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Edmonton Centre (French: Edmonton-Centre) is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and since 2004. Geography [ edit ]
No government has since changed the electoral system (although since then the number of members has increased from 61 to 87). In 1977 Elections Alberta was established as an independent, non-partisan office of the Legislative Assembly responsible for administering provincial elections, by-elections and referendums.
The Progressive Conservatives won the riding in the 2008 election when its candidate Naresh Bhardwaj defeated the incumbent MLA trying for re-election and won the set with 42% of the popular vote. The 2012 result was about the same with the P-C candidate winning with a minority of the vote.
First Visible Minority to lead the Alberta Liberal Party First Hindu to lead a Canadian Political Party Conservative MLA (2008–2010) Teresa Woo-Paw 鮑胡嫈儀 (born 1958) Calgary-Northern Hills: March 3, 2008: May 4, 2015: Conservative [181] Chinese-Canadian (Cantonese) First Female Visible Minority elected to Alberta Legislature David Xiao ...
Number of seats won by major parties at each election UCP Wildrose Conservative/PC Liberal CCF/NDP Social Credit United Farmers Dominion Labour Party Independents Other The Canadian province of Alberta holds elections to its unicameral legislative body, the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. The maximum period between general elections of the assembly is five years, but the Lieutenant Governor ...
The Office of the Chief Electoral Officer (Elections Alberta), was created in 1977 to act as an independent body to oversee Alberta's Elections Finances and Contribution Disclosure Act and Election Act. Prior to 1977, these acts were overseen by the clerk of the Legislative Assembly. [5]
All Alberta elections have resulted in a majority government, a trend unseen in any other Canadian province. (But frequently the most popular party was the choice of less than half the voters.) Even with crossing the floor or by-elections, Alberta has never had a minority government. Each government has held a majority of seats in the Legislature.
Vandermeer ran for a second term in office in the 2004 election. He was defeated by Liberal candidate Dan Backs , who took the riding with just over 36% of the popular vote. Backs would be expelled from the Liberal caucus on November 20, 2006, and ran for re-election as an independent candidate.