{"id":807926,"date":"2026-07-17T13:41:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/807926\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T13:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:41:27","slug":"alberta-ndp-leader-naheed-nenshi-to-seek-calgary-seat-in-next-election-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/807926\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi to seek Calgary seat in next election \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

EDMONTON \u2013 Alberta\u2019s NDP leader says he\u2019ll seek a Calgary seat in the next general vote instead of running for re-election in Edmonton.<\/p>\n

Naheed Nenshi, who was mayor of Calgary for 11 years before switching to provincial politics, announced his decision Thursday in an online letter to his constituents in Edmonton-Strathcona.<\/p>\n

He says in the letter that he\u2019s \u201cthrilled every day\u201d to serve as the member of Edmonton-Strathcona, but is making the move to represent the communities where he grew up and made much of his professional and political life.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNaheed Nenshi delivers his acceptance speech after being named as the new leader of the Alberta NDP in Calgary, Saturday, June 22, 2024.THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Jeff McIntosh<\/p>\n

He also says the NDP needs to win more seats in Calgary, and that he\u2019s \u201chappy to be part of that battle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nenshi\u2019s byelection win in Edmonton-Strathcona in June 2025 came almost a year after he won the party\u2019s leadership race to replace former premier Rachel Notley, who also represented the Edmonton constituency.<\/p>\n

He won the byelection with more than 82 per cent of the vote.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs you may know, we are in the midst of an illegitimate and corrupt process to redraw the electoral map. There will be legal challenges. Once we have a finalized (and hopefully fair!) map, I\u2019ll announce which Calgary riding,\u201d Nenshi wrote, referring to an ongoing review of provincial riding maps.<\/p>\n

Nenshi has accused Premier Danielle Smith\u2019s United Conservative government of using the review to rig the next election.<\/p>\n

The government has said it\u2019s about ensuring there\u2019s fair representation for rural areas.<\/p>\n

Nenshi says in Thursday\u2019s letter that he will continue to serve as representative of Edmonton-Strathcona until the next general election in October 2027.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will open up Edmonton-Strathcona for a new representative from this beautiful community,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI am informing you today so that the incredible constituency association in this riding has time for a healthy and robust nomination process to select a candidate and a future MLA worthy of representing you.\u201d<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 16, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2013 Alberta\u2019s NDP leader says he\u2019ll seek a Calgary seat in the next general vote instead of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-807926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}