Voting wrapped up Thursday night as roughly 85,000 members of the United Conservatives got ready to choose a leader, who will become premier.
CALGARY—After the second ballot in the United Conservative leadership race, media personality Danielle Smith is leading the race to replace Jason Kenney as premier of Alberta.
Smith currently has 41 per cent of the vote, followed by former Kenney finance minister Travis Toews, with almost 30 per cent. The count is now considering the second choices of votes cast for MLAs Leela Aheer and Rajan Sawhney, who recieved the lowest number of votes. The result was announced in a cavernous hall in downtown Calgary Thursday night, after close to 85,000 members of the province’s United Conservative Party cast a ballot for a new leader who, in the coming weeks, will be sworn in as premier.
Several hundred people party members and a smattering of UCP MLAs mingled in the cavernous hall in downtown Calgary to await results Thursday night. Campaign adversaries, fellow legislature staffers and grassroots members in a mix of semi-formal wear, blazers and the odd cowboy hat sipped expensive beer, snacked on fries, and discussed how the ranked ballot will play out.
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