Brooks-Medicine Hat

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Brooks-Medicine Hat
Alberta electoral district
Brooks-Medicine Hat 2017.svg
Brooks-Medicine Hat within Alberta (2017 boundaries).
Provincial electoral district
LegislatureLegislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA
 
 		 
Michaela Glasgo
United Conservative
District created2017
First contested2019
Last contested2019
Demographics
Population (2016)[1]51,070
Area (km²)13,742
Pop. density (per km²)3.7
Census division(s)1, 2
Census subdivision(s)Bassano, Brooks, Cypress, Duchess, Medicine Hat, Newell, Redcliff, Rosemary

Brooks-Medicine Hat is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 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.

Geography[]

The district is located in southeastern Alberta, containing the entirety of Newell County and the northern portions of Cypress County and Medicine Hat. It is named for its two largest communities, Medicine Hat and Brooks, and also contains CFB Suffield. Within the city of Medicine Hat, its border with Cypress-Medicine Hat runs southeast along Highway 1, then northeast along Highway 41A until the railroad tracks, then east along the South Saskatchewan River.

History[]

Members for Brooks-Medicine Hat
Assembly Years Member Party
See Medicine Hat 1979–2019, Cypress-Medicine Hat
and Strathmore-Brooks 1997–2019
30th 2019– Michaela Glasgo UCP

The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission endeavoured to reduce the number of ridings in southern Alberta, owing to slow population growth in the region.[2] The district was created from the eastern half of Strathmore-Brooks, the northern third of Cypress-Medicine Hat, and some of the northern neighbourhoods previously part of Medicine Hat.

Electoral results[]

2010s[]

Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta election
Wildrose 7,781 47.36
Progressive Conservative 4,016 24.45
New Democratic 3,846 23.41
Others 786 4.78
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2019 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Conservative Michaela Glasgo 13,606 60.66% -11.15%
New Democratic Lynn MacWilliam 4,012 17.89% -5.52%
Independent Todd Beasley 2,759 12.30% –
Alberta Party Jim Black 1,554 6.93% –
Liberal Jamah Bashir Farah 281 1.25% –
Alberta Independence Collin Pacholek 218 0.97% –
Total 22,430 – –
Rejected, spoiled and declined 28 65 12
Eligible electors / Turnout 34,257 65.59% –
United Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s)
Source: "52 - Brooks-Medicine Hat, 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. 218–224. ISBN 978-1-988620-12-1. Retrieved April 7, 2021.

References[]

  1. ^ Statistics Canada: 2016
  2. ^ "Final Report" (PDF). Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission. October 1, 2017. p. 34. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 24, 2018.
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