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Edmonton-Ellerslie

For the Edmonton neighborhood of Ellerslie, see Ellerslie, Edmonton.

Edmonton-Ellerslie is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. It is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly.

Edmonton-Ellerslie
Alberta electoral district
Edmonton-Ellerslie within the City of Edmonton, 2017 boundaries
Provincial electoral district
LegislatureLegislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA
 
 		 
Rod Loyola
New Democratic
District created1993
First contested1993
Last contested2023

History

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The 2010 boundary redistribution saw the riding shrink on its north boundary to Anthony Henday Drive from roughly 34 Avenue, losing some land to Edmonton -Mill Woods and Edmonton-Mill Creek.

Boundary history

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Electoral history

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Members of the Legislative Assembly for Edmonton-Ellerslie
Assembly Years Member Party
See Edmonton-Mill Woods 1979-1993
23rd 1993–1997 Debby Carlson Liberal
24th 1997–2001
25th 2001–2004
2004 Vacant
26th 2004–2008 Bharat Agnihotri Liberal
27th 2008–2012 Naresh Bhardwaj Progressive
Conservative
28th 2012–2015
29th 2015–2019 Rod Loyola New Democrat
30th 2019–2023
31st 2023–

The electoral district was created in 1993 from Edmonton-Mill Woods. The first election held that year saw incumbent NDP MLA Gerry Gibeault switch from that district to run in Ellerslie. A wave of support for the Alberta Liberals rolled across Edmonton causing Liberal candidate Debby Carlson to win the riding with over half the popular vote. Gibeault was defeated, finishing a distant second place.

Carlson ran for a second term in 1997. She increased her popular support to take the district easily with almost 57% of the popular vote. The 2001 election was a very tight race. Carlson barely hung on to win her third term in office. She defeated Progressive Conservative candidate Sukhi Randhawa by less than 300 votes and won the seat with 45 percent of the vote.

On May 28, 2004 Carlson vacated her seat to run in the 2004 federal election in the Edmonton—Strathcona district. Her replacement elected in the provincial election that year was Liberal candidate Bharat Agnihotri. He took just under 34% of the popular vote and won by a razor thin plurality of 200 votes over his Progressive Conservative opponent, and just 1200 votesl over his NDP opponent.

The Progressive Conservatives won the riding in the 2008 election when its candidate Naresh Bhardwaj defeated the incumbent MLA trying for re-election and won the set with 42% of the popular vote. The 2012 result was about the same with the P-C candidate winning with a minority of the vote.

NDP candidate Rod Loyola won the seat three consecutive times - 2015, 2019, and 2013.

Legislative election results

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1993

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1993 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Debby Carlson 5,466 53.57% –
New Democratic Gerry Gibeault 2,144 21.01% –
Progressive Conservative Bas Roopnarine 2,116 20.74% –
Social Credit Ken Way 398 3.90% –
Natural Law Rhonda Day 79 0.77% –
Total 10,203 – –
Rejected, spoiled and declined 15 – –
Eligible electors / turnout 17,320 59.00% –
Liberal pickup new district.
Source(s)
Source: "Edmonton-Ellerslie Official Results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1997

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1997 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Debby Carlson 5,752 56.69% 3.12%
Progressive Conservative Jasbeer Singh 2,641 26.03% 5.29%
New Democratic Henry Johns 913 9.00% -12.01%
Social Credit Ken Way 840 8.28% 4.38%
Total 10,146 – –
Rejected, spoiled and declined 28 24 0
Eligible electors / turnout 18,290 55.63% -3.37%
Liberal hold Swing -0.95%
Source(s)
Source: "Edmonton-Ellerslie Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (1997). Report of the Chief Electoral Officer, November, 1996 general enumeration and Tuesday, March 11, 1997 general election Twenty-fourth Legislative Assembly. Edmonton: Alberta Legislative Assembly, Office of the Chief Electoral Officer.

2001

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2001 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Debby Carlson 4,481 44.86% -11.83%
Progressive Conservative Sukhi Randhawa 4,209 42.14% 16.11%
New Democratic Deborah Morrison 1,299 13.00% 4.01%
Total 9,989 – –
Rejected, spoiled and declined 41 17 3
Eligible electors / turnout 19,210 52.23% -3.40%
Liberal hold Swing -13.97%
Source(s)
Source: "Edmonton-Ellerslie Official Results 2001 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2001). The report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the 2000 provincial confirmation process and Monday, March 12, 2001, Provincial General Election of the twenty-fifth Legislative Assembly. Edmonton: Alberta Legislative Assembly, Office of the Chief Electoral Officer.

2004

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2004 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Bharat Agnihotri 3,446 33.80% -11.06%
Progressive Conservative Gurnam Dodd 3,245 31.83% -10.31%
New Democratic Marilyn Assheton-Smith 2,258 22.15% 9.14%
Alberta Alliance Eleanor Maroes 1,009 9.90% –
Social Credit Amelia Maciejewski 238 2.33% –
Total 10,196 – –
Rejected, spoiled and declined 31 24 7
Eligible electors / turnout 23,563 43.43% -8.80%
Liberal hold Swing -0.38%
Source(s)
Source: "00 - Edmonton-Ellerslie, 2004 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2005). Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the General Enumeration and General Election of the Twenty-sixth Legislative Assembly (Report). Edmonton: Alberta Legislative Assembly, Office of the Chief Electoral Officer.

2008

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2008 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Naresh Bhardwaj 4,581 41.90% 10.08%
Liberal Bharat Agnihotri 3,592 32.86% -0.94%
New Democratic Marilyn Assheton-Smith 1,891 17.30% -4.85%
Wildrose Alliance Krista Leddy 471 4.31% -5.59%
Green Paul J. Boos 335 3.06% –
Social Credit Cheryl Ullah 62 0.57% -1.77%
Total 10,932 – –
Rejected, spoiled and declined 60 19 2
Eligible electors / turnout 28,944 37.98% -5.45%
Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal Swing 3.54%
Source(s)
Source: "30 - Edmonton-Ellerslie, 2008 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
Chief Electoral Officer (2008). The Report on the March 3, 2008 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-Seventh Legislative Assembly (Report). Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 290–293. Retrieved April 7, 2021.

2012

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2012 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Naresh Bhardwaj 5,677 42.97% 1.06%
Wildrose Alliance Jackie Lovely 3,258 24.66% 20.35%
New Democratic Rod Loyola 2,114 16.00% -1.30%
Liberal Jennifer Ketsa 1,504 11.38% -21.47%
Alberta Party Chinwe Okelu 523 3.96% –
Independent Athena Bernal-Born 137 1.04% –
Total 13,213 – –
Rejected, spoiled and declined 115 39 3
Eligible electors / turnout 26,721 49.89% 11.91%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 4.63%
Source(s)
Source: "33 - Edmonton-Ellerslie, 2012 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
Chief Electoral Officer (2012). The Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the 2011 Provincial Enumeration and Monday, April 23, 2012 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-eighth Legislative Assembly (PDF) (Report). Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 6, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2021.

2015

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2015 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
New Democratic Rod Loyola 11,034 61.57% 45.57%
Progressive Conservative Harman Kandola 3,549 19.80% -23.16%
Wildrose Jackie Lovely 2,499 13.94% -10.72%
Liberal Mike McGowan 839 4.68% -6.70%
Total 17,921 – –
Rejected, spoiled and declined 65 44 18
Eligible electors / turnout 34,266 52.54% 2.65%
New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative Swing 34.37%
Source(s)
Source: "33 - Edmonton-Ellerslie, 2015 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
Chief Electoral Officer (2016). 2015 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer (PDF) (Report). Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta.

2019

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2019 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
New Democratic Rod Loyola 9,717 50.95% -10.62%
United Conservative Sanjay Patel 7,230 37.91% 4.17%
Alberta Party Hazelyn Williams 1,273 6.67% –
Liberal Mike McGowan 390 2.04% -2.64%
Alberta Advantage Yash Sharma 263 1.38% –
Alberta Independence Brian S. Lockyer 199 1.04% –
Total 19,072 – –
Rejected, spoiled and declined 88 61 14
Eligible electors / turnout 29,297 65.45% 12.91%
New Democratic hold Swing -14.36%
Source(s)
Source: "31 - Edmonton-Ellerslie, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2019). 2019 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Volume II (PDF) (Report). Vol. 2. Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 120–123. ISBN 978-1-988620-12-1. Retrieved April 7, 2021.

2023

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2023 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
New Democratic Rod Loyola 11,429 61.75 +10.80
United Conservative Ranjit Bath 6,817 36.83 -1.08
Wildrose Loyalty Coalition Angela Stretch 264 1.43 –
Total 18,510 99.42 –
Rejected and declined 108 0.58
Turnout 18,618 54.80
Eligible voters 33,972
New Democratic hold Swing +5.94
Source(s)
Source: Elections Alberta[2]

Senate nominee election results

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2004

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2004 Senate nominee election results: Edmonton-Ellerslie[3] Turnout 43.51%
Affiliation Candidate Votes % votes % ballots Rank
Progressive Conservative Betty Unger 3,949 14.08% 45.67% 2
  Independent Link Byfield 3,314 11.82% 38.33% 4
Progressive Conservative Bert Brown 3,122 11.13% 36.11% 1
Alberta Alliance Michael Roth 2,901 10.35% 33.55% 7
Progressive Conservative Cliff Breitkreuz 2,899 10.34% 33.53% 3
Alberta Alliance Vance Gough 2,574 9.18% 29.77% 8
  Independent Tom Sindlinger 2,531 9.03% 29.27% 9
Alberta Alliance Gary Horan 2,524 9.00% 29.19% 10
Progressive Conservative David Usherwood 2,356 8.40% 27.25% 6
Progressive Conservative Jim Silye 1,874 6.67% 21.67% 5
Total votes 28,044 100%
Total ballots 8,647 3.24 votes per ballot
Rejected, spoiled and declined 1,688

Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot.

2012

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Student vote results

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2004

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Participating schools[4]
Holy Trinity Catholic High School
J. Percy Page High School

On November 19, 2004 a student vote was conducted at participating Alberta schools to parallel the 2004 Alberta general election results. The vote was designed to educate students and simulate the electoral process for persons who had not yet reached the legal majority. The vote was conducted in 80 of the 83 provincial electoral districts with students voting for actual election candidates. Schools with a large student body who reside in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district than where they were physically located.

2004 Alberta student vote results[5]
Affiliation Candidate Votes %
  Liberal Bharat Agnihotri 321 35.99%
Progressive Conservative Gurnam Dodd 309 34.64%
  NDP Marilyn Assheton-Smith 142 15.92%
Alberta Alliance Eleanor Maroes 67 7.51%
Social Credit Amelia Maciejewski 53 5.94%
Total 892 100%
Rejected, spoiled and declined 24

2012

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2012 Alberta student vote results
Affiliation Candidate Votes %
Progressive Conservative Naresh Bhardwaj
Wildrose Jackie Lovely
  Liberal Jennifer Ketsa %
Alberta Party Chinwe Okelu
  NDP Rod Loyola %
Total 100%

References

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  1. ^ "E‑4.1". Statutes of the Province of Alberta. Government of Alberta. 2003. p. 17.
  2. ^ "31 - Edmonton-Ellerslie". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved June 8, 2023.
  3. ^ "Senate Nominee Election 2004 Tabulation of Official Results" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 4, 2009. Retrieved February 28, 2010.
  4. ^ "School by School results". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 5, 2007. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
  5. ^ "Riding by Riding Results - the Candidates". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 6, 2007. Retrieved April 19, 2008.
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