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The Calgary district in 1930.. The original 25 districts were drawn up by Liberal Member of Parliament Frank Oliver prior to the first general election of 1905. The original boundaries were widely regarded as being gerrymandered to favour the Alberta Liberal Party, although the Liberal Party did receive the majority of votes in the 1905 election and thus rightly formed majority government.
This is a list of Canada's 338 federal electoral districts (commonly referred to as ridings in Canadian English) as defined by the 2013 Representation Order. Canadian federal electoral districts are constituencies that elect members of Parliament to House of Commons of Canada every election. Provincial electoral districts often have names ...
This is a list of Canada's 338 electoral districts as defined by the 2013 Representation Order which first came into effect for the 2015 Canadian Federal Election on October 19, 2015. In most cases, provinces have been broken down into regions of a dozen or fewer districts; these are entirely unofficial and somewhat arbitrary.
According to the 2023 Representation Orders, this list of electoral districts would be adopted for any general elections called before April 23, 2024. [1] During this period, the House of Commons of Canada had 338 seats. [2] This arrangement was used in the 2015 federal election, the 2019 federal election and the 2021 federal election.
The province of Alberta currently has 34 electoral districts represented in the House of Commons of Canada. This category is intended only for currently existing ridings. This category is intended only for currently existing ridings.
An electoral district in Canada is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based. It is officially known in Canadian French as a circonscription but frequently called a comté . In Canadian English it is also colloquially and more commonly known as a riding or constituency.
He won a higher popular vote running for a second term in the 1989 general election but his overall percent was reduced. He moved to the Edmonton-Ellerslie electoral district to run for election in 1993 and was defeated. Liberal candidate Don Massey won the district in the 1993 election to pick it up for his party.
The three Edmonton districts were merged to form the Edmonton constituency in 1921, and block voting was established in 1921, to elect five members in the constituency. Block voting (voters able to cast as many votes as there were seats) was used in 1909 and 1913, each voter casting up to two votes, and up to five votes in 1921.