Jason Kenney is the new leader of the United Conservative Party.

Kenny earned the top job after getting 61.1 percent of the vote from the party membership while Wildrose leader Brian Jean earned 31.5 percent and lawyer Doug Schweitzer got 7.1 percent.

Of 106,000 members, approximately 63,000 members registered to vote by the October 13 deadline.

A press release says with this milestone now completed, the UCP will focus on other phases of building the party.

Coming soon will be a policy development process and a founding annual general meeting and convention along with the establishment of UCP constituency associations across the province.