Voters in oil-rich Alberta have swept the Progressive Conservative party from power after more than four decades of dynastic rule in which they won 12 straight elections. The decisive victory of the left-leaning New Democratic Party (NDP) represents a seismic shift with big repercussions for the province's oil and gas industry, which has prospered mightily since the Conservatives first came to power in 1971. It was a result that almost nobody predicted when Premier Jim Prentice called an early election last month to capitalize on his popularity and the general disarray among his opponents.
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