Albertans have spoken and Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party has won a majority government.

The writ was dropped four weeks ago in Alberta and there was never a dull moment in the campaign following.

Once polls closed at 8 p.m. Tuesday night, results started rolling in and the UCP dominated from the get-go.

There is still the ‘vote anywhere’ advance poll votes left to count but it’s unlikely they will change the overall outcome.

In Airdrie Cochrane, Peter Guthrie has been voted in as the MLA for the newly created riding, with 15,891 votes recorded from 93 of 97 polls. He says the UCP will hit the ground running on their campaign promises.

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Guthrie says the UCP plan to get to work quickly

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Steve Durrell of the NDP finished a distant second with 6,397 votes.

 In the Airdrie East riding, incumbent UCP candidate Angela Pitt has been re-elected.  With 82 of 84 of polling stations reporting, Pitt received 13,947 votes.

Pitt said it was a long and exhausting campaign and she’s grateful for the support from local voters.

NDP candidate Roxie Baez Zamora, received the second highest number of votes, with 4,137. She said she is pleased with the work of her party over the course of the campaign.

In the riding of Banff-Kananaskis, it appears as though the NDPs Cameron Westhead will also go down to defeat.  With 81 of 98 polls reporting Westhead trails the UCPs Rosin Miranda by nearly a thousand votes.

Overall voter turnout is expected to be high due to the turnout at advance polls.