Alberta general election, 2004 - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Alberta general election of 2004 was the twenty-sixth general election for the province of Alberta

Alberta

Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

, Canada. It was held on November 22, 2004 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

Legislative Assembly of Alberta

The Legislative Assembly of Alberta is one of two components of the Legislature of Alberta, the other being the Queen, represented by the Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta. The Alberta legislature meets in the Alberta Legislature Building in the provincial capital, Edmonton...

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The election was called on October 25, 2004. Premier

Premier of Alberta

The Premier of Alberta is the first minister for the Canadian province of Alberta. He or she is the province's head of government and de facto chief executive. The current Premier of Alberta is Alison Redford. She became Premier by winning the Progressive Conservative leadership elections on...

Ralph Klein decided to go to the polls earlier than the legislated deadline of March 2006. This election was held in conjunction with the Alberta Senate nominee election, 2004

Alberta Senate nominee election, 2004

The 3rd Alberta Senate nominee election was held on November 22, 2004 in conjunction with the Alberta general election, 2004. Alberta is the only Canadian province to elect nominees for the Senate of Canada.-Background:...

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When the election was called, it was expected to be anticlimactic, with Klein cruising to his fourth straight majority

Majority government

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, the tenth for his Progressive Conservative Party

Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta

The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

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Shortly after the drop of the writ

Writ

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s, Klein's mother died and all parties suspended their campaigns for several days. After the campaign resumed, Klein avoided making any policy announcements and attended few events. One commentator called it "Kleinfeld: the campaign about nothing" (a reference to the television sitcom Seinfeld
Seinfeld
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). The Liberal Party

Alberta Liberal Party

The Alberta Liberal Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Originally founded in 1905, when the province was created, it was the dominant political party until 1921 when it was defeated. It has never been in government since that time...

, which had hoped to hold onto the five seats it had and regain the two seats that it had lost to resignations, began to pick up momentum and became far more optimistic.

In the end, the Conservatives were re-elected, despite losing 11 seats and 15% of the popular vote. The Liberals more than doubled their seats by electing 17 MLA's on election night while dominating Edmonton, and making strong inroads in Calgary. The Alberta New Democrats (NDP) held on to their two seats and gained two more, all in Edmonton. The Conservatives swept rural Alberta except for one seat that went to the Alberta Alliance, which placed second in a number of rural ridings. The Green Party

Green Party of Alberta

The Green Party of Alberta, also known as the Alberta Greens, was a provincial political party in the province of Alberta, Canada.The Alberta Greens were formed in 1986 and received official party status on April 6, 1990...

gained in the popular vote, jumping from 0.3% in the 2001 election

Alberta general election, 2001

The Alberta general election of 2001 was the twenty-fifth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. It was held on March 12, 2001 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta....

to 2.8%, and placed third in some places. Also placing second in the riding of Drayton Valley-Calmar

Drayton Valley-Calmar

Drayton Valley-Calmar is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada.-Boundary history:- Members of the Legislative Assembly :-2001 general election:-2004 general election:...

ahead of the liberals, It was unable to win any seats, however. Social Credit placed third in a number of ridings, and its leader tied for second in Rocky Mountain House

Rocky Mountain House (electoral district)

Rocky Mountain House is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 83 current districts mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting since 1959...

. The Conservative, Liberal and NDP leaders all easily held onto their own seats.

Election night summary

Overall voter turnout was 45.12%.

Party		Party leader	# of candidates	Seats				Popular vote
Party		Party leader	# of candidates	2001	Dissolution Dissolution of parliament In parliamentary systems, a dissolution of parliament is the dispersal of a legislature at the call of an election.Usually there is a maximum length of a legislature, and a dissolution must happen before the maximum time...	Elected	% Change	#	%	% Change	Progressive Conservative Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...	Ralph Klein	83	74	73	62²	-15.1%	417,092	46.8%	-15.1%	Liberal Alberta Liberal Party The Alberta Liberal Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Originally founded in 1905, when the province was created, it was the dominant political party until 1921 when it was defeated. It has never been in government since that time...	Kevin Taft Kevin Taft Kevin Taft is a Liberal politician in Alberta, Canada. He was the leader of the Alberta Liberal Party and Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, from 2004 to 2008...	82	7	5	16²	+220%	261,471	29.4%	+2.1%	NDP Alberta New Democratic Party The Alberta New Democratic Party or Alberta NDP is a social-democratic political party in Alberta, Canada, which was originally founded as the Alberta section of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation...	Brian Mason Brian Mason Brian Mason is a Canadian politician and leader of the Alberta New Democrats . Mason was first elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood in a 2001 byelection, and his career in politics spans more than 20 years.Mason first became politically active...	83	2	2	4	+100%	90,897	10.2%	+2.1%	Alberta Alliance Alberta Alliance Party The Alberta Alliance was a right wing provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Many of its members were former supporters of the now-defunct Canadian Alliance federal political party and its predecessor, the Reform Party of Canada. Members also joined from such other provincial fringe parties...	Randy Thorsteinson Randy Thorsteinson Randy Thorsteinson is a politician and businessman in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada.-Early years:Thorsteinson was born in Gimli, Manitoba spending his youth living in Winnipeg, Manitoba; Edmonton, Alberta; Calgary, Alberta and Grande Prairie, Alberta.-Education:He graduated from St. Paul's High School...	83	*	1	1	-	77,506	8.7%	*	Greens	George Read George Read (Canadian politician) George Read is the former leader of the Green Party of Alberta and formerly a key organizer for the federal Green Party of Canada in Alberta.- Green Party organizing :...	49	-	-	-	-	24,588	2.8%	+2.5%	Social Credit	Lavern Ahlstrom Lavern Ahlstrom Lavern Ahlstrom is a retired provincial level politician and former leader of the Alberta Social Credit Party.-Political career:Ahlstrom first became involved with Social Credit in the 1970s. He has been a perennial candidate for the party with some moderately successful showings during his career...	42	-	-	-	-	10,874	1.2%	+0.7%	Separation Separation Party of Alberta The Separation Party of Alberta is a political party that advocates the secession of Alberta from Canada. Its leader is Bruce Hutton.-History:...	Bruce Hutton Bruce Hutton Bruce Hutton is leader of the Separation Party of Alberta.Hutton joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1963. In 1999, he founded Law-abiding Unregistered Firearms Association to protest the recently introduced federal gun registry. In 2004, he became leader of the Separation...	12	*	-	-	-	4,680	0.5%	-0.37%¹	Alberta Party Alberta Party The Alberta Party Political Association, more commonly known as the Alberta Party, is a political party in the province of Alberta, Canada...	Bruce Stubbs Bruce Stubbs Bruce Stubbs is a farmer and political figure in Alberta, Canada. He first came to public attention as a leading member of G.U.A.R.D. , a group opposed to the United Alternative process which formed the Canadian Alliance from the Reform Party of Canada.He is a former leader of the Alberta Party, a...	4	*	-	-	-	2,485	0.3%	*	Independent	10	-	-	-	-	1,009	0.1%	-0.9%	Communist Communist Party (Alberta) Communist Party – Alberta is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. It is a provincial branch of the Communist Party of Canada.-History:...	Naomi Rankin Naomi Rankin Naomi Rankin is the current leader of the Communist Party of Alberta in Alberta, Canada.She has been leader of the Communist Party since 1992 and has run in every provincial and federal election in Alberta since 1982, for the Communist Party or the Communist Party of Canada...	2	-	-	-	-	98	<0.1%	~0%
	Vacant			*	2
	Total		450	83	83	83	-	890,700	100%

Note:

* The Alberta Alliance and Alberta Party did not contest the 2001 election.

¹ The Separation Party results are compared to the Alberta First Party.

² A judicial recount changed the results in Edmonton Castle Downs

Edmonton Castle Downs

Edmonton Castle Downs is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 83 mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting....

, Liberal

Alberta Liberal Party

. Chris Kibermanis

Chris Kibermanis

Chris Kibermanis was the Liberal Candidate during the 2004 Alberta Provincial Election. Kibermanis represented Edmonton Castle Downs for the Alberta Liberal Party.Prior to his short political career he was drafted by the Winnipeg Jets in 1994...

lost to Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta

The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

Thomas Lukaszuk

Thomas A. Lukaszuk is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Edmonton-Castle Downs as a Progressive Conservative...

Results by region

Party name	Cgy. Calgary Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...	Edm. Edmonton Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and is the province's second-largest city. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.The city and its census... ¹	Leth. Lethbridge Lethbridge is a city in the province of Alberta, Canada, and the largest city in southern Alberta. It is Alberta's fourth-largest city by population after Calgary, Edmonton and Red Deer, and the third-largest by area after Calgary and Edmonton. The nearby Canadian Rockies contribute to the city's...	R.D. Red Deer, Alberta Red Deer is a city in Central Alberta, Canada. It is located near the midpoint of the Calgary-Edmonton Corridor and is surrounded by Red Deer County. It is Alberta's third-most-populous city – after Calgary and Edmonton. The city is located in aspen parkland, a region of rolling hills...	North Northern Alberta Northern Alberta is a region located in the Canadian province of Alberta.Its primary industry is oil and gas, with large heavy oil reserves being exploited at the Athabasca Oil Sands and Wabasca Area in the east of the region...	Central Central Alberta Central Alberta is a region located in the Canadian province of Alberta.Central Alberta is the most densely populated rural area in the province...	South Southern Alberta Southern Alberta is a region located in the Canadian province of Alberta. As of the year 2004, the region's population was approximately 272,017. The primary cities are Lethbridge and Medicine Hat...	Total	Progressive Conservative Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...	Seats:	20	3	1	2	10	19	7	61	Popular vote:	50.5%	31.5%	38.3%	44.1%	55.5%	52.7%	55.1%	46.8%	Liberal Alberta Liberal Party The Alberta Liberal Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Originally founded in 1905, when the province was created, it was the dominant political party until 1921 when it was defeated. It has never been in government since that time...	Seats:	3	11	1			1		16	Popular vote:	32.1%	40.3%	37.9%	32.5%	19.8%	21.9%	19.1%	29.4%	New Democrats	Seats:		4						4	Popular vote:	4.9%	22.0%	8.1%	6.1%	8.6%	7.9%	4.4%	10.2%	Alberta Alliance Alberta Alliance Party The Alberta Alliance was a right wing provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Many of its members were former supporters of the now-defunct Canadian Alliance federal political party and its predecessor, the Reform Party of Canada. Members also joined from such other provincial fringe parties...	Seats:	1	1	Popular vote:	6.5%	4.2%	10.2%	14.9%	13.8%	11.3%	13.1%	8.7%
Total seats:	23	18	2	2	10	20	8	83																																							New Democrats
Parties that won no seats:								Green	Popular vote:	5.5%	1.0%	3.1%	1.2%	1.1%	2.5%	2.1%	2.8%	Social Credit	Popular vote:	0.3%	0.8%	2.6%	-	1.1%	2.3%	2.4%	1.2%	Separation Separation Party of Alberta The Separation Party of Alberta is a political party that advocates the secession of Alberta from Canada. Its leader is Bruce Hutton.-History:...	Popular Vote:	0.2%	-	-	1.3%	-	0.9%	2.6%	0.5%	Alberta Party Alberta Party The Alberta Party Political Association, more commonly known as the Alberta Party, is a political party in the province of Alberta, Canada...	Popular vote:	<0.1%	-	-	-	-	0.6%	1.3%	0.3%	Communist Communist Party (Alberta) Communist Party – Alberta is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. It is a provincial branch of the Communist Party of Canada.-History:...	Popular vote:	<0.1%	<0.1%	-	-	-	-	-	<0.1%	Independents	Popular vote:	0.1%	0.2%	-	-	0.1%	0.1%	-	0.1%

¹ "Edmonton" corresponds to only the city of Edmonton. (Only the ridings whose names begin with "Edmonton".) The four suburban ridings around the city as listed below are grouped with Central Alberta in this table.

Results by riding

Party		Seats	Second	Third	Fourth
Progressive Conservative Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...	62	20	1	0	Liberal Alberta Liberal Party The Alberta Liberal Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Originally founded in 1905, when the province was created, it was the dominant political party until 1921 when it was defeated. It has never been in government since that time...	16	54	12	0	New Democratic Party	4	2	30	21	Alberta Alliance Alberta Alliance Party The Alberta Alliance was a right wing provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Many of its members were former supporters of the now-defunct Canadian Alliance federal political party and its predecessor, the Reform Party of Canada. Members also joined from such other provincial fringe parties...	1	9	33	33	Greens	0	1	8	16	Social Credit	0	1	0	3	Alberta Party Alberta Party The Alberta Party Political Association, more commonly known as the Alberta Party, is a political party in the province of Alberta, Canada...	0	0	1	2	Separation Separation Party of Alberta The Separation Party of Alberta is a political party that advocates the secession of Alberta from Canada. Its leader is Bruce Hutton.-History:...	0	0	0	3

Names in bold indicate party leaders and cabinet ministers.

Northern Alberta

Electoral District	Candidates						Incumbent
	PC Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...	Liberal Alberta Liberal Party The Alberta Liberal Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Originally founded in 1905, when the province was created, it was the dominant political party until 1921 when it was defeated. It has never been in government since that time...	NDP Alberta New Democratic Party The Alberta New Democratic Party or Alberta NDP is a social-democratic political party in Alberta, Canada, which was originally founded as the Alberta section of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation...	Alliance Alberta Alliance Party The Alberta Alliance was a right wing provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Many of its members were former supporters of the now-defunct Canadian Alliance federal political party and its predecessor, the Reform Party of Canada. Members also joined from such other provincial fringe parties...	Green	Other

Athabasca-Redwater Athabasca-Redwater Athabasca-Redwater is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 83 mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting....	Mike Cardinal Mike Cardinal Mike Cardinal is a politician from Alberta, Canada and a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, having served in that capacity from 1989 until 2008. He sat as a Progressive Conservative and represented the districts of Athabasca-Lac La Biche, Athabasca-Wabasca, and Athabasca-Redwater... 5,706	Nicole Belland 3,258	Peter Opryshko 1,407	Sean Whelan 1,174	Luke de Smet 252	Leonard Fish (Soc. Cred.) 179		b>Mike Cardinal Athabasca-Wabasca Athabasca-Wabasca Athabasca-Wabasca was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada.The riding was created in 1993 when the district of Fort McMurray shrank to encompass the northern Alberta city. Athabasca-Wabasca completely covered the same boundaries except for the city of Fort...
							merged district
								[Dave Broda]]† Redwater Redwater (provincial electoral district) Redwater was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada from 1940 until 1971 and again from 1993 until 2004.-MLAs:The district elected the following members to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta:-1957 liquor plebiscite:...
Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada.-Boundary history:- Members of the Legislative Assembly :-2004 general election:-2004 Senate nominee election district results:...	Ken Kowalski Ken Kowalski Kenneth "Ken" Reginald Kowalski, MLA is a provincial level politician and former teacher from Alberta, Canada. He is a current member and also dean of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and has served continuously since November 1979 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus... 6,967	Alan Fiebich 2,250	Peggy Kirkeby 1,098	Mike Radojcic 1,012		Carl Haugen (Soc. Cred.) 404		en Kowalski Barrhead-Westlock
Bonnyville-Cold Lake Bonnyville-Cold Lake Bonnyville-Cold Lake is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 83 current districts mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting....	Denis Ducharme Denis Ducharme Denis Archie Ducharme is a former Albertan MLA. From April 6 until December 15, 2006, he also served as Minister of Community Development... 3,621	Lloyd Mildon 797	Denise Ogonoski 312	Shane Gervais 955				Denis Ducharme
Dunvegan-Central Peace Dunvegan-Central Peace Dunvegan-Central Peace is an Alberta provincial electoral district, located in northwestern Alberta.Following the Alberta electoral boundary re-distribution of 2004, Dunvegan was the only division with a population of less than 75% the provincial average, with its recorded population of 24,202...	Hector Goudreau Hector Goudreau Hector G. Goudreau is a politician from Alberta, Canada. He is originally from the francophone area of Beaumont, Alberta, located just south of Edmonton's metro population.... 3,670	Don Thompson 689	Leon R. Pendleton 446	Dale Lueken 3,332		Lanny Portsmouth (Soc. Cred.) 118		ector Goudreau Dunvegan Dunvegan (electoral district) Dunvegan was a provincial electoral district in Northwestern Alberta. In 2004 the district was re-named Dunvegan-Central Peace. The district was created in 1986 from Spirit River-Fairview.-Members of the Legislative Assembly :...
Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of current districts 83 mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting....	Guy Boutilier Guy Boutilier Guy C. Boutilier is a Canadian politician and current member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He was elected as a Progressive Conservative, and served in several capacities in the Cabinet of Alberta under Premiers Ralph Klein and Ed Stelmach before being ejected from the P.C. caucus in July... 4,429	Russell Collicott 1,800	Dave Malka 460	Eugene Eklund 224		Reginald Normore (Ind.) 94		b>Guy Boutilier Fort McMurray Fort McMurray (provincial electoral district) Fort McMurray was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, from 1986 until 2004, when it was included in the new district of Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo.-MLAs:The district elected the following members to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta:...
Grande Prairie-Smoky	Mel Knight Mel Knight Mel Knight is the Minister of Energy of Alberta and a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.-Early life:... 4,369	Neil Peacock 1,965	Georgina Szoke 724	Hank Rahn 688				Mel Knight
Grande Prairie-Wapiti	Gordon Graydon Gordon Graydon Gordon Graydon, BA , QC , LL.D was a Canadian politician.Graydon received his early education at Woodlands Secondary School in County Peel, Ontario. He attended Brampton Centennial High School, and was a student at University of Toronto in Political Science. He graduated from Osgoode Hall law... 4,348	Cibylla Rakestraw 1,677	Jerry Macdonald 972	John Hilton-O'Brien 547	Allan Webber 348			Gordon Graydon
Lac La Biche-St. Paul Lac La Biche-St. Paul Lac La Biche-St. Paul is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada.-Boundary history:- Members of the Legislative Assembly :-2004 general election:-2004 Senate nominee election district results:...	Ray Danyluk Ray Danyluk Ray Danyluk is a farmer and provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He currently serves as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 2001 to present sitting with the Progressive Conservative caucus in government... 4,898	Dickson Broomfield 1,877	Phil Goebel 648	Oscar Lacombe 1,703				Ray Danyluk
Lesser Slave Lake Lesser Slave Lake (electoral district) Lesser Slave Lake is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada. It has existed since 1971.-Boundary history:- Members of the Legislative Assembly :...	Pearl Calahasen Pearl Calahasen Pearl Calahasen is a Canadian politician, who currently represents the electoral district of Lesser Slave Lake in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta... 3,894	Jonathan Pleckaitis 530	Doris Bannister 354	Valerie Rahn 977	Ian Hopfe 254			Pearl Calahasen
Peace River Peace River (provincial electoral district) Peace River is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting...	Frank Oberle Frank Oberle, Jr. Frank Oberle, Jr. is a Canadian politician and currently is the Solicitor General and Public Security Minister for the province of Alberta, representing the provincial constituency of Peace River as a Progressive Conservative.... 2,888	Adam Bourque 1,101	Stephen Crocker 558	Gary Checknita 541		Patsy Lindberg (Soc. Cred.) 204		Gary Friedel Gary Friedel Gary Friedel is a civil servant and former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1993 until 2004.-Political career:... †

Western and Central Alberta

Electoral District	Candidates						Incumbent
	PC Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...	Liberal Alberta Liberal Party The Alberta Liberal Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Originally founded in 1905, when the province was created, it was the dominant political party until 1921 when it was defeated. It has never been in government since that time...	NDP Alberta New Democratic Party The Alberta New Democratic Party or Alberta NDP is a social-democratic political party in Alberta, Canada, which was originally founded as the Alberta section of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation...	Alliance Alberta Alliance Party The Alberta Alliance was a right wing provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Many of its members were former supporters of the now-defunct Canadian Alliance federal political party and its predecessor, the Reform Party of Canada. Members also joined from such other provincial fringe parties...	Green	Other

Banff-Cochrane Banff-Cochrane Banff-Cochrane is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada. This riding is home to the popular tourist destination Banff National Park, environmental issues tend to dominate here....	Janis Tarchuk Janis Tarchuk Janis Tarchuk is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Banff-Cochrane as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:Ms. Tarchuk has a long history of community involvement... 4,236	Ian McDougall 1,649	Melissa Cambridge 468	Bob Argent 476	Chris Foote 1,205			Janis Tarchuk Janis Tarchuk Janis Tarchuk is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Banff-Cochrane as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:Ms. Tarchuk has a long history of community involvement...
Drayton Valley-Calmar Drayton Valley-Calmar Drayton Valley-Calmar is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada.-Boundary history:- Members of the Legislative Assembly :-2001 general election:-2004 general election:...	Tony Abbott Tony Abbott (Canadian politician) Clarke Anthony Abbott is a Canadian politician and former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He represented Drayton Valley-Calmar and sat as a Progressive Conservative from 2001 until 2008.-Early life:... 5,231	Laura Higgerty 890	Lynn Oberle 641	Viona Cunningham 764	Edwin Erickson Edwin Erickson (Alberta politician) Edwin Erickson is a Canadian politician from Calgary, Alberta. He was the leader of the Alberta Party from January to October 2010. He has been active in Alberta politics since 2004. Prior to joining the Alberta Party, he served as the Deputy Leader of the Alberta Green Party and placed second as... 927	Thomas Cliff (Soc. Cred.) 244 Elmer Knopp (Ind.) 115		Tony Abbott
Foothills-Rocky View Foothills-Rocky View Foothills-Rocky View is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 83 current districts in the province mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting....	Ted Morton Ted Morton Frederick Lee Morton , known commonly as Ted Morton, is a Canadian politician and Minister of Energy for the Province of Alberta. As a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta he represents the constituency of Foothills-Rocky View as a Progressive Conservative... 6,770	Herb Coburn 1,954	Roland Schmidt 232	Jason Herasemluk 1,081	Shelley Willson 1,186		New district
Innisfail-Sylvan Lake Innisfail-Sylvan Lake Innisfail-Sylvan Lake is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. It is one of 83 current districts mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting....	Luke Ouellette Luke Ouellette Luke Ouellette is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Innisfail-Sylvan Lake as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:... 6,206	Garth Davis 1,816	Chris Janke 585	Randy Thorsteinson Randy Thorsteinson Randy Thorsteinson is a politician and businessman in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada.-Early years:Thorsteinson was born in Gimli, Manitoba spending his youth living in Winnipeg, Manitoba; Edmonton, Alberta; Calgary, Alberta and Grande Prairie, Alberta.-Education:He graduated from St. Paul's High School... 2,242		Wilf Tricker (Soc. Cred.) 349		Luke Ouellette
Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada.It contains the Kneehill County and most of Mountain View County....	Richard Marz Richard Marz Richard Marz is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:... 7,277	Tony Vonesch 1,336	Christopher Davies 257	Gordon Quantz 2,021	Sarah Henckel-Sutmoller 469	Brian Vasseur (Sep. Pty.) 746 Myrna Kissick (Soc. Cred.) 143		Richard Marz
Red Deer-North	Mary Anne Jablonski Mary Anne Jablonski Mary Anne Jablonski is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Red Deer North as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:... 3,736	Norm McDougall 2,640	Steven Bedford 430	Rand Sisson 1,660	Colin Fisher 244			Mary Anne Jablonski
Red Deer-South	Victor Doerksen Victor Doerksen Victor Doerksen is a politician, accountant and former cabinet minister in Alberta, Canada.-Early life:Doerksen was born in Bassano, Alberta on November 25, 1953. He was employed by the Bank of Montreal for 12 years... 5,371	Walter Kubanek 4,073	Jeff Sloychuk 836	Patti Argent 1,418		Judy Milne (Sep. Pty.) 261		Victor Doerksen
Rocky Mountain House Rocky Mountain House (electoral district) Rocky Mountain House is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 83 current districts mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting since 1959...	Ty Lund Ty Lund Ty Lund is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, representing the constituency of Rocky Mountain House as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:... 5,773	Susan M. Scott 1,267	Anthony Jones 300	Ed Wilhite 810	Jennifer Isaac 337	Lavern Ahlstrom Lavern Ahlstrom Lavern Ahlstrom is a retired provincial level politician and former leader of the Alberta Social Credit Party.-Political career:Ahlstrom first became involved with Social Credit in the 1970s. He has been a perennial candidate for the party with some moderately successful showings during his career... (Soc. Cred.) 1,267 Bruce Hutton Bruce Hutton Bruce Hutton is leader of the Separation Party of Alberta.Hutton joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1963. In 1999, he founded Law-abiding Unregistered Firearms Association to protest the recently introduced federal gun registry. In 2004, he became leader of the Separation... (Sep. Pty.) 505		Ty Lund
Stony Plain Stony Plain (electoral district) Stony Plain originally styled Stonyplain is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting. From 1926 to 1957 Single Transferable Vote was used in the...	Fred Lindsay Fred Lindsay Fred Lindsay is a politician and current provincial Member of the Legislative Assembly in Alberta, Canada.-Political involvement:... 5,644	Bill Fraser 3,402	Ruth Yanor 1,375	Marilyn Burns 1,878		Henry Neumann (Soc. Cred.) 245		Stan Woloshyn Stan Woloshyn Stan Woloshyn is a politician in Alberta, Canada. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as an Alberta New Democrats candidate in 1989... †
West Yellowhead West Yellowhead (electoral district) West Yellowhead is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 83 current riding's mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting....	Ivan Strang Ivan Strang Ivan Strang is a former Progressive Conservative Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for West Yellowhead. He served as a member in the Alberta Legislature from 1997 to 2008.-Political career:... 3,769	Rob Jolly 1,682	Barry Madsen 1,783	Earl Cunningham 615	Monika Schaefer 360			Ivan Strang
Whitecourt-Ste. Anne Whitecourt-Ste. Anne Whitecourt-Ste. Anne is an Alberta provincial electoral district, located in central Alberta. The district is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting...	George VanderBurg George VanderBurg George VanderBurg is a Canadian politician, who currently represents the electoral district of Whitecourt-Ste. Anne in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.... 5,071	George Higgerty 1,219	Leah Redmond 996	David Dow 2,333				George VanderBurg

East Central Alberta

Electoral District	Candidates						Incumbent
	PC Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...	Liberal Alberta Liberal Party The Alberta Liberal Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Originally founded in 1905, when the province was created, it was the dominant political party until 1921 when it was defeated. It has never been in government since that time...	NDP Alberta New Democratic Party The Alberta New Democratic Party or Alberta NDP is a social-democratic political party in Alberta, Canada, which was originally founded as the Alberta section of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation...	Alliance Alberta Alliance Party The Alberta Alliance was a right wing provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Many of its members were former supporters of the now-defunct Canadian Alliance federal political party and its predecessor, the Reform Party of Canada. Members also joined from such other provincial fringe parties...	Green	Other

Battle River-Wainwright Battle River-Wainwright Battle River-Wainwright is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada.-Boundary history:- Members of the Legislative Assembly :-2004 general election:-2004 Senate nominee election district results:...	Doug Griffiths Doug Griffiths Douglas "Doug" Griffiths is a Canadian politician and Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Battle River-Wainwright as a Progressive Conservative... 6,409	Gordon Rogers 1,069	Len Legault 616	Orest Werzak 1,440		Robin Skitteral (Soc. Cred.) 319		oug Griffiths Wainwright Wainwright (provincial electoral district) Wainwright was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district was mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.-1957 liquor plebiscite:...
Drumheller-Stettler Drumheller-Stettler Drumheller-Stettler is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The electoral district is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting...	Shirley McClellan Shirley McClellan Shirley McClellan was born in Hanna, Alberta, Canada, on January 22, 1942.-Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta:McClellan was first elected to the Alberta Legislature in a by-election held on November 23, 1987.... 6,770		Richard Bough 890	Dave France 1,413		Eileen Walker (Ab Pty.) 616 Dave Carnegie (Sep. Pty.) 465 Mary-Lou Kloppenburg (Soc. Cred.) 279		b>Shirley McClellan Drumheller-Chinook
Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville Fort Saskatchewan—Vegreville is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting....	Ed Stelmach Ed Stelmach Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a... 6,160	Peter Schneider 3,160	Wes Buyarski 1,633	Byron King 1,411		Mark Patterson (Soc. Cred.) 379		b>Ed Stelmach Vegreville-Viking Vegreville-Viking Vegreville—Viking was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada from 1993 until 2004.-MLAs:The riding was represented by Ed Stelmach of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta for its entire existence.-Election results:...
Lacombe-Ponoka Lacombe-Ponoka Lacombe-Ponoka is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada.-Boundary history:- Members of the Legislative Assembly :-2004 general election:-2004 Senate nominee election district results:...	Ray Prins Ray Prins Ray Prins is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, representing the constituency of Lacombe-Ponoka as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:... 6,919	Glen Simmonds 2,218	Jim Graves 1,124	Ed Klop Ed Klop Ed Klop is a politician and business man from Red Deer, Alberta Canada born in 1966.Klop is the President and Founder of Klop Construction based in Red Deer... 2,349		Teena Cormack (Soc. Cred.) 467		Judy Gordon Judy Gordon Judith "Judy" Dawn Gordon is a current provincial and municipal level politician from Alberta, Canada. She is the current mayor of Lacombe, Alberta. She previously served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1993 until 2004....
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								Halvar Jonson Halvar Jonson Halvar C. Jonson . is a former teacher and high school principal. He was also a long serving provincial politician from Alberta, Canada...
Leduc-Beaumont-Devon Leduc-Beaumont-Devon Leduc-Beaumont-Devon is a current provincial electoral district in central Alberta, Canada. The electoral district is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting....	George Rogers George Rogers (Canadian politician) George A. Rogers is a politician from Leduc, Alberta. After serving on city council from 1992 to 1998, he was mayor of Leduc from 1998 to 2004. He is currently the MLA for the riding of Leduc-Beaumont-Devon.-Early life:... 6,809	Joyce Assen 3,425	Katie Oppen 904	Dave Dalke 1,140	Stephen Lindop 381	Karen Richert (Soc. Cred.) 249		[Albert Klapstein]]† Leduc Leduc (provincial electoral district) -1905 general election:-1957 liquor plebiscite:On October 30, 1957 a stand alone plebiscite was held province wide in all 50 of the then current provincial electoral districts in Alberta. The government decided to consult Alberta voters to decide on liquor sales and mixed drinking after a divisive...
Vermilion-Lloydminster Vermilion-Lloydminster Vermilion-Lloydminster is an Albertan provincial electoral district, located in east-central Alberta.Under the Alberta electoral boundary re-distribution of 2004, the constituency is bounded by the Saskatchewan border to the east, and clockwise from there is bounded by Battle River-Wainwright, Fort...	Lloyd Snelgrove Lloyd Snelgrove Lloyd Snelgrove is a Canadian politician, who currently represents the electoral district of Vermilion-Lloydminster in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.-External links:*... 5,464	Patricia Thomas 706	Ray Stone 553	David Benoit 2,437				Lloyd Snelgrove
Wetaskiwin-Camrose Wetaskiwin-Camrose Wetaskiwin-Camrose is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. It is one of 83 current district in the province mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting....	LeRoy Johnson LeRoy Johnson LeRoy Johnson is a teacher and politician from Alberta, Canada. He is the former MLA for Wetaskiwin-Camrose.-Early life:Johnson was born in 1941 in Camrose... 6,177	Keith Elliott 2,713	Clay Lawson 908	Dale Trefz 1,193		Janice Wolter (Soc. Cred.) 309		LeRoy Johnson

Central Edmonton

Julius Yankowsky

Julius Edward Yankowsky is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1993 until he was defeated in 2004.-Political career:...

3,059
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|Sam Parmar
1,166
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|Ray Martin

Ray Martin (politician)

Raymond Martin is a politician in Alberta, Canada and former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.Born in 1941 in Delia, Alberta, Martin attended the University of Alberta in Edmonton. He was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity...

5,268
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|Phil Gamache
457
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|Benoit Couture
141
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|Ken Shipka (Soc. Cred.)
283
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|Julius Yankowsky

Julius Yankowsky

Julius Edward Yankowsky is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1993 until he was defeated in 2004.-Political career:...

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Edmonton Centre

Edmonton Centre (provincial electoral district)

Edmonton Centre is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada.-Boundary history:- Members of the Legislative Assembly :-Provincial General Election results:-Senate nominee election district results:...

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|Don Weideman
2,622
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|Laurie Blakeman

Laurie Blakeman

Laurie Blakeman is a Canadian politician, who currently represents the electoral district of Edmonton Centre in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta...

6,236
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|Mary Elizabeth Archer
1,538
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|Tony Caterina

Tony Caterina

Tony Caterina is a business man and municipal politician from Alberta, Canada. He currently serves a member of Edmonton City Council from 2007 to present.-Early life:...

264
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|David J. Parker

David J. Parker

David James Parker is a politician from Alberta, Canada. He is the former leader of the Green Party of Alberta from 1996 to 2001. He has also been a perennial candidate running in federal and provincial elections.-Political career:...

336
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|Linda Clements (Soc. Cred.)
111
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|Laurie Blakeman

Laurie Blakeman

Laurie Blakeman is a Canadian politician, who currently represents the electoral district of Edmonton Centre in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta...

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Edmonton-Glenora

Edmonton-Glenora

Edmonton-Glenora is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada. It is located north of the North Saskatchewan river....

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|Drew Hutton

Drew Hutton (politician)

Drew Hutton is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 2001 until 2004.-Political career:...

3,758
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|Bruce Miller

Bruce Miller (politician)

Bruce Miller is a politician in Alberta, Canada and former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for the constituency of Edmonton-Glenora. He was first elected on November 22, 2004 as a Liberal, but was defeated in his 2008 re-election bid by Progressive Conservative Heather Klimchuk.He...

4,610
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|Larry Booi
4,059
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|Blaine Currie
307
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|Peter Johnston
272
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|Walter Schachenhofer (Soc. Cred.)
112
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|Drew Hutton
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Edmonton Gold Bar

Edmonton Gold Bar

Edmonton-Gold Bar is a provincial electoral district, in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 83 in the province mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting....

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|Manjit Dhaliwal
2,574
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|Hugh MacDonald

Hugh MacDonald (politician)

Hugh MacDonald is a Canadian politician, who currently represents the electoral district of Edmonton-Gold Bar in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He is a member of the Alberta Liberal Party. On Sept...

8,794
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|Keith Turnbull
1,966
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|Delmar Hunt
538
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|Dave Dowling (Ind.)
167
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|Hugh MacDonald

Hugh MacDonald (politician)

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Edmonton Highlands-Norwood

Edmonton Highlands-Norwood

Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada. The district was created in 2004 when it was merged with Edmonton-Highlands and Edmonton-Norwood....

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|Terry Martiniuk
2,209
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|Jason Manzevich
1,035
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|Brian Mason
Brian Mason
Brian Mason is a Canadian politician and leader of the Alberta New Democrats . Mason was first elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood in a 2001 byelection, and his career in politics spans more than 20 years.Mason first became politically active...

6,053
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|Ray Loyer
315
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|Dale W. Ferris (Ind.)
66
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|Brian Mason
Brian Mason
Brian Mason is a Canadian politician and leader of the Alberta New Democrats . Mason was first elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood in a 2001 byelection, and his career in politics spans more than 20 years.Mason first became politically active...

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Edmonton Mill Creek

Edmonton Mill Creek

Edmonton Mill Creek is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada.-Boundary history:- Members of the Legislative Assembly :-2004 general election:-2004 Senate nominee election district results:...

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|Gene Zwozdesky
Gene Zwozdesky
Gene Zwozdesky is a politician and current cabinet minister from Alberta, Canada.Zwozdeksy, was born in Saskatchewan but came to Alberta at the age of two. He lived in Grand Centre, Hinton and Sangudo before moving to Edmonton, where he has lived in 1963 and where he obtain bachelor's degrees in...

5,071
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|Aman Gill
4,286
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|Nathan Taylor
1,709
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|Robert Alford

Robert Alford

Robert Alford in Edson, Alberta, Canada, and is a politician. He married in 1975 and raised two daughters.-Education:...

523
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|Eric Steiglitz
386
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|Cameron Johnson (Ind.)
72
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|Gene Zwozdesky
Gene Zwozdesky
Gene Zwozdesky is a politician and current cabinet minister from Alberta, Canada.Zwozdeksy, was born in Saskatchewan but came to Alberta at the age of two. He lived in Grand Centre, Hinton and Sangudo before moving to Edmonton, where he has lived in 1963 and where he obtain bachelor's degrees in...

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Edmonton Mill Woods

Edmonton Mill Woods

Edmonton-Mill Woods is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. It is one of 83 current electoral districts mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting....

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|Naresh Bhardwaj
2,989
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|Weslyn Mather

Weslyn Mather

Weslyn Mather is a former provincial politician in the Canadian province of Alberta. She served as a member in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 2004 to 2008 sitting with the Liberal caucus in opposition.-Early life:...

5,014
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|Lloyd Nelson
1,565
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|Charles Relland
816
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|Naomi Rankin
Naomi Rankin
Naomi Rankin is the current leader of the Communist Party of Alberta in Alberta, Canada.She has been leader of the Communist Party since 1992 and has run in every provincial and federal election in Alberta since 1982, for the Communist Party or the Communist Party of Canada...

(Communist)
42
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|Don Massey

Don Massey

Don Massey is a former municipal and provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1993 until 2004. In that period he also served as Leader of the Official Opposition and Leader of the Alberta Liberal Party in 2004...

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Edmonton Riverview

Edmonton Riverview

Edmonton Riverview is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting....

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|Fred Horne
3,571
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|Kevin Taft
Kevin Taft
Kevin Taft is a Liberal politician in Alberta, Canada. He was the leader of the Alberta Liberal Party and Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, from 2004 to 2008...

10,279
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|Donna Martyn
1,053
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|David Edgar
315
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|John Lackey
355
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|Dave W. Power (Soc. Cred.)
111
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|Kevin Taft
Kevin Taft
Kevin Taft is a Liberal politician in Alberta, Canada. He was the leader of the Alberta Liberal Party and Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, from 2004 to 2008...

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Edmonton Rutherford

Edmonton Rutherford

Edmonton-Rutherford is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting....

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|Ian McClelland

Ian McClelland

Ian G. McClelland is an Edmonton-based businessperson, who was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to 2000, and a member of the Alberta Legislative Assembly from 2001 to 2004.-Business:...

4,173
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|Rick Miller

Rick Miller (politician)

Rick Miller is a politician in the Canadian province of Alberta and former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta....

7,217
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|George A. Slade
995
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|R. J. (Bob) Ewart
516
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|Anit Ashmore (Soc. Cred.)
210
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|Ian McClelland

Ian McClelland

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Edmonton-Strathcona

Edmonton-Strathcona (provincial electoral district)

Edmonton-Strathcona is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada. It shares the same name as the federal electoral district of Edmonton—Strathcona....

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|Shannon Stubbs
2,256
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|Steven Leard
1,850
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|Raj Pannu

Raj Pannu

Raj Pannu is a Canadian educator and politician, who led the Alberta New Democratic Party from 2000 to 2004.Pannu was born in Punjab, India completing an undergraduate degree before immigrating to Canada in 1962...

7,430
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|Jeremy Burns
275
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|Adrian Cole
287
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|Kelly Graham (Soc. Cred.)
162
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|Raj Pannu

Raj Pannu

Suburban Edmonton and Environs

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Edmonton-Calder

Edmonton-Calder

Edmonton-Calder is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada. It is currently represented by Progressive Conservative MLA Doug Elniski.-Boundary history:- Members of the Legislative Assembly :...

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|Brent Rathgeber

Brent Rathgeber

Brent Rathgeber is a lawyer and politician from Alberta, Canada. Formerly a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 2001 to 2004, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 2008 federal election.-Political career:Rathgeber won election to the provincial electoral district of...

3,680
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|Brad Smith
3,028
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|David Eggen

David Eggen

David Eggen is a Canadian politician. He is a former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for the riding of Edmonton-Calder.- Educator :...

4,055
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|Vicki Kramer
526
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|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Edmonton Castle Downs

Edmonton Castle Downs

Election

Recount

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|Thomas Lukaszuk

Thomas Lukaszuk

Thomas A. Lukaszuk is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Edmonton-Castle Downs as a Progressive Conservative...

5,014
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|Chris Kibermanis

Chris Kibermanis

Thomas Lukaszuk

Thomas A. Lukaszuk is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Edmonton-Castle Downs as a Progressive Conservative...

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|586
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|78
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|rowspan=3 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Edmonton Decore

Edmonton Decore

Edmonton-Decore is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. It is one of 83 districts mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting....

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|rowspan=3|Walter Szwender

Walter Szwender

Walter R. Szwender is a former provincial level politician and teacher from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1982 until 1986.-Political career:...

3,033
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|rowspan=3|Bill Bonko

Bill Bonko

Bill Bonko is a Canadian politician and former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He was first elected in the 2004 election as a Liberal in Edmonton Decore, but was defeated in his 2008 re-election bid by Progressive Conservative Janice Sarich....

Gary Masyk

Gary Masyk is a businessman and politician in Alberta, Canada.Born in High Prairie, Masyk owned Garco Oilfield Service and Masyk Lumber Company before entering politics...

830
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|rowspan=3|
|rowspan=3|
|rowspan=3|Geoffrey Chevrier (Soc. Cred.)
94
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|Bill Bonner

Bill Bonner (politician)

Bill Bonner is a former provincial level politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1997 to 2004.-Political career:Bonner was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1997 Alberta general election...

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|Gary Masyk

Gary Masyk

Gary Masyk is a businessman and politician in Alberta, Canada.Born in High Prairie, Masyk owned Garco Oilfield Service and Masyk Lumber Company before entering politics...

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke |Edmonton Ellerslie

Edmonton Ellerslie

Edmonton Ellerslie is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada.-Boundary history:-2004 general election:-2004 Senate nominee election district results:...

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|Gurnam Dodd
3,245
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|Bharat Agnihotri

Bharat Agnihotri

Bharat Agnihotri is a Canadian politician and a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He represented the constituency of Edmonton Ellerslie, sitting as a Liberal...

3,444
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|Marilyn Assheton-Smith
2,257
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|Eleanor Maroes
985
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|Amelia Maciejewski (Soc. Cred.)
238
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke |Edmonton Manning

Edmonton Manning

Edmonton-Manning is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada.- Members of the Legislative Assembly :-Boundary history:-2004 general election:-2004 Senate nominee election district results:...

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|Tony Vandermeer

Tony Vandermeer

Tony Vandermeer is a politician from Alberta, Canada, and member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.Vandermeer first ran for the Progressive Conservatives in the 1997 Alberta general election when he lost to Liberal Ed Gibbons...

3,646
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|Dan Backs

Dan Backs

Dan Backs is a politician and former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He was elected as a Liberal candidate in the 2004 provincial election, but was kicked out of the Liberal caucus by leader Kevin Taft, who cited concerns about Backs' ability to work as a member of a team...

3,873
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|Laurie Lang
2,371
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|Mike Pietramala
515
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|Ross Adshead
240
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|Sean Tisdall (Soc. Cred.)
130
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|Tony Vandermeer

Tony Vandermeer

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke |Edmonton McClung

Edmonton McClung

Edmonton-McClung is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada.Edmonton-McClung was created in 1993, and was represented by Grant Mitchell from 1993 to 1998. Mitchell served as leader of the Alberta Liberal Party from 1994 to 1998.In 1998, following Mitchell’s...

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|Mark Norris
5,331
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|Mo Elsalhy

Mo Elsalhy

- Career :Mo contested the nomination for Edmonton McClung against Maurice Tougas in 2004, and started campaigning three months before the nomination day. He was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing Edmonton McClung in the 2004 general election for the Alberta...

5,864
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|Lorne Dach
1,362
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|Reuben Bauer
401
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|Patrick Conlin (Soc. Cred.)
104
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|Mark Norris
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke |Edmonton Meadowlark

Edmonton Meadowlark

Edmonton Meadowlark is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 83 mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting....

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|Bob Maskell

Bob Maskell

Robert "Bob" Maskell is a former teacher and provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 2001 until 2004.-Early life:...

4,243
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|Maurice Tougas

Maurice Tougas

Maurice Tougas is a Canadian politician, who formerly represented the electoral district of Edmonton Meadowlark in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He is a member of the Liberal Party...

4,436
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|Lance Burns
1,303
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|Aaron Campbell
444
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|Amanda Doyle
245
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|Peggy Morton (Ind.)
77
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|Bob Maskell

Bob Maskell

Robert "Bob" Maskell is a former teacher and provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 2001 until 2004.-Early life:...

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke |Edmonton-Whitemud

Edmonton-Whitemud

Edmonton-Whitemud is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada. In 1989, its constituents unseated the Premier of the day, Donald Getty, by voting for Liberal candidate, Percy Wickman....

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|David Hancock
David Hancock
David Hancock is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Edmonton-Whitemud as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

7,493
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|Donna L. Smith
6,567
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|Brian Fleck
1,634
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|Kathy Rayner
469
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|John Andrews (Ind.)
76
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke |Sherwood Park

Sherwood Park (electoral district)

Sherwood Park is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada.-Boundary history:- Members of the Legislative Assembly :-2004 general election:-2004 Senate nominee election district results:...

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|Iris Evans
Iris Evans
Iris Evans is a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and is Minister of International and Intergovernmental Relations for the Canadian province. From November 25, 2004 to December 15, 2006 she served as Alberta's Minister of Health and Wellness in Premier Ralph Klein's cabinet...

7,276
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|Louise Rogers
5,587
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|Tim Sloan
994
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|Cora LaBonte
444
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|Lynn Lau
362
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|Gordon Barrett (Soc. Cred.)
474
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|Iris Evans
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke |Spruce Grove-Sturgeon-St. Albert

Spruce Grove-Sturgeon-St. Albert

Spruce Grove-Sturgeon-St. Albert is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada.-Boundary history:-2004 general election:-2004 Senate nominee election district results:...

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|Doug Horner

Doug Horner

Douglas Alan "Doug" Horner is a Canadian politician, who represents the electoral district of Spruce Grove-Sturgeon-St. Albert in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta...

6,140
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|Ray Boudreau
5,559
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|Dale Apostal
1,020
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|Tim Friesen
740
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|Glen Blaylock (Soc. Cred.)
170
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|Doug Horner

Doug Horner

Douglas Alan "Doug" Horner is a Canadian politician, who represents the electoral district of Spruce Grove-Sturgeon-St. Albert in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta...

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke |St. Albert

St. Albert (provincial electoral district)

St. Albert formally styled Saint Albert is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 83 current districts mandate to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta of Alberta, Canada....

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|Mary O'Neill

Mary O'Neill

Mary O'Neill is a politician and former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.O'Neill graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts, and subsequently received her teaching certification from the Ontario College of Education. She taught in both public and private schools...

6,064
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|Jack Flaherty

Jack Flaherty

Jack Flaherty is a politician and former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.Flaherty graduated with a Bachelor of Education, a Bachelor of Physical Education, and a Master's of Education from the University of Alberta. He worked as a teacher in Edmonton and Red Deer before becoming a...

6,474
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|Travis Thompson
1,652
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|Michaela Meldrum
591
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|Conrad Bitangcol
407
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|Mary O'Neill

Mary O'Neill

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Strathcona

Strathcona (provincial electoral district)

Strathcona is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada. It is not to be confused with Edmonton-Strathcona, another provincial electoral district within the city of Edmonton, or with the federal electoral district Edmonton-Strathcona.The riding of Strathcona...

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|Rob Lougheed

Rob Lougheed

Rob Lougheed is a teacher and politician from Alberta, Canada.Rob was born in Grande Prairie in 1947.He attended the University of Alberta....

6,838
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|Jon Friel
4,115
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|Tom Elchuk
1,177
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|Ryan Seto
466
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|Bruce Stubbs
Bruce Stubbs
Bruce Stubbs is a farmer and political figure in Alberta, Canada. He first came to public attention as a leading member of G.U.A.R.D. , a group opposed to the United Alternative process which formed the Canadian Alliance from the Reform Party of Canada.He is a former leader of the Alberta Party, a...

(Ab. Pty.)
775
Brian Rembowski (Soc. Cred.)
327
Roberta McDonald (Separation)
297
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|Recreated District
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Southern Alberta

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Airdrie-Chestermere

Airdrie-Chestermere

Airdrie-Chestermere is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. It is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting....

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|Carol Haley

Carol Haley

Carol Haley is a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. She served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1993 to 2008.-Political career:Haley was first elected to the Alberta Legislature in the 1993 Alberta general election...

6,842
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|John Burke
1,633
|
|Grant Massie
569
|
|Bradley Gaida
758
|
|Angela Scully
434
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|Jeff Willerton (Alberta Pty.)
1,036
Bob Lefurgey (Separation)
394
Jerry Gautreau (Soc. Cred.)
178
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|Carol Haley

Carol Haley

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cardston-Taber-Warner

Cardston-Taber-Warner

Cardston-Taber-Warner is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is mandated to return a single member to the for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta....

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|Broyce Jacobs

Broyce Jacobs

Broyce G. Jacobs is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Cardston-Taber-Warner as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:Jacobs was born in Cardston, Alberta...

3,753
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|Paula Shimp
783
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|Luann Bannister
185
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|Paul Hinman

Paul Hinman

Paul Hinman is a provincial politician and small business entrepreneur from Alberta, Canada. He was formerly the leader of the Wildrose Alliance. He served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 2004 to 2008 representing the electoral district of Cardston-Taber-Warner...

3,884
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|Lindsay Ferguson
225
|
|
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|Broyce Jacobs

Broyce Jacobs

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cypress-Medicine Hat

Cypress-Medicine Hat

Cypress-Medicine Hat is an Albertan provincial electoral district, located in the southeastern corner of the province.Under the Alberta electoral boundary re-distribution of 2004, the constituency covers the portion of Medicine Hat south of the South Saskatchewan River, the Trans-Canada Highway and...

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|Leonard Mitzel

Leonard Mitzel

Leonard Mitzel is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Cypress-Medicine Hat as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

4,623
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|Stuart Angle
2,234
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|Cliff Anten
345
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|Dan H. Pierson
651
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|
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|Eric Solberg (Soc. Cred.)
561
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|Lorne Taylor
Lorne Taylor
Lorne Taylor is a former tenured professor and member of the provincial legislature of Alberta, Canada.-Political career:Taylor was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1993 Alberta general election. He defeated three other candidates including Al Strom of the Social Credit with a...

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Highwood

Highwood (electoral district)

Highwood is a provincial electoral district in southern Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 83 in the province mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting....

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|George Groeneveld

George Groeneveld

George Groeneveld is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Highwood as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

6,782
|
|Lori Czerwinski
1,843
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|Catherine Whelan Costen
432
|
|Brian Wickhorst
733
|
|Sheelagh Matthews
547
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|Cory Morgan (Separation)
299
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|Don Tannas

Don Tannas

Don Tannas is a former provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a Member of the Alberta Legislature from 1989 until 2004.-Political history:...

|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lethbridge-East

Lethbridge-East

Lethbridge-East is an provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, covering the eastern half of the city of Lethbridge. The district is one of 83 in the province mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting.The...

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|Rod Fong
4,703
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|Bridget Pastoor

Bridget Pastoor

Bridget A. Pastoor is a Canadian politician who has been serving as a member of the Alberta legislative assembly since 22 November 2004....

5,340
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|Gaye Metz
607
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|Brian Stewart
1,472
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|Erin Matthews
360
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|Darren Popik (Soc. Cred.)
251
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|vacant
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lethbridge-West

Lethbridge-West

Lethbridge-West is an Alberta provincial electoral district, covering the western half of the city of Lethbridge, including all of West Lethbridge....

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|Clint Dunford
Clint Dunford
Clint Dunford was a Canadian politician in Lethbridge, Alberta. He was first elected in 1993 as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Lethbridge West, and elected to his fourth term on 22 November 2004...

4,416
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|Bal Boora
3,675
|
|Mark Sandilands
1,316
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|Merle Terlesky

Merle Terlesky

Merle Terlesky is a Canadian conservative activist and aspiring politician originally from Kamloops, British Columbia. Once affiliated with the Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics, a pro-choice organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Terlesky has since become pro-life...

949
|
|Andrea Sheridan
368
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|Scott Sawatsky (Soc. Cred.)
357
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|Clint Dunford
Clint Dunford
Clint Dunford was a Canadian politician in Lethbridge, Alberta. He was first elected in 1993 as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Lethbridge West, and elected to his fourth term on 22 November 2004...

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Little Bow

Little Bow (electoral district)

Little Bow is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada.The district, named after the Little Bow River, was created in 1913 from the north-west corner of Lethbridge District and the eastern portions of Okotoks, High River, Nanton and Claresholm...

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|Barry McFarland

Barry McFarland

Barry McFarland is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Little Bow as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

4,894
|
|Arij Langstraat
1,965
|
|Hugh Logie
327
|
|Jay Phin
859
|
|
|
|Brian Cook (Soc. Cred.)
556
Grant Shaw (Separation)
432
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|Barry McFarland

Barry McFarland

Barry McFarland is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Little Bow as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Livingstone-Macleod

Livingstone-Macleod

Livingstone-Macleod is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 83 current districts in the province mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting....

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|David Coutts
David Coutts
David Coutts is a Canadian politician, who previously represented the electoral district of Livingstone-Macleod in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. He was first elected in the 1993 election, and was re-elected three times before declining...

5,095
|
|Craig Whitehead
2,030
|
|Joyce Thomas
626
|
|George Lyster
1,493
|
|Chris Watts
468
|
|Jim Walker (Separation)
339
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|David Coutts
David Coutts
David Coutts is a Canadian politician, who previously represented the electoral district of Livingstone-Macleod in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. He was first elected in the 1993 election, and was re-elected three times before declining...

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Medicine Hat

Medicine Hat (provincial electoral district)

Medicine Hat is an Albertan provincial electoral district, covering most of the city of Medicine Hat.Under the Alberta electoral boundary re-distribution of 2004, the constituency covers the portion of the city north of the South Saskatchewan River, the Trans-Canada Highway and Carry Drive...

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|Rob Renner

Rob Renner

Robert William Renner is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for the constituency of Medicine Hat as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

5,392
|
|Karen Charlton
3,482
|
|Diana Arnott
560
|
|Scott Cowan
1,073
|
|
|
|Jonathan Lorentzen (Soc. Cred.)
246
||
|Rob Renner

Rob Renner

Robert William Renner is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for the constituency of Medicine Hat as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Strathmore-Brooks

Strathmore-Brooks

Strathmore-Brooks is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada.-Boundary history:-Members of the Legislative Assembly:-2004 general election:-2004 Senate nominee election district results:...

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|Lyle Oberg
Lyle Oberg
Lyle Oberg is an Albertan politician and former member of the Legislative Assembly.Oberg was born near Forestburg, Alberta in 1960. A physician by profession, Oberg was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as an Progressive Conservative in 1993. He was first appointed to the...

6,051
|
|Carol Jacques
1,055
|
|Don MacFarlane
405
|
|Mark D. Ogden
852
|
|
|
|Jay Kolody (Separation)
559
Rudy Martens (Soc. Cred.)
313
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|Lyle Oberg
Lyle Oberg
Lyle Oberg is an Albertan politician and former member of the Legislative Assembly.Oberg was born near Forestburg, Alberta in 1960. A physician by profession, Oberg was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as an Progressive Conservative in 1993. He was first appointed to the...

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Suburban Calgary

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Calgary-Bow
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|Alana DeLong

Alana DeLong

Alana DeLong is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-Bow as a Progressive Conservative. She was first elected in 2001 and reelected in both the 2004 and 2008 Alberta provincial elections.-Early life:DeLong was born...

6,097
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|Kelly McDonnell
3,509
|
|Jennifer Banks
1,135
|
|James Istvanffy
1,015
|
|Marie Picken
713
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| Margaret Askin (Independent)
98
Doug Picken (Soc. Cred.)
97
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|Alana DeLong

Alana DeLong

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Calgary-Cross
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|Yvonne Fritz

Yvonne Fritz

Yvonne Fritz is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-Cross as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

3,763
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|Raleigh DeHaney
1,452
|
|Jeanie Keebler
391
|
|Gordon Huth
648
|
|Ryan Richardson
271
|
|
||
|Yvonne Fritz

Yvonne Fritz

Yvonne Fritz is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-Cross as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Calgary-Foothills
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|Len Webber

Len Webber

Len Webber is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-Foothills as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

5,820
|
|Stephen Jenuth
3,559
|
|Malcolm Forster
407
|
|Vincent S. Jansen-Van Doorn
472
|
|
|
|
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|Pat Nelson
Pat Nelson
Patricia "Pat" Nelson née Black is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. As a member of the ruling Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta, she served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for the Calgary Foothills electoral district from 1989 to 2004...

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Calgary-Fort
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|Wayne Cao

Wayne Cao

Wayne Cao is a Canadian politician and current member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, where he represents the district of Calgary-Fort as a Progressive Conservative. He was first elected in the 1997 provincial election and has been re-elected four times since...

4,136
|
|Gerry Hart
1,784
|
|Elizabeth Thomas
583
|
|Travis Chase
589
|
|Tyler Charkie
440
|
|Leo Ollenberger (Separation)
212
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|Wayne Cao

Wayne Cao

|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Calgary-Hays
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|Arthur Johnston

Arthur Johnston (politician)

Arthur "Art" Johnston is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-Hays as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

5,529
|
|Sharon Howe
1,952
|
|Rachel Weinfeld
298
|
|Robert Wawrzynowski
534
|
|Bernie Amell
378
|
|
|colspan=2|new district
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Calgary-Lougheed
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|David Rodney
6,334
|
|Allan Pollock
2,971
|
|Matthew Koczkur
365
|
|Tariq Khan
445
|
|Ryan Boucher
471
|
|
||
|Marlene Graham

Marlene Graham

Marlene Graham is a judge and a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. She served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1997 until 2004.-Political career:...

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Calgary-Mackay
||
|Gary Mar
Gary Mar
Gary Glen Mar QC, is a Canadian politician in Alberta, Canada. He served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1993 to 2007. On December 3, 2007, he was appointed as the Official Representative for Alberta in Washington, D.C., and worked in the Canadian Embassy with the official...

5,640
|
|Darryl Hawkins
2,615
|
|Giorgio Cattabeni
395
|
|Shawn Hubbard
640
|
|David McTavish
443
|
|Paul Martin (Independent)
193
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|Gary Mar
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Calgary-McCall
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|Shiraz Shariff

Shiraz Shariff

-Political career:Shariff was elected to his first term in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in a hotly contested by-election in Calgary McCall on April 20, 1995 defeating Liberal Jeet Shergill and future New Democratic Party president Anne McGrath by just a few hundred votes.He won his second...

3,203
|
|Darshan Kang
2,958
|
|Gurpreet (Preet) Sihota
264
|
|Ina Givens
573
|
|Sean Robert Brocklesby
359
|
|
||
|Shiraz Shariff
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Calgary-Montrose
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|Hung Pham

Hung Pham

Hung Pham or Hung Kim Pham is a former politician and information expert in Alberta, Canada. He formerly served as a member of Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada.-Early Life:...

3,318
|
|Arthur Danielson
1,651
|
|Jason Nishiyama
434
|
|Cyril Collingwood
674
|
|Kevin Colton
355
|
|
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|Hung Pham
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Calgary-North West
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|Greg Melchin
Greg Melchin
Greg Melchin is a politician and accountant who formerly served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and Cabinet Minister in the Alberta government.-Early life:Greg was born in Raymond, Alberta...

7,768
|
|Judy Stewart
4,488
|
|Bob Brunet
518
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|Jenell Friesen
622
|
|Jeffrey Krekoski
636
|
|
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|Greg Melchin
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Calgary-Shaw
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|Cindy Ady

Cindy Ady

Cindy Ady is a Canadian politician and a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. She has served in this capacity since the 2001 provincial election, being re-elected in both the 2004 provincial election and 2008 provincial election, sitting as a Progressive Conservative...

Barry Chase

Barry Chase is an Alberta politician.He ran for the Alberta Alliance Party in the 2004 provincial election in Calgary Shaw. He ended up finishing third. He is currently president of the Calgary Shaw riding association for the Alberta Alliance.Prior to running for the Alliance, he was an original...

620
|
|Rick Papineau
380
|
|Daniel Doherty (Separation)
171
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|Cindy Ady
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Calgary-West
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|Ron Liepert

Ron Liepert

Ronald Liepert is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-West as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

6,964
|
|Derek Smith
4,286
|
|Chantelle Dubois
434
|
|John Keyes
988
|
|James Kohut
732
|
|
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|Karen Kryczka

Karen Kryczka

Karen Kryczka is a former politician from Alberta, Canada.Karen was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1997 Alberta general election. She served as a back bench member for the Progressive Conservatives. In 2001 she was re-elected for a second term...

Central Calgary

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Calgary-Buffalo
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|Harvey Cenaiko

Harvey Cenaiko

Harvey Cenaiko is a former police officer and one-time Solicitor General and Minister of Public Safety for the Province of Alberta. Cenaiko was elected to his second term as Member of the Legislative Assembly for the riding of Calgary-Buffalo on November 22, 2004. On November 25, 2004, he was...

Grant Neufeld

Grant Neufeld is a social justice and media activist, as well as a politician in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He also works in the field of community economic development on a local currency project at the Calgary-based "Arusha Centre". He was raised in Calgary....

656
|
|Elizabeth Kaur Fielding (Soc. Cred.)
71
Carl Schwartz (Alberta Pty.)
58
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|Harvey Cenaiko

Harvey Cenaiko

Jon Lord (politician)

Jon Lord is a former politician and member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from Alberta, Canada.-Early life:Jon was born in Calgary and raised in rural Central Alberta. After having graduated from the University of Alberta with a degree in business. He established a successful video...

4,413
||
|Dave Taylor
4,984
|
|Robert Scobel
468
|
|Ken Mazeroll
348
|
|Kim Warnke
810
|
|
||
|Jon Lord

Jon Lord (politician)

|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Calgary-East
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|Moe Amery

Moe Amery

Moe Amery is a Canadian politician and current member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, representing the constituency of Calgary-East as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

4,492
|
|Bill Harvey
2,359
|
|Paul Vargis
461
|
|Brad Berard
605
|
|Rick Michalenko
367
|
|Bonnie-Jean Collins (Communist)
56
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|Moe Amery

Moe Amery

Moe Amery is a Canadian politician and current member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, representing the constituency of Calgary-East as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Calgary-Egmont
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|Denis Herard

Denis Herard

Denis Herard is a politician from Alberta, Canada, and is the former Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLA for Calgary-Egmont. He is French-Canadian, with fore-fathers coming majorly from Quebec....

David Crutcher

David Crutcher is a politician and small business man from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He graduated from Brunel University in England in 1962 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.In 1994 David Crutcher founded Ramatek Inc...

1,657
|
|George Read
George Read (Canadian politician)
George Read is the former leader of the Green Party of Alberta and formerly a key organizer for the federal Green Party of Canada in Alberta.- Green Party organizing :...

914
|
|
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|Denis Herard

Denis Herard

|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Calgary-Elbow
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|Ralph Klein
6,968
|
|Stephen Brown
4,934
|
|Becky Kelley
343
|
|Diana-Lynn Brooks
485
|
|Allison Roth
666
|
|Trevor Grover (Soc. Cred.)
68
Lloyd Blimke (Ind.)
51
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|Ralph Klein
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Calgary-Fish Creek
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|Heather Forsyth
Heather Forsyth
Heather Forsyth is a Canadian politician and current member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-Fish Creek as a Wildrose Alliance representative. She was a Progressive Conservative until she crossed the floor on January 4, 2010.-Early life:Forsyth was...

6,829
|
|Tore Badenduck
2,801
|
|Eric Leavitt
794
|
|Mike Kuipers
780
|
|Chris Sealy
561
|
|
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|Heather Forsyth
Heather Forsyth
Heather Forsyth is a Canadian politician and current member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-Fish Creek as a Wildrose Alliance representative. She was a Progressive Conservative until she crossed the floor on January 4, 2010.-Early life:Forsyth was...

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Calgary-Glenmore

Calgary-Glenmore

Calgary Glenmore is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada.The electoral riding of Calgary Glenmore is one of two original Calgary ridings of the seven that still survives from the 1959 redistribution of the Calgary riding...

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|Ron Stevens
Ron Stevens
Ron Stevens, Q.C. is a Canadian politician. He was a member of the current Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-Glenmore as a Progressive Conservative until his resignation on May 15, 2009...

6,257
|
|Avalon Roberts
4,360
|
|Holly Heffernan
550
|
|Ernest McCutcheon
572
|
|Evan Sklarski
531
|
|Larry R. Heather

Larry R. Heather

Larry R. Heather is a politician and activist in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is a perennial candidate for the Christian Heritage Party of Canada, and has also campaigned in provincial and municipal elections....

(Soc. Cred.)
135
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|Ron Stevens
Ron Stevens
Ron Stevens, Q.C. is a Canadian politician. He was a member of the current Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-Glenmore as a Progressive Conservative until his resignation on May 15, 2009...

|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Calgary-Mountain View
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|Mark Hlady

Mark Hlady

Mark Hlady is a Canadian businessman and politician and a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.Hlady was elected in the 1993 general election as a Progressive Conservative in the riding of Calgary Mountain View, defeating New Democrat Bob Hawkesworth. Hlady kept his seat in the 1997...

4,058
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|David Swann

David Swann

David Swann, MLA is a medical doctor and Alberta Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary Mountain View. He was until recently the leader of the Alberta Liberal Party and Leader of the Opposition in the Alberta Legislature....

7,155
|
|John Donovan
711
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|Ryan Cassell
589
|
|Mark MacGillivray
912
|
|
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|Mark Hlady

Mark Hlady

|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Calgary-North Hill
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|Richard Magnus

Richard Magnus

Richard Magnus is a Canadian politician currently living in Alberta, Canada.Magnus served as a municipal alderman for Calgary city council representing Ward 4 from 1989 until his resignation in 1993...

4,384
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|Pat Murray
3,223
|
|Aileen L. Machell
630
|
|Brent Best
627
|
|Susan Stratton
1,264
|
|
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|Richard Magnus

Richard Magnus

|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Calgary-Nose Hill

Calgary-Nose Hill

Calgary-Nose Hill is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting....

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|Neil Brown

Neil Brown (Alberta politician)

Dr. Neil Brown is a lawyer, biologist, Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, representing the constituency of Calgary-Nose Hill as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

4,369
|
|Len Borowski
2,605
|
|Dirk Huysman
552
|
|Bill McGregor
1,073
|
|John Johnson
584
|
|Raymond Hurst (Soc. Cred.)
163
|colspan="2"|new district
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Calgary-Varsity
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|Michael W. Smyth
5,585
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|Harry B. Chase

Harry B. Chase

Harry B. Chase is a Canadian politician. He is a provincial MLA as a member of the Alberta Liberal Party.-Early life:...

Len Skowronski

Leonard "Len" Skowronski is the leader of the provincial Social Credit Party in Alberta, Canada. He was elected at a leadership convention held on November 3, 2007 in Red Deer to replace Lavern Ahlstrom who resigned....

(Soc. Cred.)
118
||
|Murray Smith
Murray Smith (Alberta politician)
Murray D. Smith is a businessman and former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1993 until 2004 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

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Electoral re-distribution

Alberta's electoral laws fix the number of legislature seats at 83. As a result of the Alberta Electoral Boundary Re-distribution, 2004

Alberta Electoral Boundary Re-distribution, 2004

Current electoral laws in Alberta, Canada fix the number of legislature seats at 83. Prior to the 26th general election, the Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission was given the task of re-distributing the province's electoral divisions. In February 2003] the Commission recommended 83 new...

, Calgary

Calgary

Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...

gained two seats. Edmonton lost one seat, and one "special consideration" division was eliminated. Dunvegan-Central Peace

Dunvegan-Central Peace

Dunvegan-Central Peace is an Alberta provincial electoral district, located in northwestern Alberta.Following the Alberta electoral boundary re-distribution of 2004, Dunvegan was the only division with a population of less than 75% the provincial average, with its recorded population of 24,202...

is the sole remaining "special" division - due to its isolation, it is allowed to have a population below 75% of the provincial average. Lesser Slave Lake is now considered to be a standard rural

Rural

Rural areas or the country or countryside are areas that are not urbanized, though when large areas are described, country towns and smaller cities will be included. They have a low population density, and typically much of the land is devoted to agriculture...

division as its boundaries were re-drawn so that its population is slightly above 75% of the provincial average. One urbanized

Urbanization

Urbanization, urbanisation or urban drift is the physical growth of urban areas as a result of global change. The United Nations projected that half of the world's population would live in urban areas at the end of 2008....

division outside Calgary and Edmonton was added, and two rural seats were eliminated.

Political parties

For this election, there were 11 political parties

Political party

A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

registered with Elections Alberta

Elections Alberta

Elections Alberta is the non-partisan organization which oversees general elections and by-elections for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Elections Alberta also oversees Senatorial elections and plebiscites.-History:...

. See also: List of Alberta political parties.

Parties that elected MLAs in the previous election

The parties are listed in descending order of number of MLAs elected in 2001.

Progressive Conservative Party

Leader: Ralph Klein

In the 2001 election, the Progressive Conservatives

Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta

The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

recorded a result that was comparable to those achieved in their years of dominance under Peter Lougheed

Peter Lougheed

Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....

. The Tories received 627,252 out of 1,013,152 votes cast and won 74 seats, gaining 11 seats over and above their 1997 result at the expense of the Liberals. This result was achieved due to a resurgence of the party in Edmonton, where the Tories won a majority of seats for the first time since 1982. Premier Ralph Klein easily retained his Calgary-Elbow

Elbow River

The Elbow River is a river located in southern Alberta, Canada. It flows from the Canadian Rockies to the city of Calgary, where it merges into the Bow River....

seat.

On April 8, 2002, Doug Griffiths

Doug Griffiths

Douglas "Doug" Griffiths is a Canadian politician and Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Battle River-Wainwright as a Progressive Conservative...

retained the Tories' seat in Wainwright

Wainwright, Alberta

Wainwright is a town on the prairies of east-central Alberta, Canada.It is located on the north side of the Canadian National Railway, with CFB Wainwright located on the southwest side. The town lies south of Vermilion, in the Battle River valley, along Highway 41, called the Buffalo Trail....

in the only by-election

By-election

A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....

held since the 2001 election, albeit with a substantially reduced plurality. The Tories lost only one seat since the 2001 election, after Edmonton-Norwood MLA Gary Masyk

Gary Masyk

Gary Masyk is a businessman and politician in Alberta, Canada.Born in High Prairie, Masyk owned Garco Oilfield Service and Masyk Lumber Company before entering politics...

crossed the floor

Crossing the floor

In politics, crossing the floor has two meanings referring to a change of allegiance in a Westminster system parliament.The term originates from the British House of Commons, which is configured with the Government and Opposition facing each other on rows of benches...

to join the Alberta Alliance. As expected, the Tories nominated a full slate of candidates for the 2004 election.

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Liberal Party

Leader: Kevin Taft

Kevin Taft

Kevin Taft is a Liberal politician in Alberta, Canada. He was the leader of the Alberta Liberal Party and Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, from 2004 to 2008...

The 2001 election was generally regarded to be as a disaster for the Liberals. Although the Liberals retained Official Opposition status and received 276,854 votes, the party lost 11 seats to the Tories and won only seven seats, six of them in Edmonton. Leader Nancy Macbeth

Nancy MacBeth

Nancy MacBeth, née Elliott is a Canadian politician, who was the leader of the Alberta Liberal Party from 1998 to 2001.-Early life:...

even lost her own seat in Edmonton-McClung - she resigned days after the election and was replaced by Ken Nicol

Ken Nicol (politician)

Ken Nicol is a Canadian politician and academic.He served as the MLA for Lethbridge East from 1993 to 2004. During his final three years, he was the leader of the Alberta Liberal Party, and leader of the official opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta...

, the Opposition's sole representative outside the capital.

Nicol eventually resigned as MLA for Lethbridge East and as Leader of the Opposition to run (unsuccessfully) for the Liberals

Liberal Party of Canada

The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...

in the federal election

Canadian federal election, 2004

The Canadian federal election, 2004 , was held on June 28, 2004 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 38th Parliament of Canada. The Liberal government of Prime Minister Paul Martin lost its majority, but was able to form a minority government after the elections...

, as did Edmonton-Ellerslie MLA Debby Carlson

Debby Carlson

Debby Carlson is a former Liberal MLA in Alberta, who represented the electoral district of Edmonton Ellerslie from 1993 to 2004.Carlson won her seat in southeast Edmonton's Ellerslie area, and held it in the 1993, 1997, and 2001 elections until 2004 when she won a highly contested federal Liberal...

. These seats remained vacant through dissolution. The Liberals were led in the 2004 election by Edmonton-Riverview MLA Kevin Taft, who was elected to the position in March 2004. The Liberals had 82 candidates in the 2004 election - they were absent from the ballot in Drumheller-Stettler after failing to file papers for their expected candidate, Don McMann before the deadline.

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New Democratic Party

Leader: Brian Mason

Brian Mason

Brian Mason is a Canadian politician and leader of the Alberta New Democrats . Mason was first elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood in a 2001 byelection, and his career in politics spans more than 20 years.Mason first became politically active...

In 2001, the New Democrats

Alberta New Democratic Party

The Alberta New Democratic Party or Alberta NDP is a social-democratic political party in Alberta, Canada, which was originally founded as the Alberta section of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation...

were unable to claim Official Opposition status from the floundering Liberals, but Leader Raj Pannu

Raj Pannu

managed to hold the party's two existing seats—Pannu's own in Edmonton—Strathcona

Edmonton—Strathcona

Edmonton—Strathcona is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1953. It spans the south central part of the city of Edmonton.-Geography:...

and Brian Mason's seat in Edmonton Highlands (later merged into Edmonton Highlands-Norwood

Edmonton Highlands-Norwood

). The “NDs”, as they were then known, received 81,339 votes. Pannu resigned the leadership in July 2004, with Mason filling the role of interim leader before being elected to that position in September 2004. The party has also ceased abbreviating its name as "ND in favour of the more traditional “NDP” abbreviation. The NDP nominated a full slate of candidates for the 2004 election.

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Other registered parties

The parties are listed in descending order of number of candidates nominated in 2004.

Alberta Alliance

Leader: Randy Thorsteinson

Randy Thorsteinson

Randy Thorsteinson is a politician and businessman in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada.-Early years:Thorsteinson was born in Gimli, Manitoba spending his youth living in Winnipeg, Manitoba; Edmonton, Alberta; Calgary, Alberta and Grande Prairie, Alberta.-Education:He graduated from St. Paul's High School...

The Alberta Alliance

Alberta Alliance Party

The Alberta Alliance was a right wing provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Many of its members were former supporters of the now-defunct Canadian Alliance federal political party and its predecessor, the Reform Party of Canada. Members also joined from such other provincial fringe parties...

was registered in October 2002 and held its founding convention in February 2003. Its leader, Randy Thorsteinson had led Social Credit through a modest rebirth before quitting that party in April 1999. The party's sole MLA, Gary Masyk (Edmonton-Norwood) crossed the floor from the governing Progressive Conservatives on June 29, 2004. The Alliance nominated a full slate of candidates for the 2004 election, the only other party besides the Tories and the NDP to do so.

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Greens

Leader: George Read

George Read (Canadian politician)

George Read is the former leader of the Green Party of Alberta and formerly a key organizer for the federal Green Party of Canada in Alberta.- Green Party organizing :...

Also known as the "Green Party of Alberta", the Alberta Greens ran 10 candidates in the 2001 election, who combined for 2,850 votes. In the 2004 election, the Greens nominated 49 candidates - more than 4 times the highest number of candidates they had previously run in an election.

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Social Credit Party

Leader: Lavern Ahlstrom

Lavern Ahlstrom

Lavern Ahlstrom is a retired provincial level politician and former leader of the Alberta Social Credit Party.-Political career:Ahlstrom first became involved with Social Credit in the 1970s. He has been a perennial candidate for the party with some moderately successful showings during his career...

Prior to the 2001 election, the Social Credit Party

Social Credit Party of Alberta

The Alberta Social Credit Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada, that was founded on the social credit monetary policy and conservative Christian social values....

was in turmoil following the departure of party leader Randy Thorsteinson

Randy Thorsteinson

. Under Lavern Ahlstrom, the party nominated 12 candidates in the 2001 election (down from 70 in 1997), and received 5,361 votes (down from 64,667). The party had 42 candidates for the 2004 election.

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Separation Party

Interim Leader: Bruce Hutton

Bruce Hutton

Bruce Hutton is leader of the Separation Party of Alberta.Hutton joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1963. In 1999, he founded Law-abiding Unregistered Firearms Association to protest the recently introduced federal gun registry. In 2004, he became leader of the Separation...

The Separation Party of Alberta

Separation Party of Alberta

The Separation Party of Alberta is a political party that advocates the secession of Alberta from Canada. Its leader is Bruce Hutton.-History:...

was founded in June 2004 taking over the rights of the Alberta First Party

Alberta First Party

The Alberta First Party was a right-wing political party that operated in Alberta, Canada from 1999 until 2003. It was founded by former members of the Social Credit Party of Alberta. The party was registered with Elections Alberta on November 2, 1999...

. Bruce Hutton became interim leader. As a separatist

Separatism

Separatism is the advocacy of a state of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, governmental or gender separation from the larger group. While it often refers to full political secession, separatist groups may seek nothing more than greater autonomy...

party, it is the separatist successor to the Alberta Independence Party

Alberta Independence Party

The Alberta Independence Party was a provincial party founded in Alberta, Canada, in 2000/1. It was dedicated to increasing the autonomy of Alberta within the Canadian confederation, in part as a response to the 2000 election, in which the Canadian Alliance, a party with strong western roots, was...

, which ran some independent candidates in the 2001 election, but never achieved official party status. The separatist cause was first taken up by the Western Canada Concept

Western Canada Concept

The Western Canada Concept was a Western Canadian political party founded in 1980 to promote the separation of the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia and the Yukon and Northwest Territories from Canada in order to create a new nation.The party argued that Western...

in the early 1980s when Gordon Kesler

Gordon Kesler

-Political career:Gordon Kesler was the first separatist politician elected in Canada outside of Quebec since the 1870s. His stunning victory in the February 1982 by-election for the Western Canada Concept received national media attention. After the win Kessler became leader of the party...

won a by-election. The Separation Party had 12 candidates in the 2004 election. See Alberta separatism

Alberta separatism

Alberta separatism is a movement that advocates the secession of the province of Alberta from Canada either by forming an independent nation, or by creating a new federation with one or more of Canada's other three westernmost provinces.-Foundations:...

.

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Alberta Party

Leader: Bruce Stubbs

Bruce Stubbs

Bruce Stubbs is a farmer and political figure in Alberta, Canada. He first came to public attention as a leading member of G.U.A.R.D. , a group opposed to the United Alternative process which formed the Canadian Alliance from the Reform Party of Canada.He is a former leader of the Alberta Party, a...

The Alberta Party

Alberta Party

The Alberta Party Political Association, more commonly known as the Alberta Party, is a political party in the province of Alberta, Canada...

did not nominate any candidates in 2001, but nominated four candidates for the 2004 election.

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Communist Party

Leader: Naomi Rankin

Naomi Rankin

Naomi Rankin is the current leader of the Communist Party of Alberta in Alberta, Canada.She has been leader of the Communist Party since 1992 and has run in every provincial and federal election in Alberta since 1982, for the Communist Party or the Communist Party of Canada...

The Communist Party

Communist Party (Alberta)

Communist Party – Alberta is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. It is a provincial branch of the Communist Party of Canada.-History:...

nominated two candidates in the 2001 election, who combined for 117 votes. They ran two candidates in the 2004 election.

The Equity Party

Leader: Emil van der Poorten

The The Equity Party

Forum Party of Alberta

The Forum Party of Alberta was a political party in the Province of Alberta, Canada. The party was created on March 2, 1995.It later became the Equity Party, which held its founding convention in May 2000...

ran no candidates in this election, The party was de-registered after the Alberta government amended the Elections Act to force a party to run at least one candidate, the party failed to field a candidate and was de-registered.

Reform Party

Leader: David Salmon

The Alberta Party, Equity Party and the Reform Party

Reform Party of Alberta

The Reform Party of Alberta is a defunct provincial political party in Alberta, Canada, that was registered with Elections Alberta. Its leader was David Salmon.-Early history:...

did not run any candidates in the 2001 election. The Equity Party and Reform Party were also absent from the ballot in 2004. The party was de-registered after the Alberta government amended the Elections Act to force a party to run at least one candidate, the party failed to field a candidate and was de-registered.

De-registered parties

The Natural Law Party of Alberta was de-registered by Elections Alberta in 2001, after they stopped filing financial statements. In 2001 The Natural Law Party did not nominate any candidates.

Independent candidates

29 independent candidates ran in the 2001 election. These candidates won a total of 10,528 votes. 10 independents ran in 2004.

Standings after the 25th general election

Political party	Calgary	Edmonton	Urbanized	Rural	Special	Total
Progressive Conservative	21	11	20	20	2	74
Liberal	0	6	1	0	0	7
New Democrat	0	2	0	0	0	2
Totals	21	19	21	20	2	83

Standings at dissolution

Political party	Calgary	Edmonton	Urbanized	Rural	Special	Total
Progressive Conservative	21	10	20	20	2	73
Liberal	0	5	0	0	0	5
New Democrat	0	2	0	0	0	2
Alberta Alliance	0	1	0	0	0	1
Vacant	0	1	1	0	0	2
Totals	21	19	21	20	2	83

Timeline

March 27, 2004 - Kevin Taft

Kevin Taft

Kevin Taft is a Liberal politician in Alberta, Canada. He was the leader of the Alberta Liberal Party and Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, from 2004 to 2008...

becomes leader of the Alberta Liberals

Alberta Liberal Party

.

June 29, 2004 - Gary Masyk

Gary Masyk

Gary Masyk is a businessman and politician in Alberta, Canada.Born in High Prairie, Masyk owned Garco Oilfield Service and Masyk Lumber Company before entering politics...

crosses

Crossing the floor

the floor from the Progressive Conservatives

Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta

The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

to the Alberta Alliance.

July 13, 2004 - Raj Pannu

Raj Pannu

resigns as leader of the Alberta New Democrats. Brian Mason

Brian Mason

is appointed interim leader

Interim leader

An interim leader, in Canadian politics, is a party leader appointed by the party's legislative caucus or the party's executive to temporarily act as leader when a gap occurs between the resignation or death of a party leader and the election of a formal successor...

.

September 9, 2004 - Alberta Alliance kicked off five-city "I Blame Ralph" tour in Edmonton.
Ralph Klein announces Senate Election

September 18, 2004 - Brian Mason formally becomes leader of the Alberta New Democrats.

October 25, 2004 - At the request of Premier

Premier of Alberta

Ralph Klein, Lieutenant-Governor Lois Hole

Lois Hole

Lois Elsa Hole, CM, AOE was a Canadian politician, businesswoman, academician and best-selling author. She was the 15th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta from February 10, 2000 until her death...

dissolves

Dissolution of parliament

In parliamentary systems, a dissolution of parliament is the dispersal of a legislature at the call of an election.Usually there is a maximum length of a legislature, and a dissolution must happen before the maximum time...

the legislature

Legislative Assembly of Alberta

and sets the election day for November 22.

October 28, 2004 - Premier Klein is harshly criticized by opposition parties and activist

Activism

Activism consists of intentional efforts to bring about social, political, economic, or environmental change. Activism can take a wide range of forms from writing letters to newspapers or politicians, political campaigning, economic activism such as boycotts or preferentially patronizing...

groups after he claims that protestors on Alberta's Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped

Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped

Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped is the legal name of a social welfare program and service offered in Alberta to nearly 39,000 Albertan citizens...

(AISH) who had heckled him did not look severely disabled.

October 31, 2004 - Premier Klein's mother, Florence Gray dies at the age of 80 following a year-long illness. All major parties announce they will suspend their provincial campaigns while the premier mourns.

November 4, 2004 - Global Television re-iterates that they will not invite Alberta Alliance leader Randy Thorsteinson

Randy Thorsteinson

to their leaders debate

Leaders debate

In jurisdictions which use the parliamentary system of government or a similar system, leaders debates are often held, usually during a general election campaign. These debates are normally televised and are often organized by one or more television stations....

, because his party did not elect any members in the previous election and their sole MLA crossed the floor. The decision sparks anger amongst Alliance members and even disappoints the other three leaders.

November 8, 2004 - Close of nomination's and the Global television leaders debate involving Klein, Taft and Mason.

November 13, 2004 - NDP leader Mason releases a brochure entitled Health Care for Dummies in an effort to mock the premier's reluctance to discuss health care in detail during the campaign.

November 18, 2004 - Advance polling stations open.

November 19, 2004, - Advance polling stations open, and Students across the province vote in Alberta Student Vote, 2004.

November 20, 2004 - Advance polling stations open.

November 22, 2004 - Voting day for the 26th Alberta general election.

8:00 p.m. local time: Polls close (03:00, November 23 UTC)
8:36 p.m.: CBC
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...

projects a PC majority (03:36, November 23 UTC)

December 9, 2004 - The Court of Queen's Bench rules that Chris Kibermanis (Lib.) won the election in Edmonton Castle Downs by three votes, upholding the result of the initial, election-night result. The PC candidate, Thomas Lukaszuk, appealed to the Court of Appeal of Alberta

Court of Appeal of Alberta

The Court of Appeal of Alberta is an Canadian appellate court.-Jurisdiction and Hierarchy within Canadian Courts:The Court is the highest court in Alberta, Canada...

.

January 24, 2005 - The Alberta Court of Appeal rules that Lukaszuk won the election in Edmonton Castle Downs by three votes, overturning the result of the first vote-count, which had given the seat to Kibermanis of the Liberals. Kibermanis accepted defeat and did not appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Poll numbers

Ipsos-Reid
Ipsos-Reid
Ipsos Reid is a research company based in Canada and is the Canadian arm of the global Ipsos Group. Founded in Winnipeg in 1979, the company expanded across the country and became part of the Ipsos Group in 2000....

, 2004-10-29: PC 50%, Lib 26%, NDP 10%, AAP 9%, Green 4%
COMPAS Inc. / Calgary Herald
Calgary Herald
The Calgary Herald is a daily newspaper published in the Canadian city of Calgary, Alberta.- History :The paper was first published on August 31, 1883 by Andrew Armour and Thomas Braden as The Calgary Herald, Mining and Ranche Advocate and General Advertiser. It started as a weekly paper with only...

, 2004-11-03 , 2004-11-04: PC 61%, Lib 19%, NDP 16%, Green 3%, Separation 1%, Other 1%. Interestingly, the pollsters only prompted for the three "major" parties yet Green and Separation showed up over 1% in the results while the Alliance, which is contesting every riding and holds a seat in the legislature, did not. http://www.compas.ca/data/041108-2004AlbertaElection-E.pdf
Cameron Strategy Inc. / Global News / Calgary Herald, 2004-11-08-11-16: PC 47%, Lib 21%, NDP 11%, AAP 9%, Green 5%
Ipsos-Reid
Ipsos-Reid
Ipsos Reid is a research company based in Canada and is the Canadian arm of the global Ipsos Group. Founded in Winnipeg in 1979, the company expanded across the country and became part of the Ipsos Group in 2000....

, 2004-11-12 to 2004-11-17: PC 44%, Lib 29%, NDP 12%, AAP 9%, Green 4% (800 adults, MoE 3.5%)

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Media coverage

CBC Coverage: Alberta Votes 2004

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