2021 Alberta Senate nominee election

To be eligible to run as a senate candidate, a person had to be qualified under Section 23 of the Constitution Act (1867)[5] and under Section 7 of the Alberta Senate Election Act.[3] The prospective senate candidate also had to determine if they would be endorsed by a registered provincial party in Alberta or aligned with a federal party in Canada.[6] Eligible, prospective senate candidates had to register under the Elections Finances and Contributions Disclosure Act[7] prior to collecting their nomination signatures. Additionally, signatures could only be collected from between the date of the writ of election and nomination day, with candidates collecting at least 500 valid signatures, from eligible voters, in order to be placed on the ballot. Lastly, a $4,000 deposit had to be provided to Elections Alberta, before September 20,[8] to become a fully nominated candidate.[6]

The Alberta Senate Nominee Election will select three candidates, that may be chosen by the prime minister to fill the current single vacancy in the Senate:

• Senator Grant Mitchell resigned from the Senate on April 24, 2020.[9]
• Senator Elaine McCoy died in December 2020.[10]
• Karen Sorenson was appointed to the Senate on July 29, 2021, filling one of the two vacancies.[11]

No candidate received votes from a majority of the 1.1M voters who voted.

The most popular candidate received votes from less than 38 percent of the voters.

As is often the case with block voting, one party took all the seats.[14]

Official poll results as per report posted by Elections Alberta:[15]

	Candidate	Party		Votes #	Votes %	Valid Ballots %	Elected	Appointed
	Pam Davidson	Conservative		382,243	18.22%	54.56%	Y
	Erika Barootes	Conservative		358,002	17.06%	51.10%	Y
	Mykhailo Martyniouk	Conservative		237,228	11.31%	33.86%	Y
	Doug Horner	Independent		179,455	8.55%	25.61%
	Karina Pillay	Independent		144,168	6.87%	20.58%
	Duncan Kinney	Independent		128,945	6.15%	18.40%
	Ann Mccormack	People's		109,812	5.23%	15.67%
	Kelly Lorencz	People's		107,176	5.11%	15.30%
	Nadine Wellwood	People's		98,401	4.69%	14.04%
	Jeff Nielsen	Independent		95,768	4.56%	13.67%
	Rick Bonnett	Independent		93,277	4.45%	13.31%
	Sunil Sookram	Independent		87,932	4.19%	12.55%
	Chad Jett Thunders Saunders	Independent		75,514	3.60%	10.78%
Total				2,097,921		700,625
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined				418,203
Total Ballots Cast				1,118,828