Strathcona-Sherwood Park
 Alberta electoral district | |||
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 2010 boundaries | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
New Democratic | ||
| District created | 2010 | ||
| First contested | 2012 | ||
Strathcona-Sherwood Park is a provincial electoral district in 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 Alberta boundary re-distribution. It was created from the old Strathcona electoral district which had a portion of land split off north of Alberta Highway 16 to Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville.[1]
Boundary history
| 82 Strathcona-Sherwood Park 2010 Boundaries | |||
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| Bordering Districts | |||
| North | East | West | South |
| Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville | Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville | Edmonton-Ellerslie, Edmonton-Mill Creek and Sherwood Park | Battle River-Wainwright and Leduc-Beaumont |
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| Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act. | |||
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Electoral history
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Strathcona-Sherwood Park | ||||
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| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Strathcona 2004-2012 | ||||
| 28th | 2012-2015 | Dave Quest | Progressive Conservative | |
| 29th | 2015-present | Estefania Cortes-Vargas | New Democrat | |
The electoral district was created in 2010. The current incumbent is Estefania Cortes-Vargas who was first elected as MLA for Strathcona in 2015.
Legislature results
2015 general election
| 2015 Alberta general election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Estefania Cortes-Vargas | 9,361 | 42.6 | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Dave Quest | 6,623 | 30.13 | |||||
| Wildrose | Rob Johnson | 5,273 | 23.99 | |||||
| Alberta Party | Lynne Kaiser | 721 | 3.28 | |||||
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Student vote results
2015 election
References
- ^ "Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta" (PDF). Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission. June 2010. p. 22. Retrieved January 14, 2012.