Barrhead-Westlock

Barrhead-Westlock

Alberta electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
District created	1993
District abolished	2004
First contested	1993
Last contested	2001

Barrhead-Westlock 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 1993 to 2004.^[1]

History

Boundary history

Barrhead-Westlock was created from Barrhead, Westlock-Sturgeon and a small portion of Athabasca-Lac La Biche in 1993. Its largest communities were its namesake towns Barrhead and Westlock, as well as the town of Swan Hills. Its boundaries remained unchanged in the redistribution that took effect in 1997.^[2]

The riding was replaced by Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock in the 2003 electoral boundary re-distribution, which covered the entire area of Barrhead-Westlock and a small portion of Redwater.^[3]

Representation history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Barrhead-Westlock
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
See Barrhead 1971-1993 and Westlock-Sturgeon 1986-1993.
23rd	1993-1997		Ken Kowalski	Progressive Conservative
24th	1997-2001
25th	2001-2004
See Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock electoral district from 2004-2019

Barrhead-Westlock's only MLA was Ken Kowalski, who had already served as the Progressive Conservative member for Barrhead since 1979.

After the 1997 election, Kowalski became the 11th Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.

When Barrhead-Westlock was abolished for the 2004 election, Kowalski continued his political career, serving two more terms in the new riding of Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock as MLA and Speaker of the Assembly.

Election results

1993

v t e 1993 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Ken Kowalski	6,312	55.04%	–
	Liberal	Dale Greig	3,309	28.85%	–
	New Democratic	Harold Wharton	1,076	9.38%	–
	Social Credit	Dale Harris	561	4.89%	–
	Confederation of Regions	Adam Hauch	143	1.25%	–
	Independent	Leonard Stahl	79	0.58%	–
Total valid votes			11,468	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			25	–	–
Registered electors / turnout			16,439	69.91%	–
	Progressive Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s) Source: "Barrhead-Westlock Official Results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1997

v t e 1997 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Ken Kowalski	6,195	60.66%	+5.62%
	Liberal	Dale Greig	2,130	20.86%	-7.99%
	Social Credit	J. Harvey Yuill	1,244	12.18%	+7.29%
	New Democratic	Joe Woytowich	643	6.30%	-3.08%
Total valid votes			10,212	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			29	–	–
Registered electors / turnout			16,778	61.04%	-8.87%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+6.81%
Source(s) Source: "Barrhead-Westlock Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2001

v t e 2001 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Ken Kowalski	7,183	69.31%	+8.65%
	Social Credit	Jeff Willerton	1,352	13.05%	+0.87%
	Liberal	Laurie Hodge	1,259	12.15%	-8.71%
	New Democratic	Suzanne Forbes	569	5.49%	-0.81%
Total valid votes			10,401	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			38	–	–
Registered electors / turnout			16,794	61.93%	+0.89%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+3.89%
Source(s) Source: "Barrhead-Westlock Official Results 2001 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

See also

• List of Alberta provincial electoral districts

References

1. "Election results for Barrhead-Westlock". abheritage.ca. Heritage Community Foundation. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
2. Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (June 1996). "Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta". Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
3. Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (February 2003). "Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta". Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Retrieved May 29, 2020.

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

• Elections Alberta
• The Legislative Assembly of Alberta