St. Albert (styled Saint Albert from 1905 to 1909) is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 87 current districts mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. The riding encompasses the majority, but not all of, the bedroom community of St. Albert.
History
The St. Albert electoral district was one of the original 25 electoral districts contested in the 1905 Alberta general election upon Alberta becoming a province in September 1905. The district was carried over from the old St. Albert electoral district, which returned a member to the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories from 1891 to 1905. The district stretched from the city of St. Albert west to the British Columbia border. The riding was renamed in 1909 and has shrunk in size many times since, eventually becoming an urban riding.
Although the other district that survives from 1905, the Peace River district, is a notable bellwether, St. Albert is a notorious swing riding that has been markedly unkind to its incumbent MLAs. New candidates from an incumbent party have held the district only twice after an incumbent MLA left office, and only two MLAs have won a third term.
Boundary history
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!colspan=4|76 St. Albert 2003 boundaries
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!North
!East
!West
!South
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|Athabasca-Redwater
|Edmonton-Castle Downs
|Spruce Grove-Sturgeon-St. Albert
|Edmonton-Calder
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|colspan=2 align=center|File:Edmonton provincial ridings - St Albert.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 west boundary of the St. Albert city boundary and the centre line of the Canadian National Railway; then 1. easterly along the centre line to the east boundary of river lot 20 as show on plan 5126 T.R.; 2. northerly along the east boundary to the centre line of McKenney Avenue; 3. easterly along the centre line of McKenney Avenue to the centre line of St. Albert Road; 4. northerly along the centre line of St. Albert Road to the centre line of Highway 2; 5. northerly along the centre line of Highway 2 to the northerly boundary of the St. Albert city boundary; 6. in a generally easterly, southerly, westerly and northerly direction along the St. Albert city boundary to the starting point.
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|colspan=4|Note:
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{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" style="width:100%;"
!colspan=4|80 St. Albert 2010 boundaries
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!colspan=4|Bordering districts
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!North
!East
!West
!South
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|Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater
|Edmonton-Calder
|Spruce Grove-St. Albert
|Edmonton-Calder
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!colspan=4|Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act.
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|colspan=4|Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act.
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|colspan=4|Note: The district remained unchanged in 2010. The 2017 redistribution saw its boundaries shift slightly to the west.
Representation history
The electoral district was created in 1905 when the province was founded. The election contest held that year was a hotly contested race between Liberal candidate Lucien Boudreau and Independent Liberal Henry McKenney. In the end the result was very close with McKenney winning by just eight votes. Despite being elected as an Independent, McKenney was a supporter of the Rutherford government and caucused with the Liberals.
McKenney stayed in the St. Albert district seat only for a single term. He decided to run in the Pembina district in the 1909 election. Boudreau ran again that year and this time won a hotly contested race over future MLAs Wilfrid Gariépy and Omer St. Germain. Boudreau was re-elected in 1913 and 1917, facing Conservative candidate Hector Landry both times and winning with comfortable majorities.
Boudreau ran for a fourth term in the 1921 election. He was defeated by United Farmers candidate Telesphore St. Arnaud.
From 1924 to 1956, the district used instant-runoff voting to elect its MLA.
Boudreau ran again in the 1926 election. He came in first in the first round of counting but did not have a majority of votes. After two vote transfers from eliminated candidates, he won the district seat. Boudreau was removed from office on November 18, 1926, after a court convicted Boudreau of bribery and corruption. Boudreau appealed and was re-instated on December 8, 1926.
The 1930 general election saw Omer St. Germain run in a straight fight against Boudreau. They had run against each other back in 1909. St. Germain won to retake the seat for the United Farmers.
St. Germain crossed the floor to the Liberals on February 6, 1934. He ran for re-election in a hotly contested race against four other candidates in the 1935 election. He came in third on the first ballot and ended up being defeated by Social Credit candidate Charles Holder after rounds of vote transfers. Holder only lasted one term in office. He ran in the 1940 general election but was defeated by Independent candidate Lionel Tellier.
Tellier did not run again in the 1944 general election. Charles Holder made a comeback and regained the seat for Social Credit. Holder retired from politics in 1948. Social Credit MLA Lucien Maynard moved to St. Albert from the Beaver River electoral district and won, to hold the St. Albert seat for the SC party. He was re-elected in the 1952 election.
The 1955 election was won by Liberal candidate Arthur Soetaert, who defeated Maynard. He only lasted one term, being defeated in the 1959 general election by Social Credit candidate Keith Everitt. The 1963 and 1967 elections saw Everitt hold the district. He was defeated in the 1971 general election by Progressive Conservative candidate Ernest Jamison.
Jamison was re-elected in the 1975 general election. He was defeated when running for the Progressive Conservative nomination in 1979.Myrna Fyfe won the nomination and went on to capture the seat in the 1979 general election for the P-C party.
Fyfe ran for re-election in 1982 and won the largest majority (54.6 percent) in the history of the district. She ran for a third term in the 1986 general election but was defeated by NDP candidate Bryan Strong in a hotly contested race.
Strong held the seat only for a single term, choosing not to run in the 1989 general election. Progressive Conservative Dick Fowler picked up the seat for his party. Fowler ran for a second term in the 1993 election but was defeated by Liberal candidate Len Bracko.
Bracko himself only lasted a single term in the seat. He was defeated in the 1997 general election by Progressive Conservative candidate Mary O'Neill in the closest race of the election, winning by just 16 votes. O'Neill was re-elected in the 2001 general election.
The 2004 general election saw Liberal candidate Jack Flaherty regain the seat for the Liberals as Mary O'Neill went down to defeat. Flaherty only held the seat for one term, as the riding swung back into the Progressive Conservative column when candidate Ken Allred won a strong majority (54 percent).
Legislative election results
1905
{| class="wikitable"
|colspan="3" align=center|1905 Alberta general election results
|colspan="2"|Turnout N/A
|colspan="2" align=center|Swing
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|Affiliation
|Candidate
|Votes
|%
|Party
|Personal
|Independent Liberal
|Henry McKenney
|407
|51.00%
|colspan=2 align=center|*
|Liberal
|Lucien Boudreau
|391
|49.00%
|colspan=2 align=center|*
|colspan=4|Independent Liberal pickup new district
|colspan=2|Swing N/A
|}
1909
{| class="wikitable"
|colspan="3" align=center|1909 Alberta general election results
|colspan="2"|Turnout N/A
|colspan="2" align=center|Swing
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|Affiliation
|Candidate
|Votes
|%
|Party
|Personal
|Liberal
|Lucien Boudreau
|528
|50.97%
|rowspan=2|37.90%
|1.97%
|Liberal
|Wilfrid Gariépy
|393
|37.93%
|align=center|*
|Independent Liberal
|Omer St. Germain
|115
|11.10%
|colspan=2 align=center|*
|colspan=4|Liberal pickup from Independent Liberal
|colspan=2|Swing 19.95%
|}
The 1909 general election saw incumbent Henry McKenney run for re-election in the new electoral district of Pembina as the boundaries of the St. Albert electoral district were significantly changed in the 1909 boundary redistribution.
A meeting was held on March 1, 1909, in Morinville to hear from candidates interested in the nomination for the provincial Liberals. The meeting was very well attended with over 400 delegates. The three candidates were Mayor of St. Albert Lucien Boudreau who was the runner up in the 1905 election as well as Omer St. Germain a farmer from Morinville and Wilfrid Gariépy an Alderman in Edmonton.
Gariépy was presented with a petition of over 500 electors in the constituency of St. Albert requesting him to be the Liberal candidate. The names on the petition added up to two thirds of the voter list in the constituency at the time and made a nomination convention unnecessary. He accepted the request and after a two-hour speech declared his candidacy as a straight supporter of the Rutherford government.
Gariépy had pressing business to attend in Edmonton the day of the convention and had asked two representatives to speak on his behalf, they told the convention delegates that Gariépy would not allow his name to go before the convention and that he would choose to contest the election independently of it. St. Germain told the convention that if they chose Boudreau he would retire from the race in his favor. Boudreau was acclaimed by the convention.
The provincial Conservatives had nominated Lucien Dubuc who had run in the previous election in the Peace River electoral district. He was nominated without a convention.
|colspan="2"|Turnout 74.10%
|colspan="2" align=center|Swing
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|Affiliation
|Candidate
|Votes
|%
|Party
|Personal
|Liberal
|Lucien Boudreau
|620
|60.55%
||-28.35%
|9.58%
|colspan=4|Liberal hold
|colspan=2|Swing -24.52%
|}
1917
{| class="wikitable"
|colspan="3" align=center|1917 Alberta general election results
|colspan="2"|Turnout 75.60%
|colspan="2" align=center|Swing
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|Affiliation
|Candidate
|Votes
|%
|Party
|Personal
|Liberal
|Lucien Boudreau
|1,095
|59.61%
|colspan=2 align=center|-0.94%
|colspan=4|Liberal hold
|colspan=2|Swing -0.94%
|}
1921
{| class="wikitable"
|colspan="3" align=center|1921 Alberta general election results
|colspan="2"|Turnout 76.80%
|colspan="2" align=center|Swing
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|Affiliation
|Candidate
|Votes
|%
|Party
|Personal
|Liberal
|Lucien Boudreau
|1,000
|44.76%
|colspan=2 align=center|-14.85%
|}
1926
1930
{| class="wikitable"
|colspan="3" align=center|1930 Alberta general election results
|colspan="2"|Turnout 80.02%
|colspan="2" align=center|Swing
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|Affiliation
|Candidate
|Votes
|%
|Party
|Personal
|Liberal
|Lucien Boudreau
|1,161
|44.86%
|colspan=2 align=center|1.75%
|}
1935
{| class="wikitable"
|colspan="3" align=center|1935 Alberta general election results
|colspan="6" align=center|Turnout 84.13%
|colspan="2" align=center|1st Count Swing
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|Affiliation
|Candidate
|1st
|%
|2nd
|3rd
|4th
|%
|Party
|Personal
|Social Credit
|Charles Holder
|1,431
|44.63%
|
|
|1,619
|52.84%
|colspan=2 align=center|*
|Independent Liberal
|Lucien Boudreau
|955
|29.79%
|
|
|1,445
|47.16%
|align=center|*
||-15.07%
|Liberal
|Omer St. Germain
|446
|13.91%
|
|
|colspan=2 bgcolor="#F2F2F2"|
||-30.95%
||-41.23%
|Independent Conservative
|A.S. McRae
|258
|8.05%
|
|colspan=3 bgcolor="#F2F2F2"|
|colspan=2 align=center|*
|colspan=4 bgcolor="#F2F2F2"|
||-51.52%
|align=center|*
|-
|colspan="3" align ="right"|Total
|3,206
|100%
|?
|?
|3,064
|colspan=3|100%
|-
|align="right" colspan=3|Exhausted Ballots
|colspan=2|0
|?
|?
|colspan=4|?
|-
|colspan="3" align="right"|Rejected, spoiled and declined
|colspan="8"|119
|-
|align=center colspan=11|3,811 Eligible Electors
|colspan=7|Social Credit pickup from Liberal
|colspan=3|1st Count Swing 29.85%
|}
1940
Independent Tellier came from behind to win the seat due to transfers conducted under the IRV rules.
{| class="wikitable"
|colspan="3" align=center|1940 Alberta general election results
|colspan="6" align=center|Turnout 71.85%
|colspan="2" align=center|1st Count Swing
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|Affiliation
|Candidate
|1st
|%
|2nd
|3rd
|4th
|%
|Party
|Personal
|colspan=2 align=center|*
|Social Credit
|Charles Holder
|1,703
|35.40%
|
|
|2,158
|47.81%
|colspan=2 align=center|-9.23%
|Independent
|Lionel Tellier
|1,467
|30.49%
|
|
|2,356
|52.19%
|Liberal
|J.H. Perras
|1,089
|22.64%
|colspan=4 bgcolor="#F2F2F2"|
|8.73%
|align=center|*
|Co-operative Commonwealth
|W.R. Rigney
|552
|11.47%
|colspan=4 bgcolor="#F2F2F2"|
|colspan=2 align=center|*
|-
|colspan="3" align="right"|Total
|4,811
|100%
|?
|?
|4,514
|colspan=3|100%
|-
|align="right" colspan=3|Exhausted Ballots
|colspan=2|0
|?
|?
|colspan=4|?
|-
|colspan="3" align="right"|Rejected, spoiled and declined
|colspan="8"|Unknown
|-
|align=center colspan=11|6,696 Eligible Electors
|colspan=7|Independent pickup from Social Credit
|colspan=3|1st Count Swing 19.86%
|}
1944
{| class="wikitable"
|colspan="3" align=center|1944 Alberta general election results
|colspan="4" align=center|Turnout 68.46%
|colspan="2" align=center|1st Count Swing
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|Affiliation
|Candidate
|1st
|%
|2nd
|%
|Party
|Personal
|Social Credit
|Charles Holder
|2,097
|49.49%
|2,491
|64.74%
|colspan=2 align=center|14.09%
|Co-operative Commonwealth
|Earl Toane
|1,222
|28.84%
|1,357
|35.26%
|17.37%
|align=center|*
|Independent
|Joseph Nadeau
|918
|21.67%
|colspan=2 bgcolor="#F2F2F2"|
|colspan=2 align=center|*
|-
|colspan="3" align ="right"|Total
|4,237
|100%
|3,848
|colspan=3|100%
|-
|align="right" colspan=3|Exhausted Ballots
|colspan=2|0
|colspan=4|389
|-
|colspan="3" align="right"|Rejected, spoiled and declined
|colspan="8"|119
|-
|align=center colspan=9|6,319 Eligible Electors
|colspan=5|Social Credit pickup from Independent
|colspan=3|1st Count Swing 15.73%
|}
1948
{| class="wikitable"
|colspan="3" align=center|1948 Alberta general election results
|colspan="2"|Turnout 69.94%
|colspan="2" align=center|Swing
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|Affiliation
|Candidate
|Votes
|%
|Party
|Personal
|Co-operative Commonwealth
|Joseph Dusseault
|1,047
|23.15%
||-5.69%
|align=center|*
|Liberal
|Omer St. Germain
|774
|17.11%
|colspan=2 align=center|*
|-
|}
1952
{| class="wikitable"
|colspan="3" align=center|1952 Alberta general election results
|colspan="4" align=center|Turnout 70.63%
|colspan="2" align=center|1st Count Swing
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|Affiliation
|Candidate
|1st
|%
|2nd
|%
|Party
|Personal
|Social Credit
|Lucien Maynard
|2,218
|44.31%
|2,420
|54.52%
|colspan=2 align=center|-15.43%
|Liberal
|Arthur Soetaert
|1,496
|29.88%
|2,019
|45.48%
|12.77%
|align=center|*
|Co-operative Commonwealth
|Joseph Dusseault
|1,292
|25.81%
|colspan=2 bgcolor="#F2F2F2"|
|colspan=2 align=center|2.66%
|-
|colspan="3" align ="right"|Total
|5,006
|100%
|4,439
|colspan=3|100%
|-
|align="right" colspan=3|Exhausted Ballots
|colspan=2|0
|colspan=4|567
|-
|colspan="3" align="right"|Rejected, spoiled and declined
|colspan="8"|337
|-
|align=center colspan=9|7,565 Eligible Electors
|colspan=5|Social Credit hold
|colspan=3|1st Count Swing -14.10%
|}
1955
1959
{| class="wikitable"
| colspan="3" align=center|1959 Alberta general election results
|colspan="2"|Turnout 62.74%
|colspan="2" align=center|Swing
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|Affiliation
|Candidate
|Votes
|%
|Party
|Personal
|Liberal
|Arthur Soetaert
|2,082
|35.29%
|colspan=2 align=center|-8.84%
|Co-operative Commonwealth
|Earl Toane
|473
|8.02%
|colspan=2 align=center|*
|colspan=4|Social Credit pickup from Liberal
|colspan=2|Swing -7.29%
|}
1963
{| class="wikitable"
| colspan="3" align=center|1963 Alberta general election results
|colspan="2"|Turnout 55.37%
|colspan="2" align=center|Swing
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|Affiliation
|Candidate
|Votes
|%
|Party
|Personal
|-
|}
1967
{| class="wikitable"
| colspan="3" align=center|1967 Alberta general election results
|colspan="2"|Turnout 63.85%
|colspan="2" align=center|Swing
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|Affiliation
|Candidate
|Votes
|%
|Party
|Personal
|-
|}
1971
{| class="wikitable"
| colspan="3" align=center|1971 Alberta general election results
|colspan="2"|Turnout 70.20%
|colspan="2" align=center|Swing
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|Affiliation
|Candidate
|Votes
|%
|Party
|Personal
|Liberal
|Robert Russell
|1,660
|15.44%
|colspan=2 align=center|-13.53%
|}
1975
{| class="wikitable"
| colspan="3" align=center|1975 Alberta general election results
|colspan="2"|Turnout 52.20%
|colspan="2" align=center|Swing
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|Affiliation
|Candidate
|Votes
|%
|Party
|Personal
|}
1979
{| class="wikitable"
| colspan="3" align=center|1979 Alberta general election results
|colspan="2"|Turnout 57.80%
|colspan="2" align=center|Swing
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|Affiliation
|Candidate
|Votes
|%
|Party
|Personal
|}
1982
{| class="wikitable"
| colspan="3" align=center|1982 Alberta general election results
|colspan="2"|Turnout 68.10%
|colspan="2" align=center|Swing
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|Affiliation
|Candidate
|Votes
|%
|Party
|Personal
|Independent
|William Jamison
|3,406
|14.36%
|align=center colspan=2|*
|}
1986
{| class="wikitable"
| colspan="3" align=center|1986 Alberta general election results
|colspan="2"|Turnout 50.17%
|colspan="2" align=center|Swing
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|Affiliation
|Candidate
|Votes
|%
|Party
|Personal
|Liberal
|Thomas Droege
|745
|6.62%
|align=center colspan=2|*
|colspan=4|NDP pickup from Progressive Conservative
|colspan=2|Swing 18.54%
|}
1989
{| class="wikitable"
| colspan="3" align=center|1989 Alberta general election results
|colspan="2"|Turnout 58.98%
|colspan="2" align=center|Swing
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|Affiliation
|Candidate
|Votes
|%
|Party
|Personal
|Independent
|Archie Baldwin
|147
|1.01%
|align=center colspan=2|*
|}
1993
{| class="wikitable"
| colspan="3" align=center|1993 Alberta general election results
|colspan="2"|Turnout 61.91%
|colspan="2" align=center|Swing
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|Affiliation
|Candidate
|Votes
|%
|Party
|Personal
|Liberal
|Len Bracko
|7,267
|51.02%
|colspan=2 align=center|21.65%
|Natural Law
|Gordon Rever
|199
|1.40%
|align=center colspan=2|*
|colspan=4|Liberal pickup from Progressive Conservative
|colspan=2|Swing 13.28%
|}
1997
{| class="wikitable"
|colspan="3" align=center|1997 Alberta general election results
|colspan="2"|Turnout 60.97%
|colspan="2" align=center|Swing
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|Affiliation
|Candidate
|Votes
|%
|Party
|Personal
|Liberal
|Len Bracko
|6,680
|43.50%
|colspan=2 align=center|-7.52%
|Social Credit
|John Reil
|781
|5.09%
|align=center colspan=2|*
|}
2001
{| class="wikitable"
|colspan="3" align=center|2001 Alberta general election results
|colspan="2"|Turnout 63.99%
|colspan="2" align=center|Swing
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|Affiliation
|Candidate
|Votes
|%
|Party
|Personal
|Liberal
|Len Bracko
|7,479
|41.23%
|colspan=2 align=center|-2.27%
|}
2004
{| class="wikitable"
|colspan="3" align=center|2004 Alberta general election results
|colspan="2"|Turnout 52.79%
|colspan="2" align=center|Swing
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|Affiliation
|Candidate
|Votes
|%
|Party
|Personal
|Conrad Bitangcol
|407
|2.68%
|colspan=2 align=center|*
|-
|colspan="3" align ="right"|Total
|15,188
|colspan="3"|100%
|-
|colspan="3" align="right"|Rejected, spoiled and declined
|colspan="4"|54
|-
|align=center colspan=7|28,872 Eligible Electors
|colspan=4|Liberal pickup from Progressive Conservative
|colspan=2|Swing 7.04%
|}
2008
{| class="wikitable"
|colspan="3" align=center|2008 Alberta general election results
|colspan="2"|Turnout 44.74%
|colspan="2" align=center|Swing
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|Affiliation
|Candidate
|Votes
|%
|Party
|Personal
|Liberal
|Jack Flaherty
|5,598
|36.03%
|colspan=2 align=center|-6.61%
|Ross Vincent
|576
|3.71%
|1.03%
|align=center|*
|-
|colspan="3" align ="right"|Total
|15,536
|colspan="3"|100%
|-
|colspan="3" align="right"|Rejected, spoiled and declined
|colspan="4"|94
|-
|align=center colspan=7|34,939 Eligible Electors
|}
2012
2015
2019
2023
Senate nominee election results
2004
{| class="wikitable"
| colspan="5" align=center|2004 Senate nominee election results: St. Albert
| colspan="2"|Turnout 52.61%
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|Affiliation
|Candidate
|Votes
|% votes
|% ballots
|Rank
|Independent
|Link Byfield
|4,464
|13.43%
|41.09%
|4
|Independent
|Tom Sindlinger
|2,912
|8.76%
|26.81%
|9
|Michael Roth
|2,864
|8.62%
|26.37%
|7
|Gary Horan
|2,571
|7.73%
|23.67%
|10
|Vance Gough
|2,500
|7.52%
|23.01%
|8
|-
|colspan="3" align="right"|Total votes
|33,241
|colspan="3"|100%
|-
|colspan="3" align="right"|Total ballots
|10,863
|colspan="3"|3.06 votes per ballot
|-
|colspan="3" align="right"|Rejected, spoiled and declined
|colspan="4"|4,325
|}Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot
Plebiscite results
1948 electrification plebiscite
District results from the first province wide plebiscite on electricity regulation.
{| border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse"
|- bgcolor="darkgray"
!|Option A
!|Option B
|-
|Are you in favour of the generation and distribution of electricity being continued by the Power Companies?
|Are you in favour of the generation and distribution of electricity being made a publicly owned utility administered by the Alberta Government Power Commission?
|-
!|1,897 44.84%
!|2,333 55.16%
|-
!colspan="2"|Province wide result: Option A passed.
|}
1957 liquor plebiscite
{| class="wikitable" align=right
|colspan=4 align=center|1957 Alberta liquor plebiscite results: St. Albert
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!colspan=4|Question A: Do you approve additional types of outlets for the<br /> sale of beer, wine and spirituous liquor subject to a local vote?
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!Ballot choice
!Votes
!%
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|bgcolor=green|
|Yes
|2,546
|70.27%
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|bgcolor=red|
|No
|1,077
|29.73%
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|align=right colspan=2|Total votes
|3,623
|100%
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|align=right colspan=2|Rejected, spoiled and declined
|colspan=2|92
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!colspan=4|8,184 eligible electors, turnout 45.39%
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On October 30, 1957, a stand-alone plebiscite was held province wide in all 50 of the then current provincial electoral districts in Alberta. The government decided to consult Alberta voters to decide on liquor sales and mixed drinking after a divisive debate in the Legislature. The plebiscite was intended to deal with the growing demand for reforming antiquated liquor control laws.
The plebiscite was conducted in two parts. Question A asked in all districts, asked the voters if the sale of liquor should be expanded in Alberta, while Question B asked in a handful of districts within the corporate limits of Calgary and Edmonton asked if men and woman were allowed to drink together in establishments. However the results of the vote led the government to repeal all existing liquor legislation and introduce an entirely new Liquor Act.
Municipal districts lying inside electoral districts that voted against the Plebiscite were designated Local Option Zones by the Alberta Liquor Control Board and considered effective dry zones, business owners that wanted a license had to petition for a binding municipal plebiscite in order to be granted a license.
Student vote results
2004
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!Participating schools
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|Neil M. Ross Elementary School
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|Paul Kane High School
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|Richard Fowler Junior High School
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|St. Albert Catholic High School
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|VJ Maloney Catholic Junior High 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.
{| class="wikitable"
| colspan="5" align="center"|2004 Alberta student vote results
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|Affiliation
|Candidate
|Votes
|%
|Liberal
|Jack Flaherty
|303
|32.13%
|NDP
|Travis Thompson
|232
|24.60%
|Conrad Bitangcol
|124
|13.15%
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|colspan="3" align ="right"|Total
|943
|100%
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|colspan="3" align="right"|Rejected, spoiled and declined
|colspan="2"|35
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2012
{| class="wikitable"
|colspan="5" align=center|2012 Alberta student vote results
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|Affiliation
|Candidate
|Votes
|%
|Liberal
|
|
|%
|NDP
|Nicole Bownes
|%
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|colspan="3" align="right"|Total
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|100%
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See also
- List of Alberta provincial electoral districts
- Canadian provincial electoral districts
References
External links
- Riding Map for St. Albert
- Demographics for St. Albert
- Website of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta