Brooks-Medicine Hat
 Alberta electoral district | |||
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 Brooks-Medicine Hat 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] | 51,070 | ||
| Area (km²) | 13,742 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 3.7 | ||
| Census division(s) | 1, 2 | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Bassano, Brooks, Cypress, Duchess, Medicine Hat, Newell, Redcliff, Rosemary | ||
Brooks-Medicine Hat is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 87 districts mandated to return a single member (MLA) 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 southeastern Alberta, containing the entirety of Newell County and the northern portions of Cypress County and Medicine Hat. It is named for its two largest communities, Medicine Hat and Brooks, and also contains CFB Suffield. Within the city of Medicine Hat, its border with Cypress-Medicine Hat runs southeast along Highway 1, then northeast along Highway 41A until the railroad tracks, then east along the South Saskatchewan River.
History
| Members for Brooks-Medicine Hat | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Medicine Hat 1979–2019, Cypress-Medicine Hat and Strathmore-Brooks 1997–2019 | ||||
| 30th | 2019– | Michaela Glasgo | UCP | |
The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission endeavoured to reduce the number of ridings in southern Alberta, owing to slow population growth in the region.[2] The district was created from the eastern half of Strathmore-Brooks, the northern third of Cypress-Medicine Hat, and some of the northern neighbourhoods previously part of Medicine Hat.
Electoral results
2010s
| Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wildrose | 7,781 | 47.36 | ||
| Progressive Conservative | 4,016 | 24.45 | ||
| New Democratic | 3,846 | 23.41 | ||
| Others | 786 | 4.78 | ||
| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| United Conservative | Michaela Glasgo | 13,606 | 60.66 | -11.42 | $57,924 | |||
| New Democratic | Lynn MacWilliam | 4,012 | 17.89 | -5.33 | $16,573 | |||
| Independent | Todd Beasley | 2,759 | 12.30 | – | $36,347 | |||
| Alberta Party | Jim Black | 1,554 | 6.93 | +4.30 | $10,750 | |||
| Liberal | Jamah Bashir Farah | 281 | 1.25 | +0.05 | $500 | |||
| Alberta Independence | Collin Pacholek | 218 | 0.97 | – | $1,751 | |||
| Total | 22,430 | 99.53 | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 105 | 0.47 | ||||||
| Turnout | 22,535 | 65.78 | – | |||||
| Eligible electors | 34,257 | |||||||
| United Conservative notional hold | Swing | -3.05 | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: Elections Alberta[3][4][5] Note: Expenses is the sum of "Election Expenses", "Other Expenses" and "Transfers Issued". The Elections Act limits "Election Expenses" to $50,000. United Conservative Party change is calculated from combined Wildrose and Progressive Conservative totals. | ||||||||
References
- ^ Statistics Canada: 2016
- ^ "Final Report" (PDF). Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission. 2017-10-01. p. 34. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-01-24.
- ^ "52 - Brooks-Medicine Hat, 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. 218–224. 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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