Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche
Alberta electoral district
Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche 2017.svg
Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche within Alberta (2017 boundaries)
Provincial electoral district
LegislatureLegislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA
  
Vacant
District created2017
First contested2019
Demographics
Population (2016)[1]44,166
Area (km²)32,317
Pop. density (per km²)1.4

Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche is a current provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district will be 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 northeastern Alberta and is named for its main communities: it includes all of Lac La Biche County and the southern half of Fort McMurray (Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo). It also contains two reserves belonging to the Fort McMurray First Nation (Clearwater 175 and Gregoire Lake 176), all three reserves of the Chipewyan Prairie First Nation, the Heart Lake First Nation (on Heart Lake 167), the main reserve of the Beaver Lake Cree Nation, Beaver Lake 131, and one of the Saddle Lake Cree Nation's reserves (Whitefish Lake 128). Major transportation routes include Alberta Highways 36 (Veterans Memorial Highway), 55 (Northern Woods and Water Route), 63, and 881.

History[]

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche
Assembly Years Member Party
Riding created from Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills,
Fort McMurray-Conklin,
Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo and
Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater
30th  2019–2021     Laila Goodridge United Conservative

The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended abolishing Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills and extending the border of Fort McMurray-Conklin southward, renaming it in the process. The new district differs from the historical Lac La Biche-McMurray district in that it does not contain the whole of Fort McMurray. Its northern boundary is formed by the Athabasca River, Thickwood Boulevard within Fort McMurray, and the Clearwater River.[2]

The district first elected United Conservative MLA Laila Goodridge who had previously been elected to Fort McMurray-Conklin in the July 12, 2018 by-election following the resignation of Brian Jean on March 5, 2018.[3] Goodridge had previously stood as a Wildrose candidate for Grande Prairie-Wapiti in the 2015 Alberta general election, placing third behind PC Wayne Drysdale and NDP candidate Mary Dahr. The 2019 election would in many ways be a rematch of the 2018 by-election with Goodridge once again defeating Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo councillor and NDP candidate Jane Stroud, this time by 6,231 votes.[4]

Electoral results[]

2019 general election[]

  • v
  • t
2019 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Conservative Laila Goodridge 9,836 66.33 +2.63
New Democratic Jane Stroud 3,635 24.51 -8.79
Alberta Party Jeff Fafard 857 5.78 –
Alberta Independence Mark Grinder 271 1.83 –
Green Brian Deheer 230 1.55 +0.45
Total 14,829 99.36 –
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined 95 0.64 –
Eligible electors / Turnout 25,622 58.25 –
United Conservative notional hold Swing 5.73
Source(s)
Source: "60 - Fort Mcmurray-Lac La Biche, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
Change is based on re-distributed results from the 2015 Alberta general election.

2015 general election[]

Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta election[citation needed]
Party Votes %
Wildrose 4,910 42.59%
New Democratic 3,833 33.25%
Progressive Conservative 2,433 21.10%
Others 353 3.06%

See also[]

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. ISBN 978-1-988620-04-6. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  3. ^ McDermott, Vincent (July 13, 2018). "United Conservatives win Alberta byelections". Edmonton Journal. Retrieved July 13, 2018.
  4. ^ Walsh, Melanie (February 19, 2019). "NDP choose Jane Stroud and Steve Drover as provincial candidates". MyMcMurray. Rogers Digital Media. Retrieved June 30, 2020.

External links[]

Retrieved from ""