Strathmore-Brooks

Strathmore-Brooks

Alberta electoral district
2004 boundaries
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA	Derek Fildebrandt Wildrose
District created	1996
First contested	1997
Last contested	2015

Strathmore-Brooks is a rural provincial electoral district in southern Alberta, Canada. The district was created in 1996 and is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.

History

The electoral district was created in the 1996 boundary redistribution from most of the old electoral district of Bow Valley. The 2010 boundary redistribution saw the electoral district completely untouched using exactly the same boundaries as 2003.

Boundary history

79 Strathmore-Brooks 2003 Boundaries
Bordering Districts
North	East	West	South
Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills	Drumheller-Stettler and Cypress-Medicine Hat	Airdrie-Chestermere	Little Bow and Cypress-Medicine Hat
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Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act.
Starting at the intersection of the east boundary of Rge. 25 W4 and the north boundary of Sec. 7 in Twp. 28 W4; then 1. east along the north boundary of Secs. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 in Rges. 24, 23 and 22 and Secs. 7, 8 and 9 in Twp. 28, Rge. 21 W4 to the east boundary of Sec. 9 in the Twp.; 2. south along the east boundary of Secs. 9 and 4 in the Twp. and the east boundary of Secs. 33, 28 and 21 in Twp. 27, Rge. 21 W4 to the intersection with the Canadian National Railway (CNR) right-of-way; 3. in a northeasterly direction along the CNR right-of-way to the east boundary of the west half of Sec. 1, Twp. 28, Rge. 20 W4; 4. north along the east boundary of the west half to the north boundary of Sec. 1; 5. east along the north boundary of Sec. 1 to the south Drumheller town boundary; 6. easterly and southerly along the town boundary to its most southeasterly point of the town boundary and the right bank of the Red Deer River; 7. downstream along the right bank of the Red Deer River to the east boundary of Rge. 11 W4; 8. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of Twp. 13; 9. west along the north boundary to the right bank of the Bow River; 10. upstream along the right bank of the Bow River to its intersection with the south boundary of the Siksika Indian Reserve No. 146; 11. generally north, northwest and southwest along the Siksika Indian Reserve No. 146 boundary to the right bank of the Bow River; 12. upstream along the right bank to the east boundary of Rge. 27 W4; 13. north along the east boundary to the north boundary of Sec. 7 in Twp. 25, Rge. 26 W4; 14. east along the north boundary to the east boundary of Sec. 18 in the Twp.; 15. north along the east boundary of Secs. 18 and 19 to the north boundary of Sec. 20 in the Twp.; 16. east along the north boundary to the east boundary of Sec. 29 in the Twp.; 17. north along the east boundary of Secs. 29 and 32 in the Twp. to the north boundary of Twp. 25; 18. east along the north boundary to the east boundary of Rge. 26 W4; 19. north along the east boundary to the north boundary of Sec. 19 in Twp. 26, Rge. 25 W4; 20. east along the north boundary of Secs. 19, 20, 21, 22 and 23 in the Twp. to the east boundary of Sec. 26; 21. north along the east boundary of Secs. 26 and 35 to the north boundary of Twp. 26; 22. west along the north boundary to the east boundary of Rge. 25; 23. north along the east boundary of Rge. 25 to the starting point.
Note:

83 Strathmore-Brooks 2010 Boundaries
Bordering Districts
North	East	West	South
Drumheller-Stettler and Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills	Cypress-Medicine Hat	Chestermere-Rocky View	Little Bow
Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act.
See Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act.
Note: The district remained unchanged in 2010.

Representation history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Strathmore-Brooks
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
See Bow Valley 1971-1993
24th	1997–2001		Lyle Oberg	Progressive Conservative
25th	2001–2004
26th	2004–2006
	2006	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|		Independent
	2006–2008			Progressive Conservative
27th	2008–2012		Arno Doerksen
28th	2012–2014		Jason Hale	Wildrose
	2014–2015			Progressive Conservative
29th	2015–2016		Derek Fildebrandt	Wildrose
	2016			Independent
	2016-present			Wildrose

The electoral district was created in 1997. The first election that year saw Progressive Conservative incumbent Lyle Oberg win the new district with over 70% of the popular vote. Oberg had served as MLA for Bow Valley from 1993 to 1997 before it was abolished.

After the election Oberg was appointed to serve in the cabinet of Premier Ralph Klein. He ran for his third term in the 2001 general election and won. He took a slightly higher percentage of the popular vote.

Oberg ran for his third term in the district and fourth as an MLA. His popularity started to slide. He was re-elected with a reduced majority losing over 10% of his popular vote.

Controversy would follow in 2006 after Oberg resigned his cabinet pos to seek the leadership of the Progressive Conservative party in the wake of Ralph Klein's resignation. He was removed from Progressive Conservative caucus days later on March 22, 2006 and forced to sit as an Independent after suggesting that he knew where the skeletons were in the closet of the Progressive Conservative government.

Oberg ran for leadership of the party as an Independent and lost. He was readmitted to the caucus on July 25, 2006 by Premier Ed Stelmach and returned to cabinet. Oberg did not stand for re-election in 2008. The election that year returned Progressive Conservative candidate Arno Doerksen with a landslide majority.

In the 2012 General Election, Wildrose candidate Jason Hale defeated Doerksen by a comfortable margin as the party went on to dominate rural southern Alberta.

In December 2014, Hale crossed the floor with 8 other Wildrose MLAs to the Progressive Conservative Party. In January 2015, Derek Fildebrandt announced that he would seek the Wildrose nomination to challenge Hale. Hale announced his retirement from politics soon afterwards.

Fildebrandt went on to win the riding by a huge margin over PC candidate Molly Douglass in the 2015 General Election. Fildebrandt was subsequently appointed the Official Opposition Shadow Minister of Finance and Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee.

On March 28, 2016, following an inappropriate comment Fildebrandt appeared to endorse on social media regarding Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, he was briefly suspended by the Wildrose party.

Legislature results

1997 general election

1997 Alberta general election results			Turnout 46.98%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Progressive Conservative	Lyle Oberg	7,235	72.57%	Liberal	Roger Nelson	1,272	12.76%	*		Social Credit	Dan Borden	862	8.65%	*		NDP	Richard Knutson	600	6.02%	*
Total			9,969	100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			24
21,271 Eligible Electors

2001 general election

2001 Alberta general election results			Turnout 47.01%		Swing
	Affiliation	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Progressive Conservative	Lyle Oberg	8,585	75.09%	2.52%	Liberal	Barry Morishita	1,774	15.51%	2.75%	*	Independent	Christopher Sutherland	511	4.47%	*		NDP	Don Macfarlane	290	2.54%	-3.48%	*	Social Credit	Rudy Martens	273	2.39%	-6.26%	*
Total			11,433	100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			29
24,372 Eligible Electors
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		2.64%

2004 general election

2004 Alberta general election results			Turnout 36.22%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Progressive Conservative	Lyle Oberg	5,916	64.05%	-11.04%
	Liberal	Carrol Jaques	1,178	12.75%	-2.76%
	Alberta Alliance	Mark Ogden	831	9.00%
	Separation	Jay Kolody	576	6.24%
	New Democratic	Don Macfarlane	416	4.50%	1.96%
	Social Credit	Rudy Martens	319	3.46%	1.07%
Total			9,236
Rejected, spoiled and declined			67
Eligible electors / Turnout			25,686	%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-6.90%

2008 general election

2008 Alberta general election results			Turnout 33.02%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Progressive Conservative	Arno Doerksen	7,623	74.56%	10.51%
	Liberal	Gerry Hart	991	9.69%	-3.06%
	Wildrose Alliance	Amanda Shehata	935	9.15%	0.15%
	Green	Chris Bayford	362	3.54%	*
	New Democratic	Brian Stokes	313	3.06%	-1.44%
Total			10,224
Rejected, spoiled and declined			54
Eligible electors / Turnout			31,127	%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		6.79%

2012 general election

2012 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Wildrose	Jason Hale	8,157	55.58	+46.44
	Progressive Conservative	Arno Doerksen	5,743	39.13	-35.43
	New Democratic	Brad Bailey	409	2.79	-0.27
	Liberal	Alex Wychopen	299	2.04	-7.66
	Separation	Glen Dundas	68	0.46	–
Total			14,676	99.31	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			102	0.69	+0.16
Turnout			14,778	52.79	+19.77
Eligible electors			27,996
	Wildrose gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+40.93
Source(s) Source: "83 - Strathmore-Brooks Official Results 2012 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2015 general election

2015 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Wildrose	Derek Fildebrandt	8,657	52.6%
	Progressive Conservative	Molly Douglass	4,449	27.0%
	New Democratic	Lynn MacWilliam	2,463	15.0%
	Green	Mike Worthington	321	1.9%
	Alberta Party	Einar Davison	307	1.9%
	Liberal	Ali Abdulbaki	200	1.2%
	Alberta First	Glen Dundas	72	0.4%

Senate nominee results

2004 Senate nominee election district results

2004 Senate nominee election results: Strathmore-Brooks					Turnout 36.18%
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	% Votes	% Ballots	Rank
	Progressive Conservative	Bert Brown	4,999	18.61%	59.79%	1
	Progressive Conservative	Betty Unger	3,754	13.98%	44.90%	2
	Progressive Conservative	Jim Silye	3,160	11.77%	37.80%	5
	Progressive Conservative	Cliff Breitkreuz	2,949	10.98%	35.27%	3
	Progressive Conservative	David Usherwood	2,651	9.87%	31.71%	6	Independent	Link Byfield	2,546	9.48%	30.45%	4
	Alberta Alliance	Vance Gough	1,972	7.34%	23.59%	8
	Alberta Alliance	Michael Roth	1,957	7.29%	23.41%	7
	Alberta Alliance	Gary Horan	1,598	5.95%	19.11%	10	Independent	Tom Sindlinger	1,271	4.73%	15.20%	9
Total Votes			26,857	100%
Total Ballots			8,361	3.21 Votes Per Ballot
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			932

Voters had the option of selecting 4 Candidates on the Ballot

Student Vote results

2004 election

Participating Schools
Eastbrook Elementary
Hussar School
Lathom Colony School
Newell Christian School
Sacred Heart Academy
Strathmore High School

On November 19, 2004 a Student Vote was conducted at participating Alberta schools to parallel the 2004 Alberta general election results. The vote was designed to educate students and simulate the electoral process for persons who have not yet reached the legal majority. The vote was conducted in 80 of the 83 provincial electoral districts with students voting for actual election candidates. Schools with a large student body that reside in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district then where they were physically located.

2004 Alberta Student Vote results
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Lyle Oberg	319	47.12%	Liberal	Carrol Jaques	112	16.54%
	Separation	Jay Kolody	86	12.70%
	Alberta Alliance	Mark Ogden	69	10.19%	NDP	Don Macfarlane	67	9.90%
	Social Credit	Rudy Martens	24	3.55%
Total			677	100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			24

2012 election

2012 Alberta Student Vote results
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Arno Doerksen		%
	Wildrose	Jason Hale	Liberal	Alex Wychopen		%	NDP	Brad Bailey		%
Total			'	100%

External links

• Legislative Assembly of Alberta