Close battles as four Alberta Liberals go to Ottawa

October 20, 2015. It took the last polling stations in two ridings to confirm that Alberta was sending four Liberal MPs to Ottawa. Battles in Edmonton-Millwoods and Calgary Centre seesawed back and forth until after midnight. In Edmonton-Millwoods, Amarjeet Sohi won by 80 votes, garnering 20,399 to Conservative incumbent Tim Uppal’s 20,319. In Calgary Centre, Liberal Kent Hehr took 28,596 votes to Conservative incumbent Joan Crockatt’s 27,690. The two other winning Liberals are Randy Boissonnault in Edmonton Centre and Darshan Kang in Calgary Skyview. The Liberals ran one Aboriginal candidate in Alberta. Garry Parenteau placed second in the northern riding of Lakeland with a vote of 7,344; Conservative Shannon Stubbs won with 39,398.