Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland

Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland

Alberta electoral district
Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland within Alberta (2017 boundaries)
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA	Shane Getson United Conservative
District created	2017
First contested	2019
Last contested	2023
Demographics
Population (2016) [1]	46,546
Area (km²)	5,486
Pop. density (per km²)	8.5

Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 87 districts mandated to return a single member (MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting. It was contested for the first time in the 2019 Alberta election.

Geography

The district is located northwest of Edmonton, containing all of Lac Ste. Anne County and part of Parkland County, taking its name from the two municipal districts. It also contains a portion of Sturgeon County. It includes the Treaty 6 reserves of the Alexander First Nation, the Alexis Nakota Sioux First Nation, and the Paul Band at Wabamun Lake. The main towns and villages are Onoway, Wabamun, Alberta Beach and Mayerthorpe.

History

Members for Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
See Whitecourt-Ste. Anne 1993–2019
30th	2019–2023		Shane Getson	United Conservative
31st	2023–

The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended joining most of Whitecourt-Ste. Anne with parts of Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock, Spruce Grove-St. Albert, and Stony Plain in an effort to remove one district from central-western Alberta. ^[2]

Electoral results

2023

v t e 2023 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Conservative	Shane Getson	14,923	68.96	+3.22
	New Democratic	Oneil Carlier	5,868	27.12	+3.71
	Alberta Party	Janet Jabush	463	2.14	-5.61
	Green	Vanessa Diehl	205	0.95	–
	Advantage Party	Marilyn Burns	182	0.84	-0.56
Total			21,641	99.61	–
Rejected and declined			85	0.39
Turnout			21,726	61.27
Eligible voters			35,460
	United Conservative hold		Swing		-0.25
Source(s) Source: Elections Alberta [3]

2019

v t e 2019 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Conservative	Shane Getson	15,860	65.74%	8.38%
	New Democratic	Oneil Carlier	5,646	23.40%	-16.09%
	Alberta Party	Donald Walter McCargar	1,870	7.75%	–
	Alberta Independence	Gordon W. McMillan	413	1.71%	–
	Alberta Advantage	Darien Masse	337	1.40%	–
Total			24,126	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			95	65	20
Eligible electors / turnout			33,510	72.34%	–
	United Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s) Source: "67 - Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland, 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. 309–313. ISBN   978-1-988620-12-1 . Retrieved April 7, 2021.

2015

Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta general election
Party		Votes	%
	New Democratic	7,775	39.49%
	Wildrose	5,997	30.46%
	Progressive Conservative	5,297	26.90%
	Others	621	3.15%

See also

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

References

1. Statistics Canada: 2016
2. Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (October 2017). "Final Report" (PDF). p. 52. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 24, 2018. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
3. "67 - Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved June 10, 2023.