Edmonton-Meadows
Provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada
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Edmonton-Meadows is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district was 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Edmonton-Meadows within the City of Edmonton (2017 boundaries) | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
New Democratic | ||
| District created | 2017 | ||
| First contested | 2019 | ||
| Last contested | 2023 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016)[1] | 51,776 | ||
| Area (km²) | 18.6 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 2,783.7 | ||
Geography
The district is located in southeast Edmonton, containing the neighbourhoods of Jackson Heights, Kiniski Gardens, Minchau, Larkspur, Wild Rose, Silver Berry, Bisset, Daly Grove, Maple, and Tamarack.
History
| Members for Edmonton-Meadows | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Edmonton-Mill Creek 1997-2019 | ||||
| 30th | 2019–2023 | Jasvir Deol | New Democrat | |
| 31st | 2023– | |||
The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended renaming Edmonton-Mill Creek, reflecting a change in boundaries that "leaves the part of Mill Creek most well-known to Edmontonians in the constituency of Edmonton-Gold Bar,"[2] as the northern boundary of the district moved southward to Highway 14. The western and southern boundaries saw adjustments as well.
Electoral results
| Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta general election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | % | ||
| New Democratic | 9,656 | 57.33% | ||
| Progressive Conservative | 3,840 | 22.80% | ||
| Liberal | 1,840 | 10.92% | ||
| Wildrose | 1,500 | 8.91% | ||
| Others | 8 | 0.05% | ||
| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Jasvir Deol | 10,231 | 49.92% | -7.41% | ||||
| United Conservative | Len Rhodes | 7,375 | 35.98% | 4.47% | ||||
| Alberta Party | Amrit Matharu | 2,093 | 10.21% | – | ||||
| Liberal | Maria Omar | 407 | 1.99% | -8.93% | ||||
| Alberta Advantage | Thomas Varghese | 211 | 1.03% | – | ||||
| Alberta Independence | Phil Batt | 178 | 0.87% | – | ||||
| Total | 20,495 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 82 | 45 | 11 | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 31,523 | 65.31% | – | |||||
| New Democratic hold | Swing | |||||||
Source(s)
Source: "37 - Edmonton-Meadows, 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. 144–147. ISBN 978-1-988620-12-1. Retrieved April 7, 2021. | ||||||||
| 2023 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Jasvir Deol | 11,013 | 62.56 | +12.64 | ||||
| United Conservative | Amritpal Singh Matharu | 6,378 | 36.23 | +0.25 | ||||
| Communist | Corinne Benson | 213 | 1.21 | – | ||||
| Total | 17,604 | 99.35 | – | |||||
| Rejected and declined | 116 | 0.65 | ||||||
| Turnout | 17,720 | 55.20 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 32,103 | |||||||
| New Democratic hold | Swing | +6.20 | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: Elections Alberta[3] | ||||||||