2011 Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta leadership election

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2011 Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta leadership election
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Candidate Alison Redford Gary Mar Doug Horner
Party Progressive Conservative Progressive Conservative Progressive Conservative
Second ballot37,10135,491Eliminated
Percentage51.11%48.89%Eliminated
First ballot11,12724,1958,635
Percentage18.74%40.76%14.55%
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Candidate Ted Morton Rick Orman Doug Griffiths
Party Progressive Conservative Progressive Conservative Progressive Conservative
Second ballotEliminatedEliminatedEliminated
PercentageEliminatedEliminatedEliminated
First ballot6,9626,0052,435
Percentage11.73%10.12%4.10%
Leader before election

Ed Stelmach

Elected Leader

Alison Redford

2011 Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta leadership election
DateSeptember 17, 2011 (2011-09-17) (1st ballot)
October 1, 2011 (2011-10-01) (2nd & 3rd ballot)
ConventionCalgary Metropolitan Centre (1st ballot)
Edmonton Expo Centre (2nd & 3rd ballot)
Resigning leader Ed Stelmach
Won by Alison Redford
Ballots3
Candidates6
Entrance Fee$40,000 ($15,000 refundable)
Spending limitnone
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta leadership elections

The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta leadership election, 2011 was prompted by Ed Stelmach's announcement that he would not be seeking re-election in the 28th general election and therefore would be resigning as leader of the Progressive Conservatives. With the Progressive Conservatives forming the Alberta government, the winner of the election consequently became Premier of Alberta.

Contents

Stelmach provided official notice of resignation on May 27, 2011. The PC Association then announced the timeline of the election, with the nomination deadline on July 15, and the first ballot on September 17. As no candidate had over 50% of the vote, the second ballot, with the top three candidates, took place on October 1, 2011. Upon no candidate receiving over 50% on that ballot, the second preference votes were added, and Alison Redford was declared the leader, after Gary Mar received the most votes on the first and second ballots.

Declared candidates

Doug Griffiths

MLA for Battle River-Wainwright since 2002. [1]

Support from caucus members: 2 Doug Griffiths, Kyle Fawcett [2]
Support from outside caucus:
Date campaign launched: February 16, 2011
Doug Horner

MLA for Spruce Grove-Sturgeon-St. Albert since 2001. Served in the cabinet from 2004 to 2011. [3]

Support from caucus members: 14 Doug Horner, Ray Danyluk, Hector Goudreau, Jack Hayden, Frank Oberle, Jr., Luke Ouellette, Lindsay Blackett, Jeff Johnson, Wayne Drysdale, Dave Quest, Diana McQueen, Ken Kowalski, Len Mitzel, Pearl Calahasen [4]
Additional supporters from caucus after first ballot: Carl Benito, Don Getty
Date campaign launched: February 4, 2011
Gary Mar

MLA from 1993 to 2007. Served in the cabinet from 1993 to 2006. Alberta representative in Washington, D.C. from 2007 to 2011. [5]

Support from caucus members: 27 Iris Evans, [6] Cindy Ady, Lloyd Snelgrove, Thomas Lukaszuk, Ron Liepert, Heather Klimchuk, Rob Renner, Mary Anne Jablonski, Verlyn Olson, George Rogers, Yvonne Fritz, Moe Amery, Len Webber, Teresa Woo-Paw, Neil Brown, Broyce Jacobs, Naresh Bhardwaj, Fred Horne, Dave Hancock, Mel Knight, Ray Prins, Barry McFarland, Richard Marz, Ty Lund, Arno Doerksen, George VanderBurg, Alana DeLong [7]
Additional supporters from caucus after first ballot: Ted Morton, [8] Doug Griffiths, [9] Jonathan Denis, [10] Ken Allred, Evan Berger, Manmeet Bhullar, George Groeneveld [11]
Support from outside caucus: Gary Mar, Lorne Taylor, [12] Ralph Klein, [13] Danny Williams, [14] Steve West, [15] Rick Orman [8]
Date campaign launched: March 16, 2011
Ted Morton

MLA for Foothills-Rocky View since 2004. Served in the cabinet from 2006 to 2011. Third place finisher in the 2006 leadership race. [16]

Support from caucus members: 11 Ted Morton, Ken Allred, David Xiao, Doug Elniski, Carl Benito, Tony Vandermeer, Peter Sandhu, Jonathan Denis, Dave Rodney, Evan Berger, George Groeneveld.
Support from outside caucus:
Date campaign launched: January 25, 2011
Rick Orman

MLA for Calgary Montrose from 1986 to 1993. Minister of Career Development and Employment from 1986 to 1988. Minister of Labour from 1988 to 1989. Minister of Energy from 1989 to 1992. [17]

Support from caucus members:
Support from outside caucus: Rick Orman
Date campaign launched: May 11, 2011
Redford campaigning in Calgary in May Alison Redford 2011 campaign.jpg
Redford campaigning in Calgary in May
Alison Redford

MLA for Calgary-Elbow since 2008 and minister of justice from 2008 to 2011. [18]

Support from caucus members: 2 Alison Redford, Art Johnston [19]
Additional support from caucus after first ballot: Doug Elniski, [20] Dave Rodney, David Xiao, Kyle Fawcett [21]
Support from outside caucus:
Date campaign launched: February 16, 2011

Results

First ballot

The leading candidate in each riding on the first ballot. Alberta 2011 PC Leadership 1.png
The leading candidate in each riding on the first ballot.

The first ballot was on September 17, 2011. [22]

CandidateVotesPercentage
Gary Mar 24,19540.76
Alison Redford 11,12718.74
Doug Horner 8,63514.55
Ted Morton 6,96211.73
Rick Orman 6,00510.12
Doug Griffiths 2,4354.10
Total59,359100.00

Two days following the first ballot, Morton and Orman decided to endorse Mar. [8] Griffiths followed the next day.

Second ballot

The leading candidate in each riding on the second ballot. Alberta 2011 PC Leadership 2.png
The leading candidate in each riding on the second ballot.

A preferential ballot was cast on October 1, 2011. Because no candidate received more than 50% of the vote on the first count, the third-place finisher was dropped, and the second preference votes cast on Horner's ballots were counted and added to the remaining candidate's totals. Mar led after the first round, and Horner was eliminated. After second preferences were applied, Redford was declared the winner.

CandidateRound 1 [23] Round 2 [24]
VotesPercentageVotesPercentage
Alison Redford 28,99337.0937,10151.11
Gary Mar 33,23342.5135,49148.89
Doug Horner 15,95020.40Eliminated
Total78,176100.0072,592100.00

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