Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin

Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin

Alberta electoral district
Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin within Alberta (2017 boundaries)
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA	Rick Wilson United Conservative
District created	2017
First contested	2019
Last contested	2023
Demographics
Population (2016)[1]	43,798
Area (km²)	4,220
Pop. density (per km²)	10.4

Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 87 districts mandated to return a single member (MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting. It was contested for the first time in the 2019 Alberta general election and is represented by Rick Wilson of the United Conservative Party of Alberta.

Geography

The district is located south of Edmonton, named for the City of Wetaskiwin and the Hamlet of Maskwacis (which serves as a central community for the "four nations": the Cree Ermineskin, Samson, Montana and Louis Bull bands). It also includes the Pigeon Lake Reserve, which is shared by the four nations. Other towns and villages include Millet, Bittern Lake, Hay Lakes, and the summer villages that line the shores of Pigeon Lake.

History

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
See Wetaskiwin-Camrose 1993–2019
30th	2019–2023		Rick Wilson	United Conservative
31st	2023–Present

The district was created in the 2017 electoral district re-distribution when most of Wetaskiwin-Camrose joined with parts of Battle River-Wainwright, Leduc-Beaumont, and Drayton Valley-Devon. The Commission decided to unite the five reserves around Maskwacis into a single riding to eliminate the province's last non-contiguous riding. The resulting population of the Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin electoral district for 2017 was 43,798, which was 6% below the provincial average of 46,803.^[2]

Legislative election results

Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta general election
Party		Votes	%
	New Democratic	6,795	41.51%
	Progressive Conservative	4,760	29.08%
	Wildrose	4,544	27.76%
	Others	272	1.66%

2019

v t e 2019 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Conservative	Rick Wilson	12,796	64.12%	7.28%
	New Democratic	Bruce Hinkley	4,737	23.74%	-17.77%
	Alberta Party	Sherry Greene	1,382	6.93%	–
	Freedom Conservative	David White	522	2.62%	–
	Alberta Advantage Party	Wesley Rea	263	1.32%	–
	Green	Desmond G. Bull	256	1.28%	–
Total			19,956	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			90	–	–
Eligible electors / Turnout			28,948	69.25%	–
	United Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s) Source: "74 - Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2023

v t e 2023 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Conservative	Rick Wilson	11,640	67.54	+3.42
	New Democratic	Katherine Swampy	4,801	27.86	+4.12
	Independent	Marie Rittenhouse	520	3.02	–
	Green	Justin Fuss	187	1.09	-0.20
	Solidarity Movement	Suzanne Jubb	86	0.50	–
Total			17,234	99.68	–
Rejected and declined			55	0.32
Turnout			17,289	58.01
Eligible voters			29,805
	United Conservative hold		Swing		-0.35
Source(s) Source: Elections Alberta[3]

See also

• List of Alberta provincial electoral districts

References

1. Statistics Canada: 2016
2. 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. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 12, 2020. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
3. "74 - Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved June 10, 2023.

External links

• Elections Alberta
• The Legislative Assembly of Alberta