Red Deer is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1908 to 2015 and since 2025.

Demographics

According to the 2021 Canadian census

Languages: 85.7% English, 3.6% Tagalog, 1.7% Spanish, 1.6% French,

Religions: 50.7% Christian (20.0% Catholic, 4.8% United Church, 2.5% Anglican, 2.1% Lutheran, 1.0% Pentecostal, 20.2% Other), 45.0% No religion, 1.9% Muslim

Median income: $43,200 (2020)

Average income: $56,050 (2020)

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|+ Panethnic groups in Red Deer (2021)

! rowspan="2" |Panethnic group

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| European

| 85,360

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| Southeast Asian

| 9,115

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| Indigenous

| 7,295

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| South Asian

| 2,405

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| African

| 2,000

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| Latin American

| 1,815

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| East Asian

| 1,730

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| Middle Eastern

| 1,140

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| Other/multiracial

| 930

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! Total responses

! 111,785

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! Total population

! 114,975

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History

This riding was created in 1907 from Calgary and Strathcona ridings. At the time this was a vast riding taking in much of Central Alberta between the two major cities of Calgary and Edmonton. The only major urban centre was Red Deer, then a small town of only 1,500 people.

Once an overwhelmingly rural constituency, it has been consistently reduced in geographic size over the years due to the growth of the City of Red Deer. In 2003, about 20% of the district was transferred to the Wetaskiwin riding.

Like most of Alberta, Red Deer elected a Liberal MP from 1908 to 1921, then a UFA MP from 1921 to 1935, then a Social Credit MP from 1935 to 1958.

Like most other Alberta ridings outside Calgary and Edmonton, the major right-wing party of the day usually won here by blowout margins. A centre-left candidate last cleared 20 percent of the vote in 1968, and from 1979 onward centre-left candidates seldom got 15 percent of the vote.

The riding was split almost in half for the 2015 election. The southern portion, including downtown, became Red Deer—Mountain View, while the northern portion was merged with Wetaskiwin to form Red Deer—Lacombe.

The riding was reinstated by the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution, reuniting the city of Red Deer and combining it with rural areas to its southeast.

Historical boundaries

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following members of Parliament:

Election results

2023 representation order

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! colspan="4" | 2021 federal election redistributed results

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| Conservative ||align=right| 32,606 ||align=right| 60.51

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| New Democratic ||align=right| 9,352 ||align=right| 17.35

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| People's ||align=right| 6,084 ||align=right| 11.29

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| Liberal ||align=right| 4,401 ||align=right| 8.17

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| Others ||align=right| 1,445 ||align=right| 2.68

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2003 representation order

1996 representation order

1987 representation order

1976 representation order

1966 representation order

1952 representation order

1933 representation order

1924 representation order

1914 representation order

1905 representation order

See also

  • List of Canadian electoral districts
  • Historical federal electoral districts of Canada

References

Notes

Notes

  • Expenditures - 2000
  • Expenditures - 1997
  • Elections Canada
  • Website of the Parliament of Canada