Edmonton-West Henday
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|---|---|---|---|
 Edmonton-West Henday within the city of Edmonton (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] | 43,046 | ||
| Area (km²) | 76.5 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 562.7 | ||
Edmonton-West Henday 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 western Edmonton, consisting of two residential areas separated by a large, mostly un-populated industrial area. In the northeast corner of the riding are the neighbourhoods of Wellington, Athlone and Calder, and in the south of the riding are the neighbourhoods of Terra Losa, La Perle, Belmead, Stewart Greens, Webber Greens, Suder Greens, Potter Greens, Breckenridge Greens, Rosenthal and Secord.
History
| Members for Edmonton-West Henday | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Edmonton-Meadowlark 1971–2019 and Edmonton-Calder 1997–2019 | ||||
| 30th | 2019– | To be determined | ||
The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended renaming Edmonton-Meadowlark, alongside a change in boundaries that saw the Meadowlark Park neighbourhood (among others) moved out of the riding. The Commission decided to name the district after Anthony Henday Drive which bisects the riding, rather than simply "Edmonton-West" to avoid confusion with the federal district of that name.[2]
Electoral results
| Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | % | ||
| New Democratic | 8,956 | 60.20% | ||
| Progressive Conservative | 3,281 | 22.10% | ||
| Wildrose | 1,619 | 10.90% | ||
| Liberal | 1,011 | 6.80% | ||
References
- ↑ Statistics Canada: 2016
- ↑ Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (Oct 2017). "Final Report" (PDF). p. 5. Retrieved 2018-01-30.