Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock
 Alberta electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock within Alberta (2017 boundaries) | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
United Conservative | ||
| District created | 2017 | ||
| First contested | 2019 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016)[1] | 46,920 | ||
| Area (km²) | 23,699 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 2 | ||
Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock is a current provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district will be one of 87 districts mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting. It was contested for the first time in the 2019 Alberta election.
Geography
The district is located in northern Alberta, containing the communities of Swan Hills, Barrhead, Westlock, Athabasca, and Smoky Lake. It stretches east into part of St. Paul County. Major transportation routes include Alberta Highways 2, 18, 28, and 33 (Grizzly Trail).
History
| Members for Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock | ||||
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| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock 2004-2019 and Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater 2012-2019 | ||||
| 30th | 2019– | Glenn van Dijken | United Conservative | |
The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended consolidating four electoral districts into three in northeastern Alberta, placing most of Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock and Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater, along with a small part of Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills, into the new district. The Commission recommended naming the district Athabasca-Barrhead, but the Assembly decided to retain Westlock in the name.[2]
Electoral results
| Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | % | ||
| Wildrose | 8,676 | 40.67% | ||
| New Democratic | 6,546 | 30.68% | ||
| Progressive Conservative | 6,081 | 28.50% | ||
| Others | 32 | 0.15% | ||
| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| United Conservative | Glenn van Dijken | 16,822 | 68.51% | -0.66% | $41,428 | |||
| New Democratic | Therese Taschuk | 4,786 | 19.49% | -11.19% | $63,567 | |||
| Alberta Party | Wayne Rufiange | 2,232 | 9.09% | – | $3,538 | |||
| Alberta Independence | Buster Malcolm | 442 | 1.80% | – | $968 | |||
| Independent | Brad Giroux | 273 | 1.11% | – | $3,038 | |||
| Total | 24,555 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 72 | 53 | 16 | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 34,049 | 72.53% | – | |||||
| United Conservative notional hold | Swing | N/A | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: Elections Alberta [3][4][5] Change is based on re-distributed results from the 2015 Alberta general election. Note: Expenses is the sum of "Election Expenses", "Other Expenses" and "Transfers Issued". The Elections Act limits "Election Expenses" to $50,000. | ||||||||
References
- ^ Statistics Canada: 2016
- ^ "Final Report" (PDF). Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission. 2017-10-01. p. 43. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-01-24.
- ^ "49 - Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
- ^ Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2019). 2019 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Volume II (PDF) (Report). Vol. 2. Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 197–203. ISBN 978-1-988620-12-1. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
- ^ Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2019). 2019 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Volume III Election Finances (PDF) (Report). Vol. 3. Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 68–82. ISBN 978-1-988620-13-8. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 15, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
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