Incumbent Conservative Party of Canada MP Damien Kurek is set once again to represent the riding of Battle River- Crowfoot.
Kurek, 35, was first elected as an MP in the riding in 2019.
It was a dominant performance from Kurek in his second election, winning over 82.1 per cent of the vote, with more than 43,000 ballots cast in his favour.
"Thank you to Battle River-Crowfoot once again for the honour to serve. My promise to you is that I will work and fight to ensure you continue to be heard in the House of Commons," he said in a post on Facebook.
The national result was not what we hoped for, Conservatives made massive gains and will work to restore the Canadian promise.
Danielle and I appreciate your support, care, and the honour to continue to serve."
Kurek won more votes than he did 2021, when he collected 41,819 votes, or 71 per cent of the ballots cast. In his first election in 2019, he won 53,309 votes, for 85.5 per cent of the votes in the riding.
Liberal Party of Canada candidate Brent Sutton finished second with just over 10 per cent of the vote, with more than 5,500 ballots cast in his favour. NDP candidate James MacKay was third, PPC’s Jonathan Bridges was fourth and the Green Party’s Douglas Gook was fourth.
As an MP, Kurek had served as the Conservative Shadow Minister of Canadian Heritage.
Kurek, who grew up on a farm outside Consort, worked as a farmer and seasonally in the oil and gas sector before he became an MP.
In other Central Alberta ridings, it was a clean sweep for the Conservatives. Blaine Calkins won the Ponoka-Didsbury riding, Mike Lake was re-elected in Leduc-Wetaskiwin, Burton Bailey won in Red Deer and William Stevenson won the Yellowhead riding.
It was the Liberal Party of Canada that will form the federal government, winning a narrow minority with 165 seats. The Conservatives got 147 seats nation-wide.
“We’ve gained well over 20 seats. We got the highest share of votes our party has received since 1988. We denied the NDP and Liberals enough seats to form a coalition government. And we did all this in a very difficult environment,” said Poilievre.
“That said, we are cognizant of the fact that we didn’t get quite over the finish line yet. We know that change is needed, but change is hard to come by. It takes time, it takes work. That’s why we have to learn the lessons of tonight, so we can have an even better result the next time Canadians decide the future for the country.”
