Taber-Warner

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Taber-Warner
Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta electoral district
Taber Warner 2017.svg
Taber-Warner within Alberta (2017 boundaries).
Provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA
 
 		 
Grant Hunter
United Conservative
District created1963
District abolished1996
District re-created2017
First contested1963, 2019
Last contested1993, 2023
Demographics
Population (2016)42,625
Area (km²)14,980
Pop. density (per km²)2.8

Taber-Warner is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is mandated to return a single member to the for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. The district has existed twice: the first iteration was represented in the Assembly from 1963 until 1997, and the district will be contested again in the next Alberta general election.

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History

Boundary history

The district was created in 1963 from Taber and Warner, although not including the section of Taber to the north of the Old Man River. Its boundaries saw minor adjustments over the years, but always contained the communities of Taber, Warner, and Coaldale, stretching east from the City of Lethbridge and south to the Montana border.

The district became a flashpoint of controversy in 1994, when the Alberta Court of Appeal heavily criticized the new map of electoral boundaries drawn up by a committee of PC MLAs led by Bob Bogle. The Court noted that “one of the smallest divisions in the province...was that for which [Bogle] was then the sitting member.” A new system for appointing boundaries commissions was introduced in 1995, and Taber-Warner was subsequently abolished. [1] Most of its territory was transferred to Cardston-Taber-Warner in 1997, with the Coaldale area transferred to Little Bow.

The second iteration of the district took sections of Cardston-Taber-Warner, Little Bow and Cypress-Medicine Hat. It is significantly larger in area than the first, now stretching east to the border of Cypress County, but still entirely south of the Old Man and South Saskatchewan rivers.

Representation history

Members of the Legislative Assembly
for Taber-Warner [2]
AssemblyYearsMemberParty
See Taber and Warner 1913-1963
15th 1963–1967 Leonard Halmrast Social Credit
16th 1967–1971 Douglas Miller
17th 1971–1975
18th 1975–1979 Robert Bogle Progressive
Conservative
19th 1979–1982
20th 1982–1986
21st 1986–1989
22nd 1989–1993
23rd 1993–1997 Ron Hierath
See Cardston-Taber-Warner and Little Bow 1997-2019
30th 2019–2023 Grant Hunter United Conservative
31st 2023–

Taber-Warner's first representative was the incumbent Warner MLA and Social Credit Minister for Public Welfare Leonard Halmrast, who had already served five terms in the Legislature. As no other candidates stood against him in the 1963 election, Taber-Warner holds the distinction of being the last district to elect an MLA by acclamation in Alberta. Halmrast retired at the end of that term.

Social Credit easily kept the seat in 1967, with Douglas Miller becoming MLA. In 1971, the party lost the general election to Peter Lougheed's Progressive Conservatives (PCs), but Miller was able to hang on to Taber-Warner by a small margin. He retired from politics in 1975.

The 1975 election in Taber-Warner was hotly contested, with second-time PC candidate Robert Bogle facing Social Credit leader and future Reform MP Werner Schmidt. Bogle defeated Schmidt by a wide margin, cementing the demise of Social Credit as a force in Alberta politics. He would go on to serve five terms as MLA, holding the position of Minister of Utilities and Telecommunications between 1982 and 1986, and briefly of PC caucus chair and Whip before his retirement from politics in 1993.

The district's last representative was Ron Hierath, who was elected comfortably in 1993 despite the Liberals' best showing in the otherwise conservative district. The riding was merged into Cardston-Taber-Warner in 1997, and Hierath would serve one more term as its first MLA.

Election results

2023

2023 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Conservative Grant Hunter 12,37975.29-2.83
New Democratic Jazminn Hintz2,81717.13+4.24
Wildrose Loyalty Coalition Paul Hinman 7544.59–
Green Joel Hunt2391.45–
Alberta Independence Frank Kast1290.78–
Solidarity Movement Brent Ginther1240.75–
Total16,44299.52–
Rejected and declined790.48
Turnout16,52156.30
Eligible voters29,344
United Conservative hold Swing -3.54
Source(s)
Source: Elections Alberta [3]

2010s

2019 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Conservative Grant R. Hunter 14,32178.12%1.22%
New Democratic Laura Ross-Giroux2,36312.89%-6.41%
Alberta Party Jason Beekman1,4437.87%–
Liberal Amy Yates2051.12%–
Total18,332––
Rejected, spoiled and declined624813
Eligible electors / turnout28,26965.11%–
United Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s)
Source: "85 - Taber-Warner, 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. 413–419. ISBN   978-1-988620-12-1 . Retrieved April 7, 2021.
Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta general election
PartyVotes%
Wildrose 5,61740.70
Progressive Conservative 4,99836.20
New Democratic 2,66919.30
Others5223.8

1990s

1993 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Ron Hierath 5,54459.84-13.82
Liberal Doug Blatter2,72329.39+14.74
Social Credit Ken Rose5646.09
New Democratic Charlie Bryant4334.67-7.01
Total valid votes 9,264100.00
Rejected, spoiled and declined20
Eligible electors / Turnout 15,57259.62 +10.49
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -14.28
Source(s)
Alberta Heritage Foundation. "Election Results, Taber-Warner". Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved December 16, 2017.

1980s

1989 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Robert Bogle 4,93273.67+6.57
Liberal Patrick Flanagan98114.65
New Democratic Charlene Vickers78211.68+0.36
Total valid votes 6,695100.00
Rejected, spoiled and declined21
Eligible electors / Turnout13,67049.13 -1.24
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -4.04
Source(s)
Alberta Heritage Foundation. "Election Results, Taber-Warner". Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved December 16, 2017.
1986 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Robert Bogle 4,48367.10-4.04
Representative John Voorhorst1,44221.58
New Democratic Jim Renfrow75611.32+6.23
Total valid votes 6,681100.00
Rejected, spoiled and declined35
Eligible electors / Turnout 13,33450.37 -22.08
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -12.81
Source(s)
Alberta Heritage Foundation. "Election Results, Taber-Warner". Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved December 16, 2017.
1982 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Robert Bogle 6,80071.14+5.80
Western Canada Concept Ronald Johnson1,81118.95
New Democratic Catherine R. McCreary4865.08+2.29
Alberta Reform Movement Emil D. Gundlock4614.82
Total valid votes 9,558100.00
Rejected, spoiled and declined24
Eligible electors / Turnout 13,22772.44 +9.91
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -6.57
Source(s)
Alberta Heritage Foundation. "Election Results, Taber-Warner". Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved December 16, 2017.

1970s

1979 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Robert Bogle 5,01065.34+1.56
Social Credit Paul Primeau2,10827.49-5.93
Liberal Jessie Snow3354.37
New Democratic Larry Schowalter2142.790.00
Total valid votes 7,667100.00
Rejected, spoiled and declined43
Eligible electors / Turnout 12,33062.53 -6.04
Progressive Conservative hold Swing +3.75
Source(s)
Alberta Heritage Foundation. "Election Results, Taber-Warner". Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved December 16, 2017.
1975 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Robert Bogle 4,61463.78+18.55
Social Credit Werner Schmidt 2,41833.43-21.34
New Democratic Brian Aman2022.79
Total valid votes7,234100.00
Rejected, spoiled and declined 22
Eligible electors / Turnout 10,58268.57 -5.73
Progressive Conservative gain from Social Credit Swing +19.95
Source(s)
Alberta Heritage Foundation. "Election Results, Taber-Warner". Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved December 16, 2017.
1971 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Social Credit Douglas Miller 4,07754.77-6.90
Progressive Conservative Robert Bogle 3,36745.23+24.32
Total valid votes 7,444100.00
Rejected, spoiled and declined 39
Eligible electors / Turnout10,07174.30 +14.37
Social Credit hold Swing -15.61
Source(s)
Alberta Heritage Foundation. "Election Results, Taber-Warner". Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved December 16, 2017.

1960s

1967 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Social Credit Douglas Miller 3,45161.67
Progressive Conservative Emil D. Gundlock1,17020.91
Liberal Theodore Rudd68312.21
New Democratic Dick Verwoerd2925.22
Total valid votes 5,596100.00
Rejected, spoiled and declined 39
Eligible electors / Turnout9,40259.93
Social Credit hold
Source(s)
Alberta Heritage Foundation. "Election Results, Taber-Warner". Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved December 16, 2017.
1963 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes
Social Credit Leonard Halmrast Acclaimed
Total valid votes0
Social Credit pickup new district.
Source(s)
Alberta Heritage Foundation. "Election Results, Taber-Warner". Archived from the original on December 8, 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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References

  1. ↑ Stinson, Douglas (July 1, 1999). "Knowing Where to Draw the Line - Alberta Views - The Magazine for Engaged Citizens". albertaviews.ca. Retrieved May 31, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta 1905-2006" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 30, 2007. Retrieved February 27, 2010.
  3. ↑ "85 - Taber-Warner". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved June 10, 2023.

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