Press time results from nearby ridings

By ANNA SMITH Local Journalism Initiative on April 29, 2025.

asmith@medicinehatnews.com

Within the riding of Bow River, Conservative David Bexte secured the seat with roughly 83.7% of votes when the riding was called by CBC, a sharp rise from the 69.76% support gathered by Martin Shields in the 2021 federal election.

This was followed by 12.9% support for Liberal candidate Bentley Barnes, 2.2% for NDP candidate Louisa Gwin, 0.7% for Christian Heritage candidate Tom Lipp and United Party of Canada candidate Aaron Patton with 0.5%.

Conservative candidate Rachael Thomas maintained her seat with 63.8% of the vote in Lethbridge when the riding was called.

Liberal candidate Chris Spearman followed with 29.8% of the vote, Nathan Svoboda taking 3.2% support for the NDP, Amber Murray with 0.6% for the Green Party, 0.9% for Clara Piedalue and the People’s Party of Canada and Marc Slingerland with 1.7% support for the Christian Heritage Party.

This is an increase in support for the UCP from the 55.65% of the vote in 2021.

Swift Current-Grasslands-Kindersley is a new riding redistributed in the 2022 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution. Its predecessor riding, Cypress Hills-Grasslands, carried forward incumbent Jeremy Patzer, who retained his seat with roughly 82.5% of the vote when the riding was called.

He is followed by William Caton of the Liberal Party with 10.4% of the vote, Alex McPhee securing 6% support for the NDP and independent Maria Rose Lewans with 1.2%.

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