Good News Everyone!!! (The joysplosion thread)

There was a provincial election here today.

The so-called "Progressive Conservatives" have been in power for a long time. Longer than my lifetime. My older sister was born in the same year they took the reins from the previous in-power-for-way-too-long party.

Well, today the PCs were reduced to a mere twelve seats, third place behind the conservative Wild Rose party.

In first place? The NDP, the most left-wing of the major parties up here, with an outright majority in the legislature. Rachel Notley is our new premier. (Her brother is the cartoonist who draws Bob the Angry Flower.)

There were polls that suggested this could happen, but when you've had one party in power for that long you tend to get skeptical. This was a pleasant surprise.