Lac_La_Biche-St._Paul-Two_Hills
Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills
Defunct provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada
Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using first-past-the-post balloting from 2012 to 2019.
 Alberta electoral district | |
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2010 boundaries | |
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
| District created | 2010 |
| District abolished | 2017 |
| First contested | 2012 |
| Last contested | 2015 |
The district was created in the 2010 boundary redistribution, and was first contested in the 2012 election. It was last contested in the 2015 election, when it returned Dave Hanson of the Wildrose Party.
Boundary history
The electoral district was created in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution. It was created from the electoral district of Lac La Biche-St. Paul which was altered to bound current municipal boundaries. Two Hills was added to the name at the request of local residents.[1]
The Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended splitting the district up in 2017, creating Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche and Bonnyville-Cold Lake-St. Paul, while transferring the area around Two Hills to Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville and a small area to Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock.[2]
| 65 Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills 2010 boundaries[3] | |||
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| Bordering districts | |||
| North | East | West | South |
| Fort McMurray-Conklin | Bonnyville-Cold Lake | Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater, Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville and Lesser Slave Lake | Vermilion-Lloydminster |
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| Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act. | |||
| Note: | |||
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills | ||||
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| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Lac La Biche-St. Paul 1993-2012 | ||||
| 28th | 2012-2015 | Shayne Saskiw | Wildrose | |
| 29th | 2015-2017 | Dave Hanson | ||
| 2017-2019 | United Conservative | |||
| See Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche, Bonnyville-Cold Lake- St. Paul and Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville after 2019 | ||||
Electoral history
Since the riding was renamed, it has been represented only by the Wildrose Party of Alberta, although its antecedent had been held by several parties, most prominently the Progressive Conservatives. The first MLA was Shayne Saskiw, who was elected in 2012 and resigned prior to the 2015 election.[4] Dave Hanson was elected to represent the district in the 2015 election.
2012
| 2012 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Wildrose | Shayne Saskiw | 5,949 | 46.56% | – | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Ray Danyluk | 5,418 | 42.40% | -28.88% | ||||
| New Democratic | Phil Johnson | 706 | 5.53% | -5.42% | ||||
| Liberal | John Nowak | 704 | 5.51% | -12.26% | ||||
| Total valid votes | 12,777 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 99 | – | – | |||||
| Electors / turnout | 21,729 | 59.26% | +15.03% | |||||
| Wildrose notional gain from Progressive Conservative | Swing | +37.72% | ||||||
Source(s)
"Election Results - LAC LA BICHE-ST. PAUL-TWO HILLS". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved June 1, 2020. | ||||||||
2015
| 2015 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Wildrose | Dave Hanson | 4,760 | 38.65% | -7.91% | ||||
| New Democratic | Catherine Harder | 4,213 | 34.21% | +28.68% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Darrell Younghans | 3,002 | 24.38% | -18.02% | ||||
| Green | Brian Deheer | 340 | 2.76% | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 12,315 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 73 | – | – | |||||
| Electors/turnout | 23,476 | 52.77% | -6.49% | |||||
| Wildrose hold | Swing | -18.30% | ||||||
Source(s)
"Election Results - LAC LA BICHE-ST. PAUL-TWO HILLS". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved June 1, 2020. | ||||||||
| 5.5% | 5.5% | 42.4% | 46.6% |
| NDP | Liberal | Progressive Conservative | Wildrose |
| 34.2% | 24.4% | 38.7% | |
| New Democrat | Progressive Conservative | Wildrose |
- 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. ISBN 978-0-9865367-1-7. 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. ISBN 978-1-988620-04-6. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- "Bill 28 Electoral Divisions Act" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. 2010. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- "Wildrose MLA Shayne Saskiw leaving Alberta legislature". CBC News. March 12, 2015. Retrieved March 12, 2015.