Edmonton-West Henday
Edmonton-West Henday 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Edmonton-West Henday within the city of Edmonton (2017 boundaries) | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
New Democratic | ||
| District created | 2017 | ||
| First contested | 2019 | ||
| Last contested | 2019 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016)[1] | 43,046 | ||
| Area (km²) | 76.5 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 562.7 | ||
Geography
The district is located in western Edmonton, consisting of two residential areas separated by a large, mostly un-populated industrial area. In the northeast corner of the riding are the neighbourhoods of Wellington, Athlone and Calder, and in the south of the riding are the neighbourhoods of Terra Losa, La Perle, Belmead, Stewart Greens, Webber Greens, Suder Greens, Potter Greens, Breckenridge Greens, Rosenthal and Secord.
History
| Members for Edmonton-West Henday | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Edmonton-Meadowlark 1971–2019 and Edmonton-Calder 1997–2019 | ||||
| 30th | 2019– | Jon Carson | New Democrat | |
The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended renaming Edmonton-Meadowlark, alongside a change in boundaries that saw the Meadowlark Park neighbourhood (among others) moved out of the riding. The Commission decided to name the district after Anthony Henday Drive which bisects the riding, rather than simply "Edmonton-West" to avoid confusion with the federal district of that name.[2]
Electoral results
| Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | % | ||
| New Democratic | 8,956 | 60.20% | ||
| Progressive Conservative | 3,281 | 22.10% | ||
| Wildrose | 1,619 | 10.90% | ||
| Liberal | 1,011 | 6.80% | ||
| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Jonathan Carson | 8,820 | 44.1% | -16.1% | ||||
| United Conservative | Nicole Williams | 8,302 | 41.5% | +8.5% | ||||
| Alberta Party | Winston Leung | 2,337 | 11.7% | -- | ||||
| Liberal | Leah McRorie | 311 | 1.6% | -5.2% | ||||
| Independence | Dave Bjorkman | 239 | 1.2% | -- | ||||
| Total valid votes | 20,009 | |||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 90 | 48 | 8 | |||||
| Registered electors and turnout | 32,469 | 61.9% | ||||||
| New Democratic hold | Swing | |||||||
| Source: Elections Alberta[3] | ||||||||
References
- Statistics Canada: 2016
- Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (Oct 2017). "Final Report" (PDF). p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-01-24. Retrieved 2018-01-30.
- "2019 Provincial General Election Results". Elections Alberta. Retrieved 2019-05-07.