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2008 Results

Medicine Hat
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Nov. 7, 2008 5:00 PM EST		236/236 polls
CON	LaVar Payne	26,949	70.87	Elected
NDP	Wally Regehr	4,187	11.01
LIB	Bev Botter	2,640	6.94
GRN	Kevin Dodd	2,338	6.15
IND	Dean Shock	970	2.55
IND	David Patrick	580	1.53
CHP	Frans Vandestroet	363	0.95

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Overall Results

Overall Election Results
Party	Elected	Leading	Total	Vote Share (%)
Updated: Nov. 7, 2008, 5:00 PM EST
CON	143	0	143	37.63
LIB	77	0	77	26.24
BQ	49	0	49	9.97
NDP	37	0	37	18.20
IND	2	0	2	0.65
GRN	0	0	0	6.80
OTH	0	0	0	0.51

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