{"id":939798,"date":"2026-10-20T07:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/939798\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T07:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:58:10","slug":"early-results-favour-remaining-in-canada-in-local-ridings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/939798\/","title":{"rendered":"Early results favour remaining in Canada in local ridings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early unofficial referendum results Monday night show voters in Airdrie-Cochrane and Banff-Kananaskis favouring Alberta remaining a province in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>With 53 of 92 polls reporting in Airdrie-Cochrane, Option 1 had received 15,948 votes, or about 65 per cent of the votes counted. Option 2 had received 8,577 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Option 2 asks whether the Alberta government should begin the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether Alberta should separate from Canada.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cochranenow.com\/articles\/live-alberta-referendum-2026--provincewide-results-and-updates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LIVE: Alberta referendum 2026 \u2014 Provincewide results and updates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Strong lead in Banff-Kananaskis<\/p>\n<p>Support for remaining in Canada was more pronounced in Banff-Kananaskis, where 18 of 64 voting areas had reported.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 20,907 votes counted, 17,467 favoured Option 1, or about 84 per cent. Option 2 had received 3,440 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Results in both ridings remained incomplete, with more votes still to be counted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goldenwestauctions.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"banner\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"a5d97ffb-cf39-4f6f-8049-f3841924b014\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/banner_21.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Early unofficial referendum results Monday night show voters in Airdrie-Cochrane and Banff-Kananaskis favouring Alberta remaining a province in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-939798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939798","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=939798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}