Edmonton Municipal Election Links
The past few days, I’ve been wondering aloud about where to find information on the candidates running in this year’s municipal election. Edmonton is set to vote in just 13 days, and I’ve seen surprisingly little in the way of campaign information.
The local media is one obvious source, but they tend to focus mostly on the mayoral candidates, and not on those seeking council seats.
The Internet would be the next obvious place to look. I’ve heard that all (or at least most) of the candidates have MySpace and Facebook profiles. The only problem with this is that I don’t even know the names of all the people running for council in my ward. If I don’t have names, I can’t look them up online.
One of the main reasons I don’t know the names of the candidates is that I haven’t seen very many campaign signs in my neighbourhood.
I’m all for saving the trees, but this is one instance where I really think that advertising is a necessary evil. Get your name in front of my eyes! Shove it in my face as many times as you can, that way, I’ll remember your name when election day comes.
I won’t vote based on name recognition alone (nor should anyone else), but it will help me to do more research, and find out if you’re the person I want to vote for.
Luckily, while trolling the Internet for “edmonton civil election 2007,” I came across Daveberta.ca, a blog dedicated to Alberta politics. Dave has been writing a lot about the Edmonton municipal election. He’s also gathered links to all of the candidates’ websites in one place.
If you’re looking for information about the candidates in the 2007 Edmonton municipal election, or anything related to politics in Alberta, I highly recommend checking out Dave’s blog.
If you have any other good sources of information regarding the 2007 municipal election, please share them in the comments section.
Yay for Daveberta! I’ve been reading Dave’s blog for a while, it is my source of Alberta politics blogging.
allan
2 Oct 07 at 5:53 pm
I actually came across his blog a few months ago, but didn’t bookmark it, and couldn’t remember the address or the name. Luckily, I’ve found it again.
Adam Snider
2 Oct 07 at 9:18 pm
Also, http://www.edmontonelection.ca/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
That’s the “official” election site. There’s a PDF download that lists all the candidates, and well as a downloadable ward map, just in case you don’t know which ward you’re in (it would have made good sense to combine these two documents into one, but hey).
Mike
10 Oct 07 at 10:54 am
Thanks, Mike. That’s definitely good to have. I didn’t even think to look there, because I didn’t think that the official election site would provide links to campaign websites. Thanks for the added information.
On a side note, Peter Lafaivre’s website is canadianredneck.ca. Does he really think that’s a wise choice of domain name for an election website? Of course, Bob Ligertwood decided to use the Naked Cyber Cafe’s website for his campaign, instead of setting up a website specifically for the campaign…
Maybe I spend too much time doing online marketing, but I really think those are both terrible choices for official campaign websites.
Adam Snider
10 Oct 07 at 11:05 am