Edmonton-Ellerslie

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Edmonton-Ellerslie
Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta electoral district
Edmonton-Ellerslie 2017.svg
Edmonton-Ellerslie within the City of Edmonton, 2017 boundaries
Provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA
  
Vacant
District created1993
First contested 1993
Last contested 2023

Edmonton-Ellerslie is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. It is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly.

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History

The 2010 boundary redistribution saw the riding shrink on its north boundary to Anthony Henday Drive from roughly 34 Avenue, losing some land to Edmonton-Mill Woods and Edmonton-Mill Creek.

Boundary history

Electoral history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Edmonton-Ellerslie
AssemblyYearsMemberParty
See Edmonton-Mill Woods 1979-1993
23rd 1993–1997 Debby Carlson Liberal
24th 1997–2001
25th 2001–2004
2004Vacant
26th 2004–2008 Bharat Agnihotri Liberal
27th 2008–2012 Naresh Bhardwaj Progressive
Conservative
28th 2012–2015
29th 2015–2019 Rod Loyola New Democrat
30th 2019–2023
31st 2023–2025
2025Vacant

The electoral district was created in 1993 from Edmonton-Mill Woods. The first election held that year saw incumbent NDP MLA Gerry Gibeault switch from that district to run in Ellerslie. A wave of support for the Alberta Liberals rolled across Edmonton causing Liberal candidate Debby Carlson to win the riding with over half the popular vote. Gibeault was defeated, finishing a distant second place.

Carlson ran for a second term in 1997. She increased her popular support to take the district easily with almost 57% of the popular vote. The 2001 election was a very tight race. Carlson barely hung on to win her third term in office. She defeated Progressive Conservative candidate Sukhi Randhawa by less than 300 votes and won the seat with 45 percent of the vote.

On May 28, 2004 Carlson vacated her seat to run in the 2004 federal election in the Edmonton—Strathcona district. Her replacement elected in the provincial election that year was Liberal candidate Bharat Agnihotri. He took just under 34% of the popular vote and won by a razor thin plurality of 200 votes over his Progressive Conservative opponent, and just 1200 votesl over his NDP opponent.

The Progressive Conservatives won the riding in the 2008 election when its candidate Naresh Bhardwaj defeated the incumbent MLA trying for re-election and won the set with 42% of the popular vote. The 2012 result was about the same with the P-C candidate winning with a minority of the vote.

NDP candidate Rod Loyola won the seat three consecutive times — 2015, 2019, and 2023.

Legislative election results

2025

Alberta provincial by-election, June 23, 2025
The by-election will be held on June 23, 2025.
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Conservative Naresh Bhardwaj
New Democratic Gurtej Singh Brar
Alberta Party Caroline Currie
Wildrose Loyalty Coalition Pamela Henson
Republican Fred Munn
Liberal Manpreet Tiwana
Total valid votes
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Eligible voters
hold Swing
Source(s)

2023

2023 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic Rod Loyola 11,42961.75+10.80
United Conservative Ranjit Bath6,81736.83-1.08
Wildrose Loyalty Coalition Angela Stretch2641.43
Total18,51099.42
Rejected and declined2061.10+0.25
Turnout18,71656.24-9.41
Eligible voters33,278
New Democratic hold Swing +5.94
Source(s)

2019

2019 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic Rod Loyola 9,71750.95-10.68
United Conservative Sanjay Patel7,23037.91+5.50
Alberta Party Hazelyn Williams1,2736.67+6.66
Liberal Mike McGowan3902.04-3.89
Alberta Advantage Yash Sharma2631.38
Alberta Independence Brian S. Lockyer1991.04
Total19,07298.93
Rejected, spoiled and declined1630.85
Turnout19,23565.66
Eligible voters29,297
New Democratic hold Swing -8.09
Source(s)
Source: "31 - Edmonton-Ellerslie, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved June 20, 2025.
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. 120–123. ISBN   978-1-988620-12-1 . Retrieved April 7, 2021.

2015

Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta election [3]
PartyVotes%
New Democratic 7,02161.63
Progressive Conservative 2,31420.31
Wildrose 1,37812.10
Liberal 6765.93
Alberta Party 20.02
Green 10.01
2015 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic Rod Loyola 11,03461.57+45.57
Progressive Conservative Harman Kandola3,54919.80-23.16
Wildrose Jackie Lovely 2,49913.94-10.71
Liberal Mike McGowan8394.68-6.70
Total17,92199.30
Rejected, spoiled and declined1270.70-0.47
Turnout18,04852.67+2.63
Eligible voters34,266
New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative Swing +34.37
Source(s)
Source: "33 - Edmonton-Ellerslie, 2015 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved June 20, 2025.
Chief Electoral Officer (2016). 2015 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer (PDF) (Report). Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta.

2012

2012 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Naresh Bhardwaj 5,67742.97+1.06
Wildrose Alliance Jackie Lovely 3,25824.66+20.35
New Democratic Rod Loyola 2,11416.00-1.30
Liberal Jennifer Ketsa1,50411.38-21.47
Alberta Party Chinwe Okelu5233.96
Independent Athena Bernal-Born1371.04
Total13,21398.83
Rejected, spoiled and declined1571.17+0.44
Turnout13,37050.04+14.87
Eligible voters26,721
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -9.64
Source(s)
Source: "33 - Edmonton-Ellerslie, 2012 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved June 20, 2025.
Chief Electoral Officer (2012). The Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the 2011 Provincial Enumeration and Monday, April 23, 2012 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-eighth Legislative Assembly (PDF) (Report). Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 6, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2021.

2008

2008 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Naresh Bhardwaj 4,58141.90+10.08
Liberal Bharat Agnihotri 3,59232.86-0.94
New Democratic Marilyn Assheton-Smith1,89117.30-4.85
Wildrose Alliance Krista Leddy4714.31-5.59
Green Paul J. Boos3353.06
Social Credit Cheryl Ullah620.57-1.77
Total10,93299.26
Rejected, spoiled and declined810.74+0.13
Turnout11,01335.17-8.37
Eligible voters31,317
Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +5.51
Source(s)
Source: "30 - Edmonton-Ellerslie, 2008 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved June 20, 2025.
Chief Electoral Officer (2008). The Report on the March 3, 2008 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-Seventh Legislative Assembly (Report). Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 290–293. Retrieved April 7, 2021.

2004

2004 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Bharat Agnihotri 3,44633.80-11.06
Progressive Conservative Gurnam Dodd3,24531.83-10.31
New Democratic Marilyn Assheton-Smith2,25822.15+9.14
Alberta Alliance Eleanor Maroes 1,0099.90
Social Credit Amelia Maciejewski2382.33
Total10,19699.40
Rejected, spoiled and declined620.60-0.00
Turnout10,25843.53-8.78
Eligible voters23,563
Liberal hold Swing -0.38
Source(s)
Source: Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2005). Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the General Enumeration and General Election of the Twenty-sixth Legislative Assembly (PDF) (Report). Edmonton: Alberta Legislative Assembly, Office of the Chief Electoral Officer.

2001

2001 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Debby Carlson 4,48144.86-11.83
Progressive Conservative Sukhi Randhawa4,20942.14+16.11
New Democratic Deborah Morrison1,29913.00+4.01
Total9,98999.39
Rejected, spoiled and declined610.61+0.10
Turnout10,05052.32-3.44
Eligible voters19,210
Liberal hold Swing -13.97
Source(s)
Source: "Edmonton-Ellerslie Official Results 2001 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2001). The report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the 2000 provincial confirmation process and Monday, March 12, 2001, Provincial General Election of the twenty-fifth Legislative Assembly. Edmonton: Alberta Legislative Assembly, Office of the Chief Electoral Officer.

1997

1997 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Debby Carlson 5,75256.69%3.12%
Progressive Conservative Jasbeer Singh2,64126.03%5.29%
New Democratic Henry Johns9139.00%-12.01%
Social Credit Ken Way8408.28%4.38%
Total10,146
Rejected, spoiled and declined28240
Eligible electors / turnout18,29055.63%-3.37%
Liberal hold Swing -0.95%
Source(s)
Source: "Edmonton-Ellerslie Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (1997). Report of the Chief Electoral Officer, November, 1996 general enumeration and Tuesday, March 11, 1997 general election Twenty-fourth Legislative Assembly. Edmonton: Alberta Legislative Assembly, Office of the Chief Electoral Officer.

1993

1993 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Debby Carlson 5,46653.57%
New Democratic Gerry Gibeault 2,14421.01%
Progressive Conservative Bas Roopnarine2,11620.74%
Social Credit Ken Way3983.90%
Natural Law Rhonda Day790.77%
Total10,203
Rejected, spoiled and declined15
Eligible electors / turnout17,32059.00%
Liberal pickup new district.
Source(s)
Source: "Edmonton-Ellerslie Official Results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

Senate nominee election results

2004

2004 Senate nominee election results: Edmonton-Ellerslie [4] Turnout 43.51%
AffiliationCandidateVotes% votes% ballotsRank
Progressive Conservative Betty Unger 3,94914.08%45.67%2
 Independent Link Byfield 3,31411.82%38.33%4
Progressive Conservative Bert Brown 3,12211.13%36.11%1
Alberta Alliance Michael Roth2,90110.35%33.55%7
Progressive Conservative Cliff Breitkreuz 2,89910.34%33.53%3
Alberta Alliance Vance Gough2,5749.18%29.77%8
 Independent Tom Sindlinger 2,5319.03%29.27%9
Alberta Alliance Gary Horan2,5249.00%29.19%10
Progressive Conservative David Usherwood2,3568.40%27.25%6
Progressive Conservative Jim Silye 1,8746.67%21.67%5
Total votes28,044100%
Total ballots8,6473.24 votes per ballot
Rejected, spoiled and declined1,688

Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot.

Student vote results

2004

Participating schools [5]
Holy Trinity Catholic High School
J. Percy Page 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 had 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 who reside in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district than where they were physically located.

2004 Alberta student vote results [6]
AffiliationCandidateVotes%
  Liberal Bharat Agnihotri 32135.99%
Progressive Conservative Gurnam Dodd30934.64%
  NDP Marilyn Assheton-Smith14215.92%
Alberta Alliance Eleanor Maroes 677.51%
Social Credit Amelia Maciejewski535.94%
Total892100%
Rejected, spoiled and declined24

2012

2012 Alberta student vote results
AffiliationCandidateVotes%
Progressive Conservative Naresh Bhardwaj
Wildrose Jackie Lovely
  Liberal Jennifer Ketsa%
Alberta Party Chinwe Okelu
  NDP Rod Loyola%
Total100%

See also

References

  1. "E‑4.1". Statutes of the Province of Alberta. Government of Alberta. 2003. p. 17.
  2. "31 - Edmonton-Ellerslie". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved June 20, 2025.
  3. "ridingbuilder: Alberta; Riding Data; Edmonton-Ellerslie".
  4. "Senate Nominee Election 2004 Tabulation of Official Results" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 4, 2009. Retrieved February 28, 2010.
  5. "School by School results". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 5, 2007. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
  6. "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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