Jasper West
 Alberta electoral district | |
|---|---|
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
| District created | 1959 |
| District abolished | 1971 |
| First contested | 1959 |
| Last contested | 1967 |
Jasper West was a
first past the post method of voting from 1959 to 1963.[1]
Historu
It was created after
First Past the Post
voting system in 1959.
In 1963 the district was renamed
Edmonton Jasper Place
, which in 1971 was re-made into the Edmonton-Meadowlark district.
1959 Redistribution
The historic 1959 redistribution of the provincial ridings of
Single Transferable Vote in multi-member districts. The rest of the province had used Instant-runoff voting
in single-member districts.
The 1959 redistribution created nine districts in Edmonton.
The other eight ridings were
.Election Results 1959
| 1959 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Social Credit | Richard H. Jamieson | 5,047 | 40.91% | – | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | John Percy Page | 4,507 | 36.54% | – | ||||
| Liberal | Abe William Miller | 2,782 | 22.55% | – | ||||
| Total | 12,336 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 80 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 19,592 | 63.37% | – | |||||
| Social Credit pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Jasper-West Official Results 1959 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
See also
References
- ^ "Election results for Jasper West". abheritage.ca. Heritage Community Foundation. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
Further reading
- ISBN 0-9689217-8-7. Retrieved May 25, 2020.
External links
| General elections | |
|---|---|
| By-elections |
|
| Senate nominee elections | |
| Municipal elections | |
| Referendums | |
See also: Elections in Canada | |