Damien Kurek Wins Re-Election as MP of Battle River-Crowfoot

2025 Battle River-Crowfoot Election Results

The Conservative Party of Canada has once again claimed victory in the federal riding of Battle River-Crowfoot, sending Damien Kurek back to Ottawa as the MP for our region.

It was a decisive victory for the 35 year old, who gathered 82.1 percent (50,562 votes) of the vote across the east central Alberta region, with 96% of polls reporting.

The riding is made up of residents across parts of the Special Areas, as well as Acadia, Beaver, Camrose, Drumheller, Kneehill, Leduc, Paintearth, Provost, Starland, Stettler & Wainwright counties. 

Voter turnout was listed as 72.27% of 85,237 registered voters, in a population area of 110,212 citizens according to Elections Canada.

Kurek was first elected in a 2019 by-election to replace Kevin Sorenson as our member of parliament. He then went on to win the riding in the 2019 election with a resounding 85.5 percent of the vote.

Two years later, Kurek would win the riding again with 71.3 percent of the electorate casting a ballot for the Conservatives. 

Locally, Stettler residents were able to cast their ballots at the Legion Hall & Community Hall on election day, or in advance polls at the Legion over the Easter long weekend.

2025 Federal Election Results

Despite the Conservatives holding onto most of their seats across the Prairie provinces, the Liberal Party has emerged with a minority government, shy of the 172 seats needed for a majority.

Results as of Tuesday morning, (Apr 29) show the Libs with 168 seats, the Cons with 144 and the Bloc with 23. The NDP were reduced to 7 MP’s, while the Greens elected just 1 member of parliament.

Battle River Crowfoot Riding History

The riding of Battle River-Crowfoot was first contested in 2015, after a redistribution of the Crowfoot & Vegreville-Wainwright districts. 

Stettler was previously part of the Crowfoot riding from 1968 until 2015 and the Acadia riding before that from 1925 until 1968.

In that time party representation shifted from the Progressive Party in 1925, which later merged with the United Farmers of Alberta. 

In 1935, the Social Credit Party won the seat of Acadia and held it until the Progressive Conservatives won in 1958 under the Diefenbaker government. 

The riding would stay blue shifting from Acadia to Crowfoot until 1977 when MP Jack Horner crossed the floor to the Liberals and later became Minster of Industry, Trade & Commerce. He would see his vote total fall from 75% in 1974, to 18% in the 1980 election, losing to Arnold Malone of the PC’s.  

Malone and the Tories would hold the Crowfoot seat until the 1993 election, when Jack Ramsey of the Reform Party took office. The previous election in 1988 saw Ramsey narrowly lose to Malone by 7,685 votes, which is the closest federal election in the area to date. 

Ramsey would hold the seat for seven years, later sitting as an Independent until the 2000 election when Kevin Sorenson won with the Canadian Alliance party. The Reform Party which had rebranded into Canadian Alliance, would later merge with the PC’s in 2003 to become today’s Conservative Party. 

Sorensen then served as the representative of Crowfoot in the House of Commons from 2000 until 2015 and then Battle River-Crowfoot until retiring in 2019.