Edmonton-Highlands-Beverly 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 1993 to 1997.[1]
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Defunct provincial electoral district | |
Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
District created | 1993 |
District abolished | 1997 |
First contested | 1993 |
Last contested | 1993 |
Edmonton-Highlands-Beverly was contested only once, in 1993. It was created from most of Edmonton-Highlands and part of Edmonton-Beverly, and its name was changed back to Edmonton-Highlands in 1997, with no boundary changes.[2]
Member for Edmonton-Highlands-Beverly | ||||
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Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
See Edmonton-Highlands and Edmonton-Beverly 1971–1993 | ||||
23rd | 1993–1997 | Alice Hanson | Liberal | |
See Edmonton-Highlands 1997–2004 |
The district's only MLA was one-term Liberal member Alice Hanson. She served in opposition and did not run again when the riding was abolished in 1997.[3]
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Liberal | Alice Hanson | 5,189 | 45.59% | +27.17% | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Ron Liepert | 2,787 | 24.48% | -2.10% | ||||
New Democratic | John McInnis | 2,885 | 25.34% | -29.66% | ||||
Social Credit | Tim Friesen | 428 | 3.76% | – | ||||
Natural Law | Cliff Kinzel | 94 | 0.83% | – | ||||
Total | 11,383 | – | – | |||||
Rejected, spoiled, and declined | 31 | – | – | |||||
Eligible electors / turnout | 20,798 | 54.88% | +1.14% | |||||
Liberal notional gain from New Democratic | Swing | +14.63% | ||||||
Source(s)
"Results for Edmonton-Highlands". Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved June 4, 2020. Swing is calculated from the Edmonton-Highlands result in 1989. |
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See also: Elections in Canada |