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Michaela Glasgo wins Brooks-Medicine Hat riding

Apr 16, 2019 | 8:58 PM

MEDICINE HAT, AB — Michaela Glasgo will represent the Brooks-Medicine Hat riding for the next four years.

CHAT News is calling The United Conservative Party as the unofficial winners in the riding. With 102 of 108 polls reporting, Glasgo has received 61 per cent of the vote.

Glasgo was a former press secretary to United Conservative Party MLA Drew Barnes, and received the party nomination in 2018.

 

NDP candidate Lynn MacWilliam is currently projected to finish in second place, receiving 20 per cent of the vote.

Independent candidate Todd Beasley is currently projected to finish in third place, and has received 10 per cent of the vote. Beasley also sought the nomination for the United Conservative Party in the riding before being disqualified days before the voted after anti-Islam social media posts were discovered.

Jim Black with the Alberta Party, who previously ran in the 2015 election, is currently projected to finish in fourth place, receiving 6.6 per cent of the vote.

Collin Pacholek with the Alberta Independence Party is expected to finish in fifth place, and currently is four votes ahead of Jamah Farah with the Alberta Liberal Party

Brooks-Medicine Hat was created after boundary changes in 2017. The Electoral Boundaries Commission made the changes due to increased population growth in Alberta cities, compared to smaller growth in rural areas.

The new riding includes Redcliff, Brooks, Bassano Tilley and Suffield, among other communities.

More to come.