
PartyLeaderSeats+/–
United Conservative Danielle Smith 47+1
New Democratic Naheed Nenshi 38+2
Independent N/A20
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Three provincial by-elections were held in the Canadian province of Alberta on June 23, 2025, to fill vacancies in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.

Contents

The by-elections are considered to be important regarding the government of Danielle Smith as well as Alberta separatism. [1]

Background

On May 26, 2025, by-elections were scheduled for the ridings of Edmonton-Ellerslie, Edmonton-Strathcona, and Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills whose MLA's had resigned after taking their seats in the 2023 Alberta general election. The three elections were scheduled for the same day. The elections were scheduled just two months after the 2025 Canadian federal election which brought about an increased interest in Alberta separatism following the Liberal Party of Canada's fourth consecutive electoral victory. The elections also allowed the new Alberta NDP leader Naheed Nenshi an opportunity to take a seat in the Legislative Assembly, after his decision to not stand for election in the previous December 2024 by-election in Lethbridge-West. Nenshi opted to run in Edmonton-Strathcona, the riding of his predecessor Rachel Notley.

In May 2025, the Independence Party of Alberta and the Republican Party of Alberta signed a memorandum of understanding, which sought to advance and unify the independence movement in Alberta. The parties worked together to select candidates who ran under the Republican banner in the 2025 Alberta provincial by-elections. [2]

Seats for election
SeatPrevious MLAPrevious partyVacant since
Edmonton-Strathcona Rachel Notley New Democratic December 30, 2024
Edmonton-Ellerslie Rod Loyola New Democratic March 25, 2025
Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills Nathan Cooper United Conservative May 22, 2025

Results by riding

Electoral districtCandidatesIncumbent
NDPUCPRepublicanWLCOther
Edmonton-Ellerslie
(details)
Gurtej Singh Brar
4,327
50.84%
Naresh Bhardwaj
3,239
38.06%
Fred Munn
291
3.42%
Pamela Henson
41
0.48%
Manpreet Tiwana (Liberal)
410
4.82%
Caroline Currie (Alberta)
203
2.39%
Rod Loyola
Edmonton-Strathcona
(details)
Naheed Nenshi
7,952
82.28%
Darby-Rae Crouch
1,314
13.60%
Ravina Chand
65
0.67%
Jesse Stretch
24
0.25%
Don Slater (Liberal)
195
2.02%
Samuel Petrov (Alberta)
115
1.19%
Rachel Notley
Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills
(details)
Beverley Toews
3,061
19.98%
Tara Sawyer
9,363
61.12%
Cameron Davies
2,705
17.66%
Bill Tufts
189
1.23%
Nathan Cooper

Note: Bold indicates party leader.

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 Percentage of votes cast in the ridings of Edmonton-Ellerslie, Edmonton-Strathcona, and Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills in the 2023 Alberta general election.
  2. Percentage of votes cast in the ridings of Edmonton-Ellerslie, Edmonton-Strathcona, and Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills in the 2023 Alberta general election (when the party was known as the Buffalo Party).

References

  1. "Alberta Premier, Danielle Smith, calls 3 byelections where NDP leader and separatist leader to run | Globalnews.ca". Global News. Retrieved May 27, 2025.
  2. "Alberta's Republican and Independence parties join forces, react to Smith and separatism". rdnewsNOW. Pattison Media. May 6, 2025. Retrieved July 12, 2025.