Central Peace-Notley

Central Peace-Notley

Alberta electoral district
Central Peace-Notley within Alberta (2017 boundaries)
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA	TBD
District created	2017
First contested	2019
Demographics
Population (2016)[1]	28,993
Area (km²)	47,311
Pop. density (per km²)	0.61

Central Peace-Notley 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 northwestern Alberta, covering the central Peace Region and stretching southeast towards the Swan Hills. It contains one of the Treaty 6 reserves of the Alexander First Nation (Alexander 134A) and the Treaty 8 reserves of the Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation, Duncan's First Nation (Duncans 151A) and Horse Lake First Nation (Clear Hills 152C). Towns include Spirit River, Fairview, Valleyview and Fox Creek, as well as the franco-Albertan community of Falher. Major transportation routes include Alberta Highways 2, 43, and 49.

History

The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended renaming Dunvegan-Central Peace-Notley and expanding its borders to include the portion of Grande Prairie-Smoky east of the County of Grande Prairie. The district also lost the area around Grimshaw to the district of Peace River.

The district is one of two electoral districts in Alberta allowed to have a population less than 25% below the provincial average, as it satisfies all five conditions laid out in the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act.^[2]

Electoral results

References

		Peace River
	British Columbia	Central Peace-Notley	Lesser Slave Lake
	Grande Prairie-Wapiti	West Yellowhead	Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock