Red Deer-South

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Red Deer-South
Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta electoral district
Red Deer-South 2017.svg
Red Deer-South within the City of Red Deer, 2017 boundaries
Provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA
 
 
 
Jason Stephan
United Conservative
District created1986
First contested 1986
Last contested 2023

Red Deer-South is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada.

Contents

The district was created from Red Deer in 1986. Under the Alberta electoral boundary re-distribution of 2004, the constituency borders Red Deer North at the Red Deer River, Taylor Drive, Ross Street, 30th Avenue and 39th Street. At the city limits, the constituency is bounded by Innisfail-Sylvan Lake.

The current MLA for this district is Jason Stephan from the United Conservative Party.

History

The electoral district was created in the 1985 boundary redistribution from the Red Deer provincial electoral district. The city of Red Deer had been contained in a single electoral district since 1888 when it first started returning members to the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories. The city was split into South and Red Deer-North.

The 2010 boundary redistribution saw adjustments made to the boundary with Red Deer-North to equalize the population between the two constituencies. [1]

Boundary history

Representation history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Red Deer-South
AssemblyYearsMemberParty
See Red Deer 1905-1986
21st 1986–1989 John Oldring Progressive
Conservative
22nd 1989–1993
23rd 1993–1997 Victor Doerksen
24th 1997–2001
25th 2001–2004
26th 2004–2008
27th 2008–2012 Cal Dallas
28th 2012-2015
29th 2015–2019 Barb Miller New Democratic
30th 2019–2023 Jason Stephan United Conservative
31st 2023–

Since the electoral district was created in 1986, the voters of Red Deer-South have returned Progressive Conservative candidates in every election until 2015, joining the province-wide NDP victory. The first representative was John Oldring who served two terms in office. He served as a cabinet minister in the government of Don Getty in his second term and retired in 1993 after a failed leadership bid for the Progressive Conservative Party.

Victor Doerksen was the second MLA for the district. He was first elected in 1993 after a very hotly contested election with a Liberal candidate. He would eke out his second term in 1997 facing another strong challenge from the Liberals. His third term would be won with the highest popular vote in the history of the riding. He would be appointed to cabinet in the government of Ralph Klein shortly after the election and hold his portfolio until 2006 when he resigned to run for leadership of the Progressive Conservatives. After his bid for leadership failed he retired from office in 2008.

The next representative was Cal Dallas, elected to his first term in 2008. He was appointed Minister of International and Intergovernmental Relations by Premier Allison Redford in October 2011.

Legislative election results

1986

1986 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative John Oldring 4,02356.31%
New Democratic Connie Barnaby1,66723.33%
Liberal Lionel Lizee1,45520.36%
Total7,145
Rejected, spoiled and declined27
Eligible electors / turnout17,33941.36%
Progressive Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s)
Source: "Red Deer-South Official Results 1986 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1989

1989 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative John Oldring 4,63749.59%-6.72%
Liberal Roxanne V. Prior2,87430.73%10.37%
New Democratic Linda Ross1,84019.68%-3.65%
Total9,351
Rejected, spoiled and declined38
Eligible electors / turnout18,79549.95%8.59%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -7.06%
Source(s)
Source: "Red Deer-South Official Results 1989 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1993

1993 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Victor Doerksen 5,66346.50%-3.09%
Liberal Don Sinclair4,87940.06%9.33%
Social Credit Randy Thorsteinson 8827.24%
New Democratic Malcolm Reville6395.25%-14.43%
Natural Law Ken Arnold1160.95%
Total12,179
Rejected, spoiled and declined20
Eligible electors / turnout20,18060.45%10.50%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -6.21%
Source(s)
Source: "Red Deer-South Official Results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1997

1997 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Victor Doerksen 5,75147.03%0.53%
Liberal Larry Pimm4,96640.61%0.55%
Social Credit Randy Thorsteinson 1,1459.36%2.12%
New Democratic Joanne Stanley3673.00%-2.25%
Total12,229
Rejected, spoiled and declined27123
Eligible electors / turnout21,53756.92%-3.53%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -0.01%
Source(s)
Source: "Red Deer-South Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. [3]

2001

2001 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Victor Doerksen 7,68460.10%13.07%
Liberal Garfield Marks3,92730.72%-9.89%
New Democratic Erika Bullwinkle5124.00%1.00%
Alberta First Bob Argent4593.59%
Independent Ryan Lamarche2031.59%
Total12,785
Rejected, spoiled and declined34122
Eligible electors / turnout25,28350.71%-6.21%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 11.48%
Source(s)
Source: "Red Deer-South Official Results 2001 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. [4]

2004

2004 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Victor Doerksen 5,37344.91%-15.19%
Liberal Walter Kubanek4,07734.08%3.36%
Alberta Alliance Patti Argent1,41811.85%
New Democratic Jeff Sloychuk8356.98%2.97%
Separation Judy Milne2612.18%
Total11,964
Rejected, spoiled and declined46230
Eligible electors / turnout27,48643.69%-7.01%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -9.28%
Source(s)
Source: [5]
  1. Results of the Separation Party compared to Alberta First Party

2008

2008 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Cal Dallas 7,13956.18%11.27%
Liberal Diane Kubanek3,41426.86%-7.21%
Wildrose Alliance Ed Klop9497.47%
Green Evan Bedford6094.79%
New Democratic Teresa Bryanton5974.70%-2.28%
Total12,708
Rejected, spoiled and declined47171
Eligible electors / turnout34,70336.76%-6.94%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 9.24%
Source(s)
Source: The Report on the March 3, 2008 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-seventh Legislative Assembly. Elections Alberta. July 28, 2008. pp. 512–517.

2012

2012 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Cal Dallas 7,04843.60%-12.58%
Wildrose Alliance Nathan Stephan5,61234.71%27.25%
New Democratic Lorna S. Watkinson-Zimmer1,70710.56%5.86%
Liberal Jason Chilibeck1,1957.39%-19.47%
Alberta Party Serge Gingras6043.74%
Total16,166
Rejected, spoiled and declined81437
Eligible electors / turnout32,70849.69%12.94%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -10.21%
Source(s)
Source: "76 - Red Deer-South, 2012 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2015

2015 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic Barb Miller 7,02435.86%25.30%
Progressive Conservative Darcy Mykytyshyn5,41427.64%-15.96%
Wildrose Norman Wiebe4,81224.56%-10.15%
Alberta Party Serge Gingras1,0355.28%1.55%
Liberal Deborah Checkel7383.77%-3.62%
Green Ben Dubois2741.40%
Independent Patti Argent2321.18%
Independent William Berry600.31%
Total19,589
Rejected, spoiled and declined49439
Eligible electors / turnout37,77152.02%2.32%
New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative Swing -0.33%
Source(s)
Source: "76 - Red Deer-South, 2015 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2019

2019 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Conservative Jason Stephan 16,15960.31%8.11%
New Democratic Barb Miller 6,84425.54%-10.31%
Alberta Party Ryan Mcdougall3,24412.11%6.82%
Freedom Conservative Teah-Jay Cartwright2991.12%
Green Lori Curran2460.92%-0.48%
Total26,792
Rejected, spoiled and declined1615812
Eligible electors / turnout37,49571.92%19.90%
United Conservative gain from New Democratic Swing 13.27%
Source(s)
Source: "79 - Red Deer-South, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2023

2023 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Conservative Jason Stephan 13,46956.06-4.25
New Democratic Michelle Baer9,97641.52+15.98
Green Ashley MacDonald2741.14+0.22
Wildrose Loyalty Coalition Jesse Stretch1600.67
Solidarity Movement Pamela Liebenberg1460.61
Total24,02599.36
Rejected and declined1550.64
Turnout24,18061.81
Eligible voters39,120
United Conservative hold Swing -10.11
Source(s)

Senate nominee election results

2004

2004 Senate nominee election results: Red Deer-South [7] Turnout 44.58%
AffiliationCandidateVotes% votes% ballotsRank
Progressive Conservative Betty Unger 3,83713.64%42.81%2
Progressive Conservative Bert Brown 3,70813.18%41.37%1
Alberta Alliance Michael Roth3,19211.35%35.61%7
 Independent Link Byfield 3,06810.91%34.23%4
Progressive Conservative Cliff Breitkreuz 2,86510.18%31.97%3
Progressive Conservative David Usherwood2,4398.67%27.21%6
Alberta Alliance Vance Gough2,4388.66%27.20%8
Progressive Conservative Jim Silye 2,3768.45%26.51%5
Alberta Alliance Gary Horan2,2578.02%25.18%10
 Independent Tom Sindlinger 1,9556.94%21.81%9
Total votes28,135100%
Total ballots8,9633.14 votes per ballot
Rejected, spoiled and declined3,290

Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot.

2012

2012 Senate nominee election results: Red Deer-South [8] Turnout %
AffiliationCandidateVotes% votes% ballotsRank
Progressive Conservative Doug Black5,552
Progressive Conservative Scott Tannas4,979
Progressive Conservative Mike Shaikh4,053
Wildrose Rob Gregory4,004
Wildrose Raymond Germain3,954
Wildrose Victor Marciano3,361
Evergreen Elizabeth Johannson1,867
Independent Len Bracko 1,472
Independent David Fletcher1,435
Independent Ian Urquhart1,364
Independent Paul Frank1,301
Independent William Exelby942
Independent Perry Chahal726
Total votes35,010100%
Total ballots00 votes per ballot
Rejected, spoiled and declined0

Voters had the option of selecting three candidates on the ballot.

Student vote results

2004

Participating schools [9]
Eastview Middle School
St. Francis of Assisi Middle School
St. Thomas Aquinas Middle School
Westpark Middle 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 had 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 who reside in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district than where they were physically located.

2004 Alberta student vote results [10]
AffiliationCandidateVotes%
Progressive Conservative Victor Doerksen 35529.81%
  NDP Jeff Sloychuk29424.68%
  Liberal Walter Kubanek27723.26%
Alberta Alliance Patti Argent19416.29%
Separation Judy Milne715.96%
Total1,191100%
Rejected, spoiled and declined38

2012

Participating schools
École Secondaire Notre Dame High School

During the week of April 16, 2012 - April 20, 2012 a student vote was conducted at participating Alberta schools to parallel the 2012 Alberta general election results. The vote was designed to educate students and simulate the electoral process for persons who had not yet reached the legal majority. The vote was conducted in 86 of the 87 provincial electoral districts with students voting for actual election candidates. Students from École Secondaire Notre Dame High School participated in the vote on April 19, 2012.

2012 Alberta student vote results
AffiliationCandidateVotes%
Progressive Conservative Cal Dallas 11532.95%
Wildrose Nathan Stephan6819.48%
  NDP Lorna Watkinson-Zimmer5515.76%
  Liberal Jason Chilibeck5214.90%
Alberta Party Serge Gingras298.31%
Total349100%
Rejected, spoiled and declined30

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