Edmonton-Highlands-Beverly
 Alberta electoral district | |
|---|---|
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
| District created | 1993 |
| District abolished | 1997 |
| First contested | 1993 |
| Last contested | 1993 |
Edmonton-Highlands-Beverly is a defunct provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that was contested only once, in 1993. It was created from most of Edmonton-Highlands and part of Edmonton-Beverly, and its name was changed back to Edmonton-Highlands in 1997, with no boundary changes.[1]
Representation history
| Member for Edmonton-Highlands-Beverly | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Edmonton-Highlands and Edmonton-Beverly 1971–1993 | ||||
| 23rd | 1993–1997 | Alice Hanson | Liberal | |
| See Edmonton-Highlands 1997–2004 | ||||
The district's only MLA was one-term Liberal member Alice Hanson. She served in opposition and did not run again when the riding was abolished in 1997.[2]
Election results
Swing is calculated from the Edmonton-Highlands result in 1989.
| 1993 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Alice Hanson | 5,189 | 45.59 | +27.17 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Ron Liepert | 2,787 | 24.48 | -2.10 | ||||
| New Democratic | John McInnis | 2,885 | 25.34 | -29.66 | ||||
| Social Credit | Tim Friesen | 428 | 3.76 | |||||
| Natural Law | Cliff Kinzel | 94 | 0.83 | |||||
| Total | 11,383 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Rejected, spoiled, and declined | 31 | |||||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | 20,798 | 54.88 | +1.14 | |||||
| Liberal notional gain from New Democratic | Swing | +14.63 | ||||||
Source(s)
"Results for Edmonton-Highlands". Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved 2018-03-12. | ||||||||
References
- ^ "election-atlas.ca - Alberta". election-atlas.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-12.
- ^ Niddrie, Lise; Hanson, Chris (2009-09-15). "Alice Ann Hanson". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2018-03-12.
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