Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock
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|---|---|---|---|
 Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock within Alberta (2017 boundaries) | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
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| District created | 2017 | ||
| First contested | 2019 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016)[1] | 46,920 | ||
| Area (km²) | 23,699 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 2 | ||
Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock is a future provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district will be one of 87 districts mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting. It will be contested for the first time in the 2019 Alberta election.
Geography
The district is located in northern Alberta, containing the communities of Swan Hills, Barrhead, Westlock, Athabasca, and Smoky Lake. It stretches east into part of St. Paul County. Major transportation routes include Alberta Highways 2, 18, 28, and 33 (Grizzly Trail).
History
| Members for Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock 2004-2019 and Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater 2012-2019 | ||||
| 30th | 2019– | To be determined | ||
The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended consolidating four electoral districts into three in northeastern Alberta, placing most of Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock and Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater, along with a small part of Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills, into the new district. The Commission recommended naming the district Athabasca-Barrhead, but the Assembly decided to retain Westlock in the name.[2]
Electoral results
| Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | % | ||
| Wildrose | 8,676 | 40.67% | ||
| New Democratic | 6,546 | 30.68% | ||
| Progressive Conservative | 6,081 | 28.50% | ||
| Others | 32 | 0.15% | ||
| Alberta general election, 2019 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Glenn van Dijken | |||||||
| Total valid votes | ||||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | ||||||||
| Registered electors / Turnout | ||||||||
References
- ↑ Statistics Canada: 2016
- ↑ "Final Report" (PDF). Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission. 2017-10-01. p. 43.
