Edmonton-North West
Edmonton-North West is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada that has existed twice, first as Edmonton North West between 1959 and 1971, and for a second time since 2019. 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 will be contested next in the 2023 Alberta election.
 Alberta electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Edmonton-North West within the City of Edmonton (2017 boundaries) | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
New Democratic | ||
| District created | 1957 | ||
| First contested | 1959 | ||
| Last contested | 1967 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016)[1] | 45,523 | ||
| Area (km²) | 29.9 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 1,522.5 | ||
Geography
The district is located in northwest Edmonton, containing the neighbourhoods of Lauderdale, Rosslyn, Kensington, Griesbach, Carlisle, Caernarvon, Baranow, Hudson, Cumberland, Oxford, Carlton, and The Palisades, as well as the area west of 142 St NW and north of 137 Ave NW to the border with St. Albert.
History
Boundary History
The district was created as Edmonton North West in the 1959 redistribution which broke up the mega-ridings of Edmonton and Calgary, creating a number of single-member districts in their place. It was replaced with Edmonton-Calder in 1971, but re-created from the same riding in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended moving the Calder neighbourhood (among others) out of the riding.[2] The district also gained three neighbourhoods from Edmonton-Castle Downs.
Representation history
| Members for Edmonton-North West | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Edmonton 1921–1959 | ||||
| 14th | 1959–1963 | Edgar Gerhart | Social Credit | |
| 15th | 1963–1967 | |||
| 16th | 1967–1971 | |||
| See Edmonton-Calder 1971–1993 and 1997–2019 | ||||
| 30th | 2019– | David Eggen | New Democrat | |
The district was represented from 1959 to 1971 by Edgar Gerhart of the Alberta Social Credit Party, who had already served as one of several MLAs for Edmonton before it was split. He served as Minister of Municipal Affairs under premier Ernest Manning for his final term, and briefly as Attorney General as well under Harry Strom. Gerhart was defeated in Edmonton-Calder in the 1971 election.
Electoral results
Elections in the 1950s
| 1959 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Social Credit | Edgar Gerhart | 4,823 | 42.72 | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Ned Feehan | 3,249 | 28.78 | |||||
| Liberal | Harper McCrae | 2,071 | 18.35 | |||||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | James Forest | 1,146 | 10.15 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 11,289 | 99.79 | ||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 24 | 0.21 | ||||||
| Registered electors / Turnout | 19,258 | 58.74 | ||||||
| Social Credit pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Alberta Heritage Foundation. "Election results for Edmonton-North West". Retrieved 2018-05-18. | ||||||||
Elections in the 1960s
| 1963 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Social Credit | Edgar Gerhart | 4,369 | 46.03 | +3.31 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Ned Feehan | 1,878 | 19.79 | -8.99 | ||||
| Liberal | Edmund H. Leger | 1,854 | 19.53 | +1.18 | ||||
| New Democratic | Grant Notley | 1,391 | 14.65 | +4.50 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 9,492 | 99.87 | +0.08 | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 12 | 0.13 | -0.08 | |||||
| Registered electors / Turnout | 19,695 | 48.26 | -10.48 | |||||
| Social Credit hold | Swing | +6.15 | ||||||
Source(s)
Alberta Heritage Foundation. "Election results for Edmonton-North West". Retrieved 2018-05-18. | ||||||||
| 1967 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Social Credit | Edgar Gerhart | 4,674 | 36.22 | -9.81 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Paul Norris | 4,205 | 32.59 | +12.80 | ||||
| New Democratic | Dave Belland | 2,664 | 20.64 | +5.99 | ||||
| Liberal | Thomas Leia | 1,173 | 9.09 | -10.44 | ||||
| Independent | Oscar A. Green | 188 | 1.46 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 12,904 | 99.68 | -0.19 | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 42 | 0.32 | +0.19 | |||||
| Registered electors / Turnout | 20,533 | 63.05 | +14.79 | |||||
| Social Credit hold | Swing | -11.31 | ||||||
Source(s)
Alberta Heritage Foundation. "Election results for Edmonton-North West". Retrieved 2018-05-18. | ||||||||
Elections in the 2010s
| Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta general election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | % | ||
| New Democratic | 10,315 | 69.13% | ||
| Progressive Conservative | 2,865 | 19.20% | ||
| Wildrose | 1,241 | 8.32% | ||
| Liberal | 501 | 3.36% | ||
| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | David Eggen | 9,622 | 51.61 | -17.52 | ||||
| United Conservative | Ali Eltayeb | 6,591 | 35.36 | +7.84 | ||||
| Alberta Party | Judy Kim-Meneen | 1,868 | 10.02 | |||||
| Liberal | Brandon Texeira | 276 | 1.48 | -1.88 | ||||
| Independence | Tim Shanks | 149 | 0.80 | |||||
| Alberta Advantage | Luke Burns | 136 | 0.73 | |||||
| Total valid votes | ||||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | ||||||||
| Registered electors | ||||||||
| Turnout | ||||||||
References
- Statistics Canada: 2016
- Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (October 2017). Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. p. 47. Retrieved May 29, 2020.