Spruce Grove-Stony Plain is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is 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 was contested for the first time in the 2019 Alberta election.
 Alberta electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Spruce Grove-Stony Plain within the Edmonton Metropolitan Region (2017 boundaries). | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
United Conservative | ||
| District created | 2017 | ||
| First contested | 2019 | ||
| Last contested | 2023 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016)[1] | 51,267 | ||
| Area (km²) | 68.5 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 748.4 | ||
| Census division(s) | 11 | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Spruce Grove, Stony Plain | ||
Geography
editThe district is located west of Edmonton, containing the City of Spruce Grove and the Town of Stony Plain. The district boundaries match the municipal boundaries of the two communities. It is bisected by Highway 16A and bordered by the Yellowhead Highway to the North.
History
edit| Members for Spruce Grove-Stony Plain | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Spruce Grove-St. Albert 2012-2019 and Stony Plain 1905-2019 | ||||
| 30th | 2019–2023 | Searle Turton | United Conservative | |
| 31st | 2023– | |||
The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended abolishing Spruce Grove-St. Albert and Stony Plain, creating a district that is well above the provincial average in population. The Commission reasoned this was preferable to placing part of either community in a neighbouring district.[2]
Electoral results
edit2023
edit| 2023 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Searle Turton | 14,365 | 56.99 | -2.36 | ||||
| New Democratic | Chantal Saramaga-McKenzie | 10,197 | 40.45 | +11.10 | ||||
| Green | Daniel Birrell | 422 | 1.67 | – | ||||
| Solidarity Movement | Darlene Clarke | 223 | 0.88 | – | ||||
| Total | 25,207 | 99.57 | – | |||||
| Rejected and declined | 108 | 0.43 | ||||||
| Turnout | 25,315 | 61.52 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 41,150 | |||||||
| United Conservative hold | Swing | -6.73 | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: Elections Alberta[3] | ||||||||
2019
edit| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Searle Turton | 15,843 | 59.35% | 11.15% | ||||
| New Democratic | Erin Babcock | 7,836 | 29.36% | 12.38% | ||||
| Alberta Party | Ivan G. Boles | 2,597 | 9.73% | 4.58% | ||||
| Alberta Independence | Jody Crocker | 417 | 1.56% | – | ||||
| Total | 26,693 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 47 | 77 | 16 | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 37,296 | 71.74% | – | |||||
| United Conservative pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Source: "82 - Spruce Grove-Stony Plain, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2019). 2019 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Volume II (PDF) (Report). Vol. 2. Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 399–403. ISBN 978-1-988620-12-1. Retrieved April 7, 2021. | ||||||||
2015
edit| Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | % | ||
| New Democratic | 7,738 | 41.74 | ||
| Progressive Conservative | 4,699 | 25.35 | ||
| Wildrose | 4,236 | 22.85 | ||
| Alberta Party | 955 | 5.15 | ||
| Liberal | 683 | 3.68 | ||
| Green | 228 | 1.23 | ||
References
edit- ^ Statistics Canada: 2016
- ^ "Final Report" (PDF). Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission. October 1, 2017. p. 57.
- ^ "82 - Spruce Grove-Stony Plain". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved June 10, 2023.