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Conservatives Recapture Greenway in Byelection

Mar 23, 2016 | 6:34 AM

CALGARY:  Alberta’s Progressive Conservative party managed to hang onto one of its handful of seats in the provincial legislature with a narrow victory over the Wildrose party on Tuesday.

It was a nail-biter of a night, with the race at times too close to call.

But in the end, the Wildrose’s Devinder Toor, a local businessman, conceded defeat to Tory candidate Prab Gill, a real-estate appraiser, who won by a 335-vote margin.

The bad news for the ruling NDP government was that their candidate, Roop Rai, a former radio host and producer, ended the night in fourth place behind the Liberal, property developer Khalil Karbani.

Calgary Greenway became vacant last November when Conservative legislature member Manmeet Bhullar was killed in a highway crash after he stopped to help a stranded motorist.

Bhullar was one of only 10 PCs who were left after Rachel Notley and the NDP won a majority in last May’s election and ended more than four straight decades of Conservative governments.