St. Albert (provincial electoral district)

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St. Albert
Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta electoral district
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St. Albert within the Edmonton Metropolitan Region, 2017 boundaries.
Provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA
 
 		 
Marie Renaud
New Democratic
District created1905
First contested 1905
Last contested 2023

St. Albert (styled Saint Albert from 1905 to 1909) is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 87 current districts mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.

Contents

The riding encompasses the majority, but not all of, the bedroom community of St. Albert.

History

The St. Albert electoral district was one of the original 25 electoral districts contested in the 1905 Alberta general election upon Alberta joining Confederation in September 1905. The district was carried over from the old St. Albert electoral district which returned a single member to the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories from 1891 to 1905. [1] The district stretched from the City of St. Albert west to the British Columbia border. The riding was renamed in 1909 and has shrunk in size many times since, eventually becoming an urban riding.

Although the other district that survives from 1905 (Peace River) is a notable bellwether, St. Albert is a notorious swing riding that has been markedly unkind to its incumbent MLAs. New candidates from an incumbent party have only held the district twice after an incumbent MLA left office, and only two MLAs have managed to win a third term.

Boundary history

Historically, the riding has included the City of St. Albert and rural areas to the north and west. In Alberta's first election in 1905, the riding stretched to the border with British Columbia.

As the city grew in population, the riding shrank to include less rural voters. By 1993, the boundaries of the riding matched the city boundaries. From 1997 onwards, the riding has not included all of the city of St. Albert.

The 2010 boundary redistribution kept the riding boundaries exactly the same as the 2003 boundary redistribution. [3] The 2017 redistribution saw its boundaries shift slightly to the west.

Representation history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for St. Albert [4]
AssemblyYearsMemberParty
See St. Albert (N.W.T.) 1885-1905
1st 1905–1909 Henry McKenney Independent Liberal
2nd 1909–1913 Lucien Boudreau Liberal
3rd 1913–1917
4th 1917–1921
5th 1921–1926 Télesphore St. Arnaud United Farmers
6th 1926Lucien BoudreauLiberal
1926Vacant
1926–1930Lucien BoudreauLiberal
7th 1930–1934 Omer St. Germain United Farmers
1934–1935Liberal
8th 1935–1940 Charles Holder Social Credit
9th 1940–1944 Lionel Tellier Independent
10th 1944–1948Charles HolderSocial Credit
11th 1948–1952 Lucien Maynard
12th 1952–1955
13th 1955–1959 Arthur Soetaert Liberal
14th 1959–1963 Keith Everitt Social Credit
15th 1963–1967
16th 1967–1971
17th 1971–1975 Ernest Jamison Progressive Conservative
18th 1975–1979
19th 1979–1982 Myrna Fyfe
20th 1982–1986
21st 1986–1989 Bryan Strong New Democrat
22nd 1989–1993 Dick Fowler Progressive Conservative
23rd 1993–1997 Len Bracko Liberal
24th 1997–2001 Mary O'Neill Progressive Conservative
25th 2001–2004
26th 2004–2008 Jack Flaherty Liberal
27th 2008–2012 Ken Allred Progressive Conservative
28th 2012–2015 Stephen Khan
29th 2015–2019 Marie Renaud New Democrat
30th 2019–2023
31st 2023–

The electoral district was created in 1905 when the province was founded. The first elected held that year saw hotly contested race between Liberal candidate Lucien Boudreau and Independent Liberal Henry McKenney. The race was very close with McKenney winning by just eight votes. Despite being elected as an Independent McKenney was a supporter of the Rutherford government and caucused with the Liberals.

McKenney only stayed in the St. Albert district for a single term. He decided to run in the Pembina electoral district in the 1909 election. Boudreau ran again that year and won a hotly contested race over future MLA's Wilfrid Gariépy and Omer St. Germain. He was re-elected in 1913 and 1917 facing Conservative candidate Hector Landry both times and winning with comfortable majorities.

Boudreau ran for a fourth term in the 1921 election. He was defeated by United Farmers candidate Telesphore St. Arnaud. Boudreau would run again in the 1926 election as St. Arnaud only sat in office for a single term. He would win a hotly contested race in vote transfers to retake the district. Boudreau would be removed from office on November 18, 1926 after a court convicted Boudreau of bribery and corruption. [5] Boudreau appealed and was re-instated on December 8, 1926. [6]

The 1930 general election would see Omer St. Germain run in a straight fight against Boudreau in a rematch of the 1909 election. St. Germain won with a comfortable majority to retake the seat for the United Farmers.

St. Germain crossed the floor to the Liberals on February 6, 1934. [7] He would run for a second term in office in a hotly contested race against four other candidates in the 1935 election. He would finish third on the first ballot and would end up being defeated by Social Credit candidate Charles Holder in vote transfers. Holder would only last one term in office. He ran in the 1940 general election but was defeated by Independent candidate Lionel Tellier.

Tellier did not run again in the 1944 general election. Charles Holder made a comeback and regained the seat for Social Credit. Holder retired from politics in 1948. Social Credit incumbent Lucien Maynard moved to St. Albert from the Beaver River electoral district and won to hold the seat for his party. He won a second term in the 1952 election.

The 1955 election was won by Liberal candidate Arthur Soetaert defeating Maynard. He would only last a term having been defeated in the 1959 general election by Social Credit candidate Keith Everitt. The 1963 and 1967 elections saw Everitt hold the district. He would be defeated in the 1971 general election by Progressive Conservative candidate Ernest Jamison.

Jamison held the electoral district for a second term in the 1975 general election. He was defeated running for the Progressive Conservative nomination in 1979 by Myrna Fyfe who went on to hold the seat in the 1979 general election for her party.

Fyfe ran for re-election in 1982 and won the largest majority in the history of the district. She ran for a third term in the 1986 general election but was defeated by NDP candidate Bryan Strong in a hotly contested race.

Strong only stayed in office for a single term choosing not to run again in the 1989 general election. Progressive Conservative Dick Fowler picked up the seat for his party. Fowler ran for a second term in the 1993 election but was defeated by Liberal candidate Len Bracko.

Bracko himself would only last a single term in office as he was defeated in the 1997 general election by Progressive Conservative candidate Mary O'Neill in the closest race of the election winning by just 16 votes. O'Neill would win a second term in the 2001 general election.

The 2004 general election would see Liberal candidate Jack Flaherty regain the seat for the Liberals as Mary O'Neill went down to defeat. Flaherty only lasted a single term in office as the riding swung back into the Progressive Conservative column when candidate Ken Allred won a strong majority.

Legislative election results

1905

1905 Alberta general election results [8] Turnout N/ASwing
AffiliationCandidateVotes%PartyPersonal
 Independent Liberal Henry McKenney 40751.00%*
  Liberal Lucien Boudreau 39149.00%*
Total798
Rejected, spoiled and declinedUnknown
Eligible electors / TurnoutUnknown %
 Independent Liberal pickup new districtSwing N/A

1909

1909 Alberta general election results [9] Turnout N/ASwing
AffiliationCandidateVotes%PartyPersonal
  Liberal Lucien Boudreau 52850.97%37.90%1.97%
 Liberal Wilfrid Gariépy 39337.93%*
 Independent Liberal Omer St. Germain 11511.10%*
Total1,036
Rejected, spoiled and declinedUnknown
Eligible electors / TurnoutUnknown %
 Liberal pickup from Independent LiberalSwing 19.95%

The 1909 general election saw incumbent Henry McKenney run for re-election in the new electoral district of Pembina as the boundaries of the St. Albert electoral district were significantly changed in the 1909 boundary redistribution.

A meeting was held on March 1, 1909 in Morinville to hear from candidates interested in the nomination for the provincial Liberals. The meeting was very well attended with over 400 delegates. The three candidates were Mayor of St. Albert Lucien Boudreau who was the runner up in the 1905 election as well as Omer St. Germain a farmer from Morinville and Wilfrid Gariépy an Alderman in Edmonton. [10]

Gariépy was presented with a petition of over 500 electors in the constituency of St. Albert requesting him to be the Liberal candidate. The names on the petition added up to two thirds of the voter list in the constituency at the time and made a nomination convention unnecessary. He accepted the request and after a two-hour speech declared his candidacy as a straight supporter of the Rutherford government. [10]

At the meeting Boudreau said he was determined to be nominated by convention and St. Germain said he would probably be a candidate. [10] A nominating convention was called on March 6, 1909 and once again held in the town of Morinville. This meeting was only attended by 54 delegates. [11]

Gariépy had pressing business to attend in Edmonton the day of the convention and had asked two representatives to speak on his behalf, they told the convention delegates that Gariépy would not allow his name to go before the convention and that he would choose to contest the election independently of it. St. Germain told the convention that if they chose Boudreau he would retire from the race in his favor. Boudreau was acclaimed by the convention. [12]

The provincial Conservatives had nominated Lucien Dubuc who had run in the previous election in the Peace River electoral district. He was nominated without a convention. [11] He dropped out of the race before the nomination deadline. St. Germain joined the race late as another Independent Liberal candidate after Dubuc retired. By the end of the campaign all three candidates in the race were Rutherford supporters and running as straight Liberals.

Lucien Boudreau won the race taking over half the popular vote on election night, while Gariépy finished a strong second but failed to win the votes of all those that signed the petition for his candidacy. St. Germain finished a distant third.

1913

1913 Alberta general election results [13] Turnout 74.10%Swing
AffiliationCandidateVotes%PartyPersonal
  Liberal Lucien Boudreau 62060.55%-28.35%9.58%
Conservative Hector Landry40439.45%*
Total1,024
Rejected, spoiled and declinedUnknown
Eligible electors / Turnout1,382 %
 Liberal holdSwing -24.52%

1917

1917 Alberta general election results [14] Turnout 75.60%Swing
AffiliationCandidateVotes%PartyPersonal
  Liberal Lucien Boudreau 1,09559.61%-0.94%
Conservative Hector Landry74240.39%0.94%
Total1,837
Rejected, spoiled and declined0
Eligible electors / Turnout2,430 %
 Liberal holdSwing -0.94%

1921

1921 Alberta general election results [15] Turnout 76.80%Swing
AffiliationCandidateVotes%PartyPersonal
United Farmers Télesphore St. Arnaud 1,23455.24%
  Liberal Lucien Boudreau 1,00044.76%-14.85%
Total2,234
Rejected, spoiled and declined0
Eligible electors / Turnout2,909 %
United Farmers gain from Liberal Swing 35.05%

1926

1926 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes
1st count		%Votes
final count		%±%
Liberal Lucien Boudreau 1,05843.11%1,17457.07%-1.65%
Independent Liberal Michael Hogan 68327.83%88342.93%
United Farmers Louis Normandeau62825.59%––-29.65%
Conservative J.A. Loiseau853.47%––
Total2,4542,057
Rejected, spoiled and declined119
Eligible electors / Turnout3,04784.44%
Liberal gain from United Farmers Swing -14.74%
Source: "St. Albert Official Results 1926 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved April 17, 2010.

1930

1930 Alberta general election results [16] Turnout 80.02%Swing
AffiliationCandidateVotes%PartyPersonal
United Farmers Omer St. Germain 1,42755.14%29.55%
  Liberal Lucien Boudreau 1,16144.86%1.75%
Total2,588
Rejected, spoiled and declined91
Eligible electors / Turnout3,348 %
United Farmers gain from Liberal Swing 15.65%

1935

1935 Alberta general election results [17] Turnout 84.13%1st Count Swing
AffiliationCandidate1st%2nd3rd4th%PartyPersonal
  Social Credit Charles Holder 1,43144.63%1,61952.84%*
 Independent Liberal Lucien Boudreau 95529.79%1,44547.16%*-15.07%
  Liberal Omer St. Germain 44613.91%-30.95%-41.23%
 Independent ConservativeA.S. McRae2588.05%*
United Farmers J.P. Morissey1163.62%-51.52%*
Total3,206100%??3,064100%
Exhausted Ballots0???
Rejected, spoiled and declined119
3,811 Eligible Electors
 Social Credit pickup from Liberal1st Count Swing 29.85%

1940

1940 Alberta general election resultsTurnout 71.85%1st Count Swing
AffiliationCandidate1st [18] %2nd3rd4th [19] %PartyPersonal
 Independent Lionel Tellier 1,46730.49%2,35652.19%*
  Social Credit Charles Holder 1,70335.40%2,15847.81%-9.23%
  Liberal J.H. Perras1,08922.64%8.73%*
  Co-operative Commonwealth W.R. Rigney55211.47%*
Total4,811100%??4,514100%
Exhausted Ballots0???
Rejected, spoiled and declinedUnknown
6,696 Eligible Electors
 Independent pickup from Social Credit1st Count Swing 19.86%

1944

1944 Alberta general election results [20] Turnout 68.46%1st Count Swing
AffiliationCandidate1st%2nd%PartyPersonal
  Social Credit Charles Holder 2,09749.49%2,49164.74%14.09%
Co-operative Commonwealth Co-operative Commonwealth Earl Toane1,22228.84%1,35735.26%17.37%*
 IndependentJoseph Nadeau91821.67%*
Total4,237100%3,848100%
Exhausted Ballots0389
Rejected, spoiled and declined119
6,319 Eligible Electors
 Social Credit pickup from Independent1st Count Swing 15.73%

1948

1948 Alberta general election results [21] Turnout 69.94%Swing
AffiliationCandidateVotes%PartyPersonal
Social Credit Lucien Maynard 2,70259.74%10.25%
  Co-operative Commonwealth Joseph Dusseault1,04723.15%-5.69%*
  Liberal Omer St. Germain 77417.11%*
Total4,523
Rejected, spoiled and declined260
Eligible electors / Turnout6,839 %
Social Credit hold Swing 7.97%

1952

1952 Alberta general election results [22] Turnout 70.63%1st Count Swing
AffiliationCandidate1st%2nd%PartyPersonal
  Social Credit Lucien Maynard 2,21844.31%2,42054.52%-15.43%
  Liberal Arthur Soetaert 1,49629.88%2,01945.48%12.77%*
Co-operative Commonwealth Co-operative Commonwealth Joseph Dusseault1,29225.81%2.66%
Total5,006100%4,439100%
Exhausted Ballots0567
Rejected, spoiled and declined337
7,565 Eligible Electors
 Social Credit hold1st Count Swing -14.10%

1955

1955 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes
1st count		%Votes
final count		%±%
Liberal Arthur Soetaert 2,61844.13%3,02953.72%14.25%
Social Credit Lucien Maynard 2,50942.30%2,61046.28%-2.01%
Independent Joseph Dusseault5759.69%––-16.12%
Progressive Conservative Jack Zubick1592.68%––n/a
Independent Aubrey Smith711.20%––n/a
Total5,932100%5,639100%
Rejected, spoiled and declined299
Eligible Electors / Turnout7,82479.64%
Liberal gain from Social Credit Swing 8.13%
Source: "St. Albert Results 1955 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved April 16, 2010.

1959

1959 Alberta general election results [23] Turnout 62.74%Swing
AffiliationCandidateVotes%PartyPersonal
Social Credit Keith Everitt 2,15736.57%-5.73%
  Liberal Arthur Soetaert 2,08235.29%-8.84%
Progressive Conservative Stanley Walker1,18720.12%17.44%
Co-operative Commonwealth Co-operative Commonwealth Earl Toane4738.02%*
Total5,899
Rejected, spoiled and declined47
Eligible electors / Turnout9,477 %
 Social Credit pickup from LiberalSwing -7.29%

1963

1963 Alberta general election results [24] Turnout 55.37%Swing
AffiliationCandidateVotes%PartyPersonal
Social Credit Keith Everitt 2,54039.98%3.41%
Liberal Louis Chalifoux2,03031.95%-3.34%
Progressive Conservative Alan Lazerte1,33220.97%0.85%
New Democratic Alan Bevington4517.10%-0.92%
Total6,353
Rejected, spoiled and declined21
Eligible electors / Turnout11,511 %
Social Credit hold Swing 3.38%

1967

1967 Alberta general election results [25] Turnout 63.85%Swing
AffiliationCandidateVotes%PartyPersonal
Social Credit Keith Everitt 2,82435.62%-4.36%
Liberal Robert Russell 2,29728.97%-2.98%
Progressive Conservative Stanley Walker1,46918.52%-2.45%
New Democratic Norman Dolman1,33916.89%9.79%
Total7,929
Rejected, spoiled and declined40
Eligible electors / Turnout12,480 %
Social Credit hold Swing -3.67%

1971

1971 Alberta general election results [26] Turnout 70.20%Swing
AffiliationCandidateVotes%PartyPersonal
Progressive Conservative William Jamison 4,62342.99%24.47%
Social Credit Keith Everitt 3,59233.40%-2.22%
  Liberal Robert Russell 1,66015.44%-13.53%
New Democratic Elsie McMillan8788.17%-1.62%
Total10,753
Rejected, spoiled and declined14
Eligible electors / Turnout15,337 %
Progressive Conservative gain from Social Credit Swing 13.35%

1975

1975 Alberta general election results [27] Turnout 52.20%Swing
AffiliationCandidateVotes%PartyPersonal
Progressive Conservative William Jamison 6,45054.54%11.55%
Social Credit Keith Everitt 2,22118.78%-14.62%
New Democratic Earl Toane1,59113.45%5.28%
Liberal John Bakker1,56413.23%-2.21%
Total11,826
Rejected, spoiled and declined48
Eligible electors / Turnout22,749 %
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 13.08%

1979

1979 Alberta general election results [28] Turnout 57.80%Swing
AffiliationCandidateVotes%PartyPersonal
Progressive Conservative Myrna Fyfe 9,36158.85%4.31%
New Democratic Robert Borreson3,17819.98%6.53%
Social Credit Reginald Petch1,68610.60%-8.18%
Liberal Gerry Thibault1,68110.57%-2.66%
Total15,906
Rejected, spoiled and declined47
Eligible electors / Turnout27,602 %
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 5.42%

1982

1982 Alberta general election results [29] Turnout 68.10%Swing
AffiliationCandidateVotes%PartyPersonal
Progressive Conservative Myrna Fyfe 12,98254.72%-4.13%
New Democratic Kurt Hoeberg4,43818.71%-1.27%
 Independent William Jamison 3,40614.36%*
Western Canada Concept Murray Sillito2,46510.39%*
Social Credit L.D. Callfas4341.82%-8.78%
Total23,725
Rejected, spoiled and declined50
Eligible electors / Turnout34,910 %
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -2.70%

1986

1986 Alberta general election results [30] Turnout 50.17%Swing
AffiliationCandidateVotes%PartyPersonal
New Democratic Bryan Strong 4,70041.81%23.10%
Progressive Conservative Myrna Fyfe 4,58040.75%-13.97%
Representative William Jamison 1,21510.81%-3.55%
  Liberal Thomas Droege7456.62%*
Total11,240
Rejected, spoiled and declined12
Eligible electors / Turnout22,429 %
 NDP pickup from Progressive ConservativeSwing 18.54%

1989

1989 Alberta general election results [31] Turnout 58.98%Swing
AffiliationCandidateVotes%PartyPersonal
Progressive Conservative Dick Fowler 6,59045.24%4.49%
Liberal Len Bracko 4,27829.37%22.75%
New Democratic Cheryl Wharton3,55224.38%-17.43%
 IndependentArchie Baldwin1471.01%*
Total14,567
Rejected, spoiled and declined12
Eligible electors / Turnout24,718 %
Progressive Conservative gain from New Democratic Swing 13.62%

1993

1993 Alberta general election results [32] Turnout 61.91%Swing
AffiliationCandidateVotes%PartyPersonal
  Liberal Len Bracko 7,26751.02%21.65%
Progressive Conservative Dick Fowler 5,74640.34%-4.90%
New Democratic John Booth1,0317.24%-17.14%

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 Natural Law Gordon Rever1991.40%*
Total14,243
Rejected, spoiled and declined12
Eligible electors / Turnout23,045 %
 Liberal pickup from Progressive ConservativeSwing 13.28%

1997

1997 Alberta general election results [33] Turnout 60.97%Swing
AffiliationCandidateVotes%PartyPersonal
Progressive Conservative Mary O'Neill 6,69643.61%3.27%
  Liberal Len Bracko 6,68043.50%-7.52%
New Democratic Chris Samuel1,1987.80%0.56%
  Social Credit John Reil 7815.09%*
Total15,355
Rejected, spoiled and declined27
Eligible electors / Turnout25,227 %
Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal Swing 5.40%

2001

2001 Alberta general election results [34] Turnout 63.99%Swing
AffiliationCandidateVotes%PartyPersonal
Progressive Conservative Mary O'Neill 9,53752.58%8.97%
  Liberal Len Bracko 7,47941.23%-2.27%
New Democratic Michelle Mungall 1,1226.19%-1.61%
Total18,138
Rejected, spoiled and declined63
Eligible electors / Turnout28,444 %
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 5.62%

2004

2004 Alberta general election results [35] Turnout 52.79%Swing
AffiliationCandidateVotes%PartyPersonal
Liberal Jack Flaherty 6,47642.64%1.41%
Progressive Conservative Mary O'Neill 6,06239.91%-12.67%
New Democratic Travis Thompson1,65210.88%4.69%
Alberta Alliance Michaela Meldrum5913.89%
Green Conrad Bitangcol4072.68%*
Total15,188100%
Rejected, spoiled and declined54
28,872 Eligible Electors
 Liberal pickup from Progressive ConservativeSwing 7.04%

2008

2008 Alberta general election results [36] Turnout 44.74%Swing
AffiliationCandidateVotes%PartyPersonal
Progressive Conservative Ken Allred 8,40354.09%14.18%
  Liberal Jack Flaherty 5,59836.03%-6.61%
New Democratic Kathy Campbell9596.17%-4.71%
Green Ross Vincent5763.71%1.03%*
Total15,536100%
Rejected, spoiled and declined94
34,939 Eligible Electors
Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal Swing 10.40%

2012

2012 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Progressive Conservative Stephen Khan 10,48153.76
Wildrose James Burrows4,13021.18
Liberal Kim Bugeaud2,01110.31
New Democratic Nicole Bownes1,6798.61
Alberta Party Tim Osborne1,1956.13

2015

2015 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%
New Democratic Marie Renaud 12,21953.9
Progressive Conservative Stephen Khan 6,34328.0
Wildrose Shelley Biermanski2,85412.6
Liberal Bill Alton7783.4
Alberta Party Trevor Love4922.2

2019

2019 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic Marie Renaud 12,33646.2%-7.7%
United Conservative Jeff Wedman10,68240.0%-0.6%
Alberta Party Barry Bailey2,81710.6%+8.4%
Liberal Kevin McLean3171.2%-2.2%
Green Cameron Jefferies2290.9%--
  Independence Sheldon Gron1720.6%--
  Alberta Advantage Donald Petruka1390.5%--
Total valid votes26,692
Rejected, spoiled, and declined108558
Registered electors and turnout38,35369.9%
New Democratic hold Swing %
Source(s)
"2019 Provincial General Election Results". Elections Alberta. Retrieved April 30, 2019.

2023

2023 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic Marie Renaud 15,02158.50+12.29
United Conservative Angela Wood10,20039.73-0.29
Green Cameron Jefferies4551.77+0.91
Total25,67699.38–
Rejected and declined1610.62
Turnout25,83766.40
Eligible voters38,909
New Democratic hold Swing +6.29
Source(s)
Source: Elections Alberta [37]

Senate nominee election results

2004

2004 Senate nominee election results: St. Albert [38] Turnout 52.61%
AffiliationCandidateVotes% votes% ballotsRank
Progressive Conservative Betty Unger 5,41116.28%49.84%2
 Independent Link Byfield 4,46413.43%41.09%4
Progressive Conservative Bert Brown 3,82311.50%35.19%1
Progressive Conservative Cliff Breitkreuz 3,65511.00%33.65%3
 Independent Tom Sindlinger 2,9128.76%26.81%9
Alberta Alliance Michael Roth2,8648.62%26.37%7
Progressive Conservative David Usherwood2,7378.23%25.20%6
Alberta Alliance Gary Horan2,5717.73%23.67%10
Alberta Alliance Vance Gough2,5007.52%23.01%8
Progressive Conservative Jim Silye 2,3046.93%21.21%5
Total votes33,241100%
Total ballots10,8633.06 votes per ballot
Rejected, spoiled and declined4,325

Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot

2012

Plebiscite results

1948 electrification plebiscite

District results from the first province wide plebiscite on electricity regulation.

Option AOption B
Are you in favour of the generation and distribution of electricity being continued by the Power Companies?Are you in favour of the generation and distribution of electricity being made a publicly owned utility administered by the Alberta Government Power Commission?
1,897     44.84%2,333     55.16%
Province wide result: Option A passed.

1957 liquor plebiscite

1957 Alberta liquor plebiscite results: St. Albert [39]
Question A: Do you approve additional types of outlets for the
sale of beer, wine and spirituous liquor subject to a local vote?
Ballot choiceVotes%
Yes2,54670.27%
No1,07729.73%
Total votes3,623100%
Rejected, spoiled and declined92
8,184 eligible electors, turnout 45.39%

On October 30, 1957 a stand-alone plebiscite was held province wide in all 50 of the then current provincial electoral districts in Alberta. The government decided to consult Alberta voters to decide on liquor sales and mixed drinking after a divisive debate in the Legislature. The plebiscite was intended to deal with the growing demand for reforming antiquated liquor control laws. [40]

The plebiscite was conducted in two parts. Question A asked in all districts, asked the voters if the sale of liquor should be expanded in Alberta, while Question B asked in a handful of districts within the corporate limits of Calgary and Edmonton asked if men and woman were allowed to drink together in establishments. [39]

Province wide Question A of the plebiscite passed in 33 of the 50 districts while Question B passed in all five districts. St. Albert voted in favour of the proposal by a landslide majority. Voter turnout in the district was almost equal to the province wide average of 46%. [39]

Official district returns were released to the public on December 31, 1957. [39] The Social Credit government in power at the time did not considered the results binding. [41] However the results of the vote led the government to repeal all existing liquor legislation and introduce an entirely new Liquor Act. [42]

Municipal districts lying inside electoral districts that voted against the Plebiscite were designated Local Option Zones by the Alberta Liquor Control Board and considered effective dry zones, business owners that wanted a license had to petition for a binding municipal plebiscite in order to be granted a license. [43]

Student vote results

2004

Participating schools [44]
Neil M. Ross Elementary School
Paul Kane High School
Richard Fowler Junior High School
St. Albert Catholic High School
VJ Maloney Catholic Junior High 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 have 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 that reside in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district then where they were physically located.

2004 Alberta student vote results [45]
AffiliationCandidateVotes%
  Liberal Jack Flaherty 30332.13%
Progressive Conservative Mary O'Neill 25426.94%
  NDP Travis Thompson23224.60%
Green Conrad Bitangcol12413.15%
Alberta Alliance Michaela Meldrum303.18%
Total943100%
Rejected, spoiled and declined35

2012

2012 Alberta student vote results
AffiliationCandidateVotes%
Progressive Conservative Stephen Khan%
Wildrose James Burrows
  Liberal %
Alberta Party Tim Osborne
  NDP Nicole Bownes%
Total100%

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