Fort McMurray—Cold Lake is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2015. It was created in 2012, mostly from the more urbanized portion of Fort McMurray—Athabasca (78%) combined with a portion of Westlock—St. Paul (22%).[3]
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![]() Fort McMurray—Cold Lake in relation to other Alberta federal electoral districts as of the 2013 Representation Order. | |||
Federal electoral district | |||
Legislature | House of Commons | ||
MP |
Conservative | ||
District created | 2013 | ||
First contested | 2015 | ||
Last contested | 2021 | ||
District webpage | profile, map | ||
Demographics | |||
Population (2011)[1] | 101,538 | ||
Electors (2019) | 78,157 | ||
Area (km²)[2] | 147,412 | ||
Pop. density (per km²) | 0.69 | ||
Census division(s) | Division No. 12, Division No. 16, Division No. 17 | ||
Census subdivision(s) | Bonnyville No. 87, Cold Lake, Lac La Biche, Opportunity No. 17, Wood Buffalo |
The new riding consists of the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, the city of Cold Lake, and Lac La Biche County. It also contains CFB Cold Lake and most of the Athabasca oil sands.
This riding has elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:
Parliament | Years | Member | Party | |
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Fort McMurray—Cold Lake Riding created from Fort McMurray—Athabasca and Westlock—St. Paul |
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42nd | 2015–2019 | David Yurdiga | Conservative | |
43rd | 2019–2021 | |||
44th | 2021–present | Laila Goodridge |
2021 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Conservative | Laila Goodridge | 29,242 | 67.77 | -12.08 | ||||
People's | Shawn McDonald | 5,481 | 12.70 | +9.48 | ||||
New Democratic | Garnett Robinson | 4,377 | 10.14 | +4.48 | ||||
Liberal | Abdifatah Abdi | 3,060 | 7.09 | -2.42 | ||||
Maverick | Jonathan Meyers | 479 | 1.11 | — | ||||
Green | Brian Deheer | 423 | 0.98 | -0.72 | ||||
Veterans Coalition | Hughie Shane Whitmore | 88 | 0.20 | — | ||||
Total valid votes | 43,150 | |||||||
Total rejected ballots | 327 | 0.75 | +0.25 | |||||
Turnout | 43,477 | 56.5 | -9.1 | |||||
Eligible voters | 76,916 | |||||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -7.6 | ||||||
Source: Elections Canada[4][5] |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
Conservative | David Yurdiga | 40,706 | 79.85 | $64,900.43 | ||||
Liberal | Maggie Farrington | 4,848 | 9.51 | $40,627.13 | ||||
New Democratic | Matt Gilks | 2,883 | 5.66 | none listed | ||||
People's | Matthew Barrett | 1,674 | 3.28 | - | none listed | |||
Green | Brian Deheer | 865 | 1.70 | $0.00 | ||||
Total valid votes/expense limit | 50,976 | 100.0 | ||||||
Total rejected ballots | 258 | |||||||
Turnout | 51,234 | 65.6 | ||||||
Eligible voters | 78,157 | |||||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +19.10 | ||||||
Source: Elections Canada[6][7] |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
Conservative | David Yurdiga | 28,625 | 60.56 | -11.95 | $81,523.68 | |||
Liberal | Kyle Harrietha | 13,403 | 28.36 | +17.57 | $77,417.78 | |||
New Democratic | Melody Lepine | 3,663 | 7.75 | -5.38 | $18,491.32 | |||
Green | Brian Deheer | 743 | 1.57 | -2.00 | $7.50 | |||
Libertarian | Scott Berry | 552 | 1.17 | – | $715.09 | |||
Christian Heritage | Roelof Janssen | 280 | 0.59 | – | $9,136.23 | |||
Total valid votes/expense limit | 47,266 | 100.00 | $260,378.41 | |||||
Total rejected ballots | 158 | 0.33 | – | |||||
Turnout | 47,424 | 62.24 | – | |||||
Eligible voters | 76,190 | |||||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -14.76 | ||||||
Source: Elections Canada[8][9] |
2011 federal election redistributed results[10] | |||
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Party | Vote | % | |
Conservative | 18,601 | 72.51 | |
New Democratic | 3,367 | 13.13 | |
Liberal | 2,768 | 10.79 | |
Green | 916 | 3.57 |
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