With nine weeks left in Alberta’s United Conservative Party (UCP) leadership race, seven candidates are running for the job of party leader and provincial premier.
Running in the race are UCP MLA and former opposition Wildrose party leader Danielle Smith and UCP MLAs Travis Toews, Brian Jean, Rebecca Schulz, Rajan Sawhney, and Leela Aheer, as well as Independent MLA Todd Loewen, who was expelled from the UCP caucus last year for criticizing Premier Jason Kenney’s COVID-19 response.
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If polls are to be taken as an indication of party members’ votes in the leadership race, Smith is the perceived front-runner. A rolling poll conducted by Mainstreet Research for political advocacy group Take Back Alberta showed Smith winning on the sixth ballot with 58.1 percent of support on Aug. 16….