Grande Prairie-Wapiti

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Grande Prairie-Wapiti
Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta electoral district
Grande Prairie-Wapiti 2017.svg
Grande Prairie-Wapiti within Alberta, 2017 boundaries
Provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA
 
 
 
Ron Wiebe
United Conservative
District created1993
First contested 1993
Last contested 2023

Grande Prairie-Wapiti is a provincial electoral district in northwestern Alberta, Canada. It is one of 87 mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting.

Contents

The electoral district was created in the 1993 boundary redistribution from the old Grande Prairie electoral district and significantly modified in the 2017 redistribution.

The district and its antecedent have been a stronghold for conservative candidates in recent decades. The representative for this district is United Conservative Ron Wiebe. [1] Prior to 2023 the district was represented by Travis Toews who won election for the first time in 2017. To date there have been five representatives who have held the district.

The riding takes its name from the City of Grande Prairie and the Wapiti River.

Geography

While a predominantly rural riding, Grande Prairie-Wapiti includes a few neighbourhoods on the east side of the City of Grande Prairie (including Cobblestone, Countryside, Crystal Heights, Crystal Landing, Hillside, Ivy Lake, and Smith). Four small towns are also located in the riding - Beaverlodge, Hythe, Sexsmith, and Wembley. The bulk of the riding's area is made up of rural municipalities, including almost all of the County of Grande Prairie No. 1 and a portion of the Municipal District of Greenview No. 16.

The riding's Indigenous community includes the Horse Lake First Nation and the Wanyandie Flats East settlement of the unrecognized Aseniwuche Winewak Nation.

Grande Prairie-Wapiti surrounds the riding of Grande Prairie and borders Central Peace-Notley to the north and east and West Yellowhead to the south. The riding's western boundary is the Alberta-British Columbia border.

History

The electoral district was created in the 1993 boundary redistribution from the old Grande Prairie electoral district. It remained mostly unchanged in the 1997 and 2003 re-distributions. The Boundaries Commission proposed to abolish the district to create a completely urban Grande Prairie district but it changed its decision under public pressure. The 2010 distribution made minor changes to the border with Grande Prairie-Smoky in the city of Grande Prairie but stayed the same in the rural areas. [2]

Boundary history

Electoral history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Grande Prairie-Wapiti
AssemblyYearsMemberParty
See Grande Prairie 1930-1993
23rd 1993–1997 Wayne Jacques Progressive
Conservative
24th 1997–2001
25th 2001–2004 Gordon Graydon
26th 2004–2008
27th 2008–2012 Wayne Drysdale
28th 2012-2015
29th 2015–2017
2017–2019 United
Conservative
30th 2019–2023 Travis Toews
31st 2023–present Ron Wiebe

The electoral district was created in the 1993 boundary redistribution from the old Grande Prairie district. The first representative elected in 1993 was Progressive Conservative candidate Wayne Jaques. He won a hotly contested race over Liberal candidate Dwight Logan to pick up the new district for his party. Jaques was re-elected in the 1997 election with a much larger margin. He retired from provincial politics in 2001.

The second representative was Progressive Conservative was Gordon Graydon who won his first term in office in 2001 with a landslide over a field of five other candidates. He won a second term in the 2004 general election winning over half the popular vote. After the 2004 election Premier Ralph Klein appointed Graydon Minister of Gaming. He held that post until 2006. Graydon retired from provincial politics in 2008.

The third representative is current Progressive Conservative MLA is Wayne Drysdale who was elected in the 2008 election for the first time.

Legislative election results

1993

1993 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Progressive Conservative Wayne Jacques 4,45748.03%
Liberal Dwight Logan3,94242.48%
New Democratic Trish Wright8809.49%
Total9,279100.00%
Rejected, spoiled and declined28
Eligible electors / Turnout16,272 57.20%
Progressive Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s)
"Grande Prairie-Wapiti results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved March 28, 2010.

1997

1997 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Wayne Jacques 5,59263.24%+15.21%
Liberal Ray Stitsen2,00322.65%-19.83%
New Democratic Campbell Ross1,24714.10%+4.61%
Total8,842100.00%
Rejected, spoiled and declined23
Eligible electors / Turnout18,901 46.90% -10.30%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing +17.52%
Source(s)
"1997 General Election". Elections Alberta. Archived from the original on February 14, 2012. Retrieved January 26, 2012.

2001

2001 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Gordon Graydon 5,67465.50%+2.26%
Liberal Ray Stitsen1,48917.19%-5.46%
New Democratic Elroy Deimert8199.46%-4.64%
Social Credit Ivo Noga4324.99%
Independent Robert Weberg1121.29%
Total8,662100.00%
Rejected, spoiled and declined22
Eligible electors / Turnout19,730 44.01% -2.89
Progressive Conservative hold Swing +3.86%
Source(s)
"Grande Prairie-Wapiti Official Results 2001 Alberta general election" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Retrieved March 27, 2010.

2004

2004 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Gordon Graydon 4,34655.07%-10.43%
Liberal Cibylla Rakestraw1,68121.30%+4.11%
New Democratic Jerry MacDonald97112.30%+2.84%
Alberta Alliance John Hilton-O'Brien5466.92%
Greens Allan Webber3484.41%
Total7,892100.00%
Rejected, spoiled, and declined34
Eligible electors / Turnout21,683 36.58%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -7.27%
Source(s)

2008

2008 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Wayne Drysdale 5,14566.70%+11.63%
Liberal Augustine Ebinu1,30416.90%-4.40%
New Democratic Manuela Campbell82910.75%-1.55%
Greens Allan Webber4365.65%+1.24%
Total7,714100.00%
Rejected, spoiled and declined74
Eligible electors / turnout29,05326.81% -9.77%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing +8.02%
Source(s)
The Report on the March 3, 2008 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-seventh Legislative Assembly. Elections Alberta. July 28, 2008. pp. 430–433.

2012

2012 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Wayne Drysdale 6,71251.63%-15.07%
Wildrose Ethane Jarvis4,50934.68%
New Democratic Paula Anderson1,2099.30%-1.38%
Liberal Alya Nazarali3652.81%-14.09%
Independent Anthony Barendregt2041.57%
Total valid votes12,999100.00%
Rejected, spoiled, and declined96
Eligible electors / Turnout30,76442.57% +15.76%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -24.89%

2015

2015 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Wayne Drysdale 6,22935.57-16.06
New Democratic Mary Dahr5,06228.90+19.60
Wildrose Laila Goodridge 4,17523.84-10.84
Alberta Party Rory Tarant2,04811.69
Total17,514100.00
Rejected, spoiled, and declined77
Eligible electors / turnout37,44546.98 +4.41
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -17.55
2015 Alberta general election redistributed results
PartyVotes%
Progressive Conservative 6,01237.20
Wildrose 4,66928.89
New Democratic 4,31026.67
Alberta Party 8475.24
Liberal 3242.00
Source(s)
Source: Ridingbuilder

2019

2019 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Conservative Travis Toews 17,77274.85+8.76
New Democratic Shannon Dunfield3,52314.84-11.83
Alberta Party Jason Jones2,2279.38+4.14
Independent Terry Dueck2220.93
Total23,74499.19
Rejected, spoiled and declined1930.81
Turnout23,93770.94
Eligible electors33,741
United Conservative notional hold Swing +10.30
Source(s)
Source: "64 - Grande Prairie-Wapiti, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2023

2023 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Conservative Ron Wiebe 15,09376.22+1.38
New Democratic Dustin Archibald4,06320.52+5.68
Alberta Independence Brooklyn Biegel6453.26
Total19,80199.66
Rejected and declined680.34
Turnout19,86954.52
Eligible voters36,444
United Conservative hold Swing -2.15
Source(s)

Senate nominee election results

2004

2004 Senate nominee election results: Grande Prairie-Wapiti [5] Turnout 43.52%
AffiliationCandidateVotes% votes% ballotsRank
Progressive Conservative Cliff Breitkreuz 3,12216.26%50.36%3
Progressive Conservative Betty Unger 2,75014.32%44.36%2
Progressive Conservative Bert Brown 2,48812.96%40.13%1
 Independent Link Byfield 2,12711.08%34.31%4
Progressive Conservative David Usherwood1,7279.00%27.86%6
Progressive Conservative Jim Silye 1,5257.94%24.60%5
Alberta Alliance Michael Roth1,4767.69%23.81%7
Alberta Alliance Vance Gough1,3467.01%21.71%8
 Independent Tom Sindlinger 1,3316.93%21.47%9
Alberta Alliance Gary Horan1,3066.81%21.07%10
Total votes19,198100%
Total ballots6,2003.10 votes per ballot
Rejected, spoiled and declined1,619

Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot

2012

Student vote results

2004

Participating schools [6]
Beaverlodge Elementary School
Helleny Taylor School
Kateri Mission Catholic School
Saint Joseph Catholic High School
St. Gerrard 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 [7]
AffiliationCandidateVotes%
Progressive Conservative Gordon Graydon 45843.25%
Green Allan Webber19318.22%
  NDP Jerry MacDonald19017.94%
  Liberal Cibylla Rakestraw18217.19%
Alberta Alliance John Hilton-O'Brien363.40%
Total1,059100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined36

2012

2012 Alberta student vote results
AffiliationCandidateVotes%
Progressive Conservative Wayne Drysdale %
Wildrose Ethane Jarvis
  Liberal %
  NDP Paula Anderson%
Total100%

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