Alberta’s NDP have launched their bid for the Calgary-Centre seat in an upcoming by-election.

Candidate Dan Meades and his crew welcomed a special guest Saturday afternoon in Calgary.

MP for Dartmouth-Cole Harbour, Robert Chisholm, stopped by Calgary and said, what appears to be an uphill battle comes down to one thing.

“No party owns the constituency, it’s the voters, it’s the people in that constituency that are going to make the decision on who they’re going to vote for,” he said. “And as soon as a party starts to take people for granted, that’s when change is ready to happen.”

Meades joins the Liberals Harvey Locke, Conservative Joan Crockatt along with the Green Party’s Chris Turner running for the seat vacated by Lee Richardson.

Voters go to the polls in Calgary-Centre on November 26th.

Meanwhile the Liberals are hitting to road to find out how its members want to redefine what the party stands for.

Executive Director Gerald McEachern said the need to re-brand became apparent after a survey a couple years ago.

“Eighty-nine per cent of people surveyed didn’t know what Liberal values were, what Liberals stood for, they got the platform issues, they got the policies,” he said. “They didn’t really get the substance of what it was to be a Liberal in Alberta and I think this is where we want to start.”

The party has already changed its primary colour from red to green as a part of the makeover.

The tour starts in Medicine Hat this weekend, and will be in Calgary near the end of November.