Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre is a provincial electoral district in central 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. It includes the towns of Bentley, Eckville, Rimbey, Rocky Mountain House, and Sundre.
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![]() Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre 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 Rocky Mountain House which was expanded to include the town of Rimbey, Alberta which was previously in Lacombe-Ponoka. The riding also gained some land west of Sylvan Lake.[1]
77 Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre 2010 boundaries | |||
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Bordering districts | |||
North | East | West | South |
Drayton Valley-Devon and West Yellowhead | Innisfail-Sylvan Lake, Lacombe-Ponoka, and Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills | British Columbia boundary | Banff-Cochrane |
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Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act | |||
Members of the Legislative Assembly for Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre | ||||
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Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
See Rocky Mountain House 1940-2012 | ||||
28th | 2012–2014 | Joe Anglin | Wildrose | |
2014–2015 | Independent | |||
29th | 2015–2017 | Jason Nixon | Wildrose | |
2017–2019 | United Conservative | |||
30th | 2019– |
The predecessor Rocky Mountain House had returned Progressive Conservative MLAs since 1971. From 1940 to 1970 popular Social Credit MLA Alfred Hooke represented the district. The current incumbent is Jason Nixon who won the seat for the Wildrose Party in the 2015 election.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Wildrose Alliance | Joe Anglin | 7,664 | 51.42% | – | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Ty Lund | 6,044 | 40.55% | – | ||||
New Democratic | Doreen Broska | 776 | 5.21% | – | ||||
Liberal | Mason Sisson | 420 | 2.82% | – | ||||
Total | 14,904 | – | – | |||||
Rejected, spoiled and declined | 57 | 33 | 8 | |||||
Eligible electors / turnout | 27,863 | 53.72% | – | |||||
Wildrose Alliance pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Source: "77 - Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre, 2012 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Chief Electoral Officer (2012). The Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the 2011 Provincial Enumeration and Monday, April 23, 2012 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-eighth Legislative Assembly (PDF) (Report). Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 456–458. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 6, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2021. |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Wildrose | Jason Nixon | 6,670 | 40.11% | -11.31% | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Tammy Coté | 5,296 | 31.85% | -8.70% | ||||
New Democratic | Hannah Schlamp | 2,791 | 16.78% | 11.58% | ||||
Independent | Joe Anglin | 1,871 | 11.25% | – | ||||
Total | 16,628 | – | – | |||||
Rejected, spoiled and declined | 60 | 37 | 10 | |||||
Eligible electors / Turnout | 32,578 | 51.26% | -2.47% | |||||
Wildrose hold | Swing | -1.30% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "77 - Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre, 2015 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Chief Electoral Officer (2016). 2015 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer (PDF) (Report). Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 411–412. |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
United Conservative | Jason Nixon | 20,579 | 81.64% | 9.68% | ||||
New Democratic | Jeff Ible | 2,293 | 9.10% | -7.69% | ||||
Alberta Party | Joe Anglin | 1,350 | 5.36% | – | ||||
Freedom Conservative | Dawn Berard | 303 | 1.20% | – | ||||
Green | Jane Drummond | 286 | 1.13% | – | ||||
Alberta Independence | David Rogers | 185 | 0.73% | – | ||||
Alberta Advantage Party | Paula Lamoureux | 161 | 0.64% | – | ||||
Independent | Gordon Francey | 50 | 0.20% | – | ||||
Total | 25,207 | – | – | |||||
Rejected, spoiled and declined | 117 | 63 | 9 | |||||
Eligible electors / turnout | 33,699 | 75.17% | 23.92% | |||||
United Conservative hold | Swing | 32.14% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "80 - Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2019). 2019 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Volume II (PDF) (Report). Vol. 2. Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 386–393. ISBN 978-1-988620-12-1. Retrieved April 7, 2021. |
2012 Alberta student vote results | ||||
Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | |
Progressive Conservative | Diana McQueen | % | ||
Wildrose | Dean Shular | |||
Liberal | Mason Sisson | % | ||
NDP | % | |||
Total | 100% |
Places adjacent to Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre | ||||||||||||||||
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