Dunvegan-Central Peace-Notley
 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 | ||
Dunvegan-Central Peace-Notley is a provincial electoral district in northern Alberta, Canada. The district was created in the 2010 boundary redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post voting system.
History
The electoral district was created in the 2010 boundary redistribution from the old electoral district of Dunvegan-Central Peace. The distribution saw the north end of the constituency that resided with the Municipal District of Northern Lights being redistributed to the Peace River electoral district.[1] The electoral district is one of two in the province that is considered a special district and allowed to have less than the average population due to the lack of population and distance between communities.[1]
The change in name came from a write in campaign from Alberta New Democratic Party members who wanted to tack on Notley after their former leader Grant Notley onto the electoral district name because he was an MLA for Spirit River-Fairview an old electoral district that existed in the area.[2] They pressed for the change due to other former provincial Premiers and Opposition leaders getting districts named after them such as Edmonton-Decore and Calgary-Lougheed.[1]
Boundary history
| 01 Dunvegan-Central Peace-Notley 2010 Boundaries[3] | |||
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| Bordering districts | |||
| North | East | West | South |
| Peace River | Lesser Slave Lake | British Columbia boundary | Grande Prairie-Smoky, Grande Prairie-Wapiti |
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| Note: Boundary descriptions were not used in the 2010 redistribution | |||
Representation history
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Dunvegan-Central Peace-Notley | ||||
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| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Dunvegan-Central Peace 2004-2012 | ||||
| 28th | 2012–2015 | Hector Goudreau | Progressive Conservative | |
| 29th | 2015–present | Margaret McCuaig-Boyd | New Democratic | |
The former Progressive Conservative MLA Hector Goudreau served three terms in office after first being elected in the 2001 election, but after resigning as chair of the Cabinet Policy Committee on Community Development after allegations of bullying local school officials, he did not run again in the 2015 provincial election. NDP MLA Marg McCuaig-Boyd was elected in the orange wave that swept the province in the 2015 election, and currently also serves as the Honourable Energy Minister of Alberta.
Student Vote results
2012 election
| 2012 Alberta Student Vote results | ||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Progressive Conservative | Hector Goudreau | % | ||
| Wildrose | ||||
| Liberal | Carole Carby | % | ||
| NDP | Nathan Macklin | % | ||
| Total | ' | 100% | ||
References
- 1 2 3 "Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta" (PDF). Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission. June 2010. Retrieved January 14, 2012.
- ↑ Remo Zaccagna. "Dunvegan riding renamed in honour of Notley". The Record Gazette.
- ↑ "Bill 28 Sub Amendment 1" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. November 24, 2010.