Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville

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Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville
Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta electoral district
Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville 2017.svg
Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville within Alberta, 2017 boundaries
Provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA
 
 
 
Jackie Armstrong Homeniuk
United Conservative
District created2003
First contested 2004
Last contested 2023

Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first-past-the-post method of voting.

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The electoral district, which is located in rural east central Alberta just east of Edmonton, was created in the 2004 boundary redistribution. The current boundaries of the district comprise parts of Vegreville-Viking, Redwater and Clover Bar-Fort Saskatchewan. The district is named after the small city of Fort Saskatchewan and the town of Vegreville.

The current representative for this district is United Conservative Jackie Armstrong-Homeniuk who was first elected in the 2019 provincial election. The district has also been represented by past Progressive Conservative Premier Ed Stelmach.

History

The electoral district was created in the 2004 electoral boundary re-distribution from the old electoral districts of Clover Bar-Fort Saskatchewan, Redwater and Vegreville-Viking. The resulting population of the district in 2004 was 36,172, which was 1.5% above the provincial average of 35,951. [1]

The 2010 electoral boundary re-distribution saw significant changes made to the district with land residing in Beaver County south of Tofield being moved to Battle River-Wainwright and land in Strathcona County north of Alberta Highway 16 being transferred into the electoral district from the old Strathcona electoral district. [2]

The 2017 electoral boundary re-distribution saw a number of changes to the Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville electoral district as four divisions in the central northeast area of the province (north and east of Edmonton) were consolidated into three to account for the population in those areas having grown at a rate below that of the province as a whole. The district would include the entirety of the Counties of Lamont and Minburn as well as Elk Island National Park. The resulting population of the district in 2017 was 52,141, 11% above provincial average for electoral districts. This variance was justified as population growth in the region is expected to continue to be less than the provincial rate of growth. The Commission noted the average age of residents in parts of the Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville was well above that of other Albertans. [3]

Boundary history

Electoral history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville [5]
AssemblyYearsMemberParty
See Clover Bar-Fort Saskatchewan 1993–2004,
Redwater 1993–2004
and Vegreville-Viking 1993–2004
26th  2004–2008   Ed Stelmach Progressive Conservative
27th  2008–2012
28th  2012–2015 Jacquie Fenske
29th  2015–2019   Jessica Littlewood New Democratic
30th  2019–2023   Jackie Armstrong-Homeniuk United Conservative
31st  2023–Present

The electoral district of Fort Saskatchewan was created in the boundary redistribution of 2004. The first election held in the district saw longtime Vegreville—Viking incumbent Ed "The Sock" Stelmach win the new district of his party. He took just under half the popular vote, defeating four other candidates.

Stelmach became leader of the Progressive Conservatives and premier of the province in December 2006. He stood for re-election in 2008 winning a landslide of nearly 78% of the popular vote. Progressive Conservative Jacquie Fenske won the district in the 2012 provincial election.

In the 2015 election, NDP candidate Jessica Littlewood won with a majority of 2,870, defeating Jacquie Fenske who finished second. Littlewood would stand for re-election in 2019, however she would be defeated by UCP candidate Jackie Armstrong-Homeniuk by the considerable margin of 6,443 votes.

Legislative election results

2004

2004 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Ed Stelmach 6,16048.34%
Liberal Peter Schneider3,16024.80%
New Democratic Wes Buyarski1,63312.81%
Alberta Alliance Byron King1,41111.07%
Social Credit Mark R. Patterson3792.97%
Total12,743
Rejected, spoiled and declined47
Eligible electors / turnout24,83151.51%
Progressive Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s)
Source: "Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville Statement of Official Results 2004 Alberta general election" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Retrieved March 9, 2020.

2008

2008 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Ed Stelmach 11,16978.13%29.79%
Liberal Earl J. Woods1,3439.39%-15.40%
New Democratic Clayton Marsden1,2338.62%-4.19%
Green Ryan Scheie5513.85%
Total14,296
Rejected, spoiled and declined63
Eligible electors / turnout29,51348.65%-2.86%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 22.60%

2012

2012 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Jacquie Fenske 8,37049.30%-28.83%
Wildrose Shannon Stubbs 5,80334.18%
New Democratic Chris Fulmer1,5539.15%0.52%
Liberal Spencer Dunn8434.97%-4.43%
Evergreen Matt Levicki2291.35%-2.50%
Independent Peter Schneider1801.06%
Total16,978
Rejected, spoiled and declined145
Eligible electors / turnout29,56157.92%9.27%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -26.81%
Source(s)
Source: "60 - Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville, 2012 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2015

2015 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic Jessica Littlewood 8,98345.94%36.79%
Progressive Conservative Jacquie Fenske 5,52728.27%-21.03%
Wildrose Joe Gosselin3,95920.25%-13.93%
Liberal Peter Schneider4752.43%-2.54%
Alberta Party Derek Christensen3241.66%
Green Allison Anderson2851.46%0.17%
Total19,553
Rejected, spoiled and declined140
Eligible electors / turnout36,51553.93%-3.99%
New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative Swing 1.28%
Source(s)
Source: "60 - Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville, 2015 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2019

2019 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Conservative Jackie Armstrong Homeniuk 14,23353.63%5.11%
New Democratic Jessica Littlewood 7,79029.35%-16.59%
Alberta Party Marvin Olsen3,38612.76%11.10%
Freedom Conservative Malcolm Stinson3501.32%
Green Rebecca Trotter2781.05%-0.41%
Alberta Independence Shane Ladouceur2610.98%
Alberta Advantage PartyRonald Malowany2410.91%
Total26,539
Rejected, spoiled and declined154
Eligible electors / turnout37,93170.37%16.44%
United Conservative gain from New Democratic Swing 3.30%
Source(s)
Source: "62 - Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2023

2023 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Conservative Jackie Armstrong-Homeniuk 14,12658.07+4.44
New Democratic Taneen Rudyk9,06437.26+7.91
Independent Kathy Flett8013.29
Advantage Party Kelly Zeleny2270.93+0.03
Solidarity Movement Granny Margaret Mackay1080.44
Total24,32699.37
Rejected and declined1540.63
Turnout24,48060.14
Eligible voters40,706
United Conservative hold Swing -1.73
Source(s)

Senate nominee election results

2004

2004 Senate nominee election results: Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville [7] Turnout 52.13%
AffiliationCandidateVotes% votes% ballotsRank
Progressive Conservative Betty Unger 4,82314.45%45.03%2
Progressive Conservative Bert Brown 4,00712.00%37.41%1
Independent Link Byfield 3,80511.40%35.53%4
Progressive Conservative Cliff Breitkreuz 3,69311.05%34.48%3
Alberta Alliance Michael Roth3,1689.49%29.58%7
Alberta Alliance Gary Horan2,9848.94%27.86%10
Alberta Alliance Vance Gough2,8758.61%26.84%8
Progressive Conservative David Usherwood2,8738.60%26.83%6
Independent Tom Sindlinger 2,5977.78%24.25%9
Progressive Conservative Jim Silye 2,5617.68%23.91%5
Total votes33,386100%
Total ballots10,7103.12 votes per ballot
Rejected, spoiled and declined2,235

Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot

2012

Student vote results

2004

Participating schools [8]
Andrew School
Fort Saskatchewan Christian School
Holden School
John Paul II High School
Lamont Elementary School
Our Lady of the Angels
Rudolph Henning School
Ryley School
Tofield School
Vegreville Composite 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 have 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 that reside in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district then where they were physically located.

2004 Alberta student vote results [9]
AffiliationCandidateVotes%
Progressive Conservative Ed Stelmach 44840.73%
Liberal Peter Schneider19717.91%
New Democratic Wes Buyarski17315.73%
Alberta Alliance Byron King14313.00%
Social Credit Mark Patterson13912.63%
Total1,100100%
Rejected, spoiled and declined134

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