Strathcona Centre
Defunct provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada
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Strathcona Centre was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting from 1959 to 1971.[1]
 Alberta electoral district | |
|---|---|
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
| District created | 1959 |
| District abolished | 1971 |
| First contested | 1959 |
| Last contested | 1967 |
History
It was created in 1959 after the Edmonton district was broken up into ridings.
The historic 1959 redistribution of the provincial ridings of Calgary and Edmonton standardized the voting system back to First Past the Post. From 1926 to 1959 Calgary and Edmonton members were elected by Single Transferable Vote. The rest of the province had the option of how to count ballots. The redistribution created nine ridings in Edmonton.
The other eight ridings were Edmonton Centre, Edmonton North, Edmonton Norwood, Edmonton North East, Edmonton North West, Strathcona East, Strathcona West, and Jasper West.
In 1971 the riding was split, the west part became the north part of Edmonton-Whitemud with a small part being transferred to Edmonton-Parkallen, and the east part became Edmonton-Strathcona with the Bonnie Doon Shopping Centre transferred to Edmonton-Avonmore.
Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs)
| Strathcona Centre | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| Riding created from Edmonton | ||||
| 14th | 1959–1963 | Joseph Donovan Ross | Social Credit | |
| 15th | 1963–1967 | |||
| 16th | 1967–1971 | |||
| Riding dissolved into Edmonton-Strathcona, Edmonton-Whitemud, Edmonton-Parkallen and Edmonton-Avonmore |
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Election results
1959
| 1959 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Social Credit | Joseph Donovan Ross | 4,564 | 54.16% | – | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Pat Walsh | 2,226 | 26.42% | – | ||||
| Liberal | Leslie M. Lyons | 1,215 | 14.42% | – | ||||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Keith Wright | 422 | 5.01% | – | ||||
| Total | 8,427 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 54 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 14,351 | 59.10% | – | |||||
| Social Credit pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Strathcona-Centre Official Results 1959 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
1963
| 1963 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Social Credit | Joseph Donovan Ross | 5,232 | 58.71% | 4.55% | ||||
| Liberal | Ian Nicoll | 2,418 | 27.13% | 12.71% | ||||
| New Democratic | Harry J. Strynadka | 1,262 | 14.16% | 9.15% | ||||
| Total | 8,912 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 48 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 17,345 | 51.66% | -7.44% | |||||
| Social Credit hold | Swing | 1.92% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Strathcona-Centre Official Results 1963 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
1967
| 1967 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Social Credit | Joseph Donovan Ross | 4,052 | 40.66% | -18.05% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Larry Boddy | 2,493 | 25.02% | – | ||||
| Liberal | Ian Nicoll | 1,794 | 18.00% | -9.13% | ||||
| New Democratic | Gordon E. Weese | 1,627 | 16.33% | 2.16% | ||||
| Total | 9,966 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 38 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 16,750 | 59.73% | 8.07% | |||||
| Social Credit hold | Swing | -7.97% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Strathcona-Centre Official Results 1967 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||