Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland
Provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada
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Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland within Alberta (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] | 46,546 | ||
| Area (km²) | 5,486 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 8.5 | ||
Geography
The district is located northwest of Edmonton, containing all of Lac Ste. Anne County and part of Parkland County, taking its name from the two municipal districts. It also contains a portion of Sturgeon County. It includes the Treaty 6 reserves of the Alexander First Nation, the Alexis Nakota Sioux First Nation, and the Paul Band at Wabamun Lake. The main towns and villages are Onoway, Wabamun, Alberta Beach and Mayerthorpe.
History
| Members for Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Whitecourt-Ste. Anne 1993–2019 | ||||
| 30th | 2019–2023 | Shane Getson | United Conservative | |
| 31st | 2023– | |||
The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended joining most of Whitecourt-Ste. Anne with parts of Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock, Spruce Grove-St. Albert, and Stony Plain in an effort to remove one district from central-western Alberta.[2]
Electoral results
2023
| 2023 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Shane Getson | 14,923 | 68.96 | +3.22 | ||||
| New Democratic | Oneil Carlier | 5,868 | 27.12 | +3.71 | ||||
| Alberta Party | Janet Jabush | 463 | 2.14 | -5.61 | ||||
| Green | Vanessa Diehl | 205 | 0.95 | – | ||||
| Advantage Party | Marilyn Burns | 182 | 0.84 | -0.56 | ||||
| Total | 21,641 | 99.61 | – | |||||
| Rejected and declined | 85 | 0.39 | ||||||
| Turnout | 21,726 | 61.27 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 35,460 | |||||||
| United Conservative hold | Swing | -0.25 | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: Elections Alberta[3] | ||||||||
2019
| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Shane Getson | 15,860 | 65.74% | 8.38% | ||||
| New Democratic | Oneil Carlier | 5,646 | 23.40% | -16.09% | ||||
| Alberta Party | Donald Walter McCargar | 1,870 | 7.75% | – | ||||
| Alberta Independence | Gordon W. McMillan | 413 | 1.71% | – | ||||
| Alberta Advantage | Darien Masse | 337 | 1.40% | – | ||||
| Total | 24,126 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 95 | 65 | 20 | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 33,510 | 72.34% | – | |||||
| United Conservative pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Source: "67 - Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland, 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. 309–313. ISBN 978-1-988620-12-1. Retrieved April 7, 2021. | ||||||||
2015
| Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta general election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | % | ||
| New Democratic | 7,775 | 39.49% | ||
| Wildrose | 5,997 | 30.46% | ||
| Progressive Conservative | 5,297 | 26.90% | ||
| Others | 621 | 3.15% | ||