You have to go all the way back to 1982 and a couple of disgruntled former Social Credit MLAs to find anybody who ran as an independent candidate and won in an Alberta election. Reach back farther to 1967, and a Cochrane rancher named Clarence Copithorne, for a case of a never-elected outsider who won as an independent candidate.
In the decades since, dozens have tried and failed — often spectacularly — to beat established parties without a partisan banner of their own.
So why would it be any different when former county reeve Tim Hoven runs as an independent against former
