File photo of Brian Jean at Whoop-Up Days in Lethbridge. (Lethbridge News Now)

By The Canadian Press

UCP candidate Brian Jean wins northern Alberta by-election in landslide

Mar 16, 2022 | 7:50 AM

FORT MCMURRAY, AB – United Conservative Party candidate Brian Jean has won a by-election in northern Alberta.

Jean, the co-founder of the party and a former federal Conservative member of Parliament, defeated seven challengers with about two-thirds of the votes to claim the seat in Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche.

He won the nomination to run under the United Conservative banner even though he openly campaigned to oust Premier Jason Kenney as party leader. Jean has said the party has lost its values and commitment to grassroots democracy under Kenney.

He was the leader of Alberta’s Wildrose Party when it merged with the Progressive Conservatives in 2017, and lost the leadership of the newly formed United Conservatives to Kenney.

The party is holding a leadership review of Kenney on April 9, 2022.

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