Edmonton-Highlands-Beverly

Edmonton-Highlands

Alberta electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
District created	1993
District abolished	1997
First contested	1993
Last contested	1993

Edmonton-Highlands-Beverly was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting from 1993 to 1997. ^[1]

Edmonton-Highlands-Beverly was contested only once, in 1993. It was created from most of Edmonton-Highlands and part of Edmonton-Beverly, and its name was changed back to Edmonton-Highlands in 1997, with no boundary changes. ^[2]

Representation history

Member for Edmonton-Highlands-Beverly
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
See Edmonton-Highlands and Edmonton-Beverly 1971–1993
23rd	1993–1997		Alice Hanson	Liberal
See Edmonton-Highlands 1997–2004

The district's only MLA was one-term Liberal member Alice Hanson. She served in opposition and did not run again when the riding was abolished in 1997. ^[3]

Election results

v t e 1993 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Alice Hanson	5,189	45.59%	+27.17%
	Progressive Conservative	Ron Liepert	2,787	24.48%	-2.10%
	New Democratic	John McInnis	2,885	25.34%	-29.66%
	Social Credit	Tim Friesen	428	3.76%	–
	Natural Law	Cliff Kinzel	94	0.83%	–
Total			11,383	–	–
Rejected, spoiled, and declined			31	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			20,798	54.88%	+1.14%
	Liberal notional gain from New Democratic		Swing		+14.63%
Source(s) "Results for Edmonton-Highlands". Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved June 4, 2020. Swing is calculated from the Edmonton-Highlands result in 1989.

See also

• List of Alberta provincial electoral districts
• Canadian provincial electoral districts

References

1. "Election results for Edmonton-Highlands-Beverly". abheritage.ca. Heritage Community Foundation. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
2. "election-atlas.ca - Alberta". election-atlas.ca. Retrieved March 12, 2018.
3. Niddrie, Lise; Hanson, Chris (September 15, 2009). "Alice Ann Hanson". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved March 12, 2018.

Further reading

• Office of the Chief Electoral Officer; Legislative Assembly Office (2006). A Century of Democracy: Elections of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1905-2005. The Centennial Series. Edmonton, AB: Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ISBN   0-9689217-8-7 . Retrieved May 25, 2020.

External links

• Elections Alberta
• The Legislative Assembly of Alberta

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