UPDATE: Battle River-Crowfoot And Bow River Goes Conservative Blue

UPDATE:  Final numbers are in and both Conservative candidates in Battle River-Crowfoot and Bow River won in landslide victories.

The full results for the Bow River riding are below:

David Bexte – Conservative – 44,511 – 78.8 % of the vote

Bentley Barnes – Liberal – 9,575 – 17.0 % of the vote

Louisa Gwin – NDP – 1,687 – 3.0 % of the vote

Tom Lipp – Christian Heritage Party – 406 – 0.7 % of the vote

Aaron Patton – United Party of Canada – 299 – 0.5 % of the vote

56,478 of 84,507 of registered voters voted in the election, which is 66.83 %.

The full result for the Battle River-Crowfoot riding are below:

Damien Kurek – Conservative – 53,502 – 81.8 % of the vote

Brent Sutton – Liberal – 7,482 – 11.4 % of the vote

James MacKay – NDP – 2,847 – 4.4 % of the vote

Jonathan Bridges – People’s Party of Canada – 1,063 – 1.6 % of the vote

Douglas Gook – Green Party – 479 – 0.7 % of the vote

65,373 of the 85,237 registered voters voted in the election, which was 76.7 %

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With just 40 minutes elapsed after the closure of the polls in both Battle River-Crowfoot and Bow River, both constituencies have gone in favour of the Conservative Party.

With the early results Damien Kurek of the Conservative Party was declared elected by both CTV News and CBC News for the Battle River-Crowfoot constituency. For the Bow River riding, new Conservative David Bexte has also been declared elected by both CTV News and CBC News. As of 8:30 PM only 15 polls of 221 have reported for the Bow River riding and 15 polls of 278 have reported.

We will have the full results in the morning and will update the story once all votes have been counted.