Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater
 Alberta electoral district | |||
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 2010 boundaries | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
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| District created | 2010 | ||
| First contested | 2012 | ||
| Last contested | 2015 | ||
Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The electoral district was created in the 2010 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta under the first past the post voting system. The current MLA is New Democrat Colin Piquette.
History
The electoral district was created in the 2010 Alberta provincial electoral boundary redistribution from the electoral old district of Athabasca-Redwater. The electoral district boundaries were updated to align the district to current municipal boundaries along the sparsely populated north and western boundaries.[1]
Boundary history
| 48 Athabasca-Redwater 2010 Boundaries[2] | |||
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| Bordering Districts | |||
| North | East | West | South |
| Lesser Slave Lake | Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills | Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock, Lesser Slave Lake, Spruce Grove-St. Albert | Edmonton-Calder, Edmonton-Castle Downs, Edmonton-Decore, Edmonton-Manning, Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville, St. Albert |
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| Note: Boundary descriptions were not used in the 2010 redistribution | |||
Representation history
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater | ||||
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| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Athabasca-Redwater 2004-2012 | ||||
| 28th | 2012–2015 | Jeff Johnson | Progressive Conservative | |
| 29th | 2015–present | Colin Piquette | New Democratic | |
The predecessor district Athabasca-Redwater that existed from 2004 to 2012 and it antecedents had returned Progressive Conservative candidates since the 1970s while old Redwater returned Liberal candidates until 1997. The current incumbent is Progressive Conservative MLA Jeff Johnson who won his first term in office in the 2008 election with a landslide majority.
Legislature results
2012 general election
| Alberta general election, 2012 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jeff Johnson | 7,377 | 48.40% | |||||
| Wildrose | Travis Olson | 5,297 | 34.75% | |||||
| New Democratic | Mandy Melnyk | 2,091 | 13.72% | |||||
| Liberal | Gino Akbari | 476 | 3.12% | |||||
2015 general election
| Alberta general election, 2015 | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| New Democratic | Colin Piquette | 6,795 | 40.48 | +26.76 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jeff Johnson | 5,017 | 29.89 | -18.51 | ||||
| Wildrose | Travis Olson | 4,975 | 29.64 | -5.11 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 16787 | 100.00 | ||||||
Student Vote results
2012 election
| 2012 Alberta Student Vote results | ||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Progressive Conservative | Jeff Johnson | |||
| Wildrose | Travis Olson | |||
| Liberal | Gino Akbari | % | ||
| NDP | Mandy Melnyk | % | ||
| Total | ' | 100% | ||
References
- ↑ "Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta" (PDF). Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission. June 2010. p. 19. Retrieved January 14, 2012.
- ↑ "Bill 28 Electoral Divisions Act" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. 2010.