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EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is the last NDP premier in Canada following the party’s defeat in Manitoba’s general election, but she says she doesn’t view it that way.

“I like to see myself as not the last one standing but in fact the first in a new wave of NDP governments,” said Notley in an interview Wednesday.

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The Progressive Conservatives under Leader Brian Pallister trounced Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger’s New Democrats on Tuesday, winning a majority government.

The win ended more than 16 consecutive years of NDP majority government.

I like to see myself as not the last one standing but in fact the first in a new wave of NDP governments

A key factor cited for the loss was Selinger’s decision to break a promise and increase the provincial sales tax.

That decision, made in 2013, led to a cabinet revolt and a brutish, divisive party leadership campaign that saw Selinger barely cling to the top job.

The NDP fell in the polls after the tax was hiked to eight per cent from seven and never recovered.