Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre
Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre is a provincial electoral district in central Alberta, Canada. The district was created in the 2010 boundary redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post voting system. It includes the towns of Bentley, Eckville, Rimbey, Rocky Mountain House, and Sundre.
 Alberta electoral district | |||
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 Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre within Alberta, 2017 boundaries | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
United Conservative | ||
| District created | 2010 | ||
| First contested | 2012 | ||
| Last contested | 2015 | ||
History
The electoral district was created in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution. It was created from the old electoral district of Rocky Mountain House which was expanded to include the town of Rimbey, Alberta which was previously in Lacombe-Ponoka. The riding also gained some land west of Sylvan Lake.[1]
Boundary history
| 77 Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre 2010 Boundaries | |||
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| Bordering Districts | |||
| North | East | West | South |
| Drayton Valley-Devon and West Yellowhead | Innisfail-Sylvan Lake, Lacombe-Ponoka, and Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills | British Columbia boundary | Banff-Cochrane |
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| Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act. | |||
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Electoral history
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Rocky Mountain House 1940-2012 | ||||
| 28th | 2012–2014 | Joe Anglin | Wildrose | |
| 2014–2015 | Independent | |||
| 29th | 2015–2017 | Jason Nixon | Wildrose | |
| 2017–2019 | United Conservative | |||
| 30th | 2019– | |||
The predecessor Rocky Mountain House had returned Progressive Conservative MLAs since 1971. From 1940 to 1970 popular Social Credit MLA Alfred Hooke represented the district. The current incumbent is Jason Nixon who won the seat for the Wildrose Party in the 2015 election.
Elections
2012 general election
| 2012 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Wildrose | Joe Anglin | 7,664 | 51.42 | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Ty Lund | 6,044 | 40.55 | |||||
| New Democratic | Doreen Broska | 776 | 5.21 | |||||
| Liberal | Mason Sisson | 420 | 2.82 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 14,904 | 99.35 | ||||||
| Rejected, spoiled, and declined | 98 | 0.65 | ||||||
| Turnout | 15,002 | 53.84 | ||||||
| Registered electors | 27,863 | |||||||
| Wildrose pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Elections Alberta. "Electoral Division Results: Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre". Retrieved November 22, 2018. | ||||||||
2015 general election
| 2015 Alberta general election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Wildrose | Jason Nixon | 6,670 | 40.11 | -11.31 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Tammy Cote | 5,296 | 31.65 | -8.90 | ||||
| New Democratic | Hannah Schlamp | 2,791 | 16.78 | +11.57 | ||||
| Independent | Joe Anglin | 1,871 | 11.25 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 16,628 | 99.36 | +0.01 | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled, and declined | 107 | 0.64 | -0.01 | |||||
| Turnout | 16,735 | 51.37 | -2.47 | |||||
| Registered electors | 32,578 | |||||||
| Wildrose hold | Swing | -1.21 | ||||||
Source(s)
Elections Alberta. "Electoral Division Results: Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre". Retrieved November 22, 2018. | ||||||||
2019 general election
| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Jason Nixon | 20,579 | 81.64 | |||||
| New Democratic | Jeff Ible | 2,293 | 9.10 | |||||
| Alberta Party | Joe Anglin | 1,350 | 5.36 | |||||
| Freedom Conservative | Dawn Bedard | 303 | 1.20 | |||||
| Green | Jane Drummond | 286 | 1.14 | |||||
| Independence | David Rogers | 185 | 0.73 | |||||
| Alberta Advantage | Paula Lamoureux | 161 | 0.64 | |||||
| Independent | Gordon Francey | 50 | 0.20 | |||||
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Senate nominee results
Student vote results
2012 election
| 2012 Alberta Student Vote results | ||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Progressive Conservative | Diana McQueen | % | ||
| Wildrose | Dean Shular | |||
| Liberal | Mason Sisson | % | ||
| NDP | % | |||
| Total | 100% | |||
References
- "Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta" (PDF). Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission. June 2010. p. 22. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 27, 2011. Retrieved January 14, 2012.