Drayton Valley-Devon is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district was created in the 2010 boundary redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post voting system. Drayton Valley-Devon is currently represented by United Conservative Party MLA Mark Smith who was first elected in 2015.
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![]() Drayton Valley-Devon within Alberta, 2017 boundaries | |||
Provincial electoral district | |||
Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
MLA |
United Conservative | ||
District created | 2010 | ||
First contested | 2012 | ||
Last contested | 2019 |
The electoral district was created in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution. It was created from the old electoral district of Drayton Valley-Calmar which was expanded east into land that was part of the Leduc-Beaumont-Devon riding to include the town of Devon[1]
56 Drayton Valley-Devon 2010 boundaries[2] | |||
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Bordering districts | |||
North | East | West | South |
Stony Plain and Whitecourt-Ste. Anne | Leduc-Beaumont and Wetaskiwin-Camrose | West Yellowhead | Lacombe-Panoka and Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre |
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Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act | |||
Members of the Legislative Assembly for Drayton Valley-Devon | ||||
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Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
See Drayton Valley-Calmar 1993-2012 | ||||
28th | 2012-2015 | Diana McQueen | Progressive Conservative | |
29th | 2015–2017 | Mark Smith | Wildrose | |
2017-2019 | United Conservative | |||
30th | 2019–present |
Drayton Valley-Devon and its antecedent, Drayton Valley-Calmar, elected Progressive Conservative MLAs with solid majorities from the 1970s to 2015. Just since 2015, it has elected one person, Mark Smith, who first ran for the Wildrose party and then for the United Conservatives.
The first MLA elected to Drayton Valley-Devon was Progressive Conservative Diana McQueen who was a cabinet minister in the Allison Redford government. The current incumbent is Mark Smith a former member of the Wildrose Party who joined the United Conservative Party.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Diana McQueen | 7,359 | 51.65% | – | ||||
Wildrose | Dean Shular | 5,467 | 38.37% | – | ||||
New Democratic | Doris Bannister | 878 | 6.16% | – | ||||
Liberal | Chantel Lillycrop | 544 | 3.82% | – | ||||
Total | 14,248 | – | – | |||||
Rejected, spoiled, and declined | 56 | – | – | |||||
Eligible electors / turnout | 25,705 | 55.65% | – | |||||
Progressive Conservative pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Elections Alberta 2012 General Election". Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Wildrose | Mark Smith | 6,284 | 37.02% | -1.35% | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Diana McQueen | 5,182 | 30.53% | -21.12% | ||||
New Democratic | Katherine Swampy | 4,816 | 28.37% | 22.21% | ||||
Alberta Party | Connie Jensen | 416 | 2.45% | – | ||||
Green | Jennifer R Roach | 276 | 1.63% | – | ||||
Total | 16,974 | – | – | |||||
Rejected, spoiled and declined | 34 | – | – | |||||
Eligible electors / turnout | 29,733 | 57.20% | 1.56% | |||||
Wildrose gain from Progressive Conservative | Swing | -3.39% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Elections Alberta 2015 General Election". Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
United Conservative | Mark Smith | 18,092 | 71.12% | +3.58%† | ||||
New Democratic | Kieran Quirke | 4,233 | 16.64% | -11.74% | ||||
Alberta Party | Gail Upton | 1,634 | 6.42% | +3.97% | ||||
Freedom Conservative | Steve Goodman | 624 | 2.45% | – | ||||
Alberta Advantage | Mark Gregor | 298 | 1.17% | – | ||||
Alberta Independence | Les Marks | 233 | 0.92% | – | ||||
Liberal | Ronald Brochu | 217 | 0.85% | – | ||||
Independent | Carol Nordlund-Kinsey | 106 | 0.42% | – | ||||
Total | 25,437 | – | – | |||||
Rejected, spoiled and declined | 101 | – | – | |||||
Eligible electors / turnout | 34,554 | 73.91% | +16.71% | |||||
United Conservative hold | Swing | % | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "2019 Election Results - 58 - Drayton Valley-Devon". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved June 7, 2020. †From combined Wildrose and Progressive Conservative results in the 2015 general election |
Please note: Only schools registered under Drayton Valley-Devon have been included, as some schools within jurisdiction are registered in other ridings.
Devon
Drayton Valley
Falun
Pigeon Lake
Thorsby
Warburg
Winfield
2012 Alberta student vote results | ||||
Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | |
Progressive Conservative | Diana McQueen | 579 | 43.05% | |
Wildrose | Dean Shular | 367 | 27.29% | |
Liberal | Chantel Lillycrop | 253 | 18.81% | |
NDP | Doris Bannister | 146 | 10.86% | |
Total | 1345 | 100% |
Places adjacent to Drayton Valley-Devon | ||||||||||||||||
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