Английская Википедия:2021 Alberta Senate nominee election

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The 2021 Alberta Senate nominee election, formally the 5th Senate Nominee Election, was held in Alberta to help select (non-binding) nominees for appointment to represent Alberta in the Senate of Canada. The Senate election was held on October 18 in conjunction with the 2021 Alberta municipal elections.

Background

Alberta is the only province to hold elections for nominees to the Senate. These elections, held under Alberta's Senate Election Act, are not binding on the prime minister when he advises the governor general on appointments to the Senate. However, in the previous four senate elections, nine senate nominees have been selected; and, of these, five were appointed to the Senate of Canada.

The act also establishes that the number of Senate nominees is to be set by the Lieutenant Governor-in-Council when issuing the order in council. The current order in council sets the number of senate candidates to be selected as three.

Candidacy requirements

To be eligible to run as a senate candidate, a person had to be qualified under Section 23 of the Constitution Act (1867) and under Section 7 of the Alberta Senate Election Act. The prospective senate candidate also had to determine if they would be endorsed by a registered provincial party in Alberta or aligned with a federal party in Canada. Eligible, prospective senate candidates had to register under the Elections Finances and Contributions Disclosure Act prior to collecting their nomination signatures. Additionally, signatures could only be collected from between the date of the writ of election and nomination day, with candidates collecting at least 500 valid signatures, from eligible voters, in order to be placed on the ballot. Lastly, a $4,000 deposit had to be provided to Elections Alberta, before September 20, to become a fully nominated candidate.

Senate vacancies

The Alberta Senate Nominee Election will select three candidates, that may be chosen by the prime minister to fill the current single vacancy in the Senate:

• Senator Grant Mitchell resigned from the Senate on April 24, 2020.
• Senator Elaine McCoy died in December 2020.
• Karen Sorenson was appointed to the Senate on July 29, 2021, filling one of the two vacancies.

Electoral system

The election used block voting, to elect three Senate nominees.

Prospective candidates

Шаблон:As of, several prospective senate candidates had filed nomination papers with Elections Alberta. There were enough prospective candidates nominated that the ballot was not acclaimed.

Prospective Senate candidates

Candidate name	Provincial affiliation	Federal alignment	Registration date	Nomination accepted	On ballot
Rick Bonnett	Independent	Independent	September 17, 2021	September 17, 2021	Yes
Erika Barootes	Independent	Conservative Party of Canada	June 15, 2021	September 14, 2021	Yes
Pam Davidson	Independent	Conservative Party of Canada	June 30, 2021	September 15, 2021	Yes
Mykhailo Martyniouk	Independent	Conservative Party of Canada	August 5, 2021	September 10, 2021	Yes
Karina Pillay	Independent	Independent	September 14, 2021	September 15, 2021	Yes
Chad Jett Thunders Saunders	Independent	Independent	August 31, 2021	September 3, 2021	Yes
Sunil Sookram	Independent	Independent	July 20, 2021	August 19, 2021	Yes
Randy Hogle	N/A	N/A	July 28, 2021	N/A (withdrew)	No
Doug A. Horner	Independent	Independent	September 10, 2021	September 20, 2021	Yes
Duncan Kinney	Independent	Independent	April 14, 2021	September 16, 2021	Yes
Jeff Nielsen	Independent	Independent	August 23, 2021	September 16, 2021	Yes
Nadine R. Wellwood	Independent	People's Party of Canada	September 20, 2021	September 20, 2021	Yes
Ann McCormack	Independent	People's Party of Canada	September 20, 2021	September 20, 2021	Yes
Kelly Lorencz	Independent	People's Party of Canada	September 20, 2021	September 20, 2021	Yes

Results

By candidate

No candidate received votes from a majority of the 1.1M voters who voted.

The most popular candidate received votes from less than 38 percent of the voters.

As is often the case with block voting, one party took all the seats.

Official poll results as per report posted by Elections Alberta:

	Candidate	Party		Votes #	Votes %	Valid Ballots %	Elected	Appointed	Pam Davidson	Conservative		382,243	18.22%	54.56%	Шаблон:Y		Erika Barootes	Conservative		358,002	17.06%	51.10%	Шаблон:Y		Mykhailo Martyniouk	Conservative		237,228	11.31%	33.86%	Шаблон:Y		Doug Horner	Independent		179,455	8.55%	25.61%			Karina Pillay	Independent		144,168	6.87%	20.58%			Duncan Kinney	Independent		128,945	6.15%	18.40%			Ann Mccormack	People's		109,812	5.23%	15.67%			Kelly Lorencz	People's		107,176	5.11%	15.30%			Nadine Wellwood	People's		98,401	4.69%	14.04%			Jeff Nielsen	Independent		95,768	4.56%	13.67%			Rick Bonnett	Independent		93,277	4.45%	13.31%			Sunil Sookram	Independent		87,932	4.19%	12.55%			Chad Jett Thunders Saunders	Independent		75,514	3.60%	10.78%
Total				2,097,921		700,625
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined				418,203
Total Ballots Cast				1,118,828

By party

Affiliation		Seats	Total Votes	Votes %	Conservative	3	977,473	46.59%	Independent	0	805,059	38.37%	People's	0	315,389	15.03%
Total		3	2,097,921	100.00%

See also

• Alberta Senate nominee elections
• Elections Alberta