Provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada
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 .
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 . They also include 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
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]
Central Peace-Notley along with Lesser Slave Lake are one of two electoral districts in Alberta allowed to have a population between 25 percent and 50 percent below the provincial average, as it satisfies all five conditions laid out in the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act .[ 3] [ 2]
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 by 7,910 votes.[ 4] [ 5] Cypress-Medicine Hat MLA Drew Barnes were expelled from the United Conservative caucus and became an independent after calling on Premier Kenney to resign.[ 6]
Electoral results
2023
2019
2015
See also
References
^ Statistics Canada : 2016^ a b 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 (September 17, 2012). "Electoral Boundaries Commission Act" . www.qp.alberta.ca . p. 7. Retrieved January 24, 2018 . ^ Shokeir, Peter (April 17, 2019). " . Daily Herald Tribune . Retrieved June 30, 2020 . ^ O'Donnell, Sarah (April 16, 2019). "Riding profile: Central Peace-Notley" . Edmonton Journal . Edmonton. Post Media. Retrieved June 30, 2020 . ^ Bellefontaine, Michelle (May 13, 2021). "Alberta MLAs Todd Loewen, Drew Barnes booted from UCP caucus" . CBC News . Retrieved May 14, 2021 . ^ "55 - Central Peace-Notley" . officialresults.elections.ab.ca . Elections Alberta . Retrieved June 9, 2023 .
External links
Places adjacent to Central Peace-Notley
