Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland

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Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland
Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta electoral district
Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland 2017.svg
Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland within Alberta (2017 boundaries)
Provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA
 
 
 
Shane Getson
United Conservative
District created2017
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.

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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
AssemblyYearsMemberParty
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

2023 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Conservative Shane Getson 14,92368.96+3.22
New Democratic Oneil Carlier 5,86827.12+3.71
Alberta Party Janet Jabush4632.14-5.61
Green Vanessa Diehl2050.95
Advantage Party Marilyn Burns 1820.84-0.56
Total21,64199.61
Rejected and declined850.39
Turnout21,72661.27
Eligible voters35,460
United Conservative hold Swing -0.25
Source(s)

2019

2019 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Conservative Shane Getson 15,86065.74%8.38%
New Democratic Oneil Carlier 5,64623.40%-16.09%
Alberta Party Donald Walter McCargar1,8707.75%
Alberta Independence Gordon W. McMillan4131.71%
Alberta Advantage Darien Masse3371.40%
Total24,126
Rejected, spoiled and declined956520
Eligible electors / turnout33,51072.34%
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
PartyVotes%
New Democratic 7,77539.49%
Wildrose 5,99730.46%
Progressive Conservative 5,29726.90%
Others6213.15%

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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.