By The Canadian Press

Byelection for Medicine Hat Cardston Warner 5 weeks away

Sep 19, 2016 | 6:34 AM

MEDICINE HAT –  Voters in the southern Alberta federal riding of Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner will head to the polls in a byelection on October 24th.

Conservative Jim Hillyer had represented the riding but died of a heart attack in his Parliament Hill office earlier this year.

Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner was a new riding in the 2015 election — it was formerly Medicine Hat.

The last time Medicine Hat voters elected an M-P who was not from a right-of-centre party was when Bud Olson, originally elected as a member of Social Credit, crossed to the Liberals and was re-elected when the party swept to power under Pierre Trudeau in 1968.