Former MP Jason Kenney wins Alberta United Conservative leadership race
CALGARY — Former federal cabinet minister Jason Kenney has won the leadership of Alberta’s United Conservative Party.
The longtime Calgary MP, who held high-ranking positions in the government of Stephen Harper, captured 61 per cent of more than 58,000 votes to become the head of the new party in voting Saturday night.
Kenney takes over a new 27-member caucus and the Official Opposition to Premier Rachel Notley’s NDP government in the legislature.
“It’s another miracle on the Prairies,” Kenney told 2,000 cheering party members at the BMO Centre on the Stampede Grounds in Calgary, minutes before cannons blasted out tufts of blue and white confetti and matching balloons tumbled from the ceiling.


