Edmonton-Mill_Creek
Edmonton-Mill Creek
Defunct provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada
Edmonton Mill Creek 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 1997 to 2019.
 Alberta electoral district | |
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2010 boundaries | |
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
| District created | 1996 |
| District abolished | 2019 |
| First contested | 1997 |
| Last contested | 2015 |
Edmonton-Mill Creek electoral district was created in the 1996 boundary redistribution from the old electoral district of Edmonton-Avonmore and a small part of Edmonton-Gold Bar electoral districts, and named for the Mill Creek Ravine which runs through Edmonton. The 2010 electoral boundary re-distribution saw the riding boundaries shift southwards. The 2003 south boundaries which ended at 23 Avenue were moved further south into Edmonton-Mill Woods and Edmonton-Ellerslie to end at Anthony Henday Drive. The northern boundaries of the riding were also pushed south from 92 Avenue to the Sherwood Park Freeway at its most northern point.[1]
The district was abolished in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended renaming Edmonton-Mill Creek to Edmonton-Meadows, reflecting a change in boundaries that "leaves the part of Mill Creek most well-known to Edmontonians in the constituency of Edmonton-Gold Bar".[2]
Boundary history
| 37 Edmonton-Mill Creek 2003 boundaries[3] | |||
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| Bordering districts | |||
| North | East | West | South |
| Edmonton-Gold Bar, Edmonton-Strathcona and Sherwood Park | Strathcona | Edmonton-Strathcona | Edmonton-Ellerslie, Edmonton-Mill Woods and Edmonton-Rutherford |
| riding map goes here |  | ||
| Legal description from the Electoral Divisions Act, S.A. 2003, c. E-4.1 | |||
| Starting at the intersection of Gateway Boulevard with Whyte Avenue (82 Avenue); then 1. east along Whyte Avenue (82 Avenue) to 75 Street; 2. north along 75 Street to 90 Avenue; 3. east along 90 Avenue to 50 Street; 4. north along 50 Street to 92 Avenue; 5. east along 92 Avenue to the east Edmonton city boundary; 6. south, east and south along the east city boundary to 23 Avenue; 7. west along 23 Avenue to Mill Creek; 8. in a northwesterly direction along Mill Creek to 50 Street; 9. north along 50 Street to Whitemud Drive; 10. west along Whitemud Drive to Gateway Boulevard; 11. north along Gateway Boulevard to the starting point. | |||
| Note: | |||
| 40 Edmonton-Mill Creek 2010 boundaries | |||
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| Bordering districts | |||
| North | East | West | South |
| Edmonton-Gold Bar, Edmonton-Strathcona and Sherwood Park | Strathcona-Sherwood Park | Edmonton-Rutherford and Edmonton Strathcona | Edmonton-Ellerslie and Edmonton-Mill Woods |
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| Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act. | |||
| Note: | |||
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Edmonton-Mill Creek | ||||
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| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Edmonton-Avonmore and Edmonton-Gold Bar 1971-1997 | ||||
| 24th | 1997-1998 | Gene Zwozdesky | Liberal | |
| 1998 | Independent | |||
| 1998-2001 | Progressive Conservative | |||
| 25th | 2001-2004 | |||
| 26th | 2004-2008 | |||
| 27th | 2008–2015 | |||
| 29th | 2015–2019 | Denise Woollard | New Democrat | |
| See Edmonton-Meadows 2019- | ||||
Electoral history
The electoral district was created in 1997 largely from the old electoral district of Edmonton-Avonmore. That district had become a swing riding through the 1980s and 90s being won by candidates from three different parties. The incumbent Gene Zwozdesky had previously represented Avonmore winning his first term in office in 1993.
Zwozdesky won his first term representing Mill Creek as a Liberal candidate. A year later in 1998 he had a high-profile falling out with the Liberal party and left the caucus to sit as an Independent. He joined the Progressive Conservative caucus a short time later and was re-elected under that banner in 2001.
Starting in 1999 Zwozdesky was appointed to his first portfolio as a junior minister. In total he has held six different ministerial portfolios in the governments of Ralph Klein and Ed Stelmach with his last portfolio ending in 2011. Zwozdesky was defeated in the 2015 Alberta general election by Alberta NDP candidate Denise Woollard.[4]
1997
| 1997 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Gene Zwozdesky | 6,757 | 51.91% | – | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Sukhi Randhawa | 3,679 | 28.27% | – | ||||
| New Democratic | Stephen Crocker | 1,804 | 13.86% | – | ||||
| Social Credit | Christie Forget | 776 | 5.96% | – | ||||
| Total | 13,016 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 18 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 23,216 | 56.14% | – | |||||
| Liberal pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Edmonton-Mill Creek Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. "1997 General Election". Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 26, 2020. | ||||||||
2001
| 2001 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Gene Zwozdesky | 8,085 | 55.67% | 27.40% | ||||
| Liberal | Bharat Agnihotri | 4,229 | 29.12% | -22.80% | ||||
| New Democratic | Edwin Villania | 1,893 | 13.03% | -0.83% | ||||
| Alberta First | Kyle Harvey | 220 | 1.51% | – | ||||
| Greens | Harlan Light | 97 | 0.67% | – | ||||
| Total | 14,524 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 41 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 26,307 | 55.37% | -0.78% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | 1.45% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Edmonton-Mill Creek Official Results 2001 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
2004
| 2004 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Gene Zwozdesky | 5,070 | 42.08% | -13.59% | ||||
| Liberal | Aman Gill | 4,289 | 35.60% | 6.48% | ||||
| New Democratic | Nathan Taylor | 1,709 | 14.18% | 1.15% | ||||
| Alberta Alliance | Robert J. Alford | 523 | 4.34% | – | ||||
| Greens | Eric Stieglitz | 386 | 3.20% | 2.54% | ||||
| Independent | Cameron Johnson | 72 | 0.60% | – | ||||
| Total | 12,049 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 50 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 24,419 | 49.55% | -5.82% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | -10.03% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Edmonton-Mill Creek Official Results 2004 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. "Edmonton-Mill Creek Statement of Official Results 2004 Alberta general election" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 28, 2020. | ||||||||
2008
| 2008 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Gene Zwozdesky | 6,857 | 50.78% | 8.70% | ||||
| Liberal | Aman Gill | 4,058 | 30.05% | -5.55% | ||||
| New Democratic | Stephen Anderson | 1,822 | 13.49% | -0.69% | ||||
| Green | Glen Argan | 726 | 5.38% | – | ||||
| Communist | Naomi Rankin | 41 | 0.30% | – | ||||
| Total | 13,504 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 90 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 29,773 | 45.66% | -3.89% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | 7.12% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: The Report on the March 3, 2008 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-seventh Legislative Assembly. Elections Alberta. May 28, 2020. pp. 320–323. | ||||||||
2012
| 2012 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Gene Zwozdesky | 6,623 | 55.06% | 4.28% | ||||
| Wildrose | Adam Corsaut | 2,193 | 18.23% | – | ||||
| Liberal | Mike Butler | 1,640 | 13.63% | -16.42% | ||||
| New Democratic | Evelinne Teichgraber | 1,336 | 11.11% | -2.39% | ||||
| Alberta Party | Judy Wilson | 194 | 1.61% | – | ||||
| Communist | Naomi Rankin | 43 | 0.36% | 0.05% | ||||
| Total | 12,029 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 117 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 25,250 | 48.10% | 2.44% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | 8.05% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Elections Alberta 2012 General Election". Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. "40 - Edmonton-Mill Creek". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved June 4, 2020. | ||||||||
2015
| 2015 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Denise Woollard | 9,025 | 55.94% | 44.83% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Gene Zwozdesky | 3,848 | 23.85% | -31.21% | ||||
| Liberal | Harpreet Gill | 1,896 | 11.75% | -1.88% | ||||
| Wildrose | Saqib Raja | 1,365 | 8.46% | -9.77% | ||||
| Total | 16,134 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 59 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 32,521 | 49.79% | 1.69% | |||||
| New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative | Swing | -2.37% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Elections Alberta 2015 General Election". Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. "40 - Edmonton-Mill Creek". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved June 4, 2020. | ||||||||
2004
| 2004 Senate nominee election results: Edmonton-Mill Creek[5] | Turnout 49.67% | |||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % votes | % ballots | Rank | |
| Progressive Conservative | Betty Unger | 4,223 | 15.38% | 46.08% | 2 | |
| Independent | Link Byfield | 3,423 | 12.47% | 37.35% | 4 | |
| Progressive Conservative | Bert Brown | 3,065 | 11.17% | 33.44% | 1 | |
| Progressive Conservative | Cliff Breitkreuz | 3,030 | 11.04% | 33.06% | 3 | |
| Independent | Tom Sindlinger | 2,540 | 9.25% | 27.71% | 9 | |
| Alberta Alliance | Michael Roth | 2,500 | 9.11% | 27.28% | 7 | |
| Progressive Conservative | David Usherwood | 2,380 | 8.67% | 25.97% | 6 | |
| Alberta Alliance | Gary Horan | 2,216 | 8.07% | 24.18% | 10 | |
| Alberta Alliance | Vance Gough | 2,212 | 8.06% | 24.14% | 8 | |
| Progressive Conservative | Jim Silye | 1,861 | 6.78% | 20.31% | 5 | |
| Total votes | 27,450 | 100% | ||||
| Total ballots | 9,165 | 3.00 votes per ballot | ||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 2,965 | |||||
Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot.
2012
2004
| Participating schools[6] |
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| J. H. Picard School |
| W. P. Wagner School |
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 had 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 than where they were physically located.
| 2004 Alberta student vote results[7] | ||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| NDP | Nathan Taylor | 374 | 34.44% | |
| Progressive Conservative | Gene Zwozdesky | 351 | 32.32% | |
| Liberal | Aman Gill | 129 | 11.88% | |
| Independent | Cameron Johnson | 96 | 8.84% | |
| Green | Eric Stieglitz | 92 | 8.47% | |
| Alberta Alliance | Robert Alford | 44 | 4.05% | |
| Total | 1,086 | 100% | ||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 48 | |||
2012
| 2012 Alberta student vote results | ||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Progressive Conservative | Gene Zwozdesky | |||
| Wildrose | Adam Corsaut | |||
| Liberal | Mike Butler | |||
| Alberta Party | Judy Wilson | |||
| NDP | Evelinne Teichgrabber | |||
| Communist | Naomi Rankin | |||
| Total | 12,044 | 100% | ||
- List of Alberta provincial electoral districts
- Mill Creek Ravine, a creek located in Edmonton, Alberta, and a part of the River Valley parks and trail system
- Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (June 2010). "Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (October 2017). Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. p. 47. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- Electoral Divisions Act, S.A. 2003, c. E-4.1
- "Alberta Election 2015: Former Speaker of the House Gene Zwozdesky loses Edmonton-Mill Creek seat to NDP". Globalnews.ca. Retrieved January 6, 2019.
- "Senate Nominee Election 2004 Tabulation of Official Results" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 4, 2009. Retrieved February 28, 2010.
- "School by School results". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 5, 2007. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- "Riding by Riding Results - the Candidates". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 6, 2007. Retrieved April 19, 2008.
- Office of the Chief Electoral Officer; Legislative Assembly Office (2006). A Century of Democracy: Elections of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1905-2005. The Centennial Series. Edmonton, AB: Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ISBN 0-9689217-8-7. Retrieved May 25, 2020.