Lethbridge-West byelection candidates are pleading with supporters to vote as experts call the race a toss-up at the 11th hour.
Nearly 7,000 residents cast a ballot during the advance voting stage, amounting to 18 per cent of eligible voters, according to Elections Alberta. It is down 10.3 per cent from the 2023 general election, which one expert says could shift the result, though it’s still primarily up in the air.
“Flip a coin. I think at the end of the day, the NDP is a bit more ahead, but given low voter turnout, who knows. John Middleton-Hope, I think, if he does win, you’re going to see that type of guy in cabinet. He’s a former police chief, councillor, law-and-order guy, but I think it’s too close to call with a narrow edge to the NDP,” said Duane Bratt, a political science professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary.
This uncertainty has …