Elections Alberta is requesting nearly sixty million dollars for the 2026-27 fiscal year, citing the funding is needed to cover referendum expenses, help prepare for next year’s provincial election and support the agency’s operations.
Chief Electoral Officer Gordon McClure says last month’s referendum is expected to cost roughly eighty-four point three million dollars, with more than more than twenty-two million ballots counted by hand at hundreds of locations throughout the province, exceeding the total number of ballots cast across Canada during the 2025 federal election. He said more than forty-seven thousand Albertans were needed to help deliver the vote.
According to Elections Alberta, the supplemental funding request has been approved by the Standing Committee on Legislative Offices.
