Edmonton North East was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting from 1959 to 1971.[1]
 Alberta electoral district | |
|---|---|
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
| District created | 1959 |
| District abolished | 1971 |
| First contested | 1959 |
| Last contested | 1967 |
History
editThe Edmonton North East electoral district was in the 1959 redistribution which broke up the mega-ridings of Edmonton and Calgary, creating a number of single-member districts in their place. The district was redistributed into Edmonton-Beverly and Edmonton-Belmont electoral districts in 1971.
Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs)
edit| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Edmonton North East | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Edmonton electoral district from 1921-1959 | ||||
| 14th | 1959–1963 | Lou Heard | Social Credit | |
| 15th | 1963–1967 | |||
| 16th | 1967–1971 | |||
| See Edmonton-Beverly electoral district from 1971-1993 and Edmonton-Belmont electoral district from 1971-1993 |
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Election results
edit1959
edit| 1959 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Social Credit | Lou Heard | 4,960 | 49.82% | – | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Allan Welsh | 2,389 | 24.00% | – | ||||
| Liberal | Louis Marchand | 1,325 | 13.31% | – | ||||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Alex Goruk | 1,063 | 10.68% | – | ||||
| Labor–Progressive | W. Harasym | 218 | 2.19% | – | ||||
| Total | 9,955 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 62 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 17,868 | 56.06% | – | |||||
| Social Credit pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Edmonton North East Official Results 1959 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
1963
edit| 1963 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Social Credit | Lou Heard | 4,023 | 42.72% | -7.10% | ||||
| New Democratic | Neil Reimer | 2,589 | 27.49% | 16.81% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Allan Welsh | 1,510 | 16.03% | -7.96% | ||||
| Liberal | Ken McAuley | 1,295 | 13.75% | 0.44% | ||||
| Total | 9,417 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 13 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 19,640 | 48.01% | – | |||||
| Social Credit hold | Swing | -5.30% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Edmonton-North East Official Results 1963 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
1967
edit| 1967 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Social Credit | Lou Heard | 5,052 | 35.18% | -7.54% | ||||
| New Democratic | Ivor G. Dent | 4,276 | 29.77% | 2.28% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Alan T. Cooke | 3,616 | 25.18% | 9.14% | ||||
| Liberal | Peter Achtem | 1,418 | 9.87% | -3.88% | ||||
| Total | 14,362 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 66 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 26,563 | 54.32% | – | |||||
| Social Credit hold | Swing | -4.91% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Edmonton-North East Official Results 1967 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Election results for Edmonton North-East". abheritage.ca. Heritage Community Foundation. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
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Further reading
edit- Office of the Chief Electoral Officer; Legislative Assembly Office (2006). A Century of Democracy: Elections of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1905-2005. The Centennial Series. Edmonton, AB: Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ISBN 0-9689217-8-7. Retrieved May 25, 2020.
External links
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