Wayne Ronald Drysdale ECA is a Canadian politician, who served as an Alberta MLA from 2008 to 2019. He is a member of the Progressive Conservatives. He was Minister of Transportation in the cabinet of Jim Prentice.
Wayne Drysdale | |
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 Drysdale at the 2014 Tour of Alberta | |
| Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Grande Prairie Wapiti | |
| In office March 3, 2008 – March 19, 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Gordon Graydon |
| Succeeded by | Travis Toews |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | United Conservative |
He was elected in the 2008 provincial election to represent the electoral district of Grande Prairie Wapiti in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and re-elected there in 2012 and 2015.[1]
He did not seek re-election in 2019.
Election results
edit| 2008 Alberta general election: Grande Prairie-Wapiti | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Wayne Drysdale | 5,145 | 66.70% | +11.63% | ||||
| Liberal | Augustine Ebinu | 1,304 | 16.90% | -4.40% | ||||
| New Democratic | Manuela Campbell | 829 | 10.75% | -1.55% | ||||
| Greens | Allan Webber | 436 | 5.65% | +1.24% | ||||
| Total | 7,714 | 100.00% | ||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 74 | |||||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 29,053 | 26.81% | -9.77% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | +8.02% | ||||||
Source(s)
The Report on the March 3, 2008 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-seventh Legislative Assembly. Elections Alberta. July 28, 2008. pp. 430–433. | ||||||||
| 2012 Alberta general election: Grande Prairie-Wapiti | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Wayne Drysdale | 6,712 | 51.63% | -15.07% | ||||
| Wildrose | Ethane Jarvis | 4,509 | 34.68% | |||||
| New Democratic | Paula Anderson | 1,209 | 9.30% | -1.38% | ||||
| Liberal | Alya Nazarali | 365 | 2.81% | -14.09% | ||||
| Independent | Anthony Barendregt | 204 | 1.57% | |||||
| Total valid votes | 12,999 | 100.00% | ||||||
| Rejected, spoiled, and declined | 96 | |||||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | 30,764 | 42.57% | +15.76% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | -24.89% | ||||||
Source(s) | ||||||||
| 2015 Alberta general election: Grande Prairie-Wapiti | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Wayne Drysdale | 6,229 | 35.57 | -16.06 | ||||
| New Democratic | Mary Dahr | 5,062 | 28.90 | +19.60 | ||||
| Wildrose | Laila Goodridge | 4,175 | 23.84 | -10.84 | ||||
| Alberta Party | Rory Tarant | 2,048 | 11.69 | |||||
| Total | 17,514 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Rejected, spoiled, and declined | 77 | |||||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 37,445 | 46.98 | +4.41 | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | -17.55 | ||||||
Source(s) | ||||||||
References
edit- ^ "Biography for Mr. Wayne Drysdale". Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
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