Edmonton-Meadowlark

Edmonton-Meadowlark

Alberta electoral district
2010 boundaries
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
District created	1971
District abolished	2019
First contested	1971
Last contested	2015

Edmonton Meadowlark was a

The electoral district located on the western edge of Edmonton was created in the 1971 boundary redistribution from the old electoral districts of Edmonton Jasper Place and Edmonton West.

The district has switched support between Progressive Conservative and Liberal candidates with regular frequency since it was created, a trend broken by the election of the New Democrat MLA Jon Carson in the 2015 general election.

History

The electoral district was created in the 1971 boundary redistribution from the old electoral districts of Edmonton Jasper Place and Edmonton West.^[2] The 1993 redistribution would see the district go through a significant redrawing as most of the riding which was south of Whitemud Drive would be moved into the new district of Edmonton-McClung. The riding remained a rectangle shape between Whitemud and Stony Plain road with little changes made in 1996 and 2003.

The

Boundary history

36 Edmonton-Meadowlark 2003 boundaries[4]
Bordering districts
North	East	West	South
Edmonton-Calder and Edmonton-Glenora	Edmonton-Riverview	Stony Plain and Spruce Grove-Sturgeon-St. Albert	Edmonton-McClung
riding map goes here
Legal description from the Electoral Divisions Act, S.A. 2003, c. E-4.1
Starting at the intersection of the west Edmonton city boundary with Stony Plain Road; then 1. east along Stony Plain Road to 156 Street; 2. south along 156 Street to 95 Avenue; 3. west along 95 Avenue to 163 Street; 4. south along 163 Street to 87 Avenue; 5. east along 87 Avenue to 159 Street; 6. south along 159 Street to Whitemud Drive; 7. west along Whitemud Drive to the west Edmonton city boundary; 8. west and north along the west city boundary to the starting point.
Note:

39 Edmonton-Meadowlark 2010 boundaries
Bordering districts
North	East	West	South
Edmonton-Calder	Edmonton-Glenora and Edmonton-Riverview	Spruce Grove-St. Albert and Stony Plain	Edmonton-McClung and Edmonton-South West
Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act.
Note:

Electoral history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Edmonton-Meadowlark[5]
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
See: Edmonton Jasper Place and Edmonton West 1963–1971
17th	1971–1975		Gerard Amerongen	Progressive Conservative
18th	1975–1979
19th	1979–1982
20th	1982–1986
21st	1986–1989		Grant Mitchell	Liberal
22nd	1989–1993
23rd	1993–1997		Karen Leibovici
24th	1997–2001
25th	2001–2004		Bob Maskell	Progressive Conservative
26th	2004–2008		Maurice Tougas	Liberal
27th	2008–2010		Raj Sherman	Progressive Conservative
	2010–2011			Independent
	2011			Independent Liberal
	2011–2012			Liberal
28th	2012–2015
29th	2015–2019		Jon Carson	New Democratic
See: Edmonton-West Henday and Edmonton-McClung 2019–

The electoral district was created in the 1971 boundary redistribution. The election held that year saw Progressive Conservative candidate Gerard Amerongen pickup the new district for his party. He was successful after running as a candidate in various districts since the 1950s. Amerongen was elected as Speaker of the Assembly when it met for its first session after the election in 1972.

Amerongen won re-election with increasing majorities three more times in the 1975, 1979 and 1982 general elections. He ran for a fifth term in the 1986 general election but was defeated in a shocking upset by Liberal candidate Grant Mitchell. This was only the second time in Alberta history that the Speaker of the Legislature had been defeated.

Mitchell was re-elected to his second term with a large majority in the 1989 general election. He ran for re-election in the Edmonton-McClung after redistricting created the new district out of most of the old land that covered Meadowlark. The new boundaries of Meadowlark returned Liberal candidate Karen Leibovici who won her first term with a substantial majority to hold the seat for her party.

Leibovici won her second term (in a closely contested race in the 1997 general election) defeating Progressive Conservative candidate Laurie Pushor. In the 2001 general election she was defeated by Progressive Conservative candidate, Bob Maskell, who won by 600 votes to pick up the district.

Maskell would only stay for a single term in office as he was defeated by Maurice Tougas in the 2004 general election. Tougas did not stand for re-election in 2008 due to frustrations with being an opposition MLA,^[6] and Progressive Conservative candidate Raj Sherman picked up the open district.

Sherman was removed from the Progressive Conservative caucus after making unsubstantiated allegations against the Alberta Government regarding abuses against staff working under Alberta Health Services. He at first sat as an Independent on November 22, 2010 than on March 15, 2011 he began caucusing with the Liberal caucus as an Independent. He was elected as leader of the provincial Liberals on September 10, 2011 and became a full member of the Liberal caucus two days later. He was re-elected in the 2012 provincial election and decided to retire from politics in 2015.^[7]

Like the rest of the city, Edmonton-Meadowlark swung hard to the NDP in that election, with Jon Carson easily capturing the seat.^[8] The riding was abolished for the 2019 election, replaced by Edmonton-West Henday.

Legislative election results

1971

1975

1979

1982

1986

1989

1993

1997

2001

2004

2008

2012

2015

Senate nominee election results

2004

Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot

2012

Student vote results

2004

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.

2012

See also

• List of Alberta provincial electoral districts
• Meadowlark Park is a residential neighbourhood in west Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

References

Further reading

• ISBN 0-9689217-8-7
  . Retrieved May 25, 2020.

• Elections Alberta
• The Legislative Assembly of Alberta

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