Peace River (federal electoral district)

Peace River
Alberta electoral district
	Peace River in relation to the other Alberta federal electoral districts
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1924
District abolished	2013
First contested	1925
Last contested	2011
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)	150,925
Electors (2011)	96,378
Area (km²)	168,289.57
Census division(s)	Division No. 10, Division No. 17, Division No. 19
Census subdivision(s)	Grande Prairie, Grande Prairie County No. 1, Mackenzie County, Peace River, Big Lakes, Greenview No. 16, High Level, County of Northern Lights, Fairview, Opportunity No. 17

Last updated February 21, 2025

Peace River was a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1925 to 2015. It was a rural riding in northwest Alberta, representing Clear Hills County, Saddle Hills County, Birch Hills County, the County of Grande Prairie No. 1, the County of Northern Lights, Mackenzie County, most of Northern Sunrise County, the Municipal District of Fairview No. 136, the Municipal District of Peace No. 135, the Municipal District of Spirit River No. 133, the Municipal District of Smoky River No. 130 and the northern portion of the Municipal District of Greenview No. 16. Following the Canadian federal electoral redistribution, 2012 the riding abolished into Grande Prairie-Mackenzie (72%) and Peace River—Westlock (28%).

History

This riding was created in 1924 from Edmonton West riding.

Historical boundaries

1924 representation order
1933 representation order
1952 representation order
1966 representation order
1976 representation order
1987 representation order
1996 representation order
2003 representation order

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:

Parliament	Years		Party
Peace River Riding created from Edmonton West
15th	1925–1926	Donald MacBeth Kennedy	Progressive
16th	1926–1930		United Farmers
17th	1930–1935		United Farmers
18th	1935–1940	René-Antoine Pelletier	Social Credit
19th	1940–1945	John Sissons	Liberal
20th	1945–1949	Solon Earl Low	Social Credit
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1962	Ged Baldwin	Progressive Conservative
25th	1962–1963
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968
28th	1968–1972
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1979
31st	1979–1980
32nd	1980–1984	Albert Cooper
33rd	1984–1988
34th	1988–1993
35th	1993–1997	Charlie Penson	Reform
36th	1997–2000		Reform
36th	2000–2000		Alliance
37th	2000–2003		Alliance
37th	2003–2004		Conservative
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008	Chris Warkentin
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
Riding dissolved into Grande Prairie-Mackenzie and Peace River—Westlock

Current member of Parliament

See Chris Warkentin

Election results

2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Chris Warkentin	36,334	75.76	+6.25	$103,279
	New Democratic	Jennifer Villebrun	7,740	16.14	+1.73	$23,470
	Green	Wayne John Kamieniecki	1,702	3.55	-3.14	$1,379
	Liberal	Corina Ganton	1,481	3.09	-4.68	$5,605
	Independent	Russ Toews	359	0.75	–	$204
	Rhinoceros	Donovan Eckstrom	345	0.72	–	$0
Total valid votes/Expense limit			47,961	100.00
Total rejected ballots			128	0.27	-0.03
Turnout			48,089	49.70	+4.99
Eligible voters			96,759	–	–

2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Chris Warkentin	29,550	69.51	+12.54	$48,906
	New Democratic	Adele Boucher Rymhs	6,124	14.41	+3.28	$19,142
	Liberal	Liliane Coutu-Maisonneuve	3,303	7.77	+5.51	$8,462
	Green	Jennifer Villebrun	2,843	6.69	+4.43	$1,612
	Canadian Action	Edwin Siggelkow	373	0.88	–	$4,711
	Libertarian	Mélanie Simard	316	0.74	–	$1,312
Total valid votes/Expense limit			42,509	100.00	$118,949
Total rejected ballots			129	0.30	+0.07
Turnout			42,638	44.71	-10.0
	Conservative hold		Swing		+4.63

2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Chris Warkentin	27,785	56.97	-8.15	$61,636
	Independent	Bill Given	9,882	20.26	–	$101,905
	New Democratic	Susan Thompson	5,427	11.13	+0.02	$20,836
	Liberal	Tanya Kappo	4,573	9.38	-9.58	$4,298
	Green	Zane Lewis	1,102	2.26	-2.53	$0
Total valid votes			48,769	100.00
Total rejected ballots			113	0.23	-0.06
Turnout			48,882	54.7	+1.0
	Conservative hold		Swing		-14.2

2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Charlie Penson	28,158	65.12	-12.44	$64,760
	Liberal	Lyle Carlstrom	8,200	18.96	+3.48	$93,798
	New Democratic	Susan Thompson	4,804	11.11	+4.17	$11,013
	Green	Benjamin Morrison Pettit	2,073	4.79	–	$1,300
Total valid votes			43,235	100.00
Total rejected ballots			125	0.29	+0.03
Turnout			43,360	53.73	-1.33
	Conservative hold		Swing		-7.96

Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance vote in 2000.

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Alliance	Charlie Penson	27,508	65.59	+6.66	$45,093
	Liberal	Kim Ksenia Fenton	6,495	15.48	-3.61	$5,773
	Progressive Conservative	Milton Hommy	5,021	11.97	-4.12	$10,973
	New Democratic	Patricia Lawrence	2,914	6.94	+1.08	$6,931
Total valid votes			41,938	100.00
Total rejected ballots			111	0.26	+0.05
Turnout			42,049	55.06	+1.42

Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997.

1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Reform	Charlie Penson	22,351	58.93	-1.28	$55,260
	Liberal	David A. Biltek	7,241	19.09	+3.57	$60,269
	Progressive Conservative	John Simpson	6,104	16.09	+1.73	$39,665
	New Democratic	Ray A. Domeij	2,226	5.86	+0.38	$7,223
Total valid votes			37,922	100.00
Total rejected ballots			77	0.21
Turnout			37,999	53.64

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Reform	Charlie Penson	25,761	60.21	+45.05
	Liberal	Joshua Phillpotts	6,639	15.52	+2.14
	Progressive Conservative	Alan Y. Tanaka	6,144	14.36	-39.93
	New Democratic	Jacquie Gaboury	2,344	5.48	-11.69
	National	David Ridgeway	1,656	3.87
	Natural Law	Roni Shapka	241	0.56
Total valid votes			42,785	100.00

1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Albert Cooper	23,363	54.29	-7.95
	New Democratic	Norman Dyck	7,389	17.17	+1.80
	Reform	Daniel H. Fletcher	6,525	15.16
	Liberal	Helen A. Rice	5,758	13.38	+0.23
Total valid votes			43,035	100.00

1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Albert Cooper	25,648	62.24	+2.88
	New Democratic	Elroy Deimert	6,333	15.37	-1.66
	Liberal	Richard Marceau	5,419	13.15	-6.40
	Confederation of Regions	Ted Krause	2,877	6.98
	Green	Marion Loring	578	1.40
	Social Credit	Rob Sweigard	354	0.86	-0.59
Total valid votes			41,209	100.00

1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Albert Cooper	18,953	59.35	-3.78
	Liberal	Linus H. Becher	6,243	19.55	+0.34
	New Democratic	Earle Joseph Guertin	5,436	17.02	-0.63
	Rhinoceros	Allan G.W. Cavanagh	547	1.71
	Social Credit	Ken Sweigard	462	1.45
	Independent	A. Wallace Robertson	291	0.91
Total valid votes			31,932	100.00

1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Ged Baldwin	20,748	63.14	+2.55
	Liberal	Linus H. Becher	6,312	19.21	-2.49
	New Democratic	Earle J. Guertin	5,801	17.65	+0.78
Total valid votes			32,861	100.00

1974 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Ged Baldwin	14,153	60.59	+4.52
	Liberal	Ed Kimpe	5,068	21.70	+8.62
	New Democratic	Anne Hemmingway	3,941	16.87	-5.46
	Independent	Michael Zuk	196	0.84	+0.55
Total valid votes			23,358	100.00

1972 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Ged Baldwin	14,255	56.08	+0.49
	New Democratic	Jake Van Voorst	5,678	22.34	-0.37
	Liberal	Ed Kimpe	3,324	13.08	-8.64
	Social Credit	J. Donovan Ross	1,904	7.49
	Independent	Gertrude Bryan	119	0.47
	Independent	Michael Zuk	74	0.29
	Independent	Wayne Lovely	67	0.26
Total valid votes			25,421	100.00

1968 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Ged Baldwin	11,825	55.58	1.47
	New Democratic	Phil Thompson	4,830	22.70	+6.75
	Liberal	Don Branigan	4,620	21.72	+8.77
Total valid votes			21,275	100.00

1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Ged Baldwin	14,960	54.11	-4.49
	Social Credit	James A. Smith	4,700	17.00	-6.88
	New Democratic	Allan Frederick Bush	4,411	15.95	+9.55
	Liberal	Charlie MacDonell	3,578	12.94	+1.81
Total valid votes			27,649	100.00

1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Ged Baldwin	16,111	58.60	+10.43
	Social Credit	James A. Smith	6,564	23.87	-4.52
	Liberal	Fred Noble	3,059	11.13	-2.58
	New Democratic	I.V. Macklin	1,760	6.40	-3.33
Total valid votes			27,494	100.00

1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Ged Baldwin	12,897	48.17	-10.64
	Social Credit	Budd M. Dennis	7,603	28.39	+3.08
	Liberal	S.P. Tachit	3,671	13.71	+2.52
	New Democratic	Richard F. Brown	2,605	9.73	+5.03
Total valid votes			26,776	100.00

Note: NDP vote is compared to CCF vote in 1958 election.

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Ged Baldwin	13,328	58.81	+34.03
	Social Credit	Solon Earl Low	5,737	25.31	-18.36
	Liberal	John Howard McRae	2,535	11.19	-11.99
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Emil Trygve Sather	1,064	4.69	-2.80
Total valid votes			22,664	100.00

1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Solon Earl Low	10,393	43.67	-5.38
	Progressive Conservative	Ged Baldwin	5,896	24.77
	Liberal	John Howard McRae	5,515	23.17	-13.54
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Clarence John Lampert	1,783	7.49	-2.55
	Independent	Harry Wigiluk	212	0.89
Total valid votes			23,799	100.00

1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Solon Earl Low	10,151	49.05	+10.21
	Liberal	Clifford Bernard Carignan	7,599	36.72	-0.50
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Samuel David Simpson	2,079	10.05	-6.05
	Labor–Progressive	Bernhard Rudolf Swankey	867	4.19
Total valid votes			20,696	100.00

1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Solon Earl Low	7,727	38.84	-2.22
	Liberal	Clifford Bernard Carignan	7,404	37.22	+14.16
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Irvin Victor Macklin	3,202	16.09	-4.47
	Progressive Conservative	David Thomson Williamson	1,562	7.85	-7.47
Total valid votes			19,895	100.00

1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Solon Earl Low	7,319	41.06	+6.71
	Liberal	John Sissons	4,109	23.05	-18.23
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Irvin Victor Macklin	3,666	20.57	-0.68
	Progressive Conservative	Herbert Gordon Bessent	2,732	15.33
Total valid votes			17,826	100.00

Note: Progressive Conservative vote is compared to "National Government" vote in 1940 election. Social Credit vote is compared to New Democracy vote in 1940 election.

1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Sissons	6,426	41.28	+10.71
	New Democracy	René-Antoine Pelletier	5,347	34.35	-13.18
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Irwin Victor Macklin	3,307	21.24	+7.05
	Independent	Louis-Napoléon Brulotte	488	3.13
Total valid votes			15,568	100.00

Note: New Democracy vote is compared to Social Credit vote in 1935 election.

1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	René-Antoine Pelletier	5,513	47.52
	Liberal	Joseph Patrick McIsaac	3,546	30.57	-14.56
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Donald MacBeth Kennedy	1,646	14.19	-40.69
	Conservative	Ernest Vincent Bergin	896	7.72
Total valid votes			11,601	100.00

1930 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Farmers of Alberta	Donald MacBeth Kennedy	10,204	54.88	+11.82
	Liberal	John Ewing Thomson	8,390	45.12	+23.75
Total valid votes			18,594	100.00

1926 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Farmers of Alberta	Donald MacBeth Kennedy	5,323	43.06	+9.56
	Conservative	James Arthur Collins	4,398	35.57	+2.22
	Liberal	Joseph Clarke	2,642	21.37	-11.78
Total valid votes			12,363	100.00

Note: UFA vote is compared to Progressive vote in 1925 election.

1925 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive	Donald MacBeth Kennedy	3,986	33.50
	Conservative	James Arthur Collins	3,969	33.36
	Liberal	William Archibald Rae	3,944	33.15
Total valid votes			11,899	100.00

References

↑ Statistics Canada: 2012
↑ Statistics Canada: 2012

"Peace River (federal electoral district) (Code 48022) Census Profile". 2011 census . Government of Canada - Statistics Canada . Retrieved 6 March 2011.
Riding history for Peace River from the Library of Parliament
Elections Canada 2008 election results
Expenditures - 2008
Expenditures - 2004
Expenditures - 2000
Expenditures - 1997
Federal Electoral District Redistribution Report

External links

Elections Canada
Website of the Parliament of Canada

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