Morinville-St. Albert
Morinville-St. Albert is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of the 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Morinville-St. Albert within the Edmonton Metropolitan Region (2017 boundaries) | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
United Conservative | ||
| District created | 2017 | ||
| First contested | 2019 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016)[1] | 50,225 | ||
| Area (km²) | 1,376 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 36.5 | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Bon Accord, Gibbons, Legal, Morinville, St. Albert, Redwater | ||
Geography
The district lies to the north of Edmonton, covering the part of Sturgeon County east of Highway 2 and the part of the City of St. Albert northeast of Boudreau Road. It contains the communities of Morinville, Legal, Bon Accord, Gibbons, and Redwater. It also includes CFB Edmonton. The other major highway in the district is Highway 28.
History
| Members for Morinville-St. Albert | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater 2012-2019 and Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock 2004-2019 | ||||
| 30th | 2019– | To be determined | ||
The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended abolishing Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock and Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater, creating a new riding from the southern portions of the two and a small part of St. Albert. The Commission reasoned that St. Albert and Morinville were a natural fit, owing to their shared franco-Albertan heritage.[2]
Electoral results
| Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | % | ||
| New Democratic | 10,748 | 48.43% | ||
| Progressive Conservative | 6,511 | 29.34% | ||
| Wildrose | 4,480 | 20.18% | ||
| Others | 457 | 2.06% | ||
| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The 2019 general election will be held on April 16. | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Dale Nally | 13,435 | 50.0% | |||||
| New Democratic | Natalie Birnie | 8,908 | 33.2% | |||||
| Alberta Party | Neil Korotash | 3,963 | 14.8% | |||||
| Independence | Mike van Velzen | 204 | 0.8% | |||||
| Green | Cass Romyn | 198 | 0.7% | |||||
| Alberta Advantage | Tamara Krywiak | 157 | 0.6% | |||||
| Total valid votes | ||||||||
| Rejected, spoiled, and declined | ||||||||
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References
- Statistics Canada: 2016
- Henderson, Jennifer (2017-10-24). "St. Albert ridings redrawn to include Morinville - St. Albert Gazette". St. Albert Gazette. Retrieved 2018-08-09.