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Riding of Battle River—Crowfoot
 
LPC
Candidate Pierre Poilievre Darcy Spady
Party Conservative Liberal
Last election 82.84% 11.67%
Incumbent MP

Vacant[a]


A by-election will be held in the federal riding of Battle River—Crowfoot in Alberta, Canada, on August 18, 2025, following the resignation of Conservative MP Damien Kurek, who secured re-election with over 80% of the vote in the 2025 federal election on April 28. Kurek resigned his seat on June 17 to allow Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre an opportunity to return to Parliament following his defeat to Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy in his former riding of Carleton, Ontario.[1][2]

The writ for the by-election was drawn up on June 30, 2025, with the date of the vote set for August 18 in order to avoid a conflict with Alberta Heritage Day earlier in the month.[3] The nomination period closed on July 28, 2025.[4]

The riding was targeted by the Longest Ballot Committee which pushed the number of registered candidates to over 200, prompting Elections Canada to use write-in ballots instead of standard ballots.[5]

Background

On May 2, 2025, Prime Minister Mark Carney affirmed his commitment to promptly ask Governor General Mary Simon to issue a writ for the by-election when requested, stating, "If it's the decision of him and the Conservative Party to trigger ... a by-election, I will ensure that it happens as soon as possible."[6] Kurek announced his resignation later that day. Kurek said in a statement his resignation is what is best for the party and his constituents.[7] Kurek said he intends to run again in the riding in the next general election.[8]

By law, Kurek's resignation could not be officially tendered until 30 days after the publication of the election result in the Canada Gazette,[9] which occurred on May 15, 2025.[10] Kurek officially resigned on Tuesday, June 17, 2025.[11] The governor general, who could issue a writ of election no sooner than 11 days after notice is given of a vacancy, dropped the writ on June 30, 2025, for a by-election to be held on August 18, 2025.[3] The riding is considered a "stronghold" for the Conservatives.[12]

Timeline

Declared candidates

Grant Abraham

Abraham is the leader of the United Party of Canada. He is also a lawyer, author, and columnist. He ran for leader of the Conservative Party of Canada in 2022,[20] but was disqualified.[21][22][23]

He was a candidate in Ponoka—Didsbury in the 2005 federal election receiving 2,129 votes (3.1%). He also got 238 votes (0.7%) in the 2024 Durham federal by-election. He was also an unsuccessful candidate in the 2019 United Kingdom general election in the constituency of Strangford, where he stood for the Northern Ireland Conservatives.[24]

Abraham attended high school in Abbotsford, British Columbia, before completing bachelor's degree in business and English at Trinity Western University.[25] He completed a law degree at Queen's University Belfast.[25]

Jonathan Bridges

Bridges is the candidate for the People's Party of Canada,[26] and is a heavy equipment mechanic[27][28] who lives in Linden, Alberta.[29] Bridges ran in the 2021 federal election as the PPC candidate in Bow River. After the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution, his community of Linden was moved to Battle River—Crowfoot, and he ran there in the 2025 federal election. He received 5,108 votes (10%) and 1,022 votes (1.5%) in those elections, respectively.[30][31][32]

Bridges says that he believes that Canada's major parties have drifted away form the values of Canadians, which he describes as Judeo-Christian values.[28] Maxime Bernier, the leader of the PPC, has campaigned with Bridges,[28] and supports Alberta's secession from Canada.[33]

Bonnie Critchley

Critchley is running as an independent candidate; she is a military veteran who was a master corporal stationed at CFB Wainwright[34][35][36] and deployed to Afghanistan in 2011.[37] Critchley lives in Tofield, Alberta.[15]

Critchley describes herself as a "centrist independent"[34] and an alternative to Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre.[38] She is a recipient of the General Campaign Star (South-West Asia) and the Canadian Forces' Decoration.[36]

Critchley opposes the carbon tax and recent changes by the Trudeau government to gun control laws.[39] She is in favour of electoral reform, particularly in light of the 'Longest Ballot Committee', is opposed to Albertan Independence,[40] and says that a focus of hers is on tacking the 'increasing cost of living".[41]

She has been described as the "most visible threat to Poilievre’s [re-election] prospects".[42]

Michael Harris

Harris is running for the Libertarian Party,[43] and is a political science student.[44] Harris said he is running on a "platform focused on individual liberty, Alberta autonomy, and ending federal programs like equalization and supply management."[45][46] Harris criticized Poilievre for running in the riding, describing it as a "stepping stone to national ambitions",[46] and believes that winning will allow him to push forward a referendum on Albertan independence.[15]

Kenneth Kirk

Kirk is the Marijuana Party candidate.[47] He has served as the leader of the unregistered Marijuana Party of Alberta since 2000.[48][49][50]

Kirk endorsed fellow candidate Bonnie Critchley, and encouraged people to vote for her despite being on the candidate list himself.[51]

Ashley MacDonald

MacDonald is the candidate for the Green Party of Canada. He lives in Red Deer, Alberta and works as a mental health worker.[52]

MacDonald previously ran for the Green Party in Red Deer in the 2025 federal election, receiving 618 votes (1.0%). He also has been involved with the Green Party of Alberta, previously serving as party president,[53] and ran provincially in Red Deer-South in 2023, getting 274 votes (1.1%).[54]

Douglas Gook was originally announced as the candidate for the party. However, he never registered with Elections Canada; thus, he was replaced. Gook ran in the 2025 general election in Battle River—Crowfoot, receiving 474 votes (0.74%).[55][56][57]

Pierre Poilievre

Main article: Pierre Poilievre

Poilievre worked for Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day. He was first elected in the 2004 federal election, initially representing the riding of Nepean—Carleton before it was redistributed as Carleton. Poilievre became the leader of the Conservative Party. He also served as leader of the Official Opposition from 2022 to 2025. In the 2025 Canadian federal election, Poilievre lost his seat of Carleton to Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy.

Darcy Spady

Spady is the candidate of the Liberal Party of Canada,[58][59] and is a professional engineer in the energy sector who manages a carbon emissions reduction company.[41] He grew up in Three Hills, in the riding, and was international president of the Society of Petroleum Engineers from 2018 to 2021.[59]

Sarah Spanier

Spanier is running as an independent and lives in Castor, Alberta.[60] She has worked in childcare, security, and social services.[61][62]

Katherine Swampy

Swampy, a band councillor for the Samson Cree Nation and Indigenous advocate, was announced as the candidate for the New Democratic Party for the by-election on July 8, 2025.[63] Swampy previously ran for the party in Leduc—Wetaskiwin in the 2025 federal election, placing third with 3,927 votes (6.1%),[64] and ran in the Edmonton Centre and Battle River—Crowfoot ridings in 2019 and 2015 respectively.

She has also run provincially for the Alberta NDP in 2023 in Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin and in 2015 in Drayton Valley-Devon.[65]

Jeff Willerton

Willerton is the candidate for the Christian Heritage Party of Canada.[47] He is an author, Canadian Armed Forces veteran, and formerly worked for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.[66] He considers himself to be a social and fiscal conservative.[67] He resides in Airdrie.[68] He has run for seats in various provincial and federal elections in Alberta since 1997. His highest vote shares were 15.8% in the provincial riding of Airdrie-Chestermere in 2008 as a Wildrose Party candidate and 1.4% in the 2017 Calgary Heritage federal by-election as a Christian Heritage candidate. [69]

Longest Ballot Committee

The Longest Ballot Committee announced in May that they were targeting the by-election as part of its campaign protesting the first-past-the-post electoral system and would aim to have as many as 200 candidates placed on the ballot. The committee previously targeted Poilievre's former electoral district of Carleton in the 2025 federal election and claimed responsibility for adding 85 names to the ballot in that vote.[70] All of the declared independents except Colquhoun, Critchley, and Spanier are LBC candidates, a total of 201, far surpassing their previous record set earlier in 2025, and reaching their goal of 200 names. The grand total of 214 candidates on the ballot also more than doubles the previous all-time record of 91 set during the 2025 Carleton election and the 2024 LaSalle—Émard—Verdun federal by-election, both attributed to the LBC's efforts.[71]

On July 28, 2025, on account of over 200 candidates registering, Elections Canada decided to use a write-in ballot instead of the standard ballot, with a full list of candidates provided at polling stations.[5]

Debates

2025 Battle River—Crowfoot federal by-election debates
Date Organizers Location Link  P  Participant
 I  Invitee  A  Absent invitee  N  Non-invitee 		Sources
Poilievre
Conservative 		Spady
Liberal 		Swampy
NDP 		Bridges
PPC 		MacDonald
Green 		Willerton
Christian Heritage 		Harris
Libertarian 		Kirk
Marijuana 		Abraham
United 		Critchley
Independent 		Spanier
Independent
July 29, 2025 Camrose & District Chamber of Commerce[72] Cargill Theatre, Jeanne & Peter Lougheed Performing Arts Centre Camrose Vimeo P P P P P P P A P P P [73]
July 31, 2025 Talk Truth/Heritage Christian Ministries Association[74] The House Ministries Church Tofield YouTube A A A A N P P N P A N [75][76][77][78]
August 5, 2025 Drumheller & District Chamber of Commerce[79](with support from the Hanna & District Chamber of Commerce) Badlands Community Facility – Banquet Halls B & C Drumheller Facebook P P P A P P P A P P A [17]
August 7, 2025 Stettler Public Library and Stettler Regional Board of Trade[80] Stettler Community Hall Facebook A P P P P P P P P P P [18]

Result

Canadian federal by-election, August 18, 2025: Battle River—Crowfoot
Resignation of Damien Kurek
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Pierre Poilievre
Liberal Darcy Spady
New Democratic Katherine Swampy
People's Jonathan Bridges
Green Ashley MacDonald
Centrist Ahmed Hassan
Christian Heritage Jeff Willerton
Libertarian Michael Harris
Marijuana Kenneth Kirk
United Grant Abraham
Independent Dillon Anderson
Independent Fraser Anderson
Independent Glen Armstrong
Independent Nicholas Ashmore
Independent Marthalee Aykroyd
Independent Caitlyn Baker
Independent Alex Banks
Independent Michael Bednarski
Independent Line Bélanger
Independent Michel Bélanger
Independent Nicole Betts
Independent Stacy Lynn Billingsley
Independent Danica Boe
Independent Lilia Boisvert
Independent Marten Borch
Independent Jeani Boudreault
Independent Alain Bourgault
Independent Eva Bowering
Independent Aaron Bowles
Independent Rebecca Boyce
Independent Joshua Brauner
Independent Jeffery Brazeau
Independent Alexandre Brochu
Independent Jakeb Brown
Independent Sarah Burke
Independent Jason Buzzell
Independent Bo Cai
Independent Cameron Campos
Independent Jenny Cartwright
Independent Deborah Chalmers
Independent Nicolas Champagne
Independent Jaël Champagne Gareau
Independent Chun Chen
Independent David Cherniak
Independent Shawn Clendining
Independent Lindsay Elaine Shyla Colosimo
Independent Dylan Colquhoun
Independent Annelies Cooper
Independent Claude Cordon Pichilla
Independent Jayson Cowan
Independent Bonnie Critchley
Independent John Dale
Independent Michael Davis
Independent Tristan Dell
Independent Hannah DeWolfe
Independent Gerrit Dogger
Independent Geneviève Dorval
Independent Jordan Drew
Independent Murray Dunham
Independent Eric Duong
Independent Elizabeth Dupuis
Independent Kenneth Durham
Independent Michael Dyck
Independent Katherine Dyson
Independent Mark Eccleston
Independent Jeremy Edwards
Independent Abel Erazo-Ibarra
Independent Allison Fanjoy
Independent Tracy Farber
Independent Brian Farrenkopf
Independent Gabriel Finn
Independent Hubert Fischer
Independent Michael Louis Fitzgerald
Independent Thomas Fitzgerald
Independent Connor Fullerton
Independent Daniel Gagnon
Independent Pierre Gauthier
Independent Jordan Gerrard
Independent Matthew Gillies
Independent Eric Gilmour
Independent Laurie Goble
Independent Emily Goose
Independent Peter Gorman
Independent Jacqueline Grabowski
Independent William Grant
Independent David Patrick Greene
Independent Nicolette Gross
Independent Kathleen Gudmundsson
Independent Andrew Guenther
Independent Corey Hales
Independent Richard Haley
Independent Blake Hamilton
Independent Kazimir Haykowsky
Independent Iriella Hicks
Independent Loren Hicks
Independent Kerri Hildebrandt
Independent Jason Hodgson
Independent Preston Hoff
Independent Seyed Hosseini Lavasani
Independent Dakota Hourie
Independent Glendyn Howse
Independent Ryan Huard
Independent Uneeb Islam
Independent Jack Jean-Louis
Independent Michael Jones
Independent Paul Jones
Independent Derek Jouppi
Independent Erich Jurgens
Independent Richard Kenkel
Independent Madison Kennedy
Independent Elza Kephart
Independent Elsie Kipp
Independent Dannielle Konkle
Independent Chris Kowalchuk
Independent Solomon Krygier-Paine
Independent Andrew Kulas
Independent Samuel Lafontaine
Independent Alain Lamontagne
Independent Abraham Lau
Independent Eric Laverdure
Independent Jocelyn LeBlanc-Courchaine
Independent Johnson Hon Wa Lee
Independent Alexander Lein
Independent Charles Lemieux
Independent Renée Lemieux
Independent Jeffrey Leroux
Independent Litma Kai Ching Leung
Independent Maria Light
Independent Cedric Ludlow
Independent Derek Adam MacKay
Independent Jennifer Margaret Mackenzie-Miller
Independent Nicolas Maltais
Independent Kevin Manzano
Independent Eric March
Independent Robert Marsden
Independent Agnieszka Marszalek
Independent Jeffrey McLean
Independent Devin McManus
Independent Geoffrey Meens
Independent Robert Melting Tallow
Independent Joanne L Metters
Independent Nickolas Meuters-Murphy
Independent Nicholas Mew
Independent Riley Moss
Independent Mark Moutter
Independent Rob Mumford
Independent Molly Munn
Independent Sam Nabi
Independent Sophia Nguyen
Independent Pascal Noël
Independent Kimberley Nugent
Independent Steve Oates
Independent John Francis O'Flynn
Independent Lény Painchaud
Independent Lanna Palsson
Independent Alexander Panchuk
Independent Céline Paquin
Independent Yagya Parihar
Independent Lisa Parsons
Independent Grace Pender
Independent Brennen Perry
Independent Anthony Perullo
Independent Samuel Pignedoli
Independent Clifford Pine
Independent Lorant Polya
Independent Diane Prentice
Independent Brian Ramchandar
Independent Noah Reid
Independent Meagan Roberge
Independent Melanie Roberge
Independent Spencer Rocchi
Independent Wallace Richard Rowat
Independent Jayson Roy
Independent Barry Rueger
Independent Mark Russell
Independent Mark Ruthenberg
Independent David Sader
Independent Kayll Schaefer
Independent Chris Scrimes
Independent Hakim Sheriff
Independent Eric Shorten
Independent Charles Douglas Sleep
Independent Adam Smith
Independent Sarah Spanier
Independent Julie St-Amand
Independent Pascal St-Amand
Independent Myles René Laurent St. Pierre
Independent Bradley Stewart
Independent Ceilidh Stewart
Independent Mário Stocco
Independent Patrick Strzalkowski
Independent Molly Sun
Independent Andi Sweet
Independent Faith Tabladillo
Independent Corinne Unrau
Independent Alex Vallée
Independent Dennis Vanmeer
Independent Bryan Wang
Independent Tyson Warner
Independent Callan Wassenaar
Independent Jeremy Wedel
Independent Simon John Edwin Wedel
Independent Bert William Westergard
Independent Hazel Westwood
Independent Michaiah Williams
Independent Brian Wishart
Independent Michael Wisniewski
Independent Joshua Wong
Independent Belinda Christine Young
Independent Yao ZhangLi
Independent David Zhu
Independent Breccan Zimmer
Independent Nicola Zoghbi
Independent Barry Zukewich
Total valid votes/expense limit –
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Eligible voters

Previous result

2025 Canadian federal election: Battle River—Crowfoot
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Conservative Damien Kurek 53,684 82.84 +11.46
Liberal Brent Sutton 7,566 11.67 +7.41
New Democratic James MacKay 2,061 3.18 −6.52
People's Jonathan Bridges 1,022 1.58 −7.75
Green Douglas Gook 474 0.73 −0.18
Total valid votes/expense limit 64,982 99.40
Total rejected ballots 391 0.60
Turnout 65,373 76.70
Eligible voters 85,237
Conservative notional hold Swing +2.03
Source: Elections Canada[81][82]
Note: number of eligible voters does not include voting day registrations.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Seat has been vacant since June 17, 2025. Damien Kurek of the Conservative Party was the most recent member of Parliament from the riding.

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