Strathcona-Sherwood Park
 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 | ||
| Last contested | 2023 | ||
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.
History
[edit]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
[edit]| 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 | |||
Electoral history
[edit]| Strathcona-Sherwood Park | ||||
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| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| Riding created from Strathcona | ||||
| 28th | 2012–2015 | Dave Quest | Progressive Conservative | |
| 29th | 2015–2019 | Estefania Cortes-Vargas | New Democratic | |
| 30th | 2019–2023 | Nate Glubish | United Conservative | |
| 31st | 2023–Present | |||
The electoral district was created in 2010. The current incumbent is Nate Glubish who was first elected as MLA in 2019.
Legislative election results
[edit]2012
[edit]| 2012 Alberta general election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Dave Quest | 9,695 | 50.71% | – | ||||
| Wildrose Alliance | Paul Nemetchek | 6,432 | 33.64% | – | ||||
| New Democratic | Michael Scott | 1,626 | 8.51% | – | ||||
| Liberal | John C. Murray | 1,365 | 7.14% | – | ||||
| Total | 19,118 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 83 | 48 | 9 | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 32,159 | 59.73% | – | |||||
| Progressive Conservative pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Source: "82 - Strathcona-Sherwood Park, 2012 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Chief Electoral Officer (2012). The Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the 2011 Provincial Enumeration and Monday, April 23, 2012 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-eighth Legislative Assembly (PDF) (Report). Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 6, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2021. | ||||||||
2015
[edit]| 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% | -20.62% | ||||
| Wildrose | Rob Johnson | 5,286 | 24.02% | -9.62% | ||||
| Alberta Party | Lynne Kaiser | 721 | 3.28% | – | ||||
| Total | 22,006 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 50 | 38 | 22 | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 34,346 | 64.28% | 4.55% | |||||
| New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative | Swing | 27.36% | ||||||
| Source: "82 - Strathcona-Sherwood Park, 2015 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Chief Electoral Officer (2016). 2015 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer (PDF) (Report). Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. | ||||||||
| 2015 Alberta general election redistributed results | ||||||
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| Party | Votes | % | ||||
| New Democratic | 9,247 | 42.82 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | 6,418 | 29.72 | ||||
| Wildrose | 5,211 | 24.13 | ||||
| Alberta Party | 718 | 3.32 | ||||
Source(s)
Source: Ridingbuilder | ||||||
2019
[edit]| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Nate Glubish | 14,151 | 52.51 | -1.34 | ||||
| New Democratic | Moira Váne | 8,695 | 32.27 | -10.56 | ||||
| Alberta Party | Dave Quest | 3,605 | 13.38 | 10.05 | ||||
| Alberta Advantage | Don Melanson | 147 | 0.55 | – | ||||
| Green | Albert Aris | 142 | 0.53 | – | ||||
| Alberta Independence | Richard Scinta | 141 | 0.52 | – | ||||
| Independent | Larry Maclise | 67 | 0.25 | – | ||||
| Total | 26,948 | 99.36 | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 173 | 0.64 | ||||||
| Turnout | 27,121 | 76.59 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 35,411 | |||||||
| United Conservative notional hold | Swing | 4.61 | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "84 - Strathcona-Sherwood Park, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2019). 2019 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Volume II (PDF) (Report). Vol. 2. Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 408–412. ISBN 978-1-988620-12-1. Retrieved April 7, 2021. | ||||||||
2023
[edit]| 2023 Alberta general election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Nate Glubish | 13,865 | 53.07 | 0.56 | ||||
| New Democratic | Bill Tonita | 11,646 | 44.58 | 12.31 | ||||
| Independent | Jody Balanko | 614 | 2.35 | – | ||||
| Total | 26,125 | 99.40 | – | |||||
| Rejected and declined | 159 | 0.60 | ||||||
| Turnout | 26,284 | 69.97 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 37,565 | |||||||
| United Conservative hold | Swing | -5.88 | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: Elections Alberta[2] | ||||||||
References
[edit]- ^ "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.
- ^ "84 - Strathcona-Sherwood Park". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved June 10, 2023.