Edmonton-City Centre

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Edmonton-City Centre

Alberta electoral district
Edmonton-City Centre within the City of Edmonton (2017 boundaries)
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA	David Shepherd New Democratic
District created	2017
First contested	2019
Last contested	2023
Demographics
Population (2016) [1]	47,715
Area (km²)	12.3
Pop. density (per km²)	3,879.3

Edmonton-City Centre 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. The current MLA is David Shepherd, first elected in the 2019 Alberta election.

Geography

The district is located in central Edmonton, containing the city's downtown core as well as the neighbourhoods of Wîhkwêntôwin, Rossdale, Queen Mary Park, Central McDougall, Spruce Avenue, and Westwood, also including the main campus of MacEwan University.

History

Edmonton-City Centre
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Edmonton-Calder and Edmonton-Centre
30th	2019–2023		David Shepherd	New Democratic
31st	2023–Present

The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended renaming Edmonton-Centre (to reduce confusion with similarly-named federal districts). ^[2] The Commission also extended its border north to the Yellowhead Highway between 97 St NW and 109 St NW, adding the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology's main campus to the riding.

Electoral results

Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta general election
Party		Votes	%
	New Democratic	10,108	56.17%
	Liberal	4,256	23.65%
	Progressive Conservative	2,406	13.37%
	Wildrose	892	4.96%
	Others	335	1.86%

v t e 2019 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	David Shepherd	13,598	66.0%	+11.59%
	United Conservative	Lily Le	4,485	21.8%	+3.68%
	Alberta Party	Bob Philp	1,907	9.3%	--
	Green	Chris Alders	342	1.7%	--
	Independence	John R. Morton	169	0.8%	--
	Independent	Blake N. Dickinson	95	0.5%	--
Total valid votes			20,596
Rejected, spoiled, and declined			191	76	22
Registered electors and turnout			38,887	53.5%
	New Democratic hold		Swing		%
Source(s) "2019 Provincial General Election Results". Elections Alberta. Retrieved April 30, 2019.

v t e 2023 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	David Shepherd	12,431	74.89	+8.87
	United Conservative	Richard Wong	3,691	22.24	+0.46
	Green	David Clark	476	2.87	+1.21
Total			16,598	98.84	–
Rejected and declined			195	1.16
Turnout			16,793	51.00
Eligible voters			32,928
	New Democratic hold		Swing		+4.21
Source(s) Source: Elections Alberta [3]

References

1. Statistics Canada: 2016
2. Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (October 2017). "Final Report" (PDF). p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 24, 2018. Retrieved January 30, 2018.
3. "29 - Edmonton-City Centre". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved June 8, 2023.