Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin
Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin 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 general election and is represented by Rick Wilson of the United Conservative Party of Alberta.
 Alberta electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin within Alberta (2017 boundaries) | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
United Conservative | ||
| District created | 2017 | ||
| First contested | 2019 | ||
| Last contested | 2023 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016)[1] | 43,798 | ||
| Area (km²) | 4,220 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 10.4 | ||
Geography
The district is located south of Edmonton, named for the City of Wetaskiwin and the Hamlet of Maskwacis (which serves as a central community for the "four nations": the Cree Ermineskin, Samson, Montana and Louis Bull bands). It also includes the Pigeon Lake Reserve, which is shared by the four nations. Other towns and villages include Millet, Bittern Lake, Hay Lakes, and the summer villages that line the shores of Pigeon Lake.
History
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Wetaskiwin-Camrose 1993–2019 | ||||
| 30th | 2019–2023 | Rick Wilson | United Conservative | |
| 31st | 2023–Present | |||
The district was created in the 2017 electoral district re-distribution when most of Wetaskiwin-Camrose joined with parts of Battle River-Wainwright, Leduc-Beaumont, and Drayton Valley-Devon. The Commission decided to unite the five reserves around Maskwacis into a single riding to eliminate the province's last non-contiguous riding. The resulting population of the Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin electoral district for 2017 was 43,798, which was 6% below the provincial average of 46,803.[2]
Electoral results
| Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta general election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | % | ||
| New Democratic | 6,795 | 41.51% | ||
| Progressive Conservative | 4,760 | 29.08% | ||
| Wildrose | 4,544 | 27.76% | ||
| Others | 272 | 1.66% | ||
2019 general election
| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Rick Wilson | 12,796 | 64.12% | 7.28% | ||||
| New Democratic | Bruce Hinkley | 4,737 | 23.74% | -17.77% | ||||
| Alberta Party | Sherry Greene | 1,382 | 6.93% | – | ||||
| Freedom Conservative | David White | 522 | 2.62% | – | ||||
| Alberta Advantage Party | Wesley Rea | 263 | 1.32% | – | ||||
| Green | Desmond G. Bull | 256 | 1.28% | – | ||||
| Total | 19,956 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, Spoiled and Declined | 90 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | 28,948 | 69.25% | – | |||||
| United Conservative pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Source: "74 - Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
2023 general election
| 2023 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Rick Wilson | 11,640 | 67.54 | +3.42 | ||||
| New Democratic | Katherine Swampy | 4,801 | 27.86 | +4.12 | ||||
| Independent | Marie Rittenhouse | 520 | 3.02 | – | ||||
| Green | Justin Fuss | 187 | 1.09 | -0.20 | ||||
| Solidarity Movement | Suzanne Jubb | 86 | 0.50 | – | ||||
| Total | 17,234 | 99.68 | – | |||||
| Rejected and declined | 55 | 0.32 | ||||||
| Turnout | 17,289 | 58.01 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 29,805 | |||||||
| United Conservative hold | Swing | -0.35 | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: Elections Alberta[3] | ||||||||
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.
- "74 - Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved June 10, 2023.