Edmonton-Mill Creek

Defunct provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada

Edmonton-Mill Creek
Alberta electoral district
2010 boundaries
Defunct provincial electoral district
LegislatureLegislative Assembly of Alberta
District created1996
District abolished2019
First contested1997
Last contested2015

Edmonton Mill Creek 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 1997 to 2019.

History

Edmonton-Mill Creek electoral district was created in the 1996 boundary redistribution from the old electoral district of Edmonton-Avonmore and a small part of Edmonton-Gold Bar electoral districts, and named for the Mill Creek Ravine which runs through Edmonton. The 2010 electoral boundary re-distribution saw the riding boundaries shift southwards. The 2003 south boundaries which ended at 23 Avenue were moved further south into Edmonton-Mill Woods and Edmonton-Ellerslie to end at Anthony Henday Drive. The northern boundaries of the riding were also pushed south from 92 Avenue to the Sherwood Park Freeway at its most northern point.[1]

The district was abolished in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended renaming Edmonton-Mill Creek to Edmonton-Meadows, 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]

Boundary history

37 Edmonton-Mill Creek 2003 boundaries[3]
Bordering districts
North East West South
Edmonton-Gold Bar, Edmonton-Strathcona and Sherwood Park Strathcona Edmonton-Strathcona Edmonton-Ellerslie, Edmonton-Mill Woods and Edmonton-Rutherford
riding map goes here
Legal description from the Electoral Divisions Act, S.A. 2003, c. E-4.1
Starting at the intersection of Gateway Boulevard with Whyte Avenue (82 Avenue); then 1. east along Whyte Avenue (82 Avenue) to 75 Street; 2. north along 75 Street to 90 Avenue; 3. east along 90 Avenue to 50 Street; 4. north along 50 Street to 92 Avenue; 5. east along 92 Avenue to the east Edmonton city boundary; 6. south, east and south along the east city boundary to 23 Avenue; 7. west along 23 Avenue to Mill Creek; 8. in a northwesterly direction along Mill Creek to 50 Street; 9. north along 50 Street to Whitemud Drive; 10. west along Whitemud Drive to Gateway Boulevard; 11. north along Gateway Boulevard to the starting point.
Note:
40 Edmonton-Mill Creek 2010 boundaries
Bordering districts
North East West South
Edmonton-Gold Bar, Edmonton-Strathcona and Sherwood Park Strathcona-Sherwood Park Edmonton-Rutherford and Edmonton Strathcona Edmonton-Ellerslie and Edmonton-Mill Woods
Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act.
Note:
Members of the Legislative Assembly
for Edmonton-Mill Creek
Assembly Years Member Party
See Edmonton-Avonmore and Edmonton-Gold Bar 1971-1997
24th 1997-1998 Gene Zwozdesky Liberal
1998 Independent
1998-2001 Progressive
Conservative
25th 2001-2004
26th 2004-2008
27th 2008–2015
29th 2015–2019 Denise Woollard New Democrat
See Edmonton-Meadows 2019-

Electoral history

The electoral district was created in 1997 largely from the old electoral district of Edmonton-Avonmore. That district had become a swing riding through the 1980s and 90s being won by candidates from three different parties. The incumbent Gene Zwozdesky had previously represented Avonmore winning his first term in office in 1993.

Zwozdesky won his first term representing Mill Creek as a Liberal candidate. A year later in 1998 he had a high-profile falling out with the Liberal party and left the caucus to sit as an Independent. He joined the Progressive Conservative caucus a short time later and was re-elected under that banner in 2001.

Starting in 1999 Zwozdesky was appointed to his first portfolio as a junior minister. In total he has held six different ministerial portfolios in the governments of Ralph Klein and Ed Stelmach with his last portfolio ending in 2011. Zwozdesky was defeated in the 2015 Alberta general election by Alberta NDP candidate Denise Woollard.[4]

Legislative election results

1997

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1997 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Gene Zwozdesky 6,757 51.91% –
Progressive Conservative Sukhi Randhawa 3,679 28.27% –
New Democratic Stephen Crocker 1,804 13.86% –
Social Credit Christie Forget 776 5.96% –
Total 13,016 – –
Rejected, spoiled and declined 18 – –
Eligible electors / turnout 23,216 56.14% –
Liberal pickup new district.
Source(s)
Source: "Edmonton-Mill Creek Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
"1997 General Election". Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 26, 2020.

2001

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2001 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Gene Zwozdesky 8,085 55.67% 27.40%
Liberal Bharat Agnihotri 4,229 29.12% -22.80%
New Democratic Edwin Villania 1,893 13.03% -0.83%
Alberta First Kyle Harvey 220 1.51% –
Greens Harlan Light 97 0.67% –
Total 14,524 – –
Rejected, spoiled and declined 41 – –
Eligible electors / turnout 26,307 55.37% -0.78%
Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal Swing 1.45%
Source(s)
Source: "Edmonton-Mill Creek Official Results 2001 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2004

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Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Gene Zwozdesky 5,070 42.08% -13.59%
Liberal Aman Gill 4,289 35.60% 6.48%
New Democratic Nathan Taylor 1,709 14.18% 1.15%
Alberta Alliance Robert J. Alford 523 4.34% –
Greens Eric Stieglitz 386 3.20% 2.54%
Independent Cameron Johnson 72 0.60% –
Total 12,049 – –
Rejected, spoiled and declined 50 – –
Eligible electors / turnout 24,419 49.55% -5.82%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -10.03%
Source(s)
Source: "Edmonton-Mill Creek Official Results 2004 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
"Edmonton-Mill Creek Statement of Official Results 2004 Alberta general election" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 28, 2020.

2008

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2008 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Gene Zwozdesky 6,857 50.78% 8.70%
Liberal Aman Gill 4,058 30.05% -5.55%
New Democratic Stephen Anderson 1,822 13.49% -0.69%
Green Glen Argan 726 5.38% –
Communist Naomi Rankin 41 0.30% –
Total 13,504 – –
Rejected, spoiled and declined 90 – –
Eligible electors / turnout 29,773 45.66% -3.89%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 7.12%
Source(s)
Source: The Report on the March 3, 2008 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-seventh Legislative Assembly. Elections Alberta. May 28, 2020. pp. 320–323.

2012

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Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Gene Zwozdesky 6,623 55.06% 4.28%
Wildrose Adam Corsaut 2,193 18.23% –
Liberal Mike Butler 1,640 13.63% -16.42%
New Democratic Evelinne Teichgraber 1,336 11.11% -2.39%
Alberta Party Judy Wilson 194 1.61% –
Communist Naomi Rankin 43 0.36% 0.05%
Total 12,029 – –
Rejected, spoiled and declined 117 – –
Eligible electors / turnout 25,250 48.10% 2.44%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 8.05%
Source(s)
Source: "Elections Alberta 2012 General Election". Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
"40 - Edmonton-Mill Creek". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved June 4, 2020.

2015

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2015 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
New Democratic Denise Woollard 9,025 55.94% 44.83%
Progressive Conservative Gene Zwozdesky 3,848 23.85% -31.21%
Liberal Harpreet Gill 1,896 11.75% -1.88%
Wildrose Saqib Raja 1,365 8.46% -9.77%
Total 16,134 – –
Rejected, spoiled and declined 59 – –
Eligible electors / turnout 32,521 49.79% 1.69%
New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative Swing -2.37%
Source(s)
Source: "Elections Alberta 2015 General Election". Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
"40 - Edmonton-Mill Creek". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved June 4, 2020.

Senate nominee election results

2004

2004 Senate nominee election results: Edmonton-Mill Creek[5] Turnout 49.67%
Affiliation Candidate Votes % votes % ballots Rank
Progressive Conservative Betty Unger 4,223 15.38% 46.08% 2
  Independent Link Byfield 3,423 12.47% 37.35% 4
Progressive Conservative Bert Brown 3,065 11.17% 33.44% 1
Progressive Conservative Cliff Breitkreuz 3,030 11.04% 33.06% 3
  Independent Tom Sindlinger 2,540 9.25% 27.71% 9
Alberta Alliance Michael Roth 2,500 9.11% 27.28% 7
Progressive Conservative David Usherwood 2,380 8.67% 25.97% 6
Alberta Alliance Gary Horan 2,216 8.07% 24.18% 10
Alberta Alliance Vance Gough 2,212 8.06% 24.14% 8
Progressive Conservative Jim Silye 1,861 6.78% 20.31% 5
Total votes 27,450 100%
Total ballots 9,165 3.00 votes per ballot
Rejected, spoiled and declined 2,965

Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot.

2012

Student vote results

2004

Participating schools[6]
J. H. Picard School
W. P. Wagner School

On November 19, 2004, a student vote was conducted at participating Alberta schools to parallel the 2004 Alberta general election results. The vote was designed to educate students and simulate the electoral process for persons who had not yet reached the legal majority. The vote was conducted in 80 of the 83 provincial electoral districts, with students voting for actual election candidates. Schools with a large student body that reside in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district than where they were physically located.

2004 Alberta student vote results[7]
Affiliation Candidate Votes %
  NDP Nathan Taylor 374 34.44%
Progressive Conservative Gene Zwozdesky 351 32.32%
  Liberal Aman Gill 129 11.88%
  Independent Cameron Johnson 96 8.84%
Green Eric Stieglitz 92 8.47%
Alberta Alliance Robert Alford 44 4.05%
Total 1,086 100%
Rejected, spoiled and declined 48

2012

2012 Alberta student vote results
Affiliation Candidate Votes %
Progressive Conservative Gene Zwozdesky
Wildrose Adam Corsaut
  Liberal Mike Butler
Alberta Party Judy Wilson
  NDP Evelinne Teichgrabber
Communist Naomi Rankin
Total 12,044 100%

See also

References

  1. ^ Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (June 2010). "Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  2. ^ Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (October 2017). Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. p. 47. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  3. ^ Electoral Divisions Act, S.A. 2003, c. E-4.1
  4. ^ "Alberta Election 2015: Former Speaker of the House Gene Zwozdesky loses Edmonton-Mill Creek seat to NDP". Globalnews.ca. Retrieved January 6, 2019.
  5. ^ "Senate Nominee Election 2004 Tabulation of Official Results" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 4, 2009. Retrieved February 28, 2010.
  6. ^ "School by School results". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 5, 2007. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
  7. ^ "Riding by Riding Results - the Candidates". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 6, 2007. Retrieved April 19, 2008.

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External links

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