Edmonton-South

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Edmonton-South
Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta electoral district
Edmonton-South 2017.svg
Edmonton-South within the City of Edmonton (2017 boundaries).
Provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA
 
 		 
Rhiannon Hoyle
New Democratic
District created1913
District abolished1921
District re-created2017
First contested 1913
Last contested 2023
Demographics
Population (2016) [1] 45,801
Area (km²)72.7
Pop. density (per km²)630

Edmonton-South (previously styled Edmonton South) is a provincial electoral district in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The first iteration was used for the 1913 and 1917 provincial elections. The district was re-created again for the 30th Alberta general election.

Contents

Geography

The first iteration of Edmonton South included the part of Edmonton south of the North Saskatchewan River, which had recently been amalgamated into Edmonton.

The re-created Edmonton-South has the Whitemud Creek and Rabbit Hill Road as its western boundary, the Henday as its northern boundary (except the area between Rabbit Hill Road and the Whitemud Creek south of 23rd Ave NW), 91st St SW and 88 St SW as its eastern boundary, and extends South to Highway 19 on the west side of the QEII according to the City of Edmonton's plan to annex a portion of Leduc County. [2]

History

Members of the Legislative Assembly for
Edmonton-South
AssemblyYearsMemberParty
See Strathcona 1905-1913
3rd 1913-1917 Herbert Crawford Conservative
4th 1917-1921
See Edmonton 1921-1955
Riding created from Edmonton-South West, Edmonton-Whitemud,
Edmonton-Ellerslie and Leduc-Beaumont
30th 2019–2021 Thomas Dang New Democrat
2021–2023Independent
31st 2023– Rhiannon Hoyle New Democrat

Edmonton South was created when the district of Strathcona, centring on the old City of Strathcona, was renamed due to the city's merger with Edmonton.

The incumbent in 1913 was Alexander Rutherford, who had resigned as Premier of Alberta in 1910 but remained a Liberal MLA. He ran for re-election as a private member in the renamed Edmonton South, but was defeated by Conservative Herbert Crawford, a Whyte Avenue merchant. A similar surprise occurred in southside Edmonton in 1989, when sitting premier Don Getty (MLA for Edmonton-Whitemud) was unseated by a Liberal challenger.

Crawford was re-elected in 1917, and served a second term as an opposition MLA. Edmonton South merged with Edmonton West and Edmonton East to form the multi-member Edmonton constituency in 1921, where Crawford was not re-elected, placing ninth.

In 2017, the Electoral Boundaries Commission decided to re-use the name Edmonton-South for a new district, carving it mostly from Edmonton-South West and smaller parts of Edmonton-Whitemud, Edmonton-Ellerslie and Leduc-Beaumont.

Election results

1910s

1913 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Herbert Crawford 1,52354.43%+40.35%
Liberal Alexander Rutherford 1,27545.57%-40.35%
Total valid votes2,798
Conservative notional gain Swing +40.35%
Source(s)
Alberta Heritage Foundation. "Election Results, Edmonton South". Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved December 8, 2017.
1917 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Herbert Crawford 2,76155.90%+1.47%
Liberal Robert Douglas2,17844.10%-1.47%
Total valid votes4,939
Registered voters / Turnout6,92371.34%
Conservative hold Swing +1.47%
Source(s)
Alberta Heritage Foundation. "Election Results, Edmonton South". Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved December 8, 2017.

2010s

Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta general election
New Democratic 6,70653.69
Progressive Conservative 3,78130.27
Wildrose 1,2119.70
Liberal 5144.12
Alberta Party 2622.10
Green 90.07
Independent 70.06
Source(s)
Source: Ridingbuilder
2019 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic Thomas Dang 10,67346.63-7.06
United Conservative Tunde Obasan9,88143.17+3.20
Alberta Party Pramod Kumar2,1569.42+2.10
Green Ben Roach1800.79+0.71
Total22,89099.10–
Rejected, spoiled and declined2080.90
Turnout23,09870.84
Eligible electors32,607
New Democratic hold Swing -5.13
Source(s)
Source: "42 - Edmonton-South, 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. 164–167. ISBN   978-1-988620-12-1 . Retrieved April 7, 2021.

2023

2023 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic Rhiannon Hoyle 14,17158.97+12.34
United Conservative Joseph Angeles9,49239.50-3.67
Green Chryssy Beckmann3691.54+0.75
Total24,03299.28–
Rejected and declined1740.72
Turnout24,20660.12
Eligible voters40,262
New Democratic hold Swing +8.00
Source(s)
Source: Elections Alberta [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Statistics Canada: 2016
  2. ↑ Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission. "Final Report Maps: Edmonton-South" (PDF). abebc.ca.
  3. ↑ "42 - Edmonton-South". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved June 9, 2023.
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