NDP MLA Rachel Notley talks in a file photo.(Christina Ryan/Calgary Herald) EDMONTON – Rachel Notley is the new leader of Alberta’s NDP.
The 50-year-old legislature member for Edmonton-Strathcona captured 70 per cent of the votes in party balloting.
She defeated fellow legislature member David Eggen and labour leader Rod Loyola in the race to replace Brian Mason.
NDP MLA Rachel Notley joined in as Health-care workers rally outside Health Minister Stephen Mandel’s campaign officein a file photo. (Photo by John Lucas/Edmonton Journal)
Mason, a former Edmonton city councillor, led the caucus for a decade, but plans to remain on as the MLA for Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood.
The party has just four members in the 87-seat legislature, but has enjoyed a recent resurgence in the polls and in fundraising.
Mason says disillusionment with the broken promises and self-indulgent spending of the Alison Redford era has voters looking for alternatives to the Progressive Conservatives.
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