Scott Sinclair (politician)
Canadian politician
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Scott Sinclair (born September 12, 1984)[1] is a Canadian politician and former hockey player from Alberta. He has been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (MLA) for the riding of Lesser Slave Lake since 2023, having succeeded Pat Rehn in that year's election.
Scott Sinclair | |
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| Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Lesser Slave Lake | |
| Assumed office May 29, 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Pat Rehn |
| Constituency | Lesser Slave Lake (electoral district) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 12, 1984 Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada |
| Party | Independent (from March 2025) |
Other political affiliations | UCP (until March 2025) |
Sinclair is First Nation, and was the UCP’s only Indigenous candidate in the 2023 election.[2]
Having been elected as a United Conservative MLA, on March 7, 2025 Sinclair was removed from the UCP Caucus over comments made criticizing the budget.[3]
In July 2025, along with Peter Guthrie, Sinclair announced plans to form a new political party in the name of the Progressive Conservatives.[4] Later that month, it was announced that Sinclair and Guthrie would be joining the Alberta Party and rebranding it as the Progressive Conservative Party.[5][6] He continues to sit in the Legislative Assembly as an independent.
Biography
Sinclair is the son of Gordon and Val Sinclair.[7][8] He played junior hockey in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) and Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL) with the Estevan Bruins, Lloydminster Blazers and Yorkton Terriers, winning a league championship in the 2004–05 season with Yorkton.[9] He works in the auto glass business.[7]
He is Non-status First Nations, and one of three Indigenous MLAs elected in the 2023 election.[10][11] Following his election, he became Parliamentary Secretary for Indigenous Policing.[12]
Electoral history
2023 general election
| 2023 Alberta general election: Lesser Slave Lake | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Scott Sinclair | 5,171 | 65.04 | +7.35 | ||||
| New Democratic | Danielle Larivee | 2,636 | 33.15 | -2.95 | ||||
| Solidarity Movement | Bert Seatter | 144 | 1.81 | – | ||||
| Total | 7,951 | 99.36 | – | |||||
| Rejected and declined | 51 | 0.64 | ||||||
| Turnout | 8,002 | 49.03 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 16,322 | |||||||
| United Conservative hold | Swing | +5.15 | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: Elections Alberta[13] | ||||||||
2023 UCP Lesser Slave Lake nomination contest
February 25–26, 2023[14]
| Candidate | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | |||||
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| Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| Scott Sinclair | 230 | 42.0 | 235 | 45.7 | 246 | 50.5 | ||
| Martine Carifelle | 231 | 42.2 | 231 | 44.9 | 241 | 49.5 | ||
| Jerrad Cunningham | 47 | 8.6 | 48 | 9.3 | Eliminated | |||
| Silas Yellowknee | 40 | 7.3 | Eliminated | |||||
| Total | 548 | 100.00 | 514 | 100.00 | 487 | 100.00 | ||
