in what universe is saskatchewan more conservative than alberta? was there ever federal elections where sk voted more right-wing than ab? even with edmonton and calgary, alberta is far more conservative.
Admittedly, none yet (in recent history at least, I'm not going back to the days of UFA). In 2019, Conservatives got 69.2% (+2.2% for PPC) in AB and 64.3% (+1.8% for PPC) in SK*. In 2015, the numbers were 59.5% in AB and only 48.5% in SK. By the next election, Sask may well overtake Alberta, but IMO these numbers overlook the fact that a lot of that Alberta vote is coming from Edmonton and Calgary, places where a lot of people vote Tory because of regionalism and oil issues. That's not to say that Alberta is some amazingly liberal place, even compared to Sask - it's probably a very close fight between the two.
Think of SK as West Virginia (or, for a closer example, rural Minnesota) and of AB as Oklahoma.
* For some inexplicable reason I had to go to French Wikipedia to get these popular vote results by province - they are literally nowhere else wiki et médias anglaises de tabarnak
Yeah, it greatly depends how "conservatism" is being discussed here. Alberta is probably the most capitalist, for example, but Saskatchewan probably has the most "fit in or f**k off" attitude.
