Two Calgary communities vote in by-elections

It’s voting day for two federal ridings in Calgary.

Seats in Calgary-Heritage and Calgary-Midnapore are up for grabs after the resignation of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the departure of Jason Kenney to pursue the Alberta PC Leadership.

Mount Royal University Political Scientist Lori Williams says these ridings are both Tory strongholds and even party brass seem to think the outcomes are pretty much foregone conclusions.

“The candidates are not well known and overall we are not seeing a whole lot of interesting activity,” Williams told CityNews.

She said outside of a couple visits from Prime Minister Trudeau, the Liberals haven’t poured much in the way of resources into their candidates.

However Williams said strange things can happen in by-elections.

“It is people saying, ‘I am going to take a chance or vote against type because it will only effect one seat’.”

Polling stations are open 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., and 660 NEWS will have full coverage of the results once they start coming in.

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