 Alberta electoral district | |
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| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
| District created | 1996 |
| District abolished | 2004 |
| First contested | 1997 |
| Last contested | 2001 |
Drumheller-Chinook 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 2004.
History
The electoral district was created in the 1996 boundary redistribution from the Drumheller and Chinook electoral districts.
The electoral district would be combined with Lacombe-Stettler to form Drumheller-Stettler in 2003.
Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs)
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Drumheller-Chinook | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Drumheller electoral district from 1971-1997 and Chinook electoral district from 1979-1997 |
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| 24th | 1997–2001 | Shirley McClellan | Progressive Conservative | |
| 25th | 2001–2004 | |||
| See Drumheller-Stettler electoral district from 2004-Present | ||||
Electoral history
1997
| 1997 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Shirley McClellan | 6,063 | 63.48% | – | ||||
| Social Credit | Dale Trefz | 2,056 | 21.53% | – | ||||
| Liberal | Einar Davison | 1,432 | 14.99% | – | ||||
| Total | 9,551 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 30 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 16,133 | 59.39% | – | |||||
| Progressive Conservative pickup new district. | ||||||||
| Source(s) Source: "Drumheller-Chinook Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
2001
| 2001 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Shirley McClellan | 6,684 | 73.02% | 9.54% | ||||
| Liberal | Greg Pyra | 921 | 10.06% | -4.93% | ||||
| Independent | Eileen Walker | 819 | 8.95% | – | ||||
| New Democratic | Gerry Hamilton | 546 | 5.96% | – | ||||
| Social Credit | Peter Smits | 184 | 2.01% | -19.52% | ||||
| Total | 9,154 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled, and declined | 31 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 16,066 | 57.17% | – | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | 10.50% | ||||||
| Source(s) Source: "Drumheller-Chinook Official Results 2001 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
See also
- List of Alberta provincial electoral districts
- Drumheller, Alberta, town in south-eastern Alberta
References
- "Election results for Drumheller-Chinook". abheritage.ca. Heritage Community Foundation. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
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Further reading
- 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.
External links
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