Cypress-Medicine Hat

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Cypress-Medicine Hat
Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta electoral district
Cypress-Medicine Hat 2017.svg
Cypress-Medicine Hat within Alberta, 2017 boundaries
Provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA
 
 
 
Justin Wright
United Conservative
District created1993
First contested 1993
Last contested 2023

Cypress-Medicine Hat is a provincial electoral district in the southeast corner of Alberta. Under the Alberta electoral boundary re-distribution of 2004, the constituency covers the portion of Medicine Hat south of the South Saskatchewan River, the Trans-Canada Highway and Carry Drive. The rest of the city is part of the Medicine Hat constituency, which Cypress-Medicine Hat surrounds. The constituency borders Saskatchewan to the east and Montana to the south. Clockwise from the Montana border, the district also borders Cardston-Taber-Warner, Little Bow, Strathmore-Brooks and Drumheller-Stettler. Other major towns include Bow Island and Redcliff. The constituency represents Cypress County and the County of Forty Mile No. 8.

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The MLA for this district is the United Conservative Party's Justin Wright. [1] Prior to 2023 the district was represented by Drew Barnes, who was first elected in 2012 as a Wildrose Party candidate in the 28th Alberta general election.

History

The electoral district was created in the 1993 boundary redistribution from the old electoral district of Cypress-Redcliff. The 2010 boundary redistribution saw only minor changes made in the middle of the riding to align with changes to the Medicine Hat city limits. [2]

Boundary history

Representation history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Cypress-Medicine Hat [4]
AssemblyYearsMemberParty
Riding created from Cypress-Redcliff and Medicine Hat
23rd 1993-1997 Lorne Taylor Progressive Conservative
24th 1997-2001
25th 2001-2004
26th 2004-2008 Leonard Mitzel
27th 2008-2012
28th 2012–2015 Drew Barnes Wildrose
29th 2015–2017
2017-2019 United Conservative
30th 2019–2021
2021–2023Independent
31st 2023– Justin Wright United Conservative

The electoral district was created in the boundary redistribution of 1993 from the old Cypress-Redcliff riding. The biggest change was the inclusion of parts of Medicine Hat that resulted in the name change.

The first election in the district held in 1993 was won by Progressive Conservative candidate Lorne Taylor who won with a comfortable margin defeating three other candidates. He won his second term with a stronger majority in 1997. Premier Ralph Klein promoted him to the cabinet and held a few portfolio's after that election. He won a third term in 2001 before retiring in 2004.

The second member for the district was Leonard Mitzel who was elected to his first term in the 2004 election. He was re-elected in 2008 with a landslide.

In the 2012 Alberta general election Wildrose candidate Drew Barnes defeated Progressive Conservative incumbent Leonard Mitzel. Barnes captured 53.6 per cent of the vote. Barnes was subsequently reelected in 2015 capturing 54.5 per cent of the vote. In 2017 the Barnes became a member of the United Conservative Party when the Wildrose Party merged with the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta. Barnes was subsequently reelected in 2019, capturing 67.1 per cent of the popular vote. On May 13, 2021, Barnes and Central Peace-Notley MLA Todd Loewen were expelled from the United Conservative caucus to sit as an independents. [5]

Legislative election results

1993

1993 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Lorne Taylor 4,03449.30%
Liberal Lloyd B. Robinson2,79934.21%
Social Credit Al Strom85510.45%
New Democratic James Ridley4946.04%
Total8,182
Rejected, spoiled and declined33
Eligible electors / Turnout13,68860.02%
Progressive Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s)
Source: "Cypress-Medicine Hat Official Results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1997

1997 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Lorne Taylor 5,75463.36%14.05%
Liberal Beverley Britton Clarke2,21724.41%-9.80%
Social Credit Maurice Perron7288.02%-2.43%
New Democratic Don Crisall3834.22%-1.82%
Total9,082
Rejected, spoiled and declined21294
Eligible electors / Turnout17,77951.22%-8.79%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 11.93%
Source(s)
Source: "Cypress-Medicine Hat Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2001

2001 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Lorne Taylor 7,22272.99%9.64%
Liberal Beverley Britton Clarke2,07420.96%-3.45%
New Democratic Cliff Anten5986.04%1.83%
Total9,894
Rejected, spoiled and declined38140
Eligible electors / Turnout19,87849.96%-1.26%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 6.54%
Source(s)
Source: "Cypress-Medicine Hat Official Results 2001 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2004

2004 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Leonard Mitzel 4,62854.95%-18.04%
Liberal Stuart Angle2,22226.38%5.42%
Alberta Alliance Dan H. Pierson6527.74%
Social Credit Eric Solberg5626.67%
New Democratic Cliff Anten3584.25%-1.79%
Total8,422
Rejected, spoiled and declined52296
Eligible electors / Turnout22,18138.23%-11.73%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -11.73%
Source(s)
Source: "00 - Cypress-Medicine Hat, 2004 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved May 21, 2020. [6]

2008

2008 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Leonard Mitzel 5,64063.34%8.39%
Liberal Richard (Dick) Mastel2,02322.72%-3.66%
Wildrose Alliance Dan H. Pierson6797.63%-0.09%
New Democratic Manuel Martinez3473.90%-0.35%
Green Bright Pryde2152.41%
Total8,904
Rejected, spoiled and declined83824
Eligible electors / Turnout25,03535.69%-2.54%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 6.03%
Source(s)
Source: "50 - Cypress-Medicine Hat, 2008 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved May 21, 2020. [7]

2012

2012 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Wildrose Alliance Drew Barnes 7,09853.60%45.97%
Progressive Conservative Leonard Mitzel 4,73835.78%-27.56%
Liberal Jon Mastel7705.81%-16.91%
New Democratic Manuel Martinez6374.81%0.91%
Total13,243
Rejected, spoiled and declined75475
Eligible electors / turnout26,19950.85%15.16%
Wildrose Alliance gain from Progressive Conservative Swing -11.40%
Source(s)
Source: "55 - Cypress-Medicine Hat, 2012 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2015

2015 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Wildrose Drew Barnes 8,54454.55%0.95%
Progressive Conservative Bob Olson3,38921.64%-14.14%
New Democratic Bev Waege3,20120.44%15.63%
Liberal Eric Musekamp5283.37%-2.44%
Total15,662
Rejected, spoiled and declined38333
Eligible electors / Turnout29,69452.88%2.03%
Wildrose hold Swing 7.55%
Source(s)
Source: "55 - Cypress-Medicine Hat, 2015 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved May 21, 2020.
2015 Alberta general election redistributed results
PartyVotes%
Wildrose 8,86144.32
New Democratic 5,76528.84
Progressive Conservative 4,28421.43
Liberal 3601.80
Alberta Party 3351.68
Independent 850.43
Source(s)
Source: Ridingbuilder

2019

2019 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Conservative Drew Barnes 16,48367.06+1.31
New Democratic Peter Mueller6,39626.02-2.82
Alberta Party Colette Smithers1,1224.56+2.89
Alberta Advantage Party Terry Blacquier3591.46
Liberal Anwar Kamaran2190.89-0.91
Total24,57999.35
Rejected, spoiled and declined1620.65
Turnout24,74167.60
Eligible voters36,597
United Conservative notional hold Swing +2.06
Source(s)
Source: "57 - Cypress-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. 249–254. ISBN   978-1-988620-12-1 . Retrieved April 7, 2021.

2023

2023 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Conservative Justin Wright 13,48961.89-5.17
New Democratic Cathy Hogg7,69735.32+9.29
Wildrose Loyalty Coalition Matt Orr3221.48
Alberta Independence Cody Ray Both2871.32
Total21,79599.44
Rejected and declined1220.56
Turnout21,91753.18
Eligible voters41,209
United Conservative hold Swing -7.23
Source(s)

Senate nominee election results

2004

2004 Senate nominee election results: Cypress-Medicine Hat [9] Turnout 37.92%
AffiliationCandidateVotes% votes% ballotsRank
Progressive Conservative Bert Brown 3,41216.23%48.80%1
Progressive Conservative Betty Unger 3,11914.83%44.61%2
Progressive Conservative Cliff Breitkreuz 2,39911.41%34.31%3
Progressive Conservative Jim Silye 2,18210.38%31.21%5
Progressive Conservative David Usherwood2,12710.12%30.42%6
 Independent Link Byfield 2,0629.81%29.49%4
Alberta Alliance Michael Roth1,6787.98%24.00%7
Alberta Alliance Vance Gough1,4967.11%21.40%8
Alberta Alliance Gary Horan1,4096.70%20.15%10
 Independent Tom Sindlinger 1,1425.43%16.33%9
Total votes21,026100%
Total ballots6,9923.01 votes per ballot
Rejected, spoiled and declined1,418

Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot

Student vote results

2004

Participating schools [10]
Burdett School
Eagle Butte High School
Senator Gershaw School
Seven Persons School
St. Mary's School
St. Michaels'
Sunrise 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 [11]
AffiliationCandidateVotes%
Progressive Conservative Leonard Mitzel 39657.98%
  Liberal Stuart Angle14220.79%
Alberta Alliance Dan Pierson598.64%
  NDP Cliff Aten527.61%
Social Credit Eric Solberg344.98%
Total683100%
Rejected, spoiled and declined25

See also

References

  1. "Alberta election 2023 results: Cypress-Medicine Hat | Globalnews.ca". Global News. Retrieved May 30, 2023.
  2. "Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta" (PDF). Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission. June 2010. p. 20. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 27, 2011. Retrieved January 14, 2012.
  3. "E‑4.1". Statutes of the Province of Alberta. Government of Alberta. 2003. pp. 35–36.
  4. "Members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta 1905-2006" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 30, 2007. Retrieved February 27, 2010.
  5. Bellefontaine, Michelle (May 13, 2021). "Alberta MLAs Todd Loewen, Drew Barnes booted from UCP caucus". CBC News . Edmonton. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
  6. "Cypress-Medicine Hat Statement of Official Results 2004 Alberta general election" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Retrieved March 7, 2009.
  7. The Report on the March 3, 2008 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-seventh Legislative Assembly. Elections Alberta. July 28, 2008. pp.  392–397.
  8. "57 - Cypress-Medicine Hat". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved June 9, 2023.
  9. "Senate Nominee Election 2004 Tabulation of Official Results" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 4, 2009. Retrieved March 1, 2010.
  10. "School by School results". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on February 13, 2012. Retrieved April 27, 2008.
  11. "Riding by Riding Results - the Candidates". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 6, 2007. Retrieved April 19, 2008.

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