Just months after crossing the floor and giving up her leadership of the Wildrose Party Danielle Smith’s political career seems to have come to an end.

Saturday night Smith lost the PC Party nomination to Carrie Fischer in the riding of Highwood, south of Calgary.

A loss that one political expert says was not a surprise.

“She really laid low. She didn’t have a very high profile and in the last two weeks of the campaign the PC’s cut her lose,” political scientist Bob Murray told CTV News.

“We might see an appointment moving forward but I think in terms of running as an MLA and somebody with credibility in Alberta’s political system, for the time being especially, her career is over.”

The significance of the loss was reflected in Smith’s concession speech.

"This is of course a mixed emotions day for me. I did want to get a mandate to be the PC candidate for Highwood but of course residents felt otherwise," she said.

"I'm grateful for the residents of Highwood for coming out and participating in the process. I think it was an invigorating process. I think it was good for the party."

Smith angered constituents in December when she and eight other Wildrose members crossed the floor to join the PC Party.

Not even an apology issued by Smith in January could change voter's minds.

Smith took to Facebook to say she's "sorry" that she "did not take more time to allow Albertans to consider and debate the idea of reunification before Wildrose MLAs joined the PC Caucus."

“Imagine going from being the most popular opposition leader in modern Alberta history somebody that was a political force to be reckoned with, with the idea that they could actually topple a 40-year-old dynasty and in six months be unemployed and have a political career in tatters,” Murray remarked.

“This was a brilliant political move by Jim Prentice in the sense of you legitimately killed your opposition without it costing you a single thing.”

The Progressive Conservatives did not give a breakdown on the nomination results from Saturday but said that 972 people voted.

With files from Veronica Jubinville, The Canadian Press