Edmonton North East (provincial electoral district)

Edmonton North East

Alberta electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
District created	1959
District abolished	1971
First contested	1959
Last contested	1967

Edmonton North East 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 1959 to 1971.^[1]

History

The Edmonton North East electoral district was in the 1959 redistribution which broke up the mega-ridings of Edmonton and Calgary, creating a number of single-member districts in their place. The district was redistributed into Edmonton-Beverly and Edmonton-Belmont electoral districts in 1971.

Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs)

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Edmonton North East
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
See Edmonton electoral district from 1921-1959
14th	1959–1963		Lou Heard	Social Credit
15th	1963–1967
16th	1967–1971
See Edmonton-Beverly electoral district from 1971-1993 and Edmonton-Belmont electoral district from 1971-1993

Election results

1959

v t e 1959 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Lou Heard	4,960	49.82%	–
	Progressive Conservative	Allan Welsh	2,389	24.00%	–
	Liberal	Louis Marchand	1,325	13.31%	–
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Alex Goruk	1,063	10.68%	–
	Labor–Progressive	W. Harasym	218	2.19%	–
Total			9,955	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			62	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			17,868	56.06%	–
	Social Credit pickup new district.
Source(s) Source: "Edmonton North East Official Results 1959 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1963

v t e 1963 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Lou Heard	4,023	42.72%	-7.10%
	New Democratic	Neil Reimer	2,589	27.49%	16.81%
	Progressive Conservative	Allan Welsh	1,510	16.03%	-7.96%
	Liberal	Ken McAuley	1,295	13.75%	0.44%
Total			9,417	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			13	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			19,640	48.01%	–
	Social Credit hold		Swing		-5.30%
Source(s) Source: "Edmonton-North East Official Results 1963 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1967

v t e 1967 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Lou Heard	5,052	35.18%	-7.54%
	New Democratic	Ivor G. Dent	4,276	29.77%	2.28%
	Progressive Conservative	Alan T. Cooke	3,616	25.18%	9.14%
	Liberal	Peter Achtem	1,418	9.87%	-3.88%
Total			14,362	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			66	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			26,563	54.32%	–
	Social Credit hold		Swing		-4.91%
Source(s) Source: "Edmonton-North East Official Results 1967 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

See also

• List of Alberta provincial electoral districts

References

1. "Election results for Edmonton North-East". abheritage.ca. Heritage Community Foundation. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved May 22, 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