Joan Crockatt advances to Calgary Centre by-election

Posted Aug 25, 2012 8:40 pm.

This article is more than 5 years old.

The federal Conservatives have a candidate in the vacant riding of Calgary Centre, former newspaper editor Joan Crockatt.

She beat out five others vying for the job in a hotly contested campaign hoping to replace former MP Lee Richardson, who left to work for Premier Alison Redford.

Conservative officials say they’re not going to release the numbers of Saturday’s vote.

A date for a by-election in Calgary Centre has not been set.

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