St. Albert (provincial electoral district)

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St. Albert
Alberta electoral district


2004 boundaries

Provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA       Ken Allred
Progressive Conservative
District created 1905
First contested 1905
Last contested 2008

St. Albert is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada.

The riding covers most of the city of St. Albert just north west of Edmonton.

The riding of St. Albert is one of five ridings out of the original twenty five, that has existed since Alberta became a province in 1905. The other four surviving ridings are Medicine Hat, Strathcona, Peace River and Stony Plain.

Since 1905 the riding has decreased in size, at one point stretching all the way to the British Columbia border, through vast tracts of rural area. Today the riding is now an urban one encompassing the small satellite city of St. Albert. This riding has a long and interesting electoral history, this is one of the few Alberta swing ridings, and only one of a handful that has elected members from six different parties.

Between 1926 and 1955 the riding switched between First Past the Post and Single Transferable Vote. In 1959 the Alberta government standardized all ridings to First Past the Post.



Contents

[edit] Election results

[edit] 2004 general election

2004 Alberta general election results[1] Turnout 52.79%
Affiliation Candidate Votes %
     Liberal Jack Flaherty 6,476 42.64%
     Progressive Conservative Mary O'Neill 6,062 39.91%
     NDP Travis Thompson 1,652 10.88%
     Alberta Alliance Michaela Meldrum 591 3.89%
     Green Conrad Bitangcol 407 2.68%
Total 15,188 100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined 54

[edit] 2004 Senate nominee election district results

2004 Senate nominee election results: St. Albert[2] Turnout 52.61%
Affiliation Candidate Votes % Votes % Ballots Rank
     Progressive Conservative Betty Unger 5,411 16.28% 49.84% 2
     Independent Link Byfield 4,464 13.43% 41.09% 4
     Progressive Conservative Bert Brown 3,823 11.50% 35.19% 1
     Progressive Conservative Cliff Breitkreuz 3,655 11.00% 33.65% 3
     Independent Tom Sindlinger 2,912 8.76% 26.81% 9
     Alberta Alliance Michael Roth 2,864 8.62% 26.37% 7
     Progressive Conservative David Usherwood 2,737 8.23% 25.20% 6
     Alberta Alliance Gary Horan 2,571 7.73% 23.67% 10
     Alberta Alliance Vance Gough 2,500 7.52% 23.01% 8
     Progressive Conservative Jim Silye 2,304 6.93% 21.21% 5
Total Votes 33,241 100%
Total Ballots 10,863 3.06 Votes Per Ballot
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined 4,325

Voters had the option of selecting 4 Candidates on the Ballot

[edit] 1986 - 2008

Party 2008 2001 1997 1993 1989 1986
Liberal Jack Flaherty
5,594
Len Bracko
7,479
Len Bracko
6,680
Len Bracko
7,267
Len Bracko
4,278
Thomas Droege
745
Progressive Conservative Ken Allred
8,409
Mary O'Neill
9,537
Mary O'Neill
6,696
Dick Fowler
5,746
Dick Fowler
6,590
Myrna Fyfe
4,580
N. D. P. Katy Campbell
959
Michelle Mungall
1,122
Chris Samuel
1,198
John Booth
1,031
Cheryl Wharton
3,552
Bryan Strong
4,700
Green Party Ross Vincent
576
 
Social Credit   John Reil
781
Natural Law   Gordon Rever
199
Representative   William Jamison
1,215
Independent Archie Baldwin
147

[edit] 1959 - 1982

Party 1982 1979 1975 1971 1967 1963 1959
Liberal Gerry Thibault
1,681
John Bakker
1,564
Robert Russell
1,660
Robert Russell
2,297
Louis Chalifoux
2,032
Arthur Soetaert
2,082
Progressive Conservative Myrna Fyfe
12,982
Myrna Fyfe
9,361
William Jamison
6,450
William Jamison
4,632
Stanley Walker
1,469
Alan Lazerte
1,332
Stanley Walker
1,187
N. D. P. / C.C.F. Kurt Hoeberg
4,438
Robert Borreson
3,178
Earl Toane
1,591
Elsie McMillan
878
Norman Dolman
1,339
Alan Bevington
451
Earl Toane
473
Social Credit L.D. Callfas
434
Reginald Petch
1,686
Keith Everitt
2,221
Keith Everitt
3,592
Keith Everitt
2,824
Keith Everitt
2,540
Keith Everitt
2,157
Western Canada Concept Murray Sillito
2,465
Independent William Jamison
3,406

[edit] Single Transferable Vote 1926, 1935 - 1944, 1952 - 1955

First Names in the old election records are rare. Most of the results are given with first and middle initials

[edit] 1952-1955

Year Count Candidate Party Votes Year Count Candidate Party Votes
1955 2nd Arthur Soetaert Liberal 3,029 1952 2nd Lucien Maynard Social Credit 2,420
2nd Lucien Maynard Social Credit 2,610 2nd Arthur Soetaert Liberal 2,019
1955 1st Arthur Soetaert Liberal 2,618 1952 1st Lucien Maynard Social Credit 2,218
1st Lucien Maynard Social Credit 2,509 1st Arthur Soetaert Liberal 1,469
1st Joseph Dusseault Independent 575 1st Joseph Dusseault Cooperative Commonwealth 1,292
1st J.J. Zubick Conservative 159
1st Aubrey Smith Independent 71

[edit] 1940 - 1944

Year Count Candidate Party Votes Year Count Candidate Party Votes
1944 2nd Charles Holder Social Credit 2,491 1940 2nd L.R. Tellier Independent 2,304
2nd Earl Toane Cooperative Commonwealth 1,375 2nd Charles Holder Social Credit 2,018
1944 1st Charles Holder Social Credit 2,097 1940 1st Charles Holder Social Credit 1,692
1st Earl Toane Cooperative Commonwealth 1,222 1st L.R. Tellier Independent 1,383
1st Joseph Nadeau Independent 918 1st J.H. Perras Liberal 1,008
1st W.R. Rigney Cooperative Commonwealth 552

[edit] 1926, 1935

Year Count Candidate Party Votes Year Count Candidate Party Votes
1935 2nd Charles Holder Social Credit 1,619 1926 2nd Lucien Boudreau Liberal 2,420
2nd Lucien Boudreau Independent Liberal 1,445 2nd Michael Hogan Independent Liberal 883
1935 1st Charles Holder Social Credit 1,431 1926 1st Lucien Boudreau Liberal 1,058
1st Lucien Boudreau Independent Liberal 955 1st Michael Hogan Independent Liberal 683
1st Omer St. Germain Liberal 446 1st Louis Normandeau United Farmers 628
1st A.S. McRae Independent Conservative 258 1st J.A. Loiseau Conservative 85
1st J.P. Morissey United Farmers 116

[edit] First Past The Post 1905 - 1921, 1930, 1948

Party 1948 1930 1921 1917 1913 1909 1905
Liberal Omer St. Germain
774
Lucien Boudreau
1,161
Lucien Boudreau
1,000
Lucien Boudreau
1,095
Lucien Boudreau
620
Lucien Boudreau
528

Wilfrid Gariépy
393
Henry William McKenney
407

Lucien Boudreau
391
Conservative H.L. Landry
742
H.L. Landry
404
Omer St. Germain
115
United Farmers Omer St. Germain
1,427
Telesphore St. Arnaud
1,234
Social Credit Lucien Maynard
2,702
Cooperative Commonwealth Joseph Dusseault
1,047

[edit] Plebiscite results

[edit] 1948 Electrification Plebiscite

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

Option A Option 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.

[edit] 2004 Student Vote

Participating Schools[3]
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[4]
Affiliation Candidate Votes %
     Liberal Jack Flaherty 303 32.13%
     Progressive Conservative Mary O'Neill 254 26.94%
     NDP Travis Thompson 232 24.60%
     Green Conrad Bitangcol 124 13.15%
     Alberta Alliance Michaela Meldrum 30 3.18%
Total 943 100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined 35

[edit] References

  1. ^ St. Albert Statement of Official Results 2004 Alberta general election. Elections Alberta. Retrieved on 2008-04-18.
  2. ^ Senate Nominee Election 2004 Tabulation of Official Results. Elections Alberta. Retrieved on 2008-03-08.
  3. ^ School by School results. Student Vote Canada. Retrieved on 2008-04-27.
  4. ^ Riding by Riding Results - the Candidates. Student Vote Canada. Retrieved on 2008-04-19.

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