The first election that year saw Progressive Conservative incumbent Lyle Oberg win the new district with over 70% of the popular vote.

In the 2012 general election, Wildrose candidate Jason Hale defeated Doerksen by a comfortable margin as the party went on to dominate rural southern Alberta.

Fildebrandt went on to win the riding by a huge margin over PC candidate Molly Douglass in the 2015 general election.

[6] Fildebrandt was subsequently appointed the Official Opposition Shadow Minister of Finance and Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee.

On July 22, Wildrose and PC members voted to join and form the United Conservative Party of Alberta (UCP).

However, he was again removed from caucus and, this time, permanently banned from re-joining the UCP after a string of scandals including an illegal hunting charge that had not been disclosed to the party.

The vote was designed to educate students and simulate the electoral process for persons who had not yet reached the legal majority.