(Jeff McIntosh/Canadian Press)Albertans woke Sunday to a new premier-designate — Ed Stelmach, a 55-year-old soft-spoken farmer who beat former finance minister Jim Dinning after a second weekend of voting by Progressive Conservative party members. Dinning and rookie backbencher Ted Morton, a southern Alberta backbencher who was policy director for the Canadian Alliance party, were in first and second place entering Saturday's vote for the provincial Tory leadership.They were trailed by Stelmach, a former intergovernmental affairs minister from the northern Alberta riding of Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville. But when the ballots were counted, Stelmach came out on top. Many Morton supporters threw their support behind Stelmach, who then cinched the victory to become the province's 13th premier and head of a party that has governed Alberta for 35 consecutive years.
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