Spruce Grove-Stony Plain
Spruce Grove-Stony Plain 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 election.
 Alberta electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Spruce Grove-Stony Plain within the Edmonton Metropolitan Region (2017 boundaries). | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
United Conservative | ||
| District created | 2017 | ||
| First contested | 2019 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016)[1] | 51,267 | ||
| Area (km²) | 68.5 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 748.4 | ||
| Census division(s) | 11 | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Spruce Grove, Stony Plain | ||
Geography
The district is located west of Edmonton, containing the City of Spruce Grove and the Town of Stony Plain. The district boundaries match the municipal boundaries of the two communities. It is bisected by Highway 16A and bordered by the Yellowhead Highway to the North.
History
| Members for Spruce Grove-Stony Plain | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Spruce Grove-St. Albert 2012-2019 and Stony Plain 1905-2019 | ||||
| 30th | 2019– | To be determined | ||
The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended abolishing Spruce Grove-St. Albert and Stony Plain, creating a district that is well above the provincial average in population. The Commission reasoned this was preferable to placing part of either community in a neighbouring district.[2]
Electoral results
Elections in the 2010s
| Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | % | ||
| New Democratic | 7,738 | 41.74 | ||
| Progressive Conservative | 4,699 | 25.35 | ||
| Wildrose | 4,236 | 22.85 | ||
| Alberta Party | 955 | 5.15 | ||
| Liberal | 683 | 3.68 | ||
| Green | 228 | 1.23 | ||
| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±%[3] | ||||
| United Conservative | Searle Turton | 15,643 | 59.35 | +11.15 | ||||
| New Democratic | Erin Babcock | 7,836 | 29.36 | -12.38 | ||||
| Alberta Party | Ivan G. Boles | 2,597 | 9.73 | +4.58 | ||||
| Independence | Jody Crocker | 417 | 1.56 | (new) | ||||
| Total valid votes | 26,693 | |||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 140 | |||||||
| Turnout | 26,833 | 71.7% | ||||||
| Registered electors | ||||||||
References
- Statistics Canada: 2016
- "Final Report" (PDF). Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission. 2017-10-01. p. 57.
- "Electoral Division Results". Elections Alberta. Retrieved 26 April 2020.