Jasper West
Jasper West was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting from 1959 to 1963.[1]
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Defunct provincial electoral district | |
Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
District created | 1959 |
District abolished | 1971 |
First contested | 1959 |
Last contested | 1967 |
Historu
It was created after Edmonton broke up into nine districts after the province standardized to the First Past the Post voting system in 1959.
In 1963 the district was renamed Edmonton Jasper Place.
1959 Redistribution
The historic 1959 redistribution of the provincial ridings of Calgary and Edmonton standardized the voting system back to First Past the Post single member districts. From 1926 to 1959 Calgary and Edmonton members were elected by Single Transferable Vote in multi-member districts. The rest of the province used STV in single-member districts. The redistribution created nine ridings in Edmonton.
The other eight ridings were Edmonton Centre, Edmonton North, Edmonton Norwood, Edmonton North East, Edmonton North West, Strathcona Centre, Strathcona East and Strathcona West.
Election Results 1959
1959 Alberta general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Social Credit | Richard H. Jamieson | 5,047 | 40.91% | – | ||||
Progressive Conservative | John Percy Page | 4,507 | 36.54% | – | ||||
Liberal | Abe William Miller | 2,782 | 22.55% | – | ||||
Total | 12,336 | – | – | |||||
Rejected, spoiled and declined | 80 | – | – | |||||
Eligible electors / turnout | 19,592 | 63.37% | – | |||||
Social Credit pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Jasper-West Official Results 1959 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. |
References
- "Election results for Jasper West". abheritage.ca. Heritage Community Foundation. Archived from the original on 8 December 2010. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
Further reading
- Office of the Chief Electoral Officer; Legislative Assembly Office (2006). A Century of Democracy: Elections of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1905-2005. The Centennial Series. Edmonton, AB: Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ISBN 0-9689217-8-7. Retrieved 25 May 2020.