By Josh Hall (Twitter: @Vancan19)

UCP delays Red Deer-South vote for “high profile individual”

Dec 9, 2018 | 2:29 PM

It’ll be a while before United Conservative Party members in Red Deer-South choose their candidate for the next provincial election.

The nomination vote is being delayed in order to accommodate a “high profile individual” who is planning to run.

Details of the decision were outlined to the board of the constituency association in a letter from the UCP’s executive director Janice Harrington, and reported on over the weekend by CBC News.

Several names have already entered the party’s nomination in the riding, including Adele Poratto, Bruce Buruma, Jason Stephan and Norman Wiebe.

Current NDP MLA for Red Deer-South Barb Miller also announced last month that she will be seeking re-election in 2019. The Alberta Party named their candidate, Ryan McDougall, in August.

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In Red Deer-North, the UCP announced earlier this fall that party members had selected Adriana LaGrange as the candidate there. Thus far, the UCP has nominated candidates in 75 of 87 constituencies ahead of next year’s election.

rdnewsNOW has reached out to the Red Deer-South UCP Constituency Association for comment.

(with file from CBC News)