https://sheldonyakiwchuk.substack.com/p/technically-speaking?
Yak is correct. Every candidate in the bi-election told the Indepence voters that they are wrong… so they stayed home because no one on the ballot represented them:
“Leverage was on the ballot in Calgary-Shaw.
Nobody ran for it.
The conservatives who wanted it were left politically homeless, and they never left the couch.

33 days from now, every Albertan answers a question that Calgary-Shaw just got asked first. Today, we’re going to sit with what that riding actually told us.

The conservatives in Calgary-Shaw who wanted more leverage with Ottawa were left politically homeless.
Every candidate on that ballot told them, one way or another, that their position wasn’t welcome.
And you don’t have to go digging through the poll-by-poll numbers to find out where they landed on election night.
They never left the couch.”