Texian Partisan Will Track Alberta’s Referendum Count Live, Division by Division

The Texian Partisan will carry Monday’s Alberta referendum count live on a results page that pulls official figures from Elections Alberta as the province posts them. The page, at texianpartisan.com/referendum-watch/alberta-2026, shows the count for each of Alberta’s 87 electoral divisions on a provincial map, with separate views of Calgary and Edmonton, and a table readers can search and sort by division.

Polls close at 9 p.m. Central, 8 p.m. in Alberta. Elections Alberta will post no results until every voting location in the province is confirmed closed. Ballots are counted by hand. Counting teams take the referendum question first, before the other nine questions on the ballot.

What readers will see

A Live Updates feed on the page will mark each milestone of the night as it happens: polls closing, the first results, each quarter of the count reported, any change in which option leads, and the final unofficial count. Texian Partisan editors will add short notes on which parts of the province have reported and what comes next.

The page reports the count. It does not call the result. Every figure on it stays unofficial until Elections Alberta announces the official results, scheduled for Thursday, October 29.

The Partisan will run the same kind of live results page for the Texas general election on November 3.

The question

Albertans are choosing between two options on the tenth and last question on their ballot: “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?”

A majority for the second option would not take Alberta out of Canada. It would direct the provincial government to begin the process toward a later, binding vote on independence. Order in Council 160/2026, which set the question, makes Monday’s result non-binding. The Partisan’s full guide to the vote covers the rules, the campaigns and the latest polling.

Albertans will answer a question their own government put on the ballot. Texans have not yet been given the same chance, and the Partisan has explained how Texas could hold a politically binding vote of its own.