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Strathcona Centre

Strathcona Centre 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 1959 to 1971.

History

It was created in 1959 after the Edmonton district was broken up into ridings.

The historic 1959 redistribution of the provincial ridings of Calgary and Edmonton standardized the voting system back to First Past the Post. From 1926 to 1959 Calgary and Edmonton members were elected by Single Transferable Vote. The rest of the province had the option of how to count ballots. The redistribution created nine ridings in Edmonton.

The other eight ridings were Edmonton Centre, Edmonton North, Edmonton Norwood, Edmonton North East, Edmonton North West, Strathcona East, Strathcona West and Jasper West.

In 1971 the riding was split, the west part became the north part of Edmonton-Whitemud with a small portion to Edmonton-Parkallen, and the east part became Edmonton-Strathcona.

Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs)

Strathcona Centre
Assembly Years Member Party
Riding created from Edmonton
14th  1959–1963     Joseph Donovan Ross Social Credit
15th  1963–1967
16th  1967–1971
Riding dissolved into Edmonton-Parkallen, Edmonton-Strathcona, and Edmonton-Whitemud

Election results

1959

1959 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Social Credit Joseph Donovan Ross 4,564 54.16%
Progressive Conservative Pat Walsh 2,226 26.42%
Liberal Leslie M. Lyons 1,215 14.42%
Co-operative Commonwealth Keith Wright 422 5.01%
Total 8,427
Rejected, spoiled and declined 54
Eligible electors / turnout 14,351 59.10%
Social Credit pickup new district.
Source(s)
Source: "Strathcona-Centre Official Results 1959 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1963

1963 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Social Credit Joseph Donovan Ross 5,232 58.71% 4.55%
Liberal Ian Nicoll 2,418 27.13% 12.71%
New Democratic Harry J. Strynadka 1,262 14.16% 9.15%
Total 8,912
Rejected, spoiled and declined 48
Eligible electors / turnout 17,345 51.66% -7.44%
Social Credit hold Swing 1.92%
Source(s)
Source: "Strathcona-Centre Official Results 1963 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1967

1967 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Social Credit Joseph Donovan Ross 4,052 40.66% -18.05%
Progressive Conservative Larry Boddy 2,493 25.02%
Liberal Ian Nicoll 1,794 18.00% -9.13%
New Democratic Gordon E. Weese 1,627 16.33% 2.16%
Total 9,966
Rejected, spoiled and declined 38
Eligible electors / turnout 16,750 59.73% 8.07%
Social Credit hold Swing -7.97%
Source(s)
Source: "Strathcona-Centre Official Results 1967 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Election results for Strathcona Centre". abheritage.ca. Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 22, 2020.

Further reading

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