Edmonton Mill Woods (federal electoral district)
Former federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada
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Edmonton Mill Woods is a former federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 2015 to 2025.
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 Alberta electoral district | |
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Boundaries of Edmonton Mill Woods | |
| Defunct federal electoral district | |
| Legislature | House of Commons |
| District created | 2013 |
| District abolished | 2023 |
| First contested | 2015 |
| Last contested | 2021 |
| District webpage | profile, map |
| Demographics | |
| Population (2011)[1] | 106,103 |
| Electors (2019) | 77,610 |
| Area (km²)[2] | 50 |
| Census division | Division No. 11 |
| Census subdivision | Edmonton |
Edmonton Mill Woods was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally defined in the 2013 representation order. It came into effect upon the call of the 42nd Canadian federal election, scheduled for October 2015.[3] It was created out of the electoral district of Edmonton—Mill Woods—Beaumont.[4]
With the redistribution of 2022, the riding was abolished in the 2025 election, replaced by Edmonton Gateway and Edmonton Southeast.
Demographics
| Panethnic group |
2021[5] | 2016[6] | 2011[7] | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pop. | % | Pop. | % | Pop. | % | |||||||||
| European[a] | 49,570 | 39.68% | 54,960 | 46.76% | 55,455 | 52.82% | ||||||||
| South Asian | 40,855 | 32.7% | 32,175 | 27.38% | 24,235 | 23.08% | ||||||||
| Southeast Asian[b] | 12,265 | 9.82% | 10,055 | 8.56% | 8,505 | 8.1% | ||||||||
| African | 6,900 | 5.52% | 6,010 | 5.11% | 4,025 | 3.83% | ||||||||
| Indigenous | 6,010 | 4.81% | 4,995 | 4.25% | 5,010 | 4.77% | ||||||||
| Latin American | 3,090 | 2.47% | 2,800 | 2.38% | 2,130 | 2.03% | ||||||||
| East Asian[c] | 2,665 | 2.13% | 3,215 | 2.74% | 3,365 | 3.21% | ||||||||
| Middle Eastern[d] | 1,445 | 1.16% | 1,495 | 1.27% | 1,270 | 1.21% | ||||||||
| Other/Multiracial[e] | 2,135 | 1.71% | 1,820 | 1.55% | 995 | 0.95% | ||||||||
| Total responses | 124,935 | 99.16% | 117,530 | 99.13% | 104,990 | 98.95% | ||||||||
| Total population | 125,992 | 100% | 118,561 | 100% | 106,103 | 100% | ||||||||
| Notes: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses. Demographics based on 2012 Canadian federal electoral redistribution riding boundaries. | ||||||||||||||
Members of Parliament
This riding has elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:
| Parliament | Years | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edmonton Mill Woods Riding created from Edmonton—Mill Woods—Beaumont |
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| 42nd | 2015–2019 | Amarjeet Sohi | Liberal | |
| 43rd | 2019–2021 | Tim Uppal | Conservative | |
| 44th | 2021–2025 | |||
| Riding dissolved into Edmonton Gateway, Edmonton Southeast, and Edmonton Strathcona |
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Election results
View source data.
Graph of election results in Edmonton Mill Woods (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)
| 2021 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Tim Uppal | 18,392 | 37.91 | –12.37 | $88,439.52 | |||
| Liberal | Ben Henderson | 16,499 | 34.01 | +0.39 | $76,933.26 | |||
| New Democratic | Nigel Logan | 10,553 | 21.75 | +9.67 | $3,274.37 | |||
| People's | Paul Edward McCormack | 2,898 | 5.97 | +4.18 | $1,732.00 | |||
| Communist | Naomi Rankin | 172 | 0.35 | – | none listed | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 48,514 | 99.22 | – | $109,498.31 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 380 | 0.78 | +0.14 | |||||
| Turnout | 48,894 | 62.93 | –5.16 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 77,695 | |||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | –6.38 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[8][9] | ||||||||
| 2019 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Tim Uppal | 26,736 | 50.28 | +9.22 | $85,333.68 | |||
| Liberal | Amarjeet Sohi | 17,879 | 33.62 | –7.62 | $102,341.07 | |||
| New Democratic | Nigel Logan | 6,422 | 12.08 | –0.70 | $6,657.04 | |||
| Green | Tanya Herbert | 968 | 1.82 | –0.39 | none listed | |||
| People's | Annie Young | 953 | 1.79 | – | $393.75 | |||
| Christian Heritage | Don Melanson | 219 | 0.41 | –0.17 | $2,626.06 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 53,177 | 99.36 | – | $106,439.35 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 342 | 0.64 | +0.18 | |||||
| Turnout | 53,519 | 68.09 | +1.45 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 78,601 | |||||||
| Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +8.42 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[10][11] | ||||||||
| 2015 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Amarjeet Sohi | 20,423 | 41.24 | +29.52 | $136,379.94 | |||
| Conservative | Tim Uppal | 20,331 | 41.06 | –17.88 | $123,071.17 | |||
| New Democratic | Jasvir Deol | 6,330 | 12.78 | –12.61 | $55,302.53 | |||
| Green | Ralph McLean | 1,096 | 2.21 | –0.78 | $1,671.63 | |||
| Independent | Colin Stubbs | 560 | 1.13 | – | $5,091.44 | |||
| Libertarian | Allen K.W. Paley | 396 | 0.80 | – | $2,910.11 | |||
| Christian Heritage | Peter Downing | 285 | 0.58 | – | $3,798.53 | |||
| Communist | Naomi Rankin | 96 | 0.19 | – | none listed | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 49,517 | 99.54 | – | $206,234.63 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 227 | 0.46 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 49,744 | 66.64 | – | |||||
| Eligible voters | 74,651 | |||||||
| Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +23.70 | ||||||
| These results were subject to a judicial recount,[12] and modified from the validated results in accordance with the Judge's rulings. The margin of Sohi over Uppal increased from 79 votes to 92 votes as a result of the recount.[13] | ||||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[14][15] | ||||||||
| 2011 federal election redistributed results[16] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Conservative | 20,895 | 58.94 | |
| New Democratic | 9,004 | 25.40 | |
| Liberal | 4,157 | 11.73 | |
| Green | 1,061 | 2.99 | |
| Others | 335 | 0.94 | |
See also
Notes
- Statistic includes all persons that did not make up part of a visible minority or an indigenous identity.
- Statistic includes total responses of "Filipino" and "Southeast Asian" under visible minority section on census.
- Statistic includes total responses of "Chinese", "Korean", and "Japanese" under visible minority section on census.
- Statistic includes total responses of "West Asian" and "Arab" under visible minority section on census.
- Statistic includes total responses of "Visible minority, n.i.e." and "Multiple visible minorities" under visible minority section on census.
