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Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland
Alberta electoral district
Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland within Alberta (2017 boundaries)
Provincial electoral district
LegislatureLegislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA
 
 		 
Shane Getson
United Conservative
District created2017
First contested2019
Last contested2023
Demographics
Population (2016)[1]46,546
Area (km²)5,486
Pop. density (per km²)8.5

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.

Geography

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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

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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

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2023

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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

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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

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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%

References

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  1. ^ Statistics Canada: 2016
  2. ^ Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (October 2017). "Final Report" (PDF). p. 52. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 24, 2018. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
  3. ^ "67 - Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
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