Brooks-Medicine Hat

Brooks-Medicine Hat

Alberta electoral district
Brooks-Medicine Hat within Alberta (2017 boundaries).
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA	TBD
District created	2017
First contested	2019
Demographics
Population (2016)[1]	51,070
Area (km²)	13,742
Pop. density (per km²)	3.7
Census divisions	1, 2
Census subdivisions	Bassano, Brooks, Cypress, Duchess, Medicine Hat, Newell, Redcliff, Rosemary

Brooks-Medicine Hat is a future 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 will be 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

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

References

	Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills	Drumheller-Stettler
	Cardston-Siksika	Brooks-Medicine Hat	Saskatchewan
	Taber-Warner	Cypress-Medicine Hat