Clover Bar-Fort Saskatchewan
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Defunct provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada
| Alberta electoral district | |
|---|---|
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
| District created | 1993 |
| District abolished | 2004 |
| First contested | 1993 |
| Last contested | 2001 |
Clover Bar-Fort Saskatchewan was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first-past-the-post method of voting from 1993 to 2001.[1]
The electoral district was named for the City of Fort Saskatchewan and the Clover Bar community.
History
[edit ]The Clover Bar-Fort Saskatchewan electoral district was formed in the 1993 electoral boundary re-distribution from the dissolved Clover Bar electoral district.
The Clover Bar-Fort Saskatchewan electoral district was dissolved following the 2003 electoral boundary re-distribution and merged with portions of Redwater and Vegreville-Viking to form Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville.[2]
Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs)
[edit ]| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Clover Bar-Fort Saskatchewan | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Clover Bar electoral district from 1930-1993 | ||||
| 23rd | 1993–1997 | Muriel Abdurahman | Liberal | |
| 24th | 1997–2001 | Rob Lougheed | Progressive Conservative | |
| 25th | 2001–2004 | |||
| See Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville electoral district from 2004-Present | ||||
Election results
[edit ]1993
[edit ]| 1993 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Muriel Abdurahman | 5,612 | 41.97% | 0.00% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Rob Splane | 4,816 | 36.02% | 0.00% | ||||
| New Democratic | W.H. (Skip) Gordon | 2,072 | 15.50% | 0.00% | ||||
| Independent | Kurt Gesell | 872 | 6.52% | 0.00% | ||||
| Total | 13,372 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 18 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 21,510 | 62.25% | – | |||||
| Liberal pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Clover Bar-Fort Saskatchewan Official Results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
1997
[edit ]| 1997 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Rob Lougheed | 6,864 | 47.72% | 11.70% | ||||
| Liberal | Muriel Abdurahman | 6,364 | 44.24% | 2.27% | ||||
| New Democratic | Michael Berezowsky | 922 | 6.41% | -9.09% | ||||
| Independent | Max Cornelssen | 235 | 1.63% | -4.89% | ||||
| Total | 14,385 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 33 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 23,185 | 62.19% | – | |||||
| Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | -1.24% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Clover Bar-Fort Saskatchewan Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
2001
[edit ]| 2001 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Rob Lougheed | 9,674 | 62.73% | 15.01% | ||||
| Liberal | Skip Gordon | 4,606 | 29.87% | -14.37% | ||||
| New Democratic | Merrill Stewart | 1,142 | 7.41% | 1.00% | ||||
| Total | 15,422 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled, and declined | 33 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 25,620 | 60.32% | – | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | 14.69% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Clover Bar-Fort Saskatchewan Official Results 2001 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
See also
[edit ]- List of Alberta provincial electoral districts
- Fort Saskatchewan, a city in Alberta
References
[edit ]- ^ "Election results for Clover Bar-Fort Saskatchewan". abheritage.ca. Heritage Community Foundation. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (February 2003). "Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta". Legislative Assembly of Alberta . Retrieved May 29, 2020.
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