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Vol. 14, No. 22, Wednesday, April 17, 2019 www.LamontLeader.com
UCP wins Alberta Jackie Armstrong-Homeniuk wins Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville Riding Fort-Veg. results
Provincial results (Unofficial) United Conservative Party......... 63 Ridings New Democratic Party.............24 Ridings Others.................................0 Ridings
Premier-Designate Jason Kenney United Conservative Party
Vote Count Percentage UCP 55%, NDP 32.1% AP 9.3% Others 3.6%
Fort-Veg. Constituency MLA-Elect Jackie Armstrong-Homeniuk
(89 of 96 reporting Unofficial) Jackie Armstrong-Homeniuk United Conservative Party...................9,241 Jessica Littlewood New Democatic Party...........................5,020 Marvin Olsen Alberta Party..........................................2,353 Malcolm Stinson Freedom Conservative Party..................255 Rebecca Trotter Green Party...............................................203 Shane Ladouceur Alberta Independence Party...................196 Ron Malowany Alberta Advantage Party........................194
4 hard-working years couldn’t save Littlewood from UCP wave BY JOHN MATHER Jessica Littlewood’s tenure as the MLA for Fort Saskatchewan Vegreville came to an abrupt end last night. United Conservative Party candidate Jackie Armstrong Homeniuk defeated Littlewood. From the time the first polls started reporting to having three quarter of the polls reporting, Armstrong Homeniuk held steady tallying more than 50 per cent of the votes total. Armstrong Homeniuk was swept in as the Jason Kenney-led UCP steam engine rolled across the province, throwing the governing NDP party out after only one term – a first in the province’s history. Provincial television networks declared a UCP majority just 40 minutes after the polls closed. Early polls from Two Hills and other rural areas of the constituency put Armstrong Homeniuk into the early lead and she never looked back.
In Fort Saskatchewan, where Littlewood won big in 2015, the incumbent only won five polls and she was shut out in Vegreville. The other smaller towns of Bruderheim, Lamont, Mundare, Chipman and Andrew were solidly behind Armstrong Homeniuk. Alberta Party candidate Marvin Olsen attracted a little more than 13 per cent of the votes to finish in third place. The remaining candidates, Malcolm Stinson of the Freedom Conservative Party; Shane Ladouceur of the Alberta Independence Party; Rebecca Trotter, of the Green Party of Alberta; and Ron Malowany of the Alberta Advantage Party each polled little more than one per cent of the ballots cast. Turnout on election day was surprisingly low following record numbers coming out to the advance poll said returning officer for the constituency, Howard Huston. The advanced polls across the con-
stituency were very high with 5,423 voting in Fort Saskatchewan, while 1,530 voted at the advance poll in Vegreville and 432 voted at the twoday mobile poll in Lamont. Of those advance votes, in Fort Saskatchewan 508 were out of the electoral district; in Vegreville 150 were outside the electoral district; and in Lamont 150 were outside the electoral district. Those ballots outside of the electoral division won’t be counted until today and could take several days to count. “That’s a big turnout for us,“ he said. “We have about 36,000 eligible voters and we’ve had close to 8,000 votes before the main election day.” The total vote count was hovering near the 50 per cent mark as the paper went to press. He added some advance voters would travel outside the electoral district by voting at polls in Sherwood
Park or Vermilion. Those ballots won’t be tallied until today. None of the candidates were available for interviews prior to going to press.
Outgoing NDP Jessica Littlewood Former Fort Sask.-Vegreville MLA