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By Josh Hall
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Alberta NDP tout first non-incumbent candidate

Apr 20, 2026 | 5:30 PM

The Alberta NDP are touting their first non-incumbent candidate for the 2027 provincial election, and that candidate is in central Alberta.

Bev Toews will run for the party in Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills.

Toews ran for the Alberta NDP in the same constituency in June 2025, which was one of three byelections held last year.

Toews earned 3,063 votes, second-most to the 9,362 garnered by the UCP’s Tara Sawyer. The Republican Party of Alberta had its best showing in the riding, with 2,708 votes. Voter turnout was 38.8 per cent.

Toews’s nomination brings the NDP’s total to 14 candidates named for the election taking place Oct. 18, 2027

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“I am a proud Albertan and a proud Canadian, and I say that without hesitation,” said Toews, an educational assistant in Olds.

“In the last byelection, voters in our riding sent a clear message: separatism will lose in Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills. I am running because every community in rural Alberta deserves a representative who will fight for jobs, for health care, and for our place in this country — not gamble with it.”

Upcoming nomination meetings are listed at AlbertaNDP.ca/Events.

by Josh Hall

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