Now there's a new map designed to give the UCP government an electoral advantage. It splits city neighbourhoods, combines urban and rural voters, and makes it harder to defeat the governing party.
And Albertans never got a public hearing to challenge it.
Danielle Smith wants to choose her voters. It's supposed to be the other way around.
Tell Danielle Smith to stop the cheat.
Sign the petition to demand fair electoral boundaries before the 2027 election and tell the Premier and Legislature to implement the independent map already produced.
An independent commission spent months consulting Albertans and drawing new boundaries. Smith's government rejected its majority recommendations, created a replacement process and eliminated public hearings.
Lethbridge currently has two urban ridings. Under the new proposal, the city would be divided among four districts, three stretching into rural southern Alberta.
In northwest Calgary, three ridings would also combine urban neighbourhoods with surrounding rural communities.
The UCP government wins more support in rural Alberta. The NDP is stronger in the cities.
Combining urban and rural communities in these new districts gives the UCP government an electoral advantage and makes competitive seats harder to win. The government has taken a process meant to protect fair representation and turned it into a partisan exercise.
Alberta's electoral boundaries are supposed to reflect population changes and keep communities together wherever possible. Instead, the government rejected an independent commission's work, removed public hearings and produced a map that serves its political interests.
The proposed boundaries aren't law yet. There's still time to stop them.
Demand the government reject the proposed map, restore independent oversight and give Albertans a genuine say in how their electoral boundaries are drawn.
Gerrymandering is the practice of drawing electoral boundaries to favour a political party. It works by concentrating opposition voters in a small number of districts or splitting them across several districts where their votes have less influence.
Lethbridge currently has two urban ridings, represented by one UCP government MLA and one NDP MLA. The proposed boundaries divide the city among four districts. Three include large rural areas where the UCP government has historically performed well. The new boundaries would change the electoral balance without anyone changing their vote.
The commission delivered its final report in March 2026. Smith's government rejected its majority recommendations and established a new advisory process. The replacement panel of partisans did not conduct public hearings.
University of Alberta political scientist Jared Wesley has identified three problems: the loss of independent oversight and public consultation, the division of established communities, and boundaries that favour the governing party. He argues the proposed map amounts to gerrymandering.
No. The proposed map was tabled in the Alberta Legislature on November 2, 2026. The Legislature has yet to adopt it.
Reject the proposed map. Restore an independent process with meaningful public hearings. Draw electoral boundaries based on population and communities, without giving any political party an unfair advantage.
Alberta voters should choose their politicians. Not the other way around!
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