Wayne Drysdale | |
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Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Grande Prairie Wapiti | |
In office March 3, 2008 –March 19, 2019 | |
Preceded by | Gordon Graydon |
Succeeded by | Travis Toews |
Personal details | |
Political party | United Conservative |
Wayne Ronald Drysdale ECA is a Canadian politician,who served as an Alberta MLA from 2008 to 2019. He is a member of the Progressive Conservatives. He was Minister of Transportation in the cabinet of Jim Prentice.
He was elected in the 2008 provincial election to represent the electoral district of Grande Prairie Wapiti in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and re-elected there in 2012 and 2015. [1]
He did not seek re-election in 2019.
2008 Alberta general election : Grande Prairie-Wapiti | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Wayne Drysdale | 5,145 | 66.70% | +11.63% | ||||
Liberal | Augustine Ebinu | 1,304 | 16.90% | -4.40% | ||||
New Democratic | Manuela Campbell | 829 | 10.75% | -1.55% | ||||
Greens | Allan Webber | 436 | 5.65% | +1.24% | ||||
Total | 7,714 | 100.00% | ||||||
Rejected, spoiled and declined | 74 | |||||||
Eligible electors / turnout | 29,053 | 26.81% | -9.77% | |||||
Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | +8.02% | ||||||
Source(s) The Report on the March 3, 2008 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-seventh Legislative Assembly. Elections Alberta. July 28, 2008. pp. 430–433. |
2012 Alberta general election : Grande Prairie-Wapiti | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Wayne Drysdale | 6,712 | 51.63% | -15.07% | ||||
Wildrose | Ethane Jarvis | 4,509 | 34.68% | |||||
New Democratic | Paula Anderson | 1,209 | 9.30% | -1.38% | ||||
Liberal | Alya Nazarali | 365 | 2.81% | -14.09% | ||||
Independent | Anthony Barendregt | 204 | 1.57% | |||||
Total valid votes | 12,999 | 100.00% | ||||||
Rejected, spoiled, and declined | 96 | |||||||
Eligible electors / Turnout | 30,764 | 42.57% | +15.76% | |||||
Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | -24.89% | ||||||
Source(s) |
2015 Alberta general election : Grande Prairie-Wapiti | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Wayne Drysdale | 6,229 | 35.57 | -16.06 | ||||
New Democratic | Mary Dahr | 5,062 | 28.90 | +19.60 | ||||
Wildrose | Laila Goodridge | 4,175 | 23.84 | -10.84 | ||||
Alberta Party | Rory Tarant | 2,048 | 11.69 | |||||
Total | 17,514 | 100.00 | ||||||
Rejected, spoiled, and declined | 77 | |||||||
Eligible electors / Turnout | 37,445 | 46.98 | +4.41 | |||||
Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | -17.55 | ||||||
Source(s) |
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