Brooks-Medicine Hat
Brooks-Medicine Hat is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 87 districts mandated to return a single member (MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting. It was contested for the first time in the 2019 Alberta election.
 Alberta electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Brooks-Medicine Hat within Alberta (2017 boundaries). | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
United Conservative | ||
| District created | 2017 | ||
| First contested | 2019 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016)[1] | 51,070 | ||
| Area (km²) | 13,742 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 3.7 | ||
| Census division(s) | 1, 2 | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Bassano, Brooks, Cypress, Duchess, Medicine Hat, Newell, Redcliff, Rosemary | ||
Geography
The district is located in southeastern Alberta, containing the entirety of Newell County and the northern portions of Cypress County and Medicine Hat. It is named for its two largest communities, Medicine Hat and Brooks, and also contains CFB Suffield. Within the city of Medicine Hat, its border with Cypress-Medicine Hat runs southeast along Highway 1, then northeast along Highway 41A until the railroad tracks, then east along the South Saskatchewan River.
History
| Members for Brooks-Medicine Hat | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Medicine Hat 1979–2019, Cypress-Medicine Hat and Strathmore-Brooks 1997–2019 | ||||
| 30th | 2019– | Michaela Glasgo | UCP | |
The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission endeavoured to reduce the number of ridings in southern Alberta, owing to slow population growth in the region.[2] The district was created from the eastern half of Strathmore-Brooks, the northern third of Cypress-Medicine Hat, and some of the northern neighbourhoods previously part of Medicine Hat.
Electoral results
2010s
| Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wildrose | 7,781 | 47.36 | ||
| Progressive Conservative | 4,016 | 24.45 | ||
| New Democratic | 3,846 | 23.41 | ||
| Others | 786 | 4.78 | ||
| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The 2019 general election will be held on April 16. | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Michaela Glasgo | 13,601 | 61.0 | |||||
| New Democratic | Lynn MacWilliam | 4,008 | 18.0 | |||||
| Independent | Todd Beasley | 2,762 | 12.4 | |||||
| Alberta Party | Jim Black | 1,443 | 6.5 | |||||
| Liberal | Jamah Bashir Farah | 281 | 1.3 | |||||
| Independence | Collin Pacholek | 219 | 1.0 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 22,314 | |||||||
| Rejected, spoiled, and declined | ||||||||
| Registered electors | 32,235 | |||||||
| Turnout | ||||||||
References
- Statistics Canada: 2016
- "Final Report" (PDF). Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission. 2017-10-01. p. 34. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-01-24.
- "Brooks-Medicine Hat Elections Alberta Results". Elections Alberta.