Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche

Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche
Alberta electoral district
Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche within Alberta (2017 boundaries)
Provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA
 
 		 
TBD
District created 2017
First contested 2019
Demographics
Population (2016)[1] 44,166
Area (km²) 32,317
Pop. density (per km²) 1.4

Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche 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 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 Memoral Highway), 55 (Northern Woods and Water Route), 63, and 881.

History

Members for Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche
Assembly Years Member Party
See Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills 2012-2019
and Fort McMurray-Conklin 2012-2019
30th 2019– To be determined

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.

Electoral results

Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta election
Party Votes %
Wildrose4,91042.59%
New Democratic3,83333.25%
Progressive Conservative2,43321.10%
Others3533.06%

References

  1. ↑ Statistics Canada: 2016
Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo
 
 
Lesser Slave Lake    Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche     Saskatchewan
Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock Bonnyville-Cold Lake-St. Paul
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