The provincial election results left many people shaking their heads. The results were a much different picture than what a string of pre-election polls were predicting.
A series of public opinion polls were publicizing a win for the Wildrose, and possibly a majority government.
So how could pollsters get it so wrong? A high profile polling firm says polls are not designed to be predictable.
"They're not designed to say what would you do a week from today or two weeks from today or a month from today," said Ian Large with Leger Marketing.
The Wildrose faced some setbacks in the final days of the campaign, with controversial comments about race and sexual orientation by a couple of candidates.
The majority of the polls were conducted before controversial comments were made.
The methodology used by firms could also have played a role in unreliable results.
"We have higher response rates from older Albertans, from rural Albertans and so on and who knows exactly what the explanations are but the Wildrose base is more rural, it's more elderly and as a result I think there was a small part of the polling results that might reflect that bias," said Harvey Krahn, sociology professor with the University of Alberta.
Polling analysts are also attributing the discrepancy to the strategic voter card, and the possibility of a drastic change in government sent more voters to the polls - some cast their ballots for candidates they wouldn't otherwise support to prevent the Wildrose from taking power.
With files from Serena Mah and Laura Tupper
