Strathcona-Sherwood Park
Strathcona-Sherwood Park is a provincial electoral district in 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.
 Alberta electoral district | |||
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 Strathcona-Sherwood Park within the Edmonton Metropolitan Region, 2017 boundaries. | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
United Conservative | ||
| District created | 2010 | ||
| First contested | 2012 | ||
History
The electoral district was created in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution. It was created from the old Strathcona electoral district which had a portion of land split off north of Alberta Highway 16 to Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville.[1]
Boundary history
| 82 Strathcona-Sherwood Park 2010 Boundaries | |||
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| Bordering Districts | |||
| North | East | West | South |
| Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville | Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville | Edmonton-Ellerslie, Edmonton-Mill Creek and Sherwood Park | Battle River-Wainwright and Leduc-Beaumont |
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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 Strathcona-Sherwood Park | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Strathcona 2004-2012 | ||||
| 28th | 2012-2015 | Dave Quest | PC | |
| 29th | 2015-2019 | Estefania Cortes-Vargas | NDP | |
| 29th | 2019–present | Nate Glubish | UCP | |
The electoral district was created in 2010. The current incumbent is Nate Glubish who was first elected as MLA in 2019.
Legislature results
2012 general election
| 2012 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Dave Quest | 9,695 | 50.71 | |||||
| Wildrose | Paul Nemetchek | 6,432 | 33.64 | |||||
| New Democratic | Michael Scott | 1,626 | 8.51 | |||||
| Liberal | John C. Murray | 1,365 | 7.14 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 19,118 | |||||||
| Rejected, spoiled, and declined | 140 | |||||||
| Reigstered electors / Turnout | 32,159 | 59.88 | ||||||
| Progressive Conservative pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Elections Alberta. "Electoral Division Results: Strathcona-Sherwood Park". Retrieved July 10, 2018. | ||||||||
2015 general election
| 2015 Alberta general election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Estefania Cortes-Vargas | 9,376 | 42.61 | +34.10 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Dave Quest | 6,623 | 30.10 | -20.61 | ||||
| Wildrose | Rob Johnson | 5,286 | 24.02 | -9.62 | ||||
| Alberta Party | Lynne Kaiser | 721 | 3.28 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 22,006 | |||||||
| Rejected, spoiled, and declined | 110 | |||||||
| Registered electors / Turnout | 34,346 | 64.39 | +4.51 | |||||
| New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative | Swing | +27.36 | ||||||
Source(s)
Elections Alberta. "Electoral Division Results: Strathcona-Sherwood Park". Retrieved July 10, 2018. | ||||||||
2019 general election
| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Nate Glubish | 14,151 | 52.51 | -1.61 | ||||
| New Democratic | Moira Váně | 8,695 | 32.27 | -10.34 | ||||
| Alberta Party | Dave Quest | 3,605 | 13.38 | +10.10 | ||||
| Alberta Advantage | Donald Melanson | 147 | 0.55 | New | ||||
| Green | Albert Aris | 142 | 0.53 | New | ||||
| Independence | Richard Scinta | 141 | 0.52 | New | ||||
| Independent | Larry Maclise | 67 | 0.25 | New | ||||
| Total valid votes | 26,948 | |||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | ||||||||
| Registered electors | ||||||||
| Turnout | 73.4 | |||||||
Student vote results
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.
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