Edmonton-North West

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Edmonton-North West
Alberta electoral district
Edmonton-North West 2017.svg
Edmonton-North West within the City of Edmonton (2017 boundaries)
Provincial electoral district
LegislatureLegislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA
 
 		 
David Eggen
New Democratic
District created1957
District abolished1971
District re-created2019
First contested1959, 2019
Last contested1967, 2019
Demographics
Population (2016)[1]45,523
Area (km²)29.9
Pop. density (per km²)1,522.5

Edmonton-North West is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada that has existed twice, first as Edmonton North West between 1959 and 1971, and for a second time since 2019. 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 will be contested next in the 2023 Alberta election.

Geography[]

The district is located in northwest Edmonton, containing the neighbourhoods of Lauderdale, Rosslyn, Kensington, Griesbach, Carlisle, Caernarvon, Baranow, Hudson, Cumberland, Oxford, Carlton, and The Palisades, as well as the area west of 142 St NW and north of 137 Ave NW to the border with St. Albert.

History[]

Boundary History[]

The district was created as Edmonton North West in the 1959 redistribution which broke up the mega-ridings of Edmonton and Calgary, creating a number of single-member districts in their place. It was replaced with Edmonton-Calder in 1971, but re-created from the same riding in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended moving the Calder neighbourhood (among others) out of the riding.[2] The district also gained three neighbourhoods from Edmonton-Castle Downs.

Representation history[]

Members for Edmonton-North West
Assembly Years Member Party
See Edmonton 1921–1959
14th 1959–1963 Edgar Gerhart Social Credit
15th 1963–1967
16th 1967–1971
See Edmonton-Calder 1971–1993 and 1997–2019
30th 2019– David Eggen New Democrat

The district was represented from 1959 to 1971 by Edgar Gerhart of the Alberta Social Credit Party, who had already served as one of several MLAs for Edmonton before it was split. He served as Minister of Municipal Affairs under premier Ernest Manning for his final term, and briefly as Attorney General as well under Harry Strom. Gerhart was defeated in Edmonton-Calder in the 1971 election.

Electoral results[]

Elections in the 1950s[]

1959 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes %
Social Credit Edgar Gerhart 4,823 42.72
Progressive Conservative Ned Feehan 3,249 28.78
Liberal Harper McCrae 2,071 18.35
Co-operative Commonwealth James Forest 1,146 10.15
Total valid votes 11,289 99.79
Rejected, spoiled and declined 24 0.21
Registered electors / Turnout 19,258 58.74
Social Credit pickup new district.
Source(s)
Alberta Heritage Foundation. "Election results for Edmonton-North West". Retrieved May 18, 2018.

Elections in the 1960s[]

1963 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Social Credit Edgar Gerhart 4,369 46.03 +3.31
Progressive Conservative Ned Feehan 1,878 19.79 -8.99
Liberal Edmund H. Leger 1,854 19.53 +1.18
New Democratic Grant Notley 1,391 14.65 +4.50
Total valid votes 9,492 99.87 +0.08
Rejected, spoiled and declined 12 0.13 -0.08
Registered electors / Turnout 19,695 48.26 -10.48
Social Credit hold Swing +6.15
Source(s)
Alberta Heritage Foundation. "Election results for Edmonton-North West". Retrieved May 18, 2018.
1967 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Social Credit Edgar Gerhart 4,674 36.22 -9.81
Progressive Conservative Paul Norris 4,205 32.59 +12.80
New Democratic Dave Belland 2,664 20.64 +5.99
Liberal Thomas Leia 1,173 9.09 -10.44
Independent Oscar A. Green 188 1.46 –
Total valid votes 12,904 99.68 -0.19
Rejected, spoiled and declined 42 0.32 +0.19
Registered electors / Turnout 20,533 63.05 +14.79
Social Credit hold Swing -11.31
Source(s)
Alberta Heritage Foundation. "Election results for Edmonton-North West". Retrieved May 18, 2018.

Elections in the 2010s[]

Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta general election
Party Votes %
New Democratic 10,315 69.13%
Progressive Conservative 2,865 19.20%
Wildrose 1,241 8.32%
Liberal 501 3.36%
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2019 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
New Democratic David Eggen 9,669 51.74% -17.39%
United Conservative Ali Eltayeb 6,587 35.25% 7.73%
Alberta Party Judy Kim-Meneen 1,871 10.01% –
Liberal Brandon Teixeira 276 1.48% -1.88%
Alberta Independence Tim Shanks 149 0.80% –
Alberta Advantage Luke Burns 136 0.73% –
Total 18,688 – –
Rejected, spoiled and declined 80 74 23
Eligible electors / Turnout 30,639 61.33% N/A
Source(s)
Source: "39 - Edmonton-North West, 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. 152–155. ISBN 978-1-988620-12-1. Retrieved April 7, 2021.

References[]

  1. ^ Statistics Canada: 2016
  2. ^ Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (October 2017). Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. p. 47. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
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