Results are in: Seven PC nominees selected Saturday

CALGARY – Seven PC nomination votes were held across the province Saturday. There’s 23 nominations but only seven ridings are available.

Members voted for their representatives in the next provincial election, providing more signs that a spring election may be in the cards.

The results are in. Here are the following PC candidates elected Saturday.

Mark Hlady is the PC candidate for Calgary-Mountain View.

Craig Copeland is the PC candidate in Bonnyville-Cold Lake.

Blake Pedersen is the PC candidate in Medicine Hat.

Richard Gotfried is the PC candidate in Calgary- Fish Creek.

Rus Matichuk is officially the PC candidate for Spruce Grove-St. Albert.

Sandra Jansen is officially the candidate in Calgary-North West.

Tammy Cote is the PC Alberta candidate in Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre.

Premier Jim Prentice cast his ballot at the PC nomination for Calgary-Mountain View and said their so called ‘super-Saturday felt great, “it’s not quite spring but it feels great.”

“Democracy is in the air. We have great candidates running in the constituency that I live in and seven really important races that are happening across the province,” Prentice said.

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“What’s important through these nomination contests is that we see renewal of the party, we see talented new men and women stepping forward. I’m really excited that that is happening.”

Prentice said he was excited to see a lot of young people coming forward.

“In terms of incumbents, we’re a strong team. We have a team of men and women that work hard with each other, have each other’s backs.”

When asked if Alberta can expect a spring election, Prentice said “Albertans can expect spring and it’s not far away.”

“We’re in challenging times. The province hasn’t seen these kinds of  economic circumstances in a long time and certainly have not seen a collapse in public revenue the way we have as a result of low oil prices, in a generation. So these are tough times for us. We’re resilient, we’ll get through this, we’re a strong province. But there are some very important choices to be made and Albertans need to have a say in that,” Prentice said.