Alberta electoral district | |||
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Provincial electoral district | |||
Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
MLA |
New Democratic | ||
District created | 2017 | ||
First contested | 2019 | ||
Last contested | 2019 | ||
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 will be 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.
The district is located in central Edmonton, containing the city's downtown core as well as the neighbourhoods of Oliver, Rossdale, Queen Mary Park, Central McDougall, Spruce Avenue, and Westwood, also including the main campus of MacEwan University.
Members for Edmonton-City Centre | ||||
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Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
See Edmonton-Centre 1959-2019 and Edmonton-Calder 1997-2019 | ||||
30th | 2019– | David Shepherd | New Democrat |
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.
Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta general election | ||||
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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% |
2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
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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. |
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