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By Erika Rolling
Referendum Results

Referendum vote count continues

Oct 20, 2026 | 1:24 PM

UPDATE: October 20, 2:21 p.m.

Elections Alberta says 87 per cent of polls have now reported. 

In a breakdown by constituency, the remain side has gathered about 62 per cent of the vote in Grande Prairie, about 57.5 per cent in Grande Prairie Wapiti, 57 per cent in Peace River and 71 per cent in Lesser Slave Lake. 

The side in favour of having a binding referendum on separation has 50.6 per cent of the vote in Central Peace Notley.

Updated counts can be found here.

Votes are still being counted across Alberta after Monday’s historic referendum.

Elections Alberta says over 11.5 million ballots were cast over the 10 questions asked.

Over 4.4 million Albertans cast their ballots on election day, over 5.8 million eligible voters cast their ballots in advance, and just over 1 million requested and sent back their special ballots to be counted.

In the four Peace Region ridings, results of the hotly contested tenth question of: “Should Alberta remain a province of Canada, or should the Government of Alberta commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada?“, were closer to split decisions than overwhelmingly for or against.

Unofficial results for the tenth question are as below:

  • Central Peace – Notley (54 out of 60 polls counted)
    • 5,068 votes to remain
    • 5,275 votes for referendum
  • Grande Prairie (44 out of 52 polls counted)
    • 11,512 votes to remain
    • 6,893 votes for referendum
  • Grande Prairie – Wapiti (39 out of 81 polls counted)
    • 5,112 votes to remain
    • 3,766 votes for referendum
  • Peace River (68 of 69 polls counted)
    • 8,454 votes to remain
    • 6,248 votes for referendum

Click here for the latest results on the other nine referendum questions.

by Erika Rolling