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Senate Election SENATE RACE Candidate Name Party Votes Betty Unger PC 307,569 Bert Brown PC 306,956 Cliff Breitkreuz PC 238,005 Link Byfield IND 235,970 Jim Silye PC 214,933 David Usherwood PC 190,094 Michael Roth AAP 173,660 Vance Gough AAP 165,384 Tom Sindlinger IND 159,190 Gary Horan AAP 154,371  Last Update:  November 23, 1:25:04 PM MST Electors cast votes for up to four senators-in-waiting in the 2004 election. It’s a double ballot system: voters at the polling station received separate paper forms to vote for the MLA and the senators-in-waiting. The four candidates with the most votes will be the province's senators-in-waiting for a six-year term. However, the prime minister makes appointments to the upper chamber, and Paul Martin doesn't have to choose any of those elected. Only one elected senator has ever been appointed - in 1990, then-prime minister Brian Mulroney put Stan Waters in the Senate. In the 1998 senator election, Ted Morton and Bert Brown were elected. Brown is running again, while Morton is now running for a seat in the legislature. Half of the province's six Senate seats are empty. To be a candidate for the Senate race, individuals had to get 1,500 signatures from eligible voters. According to the Constitution, anyone appointed to the Senate must be over the age of 30, a resident of the province they represent and own property worth $4,000, above their debts. The election for senators-in-waiting cost approximately $3 million.   The CBC does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of external sites. External links will open in a new window.