Sherwood Park is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada.
History
The electoral district was created in the 1986 boundary redistribution from the old electoral district of Edmonton-Sherwood Park. The 2010 boundary redistribution kept the district unchanged from its 2003 boundaries.
Boundary history
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!colspan=4|74 Sherwood Park 2003 boundaries
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!colspan=4|Bordering districts
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!North
!East
!West
!South
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|Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview and Strathcona
|Strathcona
|Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood, Edmonton-Gold Bar and Edmonton-Mill Creek
|Strathcona
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|colspan=2 align=center|File:Edmonton provincial ridings - Sherwood Park.svg
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!colspan=4|Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act.
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|colspan=4|Starting at the intersection of the right bank of the North Saskatchewan River and the east Edmonton city boundary at the centre line of Highway 16; then 1. east along Highway 16 to the intersection with Clover Bar Road; 2. southwest and southeast along Clover Bar Road to Wye Road (Highway 630); 3. west along Wye Road and the Sherwood Park Freeway to the east Edmonton city boundary at 34 Street; 4. north, west and north along the east Edmonton city boundary to the starting point.
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|colspan=4|Note:
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!colspan=4|78 Sherwood Park 2010 boundaries
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!colspan=4|Bordering districts
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!North
!East
!West
!South
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|Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview and Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville
|Strathcona-Sherwood Park
|Edmonton-Gold Bar
|Edmonton-Mill Creek and Strathcona-Sherwood Park
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!colspan=4|Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act.
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|colspan=4|See Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act.
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|colspan=4|Note: The district remained unchanged in 2010.
|colspan="2"|Turnout 57.30%
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|Affiliation
|Candidate
|Votes
|% votes
|% ballots
|Rank
|Independent
|Link Byfield
|4,320
|11.92%
|36.32%
|4
|Michael Roth
|3,154
|8.71%
|26.52%
|7
|Independent
|Tom Sindlinger
|2,904
|8.02%
|24.42%
|9
|Vance Gough
|2,712
|7.49%
|22.80%
|8
|Gary Horan
|2,594
|7.15%
|21.81%
|10
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|colspan="3" align="right"|Total votes
|36,231
|colspan="3"|100%
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|colspan="3" align="right"|Total ballots
|11,894
|colspan="3"|3.05 votes per ballot
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|colspan="3" align="right"|Rejected, spoiled and declined
|colspan="4"|3,291
|}Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot
Student vote results
2004
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!Participating schools
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|Clover Bar Junior High School
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|F. R. Haythorne
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|Glen Allan Elementary
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|Holy Spirit Catholic School
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|Jean Vanier Catholic School
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|New Horizons School
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|Sherwood Heights Jr. High
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|St. Theresa Catholic School
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On November 19, 2004, a student vote was conducted at participating Alberta schools to parallel the 2004 Alberta general election results. The vote was designed to educate students and simulate the electoral process for persons who have not yet reached the legal majority. The vote was conducted in 80 of the 83 provincial electoral districts with students voting for actual election candidates. Schools with a large student body that reside in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district then where they were physically located.
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| colspan="5" align="center"|2004 Alberta student vote results
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|Affiliation
|Candidate
|Votes
|%
|Liberal
|Louise Rogers
|250
|14.14%
|Lynn Lau
|249
|14.08%
|NDP
|Tim Sloan
|193
|10.92%
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|colspan="3" align="right"|Total
|1,768
|100%
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|colspan="3" align="right"|Rejected, spoiled and declined
|colspan="2"|67
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See also
- List of Alberta provincial electoral districts
- Canadian provincial electoral districts
References
External links
- Legislative Assembly of Alberta