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CALGARY — Danielle Smith has admitted some of the party’s most controversial policies may be dropped in the wake of the party’s stunning Alberta election defeat Monday night.

After the results saw the Wildrose almost shut out of the province’s major cities and northern Alberta, Ms. Smith said Liberal and NDP support of the Tories was partly to blame for her party’s defeat.

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She also claimed controversial statements by two inexperienced candidates cost her party, but stood by her refusal to distance herself from their remarks.

Alberta Election results PC 61 seats

Wildrose 17 seats

NDP 4 seats

Liberals 5 seats

“We have some soul-searching to do as a party,” she said. “Our members have now seen that some of our policies were rejected by Albertans, quite frankly.… We will be revisiting some of those. You can’t run a government if you don’t get sanction from the people.”

Under particular scrutiny will be the party’s proposal to create a provincial police force and Wildrose’s endorsement of conscience rights, which would allow a marriage commissioner refusing to perform a same-sex marriage, or a Catholic doctor to decline writing a prescription for birth control.