Red Deer (territorial electoral district)
Red Deer was a territorial electoral district that was mandated to return a single member to the North-West Legislative Assembly from 1888 until 1902.
 Northwest Territories electoral district | |
|---|---|
| Defunct territorial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories |
| District created | 1888 |
| District abolished | 1902 |
| First contested | 1888 |
| Last contested | 1898 |
Geography
editThe electoral district was named for Red Deer, a community which was incorporated as a village in 1894 and Town in 1901.[1]
Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs)
edit| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 1888–1891 | Robert Brett | Independent | |
| 2nd | 1891–1894 | Francis Wilkins | ||
| 3rd | 1894–1898 | John A. Simpson | ||
| 4th | 1898–1902 | |||
Red Deer's first representative was physician Robert Brett. There were no official parties in these early assemblies, but Brett aligned himself with the Northwest Territories Liberal Party when the Dominion party lines were introduced in 1898.[2]
In the 1891 election, Brett contested the Banff electoral district and Francis Wilkins was acclaimed as the member for Red Deer. In the 1894 election, Wilkins came in third to the elected John A. Simpson and behind Leonard Gaetz. Simpson held the seat in the 1898 election, defeating George Wellington Greene and J. Speakman.
Election results
edit| 1888 North-West Territories general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Independent | Robert George Brett | 325 | 60.98 | |||||
| Independent | Alfred Brealey | 208 | 39.02 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 538 | 100.00 | ||||||
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| 1891 North-West Territories general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| Francis Edward Wilkins | Acclaimed | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 0 | |||||||
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| 1894 North-West Territories general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| John A. Simpson | 282 | 37.55 | ||||||
| Leonard Gaetz | 257 | 34.22 | ||||||
| Francis Edward Wilkins | 212 | 28.23 | ||||||
| Total valid votes | 751 | 100.00 | ||||||
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| 1898 North-West Territories general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| John A. Simpson | 349 | 46.10 | ||||||
| George Wellington Greene | 253 | 33.42 | ||||||
| J. Speakman | 155 | 20.48 | ||||||
| Total valid votes | 757 | 100.00 | ||||||
Source(s) | ||||||||
References
edit- ^ "Red Deer. City Commissioners - Alberta On Record". albertaonrecord.ca. Retrieved 2024-06-30.
- ^ a b c d Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan (2009). "North-West Territories: Council and Legislative Assembly, 1876–1905" (PDF). Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan.
- ^ Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan (2009). "North-West Territories: Council and Legislative Assembly, 1876–1905" (PDF). Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan.