Edmonton-Highlands-Beverly was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting from 1993 to 1997.[1]
 Alberta electoral district | |
|---|---|
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
| District created | 1993 |
| District abolished | 1997 |
| First contested | 1993 |
| Last contested | 1993 |
Edmonton-Highlands-Beverly was contested only once, in 1993. It was created from most of Edmonton-Highlands and part of Edmonton-Beverly, and its name was changed back to Edmonton-Highlands in 1997, with no boundary changes.[2]
Representation history
edit| Member for Edmonton-Highlands-Beverly | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Edmonton-Highlands and Edmonton-Beverly 1971–1993 | ||||
| 23rd | 1993–1997 | Alice Hanson | Liberal | |
| See Edmonton-Highlands 1997–2004 | ||||
The district's only MLA was one-term Liberal member Alice Hanson. She served in opposition and did not run again when the riding was abolished in 1997.[3]
Election results
edit| 1993 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Alice Hanson | 5,189 | 45.59% | +27.17% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Ron Liepert | 2,787 | 24.48% | -2.10% | ||||
| New Democratic | John McInnis | 2,885 | 25.34% | -29.66% | ||||
| Social Credit | Tim Friesen | 428 | 3.76% | – | ||||
| Natural Law | Cliff Kinzel | 94 | 0.83% | – | ||||
| Total | 11,383 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled, and declined | 31 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 20,798 | 54.88% | +1.14% | |||||
| Liberal notional gain from New Democratic | Swing | +14.63% | ||||||
Source(s)
"Results for Edmonton-Highlands". Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved June 4, 2020. Swing is calculated from the Edmonton-Highlands result in 1989. | ||||||||
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Election results for Edmonton-Highlands-Beverly". abheritage.ca. Heritage Community Foundation. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
- ^ "election-atlas.ca - Alberta". election-atlas.ca. Retrieved March 12, 2018.
- ^ Niddrie, Lise; Hanson, Chris (September 15, 2009). "Alice Ann Hanson". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved March 12, 2018.
Further reading
edit- Office of the Chief Electoral Officer; Legislative Assembly Office (2006). A Century of Democracy: Elections of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1905-2005. The Centennial Series. Edmonton, AB: Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ISBN 0-9689217-8-7. Retrieved May 25, 2020.