Edmonton-South
 Alberta 2016)[1] | 45,801 | |
|---|---|---|
| Area (km²) | 72.7 | |
| Pop. density (per km²) | 630 | |
Edmonton-South (previously styled Edmonton South) is a provincial electoral district in
Geography
The first iteration of Edmonton South included the part of Edmonton south of the North Saskatchewan River, which had recently been amalgamated into Edmonton.
The re-created Edmonton-South has the Whitemud Creek and Rabbit Hill Road as its western boundary, the Henday as its northern boundary (except the area between Rabbit Hill Road and the Whitemud Creek south of 23rd Ave NW), 91st St SW and 88 St SW as its eastern boundary, and extends South to Highway 19 on the west side of the QEII according to the City of Edmonton's plan to annex a portion of Leduc County.[2]
History
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Edmonton-South | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Strathcona 1905-1913 | ||||
3rd
|
1913-1917 | Herbert Crawford | Conservative | |
4th
|
1917-1921 | |||
| See Edmonton 1921-1955 | ||||
| Riding created from Edmonton-South West, Edmonton-Whitemud, Edmonton-Ellerslie and Leduc-Beaumont | ||||
30th
|
2019–2021 | Thomas Dang | New Democrat | |
| 2021–2023 | Independent | |||
31st
|
2023– | Rhiannon Hoyle | New Democrat | |
Edmonton South was created when the
The incumbent in 1913 was
Crawford was re-elected in 1917, and served a second term as an opposition MLA. Edmonton South merged with Edmonton West and Edmonton East to form the multi-member Edmonton constituency in 1921, where Crawford was not re-elected, placing ninth.
In 2017, the Electoral Boundaries Commission decided to re-use the name Edmonton-South for a new district, carving it mostly from Edmonton-South West and smaller parts of Edmonton-Whitemud, Edmonton-Ellerslie and Leduc-Beaumont.
Election results
1910s
| 1913 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Conservative | Herbert Crawford | 1,523 | 54.43% | +40.35% | ||||
| Liberal | Alexander Rutherford |
1,275 | 45.57% | -40.35% | ||||
| Total valid votes | 2,798 | |||||||
| Conservative notional gain | Swing | +40.35% | ||||||
Source(s)
Alberta Heritage Foundation. "Election Results, Edmonton South". Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved December 8, 2017. | ||||||||
| 1917 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Conservative | Herbert Crawford | 2,761 | 55.90% | +1.47% | ||||
| Liberal | Robert Douglas | 2,178 | 44.10% | -1.47% | ||||
| Total valid votes | 4,939 | |||||||
| Registered voters / Turnout | 6,923 | 71.34% | ||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +1.47% | ||||||
Source(s)
Alberta Heritage Foundation. "Election Results, Edmonton South". Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved December 8, 2017. | ||||||||
2010s
| Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta general election | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Democratic | 6,706 | 53.69 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | 3,781 | 30.27 | ||||
| Wildrose | 1,211 | 9.70 | ||||
| Liberal | 514 | 4.12 | ||||
| Alberta Party | 262 | 2.10 | ||||
| Green | 9 | 0.07 | ||||
| Independent | 7 | 0.06 | ||||
Source(s)
Source: Ridingbuilder | ||||||
| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Thomas Dang | 10,673 | 46.63 | -7.06 | ||||
| United Conservative | Tunde Obasan | 9,881 | 43.17 | +3.20 | ||||
| Alberta Party | Pramod Kumar | 2,156 | 9.42 | +2.10 | ||||
| Green | Ben Roach | 180 | 0.79 | +0.71 | ||||
| Total | 22,890 | 99.10 | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 208 | 0.90 | ||||||
| Turnout | 23,098 | 70.84 | ||||||
| Eligible electors | 32,607 | |||||||
| New Democratic hold | Swing | -5.13 | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "42 - Edmonton-South, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. ISBN 978-1-988620-12-1 . Retrieved April 7, 2021. | ||||||||
2023
| 2023 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Rhiannon Hoyle | 14,171 | 58.97 | +12.34 | ||||
| United Conservative | Joseph Angeles | 9,492 | 39.50 | -3.67 | ||||
| Green | Chryssy Beckmann | 369 | 1.54 | +0.75 | ||||
| Total | 24,032 | 99.28 | – | |||||
| Rejected and declined | 174 | 0.72 | ||||||
| Turnout | 24,206 | 60.12 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 40,262 | |||||||
| New Democratic hold | Swing | +8.00 | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: Elections Alberta[3] | ||||||||
External links
References
- ^ Statistics Canada: 2016
- ^ Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission. "Final Report Maps: Edmonton-South" (PDF). abebc.ca.
- ^ "42 - Edmonton-South". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved June 9, 2023.