Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin
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|---|---|---|---|
 Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin 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] | 43,798 | ||
| Area (km²) | 4,220 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 10.4 | ||
Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin 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 south of Edmonton, named for the City of Wetaskiwin and the Hamlet of Maskwacis (which serves as a central community for the "four nations": the Cree Ermineskin, Samson, Montana and Louis Bull bands). It also includes the Pigeon Lake Reserve, which is shared by the four nations. Other towns and villages include Millet, Bittern Lake, Hay Lakes, and the summer villages that line the shores of Pigeon Lake.
History
| Members for Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Wetaskiwin-Camrose 1993–2019 | ||||
| 30th | 2019– | To be determined | ||
The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended joining most of Wetaskiwin-Camrose with parts of Battle River-Wainwright, Leduc-Beaumont, and Drayton Valley-Devon. The Commission decided to unite the five reserves around Maskwacis into a single riding to eliminate the province's last non-contiguous riding.[2]
Electoral results
| Redistributed results, Alberta general election, 2015 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | % | ||
| New Democratic | 6,795 | 41.51% | ||
| Progressive Conservative | 4,760 | 29.08% | ||
| Wildrose | 4,544 | 27.76% | ||
| Others | 272 | 1.66% | ||
| Alberta general election, 2019 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Richard Wilson | |||||||
| Total valid votes | ||||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | ||||||||
| Registered electors | ||||||||
| Turnout | ||||||||
References
- ↑ Statistics Canada: 2016
- ↑ Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (Oct 2017). "Final Report" (PDF). p. 29. Retrieved 2018-02-01.