Central Peace-Notley
Central Peace-Notley is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district was 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 election.
 Alberta electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Central Peace-Notley within Alberta (2017 boundaries) | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
United Conservative | ||
| District created | 2017 | ||
| First contested | 2019 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016)[1] | 28,993 | ||
| Area (km²) | 47,311 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 0.61 | ||
The riding takes its name from its central location in the Peace River Country and from Grant Notley, who represented the region in the Legislature from 1971 to 1984 while serving as leader of the Alberta New Democratic Party.
Geography
Central Peace-Notley is a largely rural riding located in northwestern Alberta.
There are no cities in the riding. Urban municipalities include the towns of Fairview, Falher, Fox Creek, McLennan, Spirit River, and Valleyview, and the villages of Berwyn, Donnelly, Girouxville, Hines Creek, and Rycroft.
Central Peace-Notley also covers the entirety of six rural municipalities (Birch Hills County, Clear Hills County, the Municipal District of Fairview No. 136, the Municipal District of Smoky River No. 130, the Municipal District of Spirit River No. 133, and Saddle Hills County) and portions of two others (the Municipal District of Greenview No. 16 and the Municipal District of Peace No. 135)
The riding contains one of the Treaty 6 reserves of the Alexander First Nation (Alexander 134A) and the Treaty 8 reserves of the Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation, Duncan's First Nation (Duncans 151A) and Horse Lake First Nation (Clear Hills 152C). In addition to a large Indigenous community, the riding is also home to many Franco-Albertans, especially in the Smoky River area.
Clockwise from the north, Central Peace-Notley borders Peace River, Lesser Slave Lake, Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock, West Yellowhead, Grande Prairie-Wapiti, and the province of British Columbia.
History
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Central Peace-Notley | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Dunvegan-Central Peace-Notley 2012-2019 and Grande Prairie-Smoky 1993-2019 |
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| 30th | 2019–Present | Todd Loewen | United Conservative | |
The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended renaming Dunvegan-Central Peace-Notley and expanding its borders to include the portion of Grande Prairie-Smoky east of the County of Grande Prairie. The district also lost the area around Grimshaw to the district of Peace River.[2]
The district is one of two electoral districts in Alberta allowed to have a population less than 25% below the provincial average, as it satisfies all five conditions laid out in the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act.[3]
The district first elected United Conservative MLA Todd Loewen who had previously been elected to Grande Prairie-Smoky electoral district as a Wildrose candidate in 2015. Loewen defeated NDP candidate, Minister of Energy and Dunvegan-Central Peace-Notley district MLA Margaret McCuaig-Boyd[4] by 7,910 votes.[5]
Electoral results
| Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | % | ||
| Wildrose | 4,378 | 36.39% | ||
| New Democratic | 4,230 | 35.16% | ||
| Progressive Conservative | 3,305 | 27.47% | ||
| Others | 118 | 0.98% | ||
2019 general election
| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Todd Loewen | 10,680 | 75.17% | 10.31% | ||||
| New Democratic | Margaret McCuaig-Boyd | 2,770 | 19.50% | -15.66% | ||||
| Alberta Party | Travis Mckim | 651 | 4.58% | – | ||||
| Liberal | Wayne F. Meyer | 106 | 0.75% | – | ||||
| Total | 14,207 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, Spoiled and Declined | 100 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | 19,745 | 72.46% | – | |||||
| United Conservative notional hold | Swing | +17.8% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "55 - Central Peace-Notley, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
References
- Statistics Canada: 2016
- 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. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- Alberta Queen's Printer (2012-09-17). "Electoral Boundaries Commission Act". www.qp.alberta.ca. p. 7. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
- O'Donnell, Sarah (April 16, 2019). "Riding profile: Central Peace-Notley". Edmonton Journal. Edmonton. Post Media. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
- Shokeir, Peter (April 17, 2019). "'A resounding vote': UCP's Loewen wins in Central Peace-Notley". Daily Herald Tribune. Retrieved 30 June 2020.