Cheers emanated from the counting room as UCP officials tallied the votes for Danielle Smith's leadership review.

The most optimistic in Smith's camp had expected the proportion of her support would be somewhere in the 80s.

Getting 91.5 per cent meant that, of the 4,633 party members voting at the weekend's UCP convention in Red Deer, Alta., fewer than 400 said no — despite a seemingly well-resourced campaign of messages and flyers demanding United Conservatives send a stern message to their lead…