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Battle River-Wainwright
Alberta electoral district
2010 boundaries
Defunct provincial electoral district
LegislatureLegislative Assembly of Alberta
District created2003
District abolished2019
First contested2004
Last contested2015

Battle River-Wainwright was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first-past-the-post method of voting from 2004 to 2019.

History

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The electoral district was created in the 2003 electoral boundary re-distribution primarily out of the old electoral district of Wainwright which had been in existence since the 1913 boundary redistribution.

The 2010 electoral boundary re-distribution saw significant changes to the district with Paintearth County being moved into Drumheller-Stettler. The district also lost land to Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville that was south of Tofield, Alberta within Beaver County. However land was gained from three other electoral divisions that resided within Camrose County.[1]

Prior to the 2019 election this district was disbanded to make the Vermilion-Lloydminster-Wainwright district.

Boundary history

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Members for Battle River-Wainwright
Assembly Years Member Party
See Wainwright 1913-2004
26th 2004-2008 Doug Griffiths Progressive
Conservative
27th 2008–2012
28th 2012–2015
29th 2015–2017 Wes Taylor Wildrose
2017–2019 United Conservative
See Vermilion-Lloydminster-Wainwright,
Camrose and Drumheller-Stettler 2019–

Electoral history

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The electoral district was created in the 2003 boundary redistribution mostly from the old Wainwright electoral district that had a long history going back to 1913. Since 1971 Progressive Conservative candidates had been returned to office here with large majorities.

The current incumbent and only representative so far is Doug Griffiths who was first elected in a 2002 by-election. He won the new district and his second term with a landslide majority which he also increased in the next election. In 2011 Griffiths was appointed to the cabinet in the government of Premier Allison Redford.

Legislative election results

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2004

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2004 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Doug Griffiths 6,406 65.02%
Alberta Alliance Orest Werezak 1,442 14.64%
Liberal Gordon Rogers 1,069 10.85%
New Democratic Len Legault 616 6.25%
Social Credit Robin Skitteral 320 3.25%
Total 9,853
Rejected, spoiled and declined 32
Eligible electors / turnout 20,368 48.53%
Progressive Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s)
Source: "Elections Alberta 2004 General Election". Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2008

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2008 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Doug Griffiths 7,968 78.56% 13.55%
Liberal Horst Schreiber 1,260 12.42% 1.57%
Green William Munsey 483 4.76%
New Democratic Doris Bannister 431 4.25% -2.00%
Total 10,142
Rejected, spoiled and declined 129
Eligible electors / turnout 21,064 48.76% 0.23%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 7.88%
Source(s)
The Report on the March 3, 2008 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-seventh Legislative Assembly. Elections Alberta. July 28, 2008. pp. 368–371.
"Elections Alberta 2012 General Election". Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2012

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2012 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Doug Griffiths 7,202 46.70% -31.86%
Wildrose Dave Nelson 6,709 43.51%
New Democratic Terry Zawalski 776 5.03% 0.78%
Liberal Amber Greenleese 469 3.04% -9.38%
Alberta Party Midge Lambert 265 1.72%
Total 15,421
Rejected, spoiled and declined 87
Eligible electors / turnout 25,863 59.96% 11.20%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -31.47%
Source(s)

2015

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2015 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Wildrose Wes Taylor 6,862 42.29% -1.22%
Progressive Conservative Blake Prior 5,057 31.17% -15.54%
New Democratic Gordon Naylor 3,807 23.46% 18.43%
Liberal Ron Williams 500 3.08% 0.04%
Total 16,226
Rejected, spoiled and declined 41
Eligible electors / turnout 25,371 64.12% 4.15%
Wildrose gain from Progressive Conservative Swing 3.96%
Source(s)

Senate nominee election results

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2004

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2004 Senate nominee election results: Battle River-Wainwright[3] Turnout 48.33%
Affiliation Candidate Votes % votes % ballots Rank
Progressive Conservative Bert Brown 4,229 15.79% 50.80% 1
Progressive Conservative Betty Unger 3,899 14.55% 46.72% 2
Progressive Conservative Cliff Breitkreuz 3,691 13.78% 44.34% 3
  Independent Link Byfield 2,632 9.83% 31.62% 4
Progressive Conservative David Usherwood 2,401 8.96% 28.84% 6
Alberta Alliance Michael Roth 2,374 8.86% 28.52% 7
Progressive Conservative Jim Silye 2,263 8.45% 27.18% 5
Alberta Alliance Gary Horan 2,049 7.65% 24.61% 10
Alberta Alliance Vance Gough 2,044 7.63% 24.55% 8
  Independent Tom Sindlinger 1,208 4.50% 14.51% 9
Total votes 26,790 100%
Total ballots 8,325 3.22 votes per ballot
Rejected, spoiled and declined 1,608

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]
Autumn Leaf School
Central High Sedgewick Public School
Coronation School
Daysland School
Dr. Folkins Community School
Edgerton Public School
Forestburg School
Lougheed School
Provost Public school
Saint Thomas Aquinas 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 have 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 that reside in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district then where they were physically located.

2004 Alberta student vote results[5]
Affiliation Candidate Votes %
Progressive Conservative Doug Griffiths 483 59.56%
Alberta Alliance Orest Werezak 167 20.59%
New Democratic Len Legault 71 8.76%
  Liberal Gordon Rogers 68 8.38%
  Social Credit Robin Skitteral 22 2.71%
Total 811 100%
Rejected, spoiled and declined 38

2012

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2012 Alberta student vote results
Affiliation Candidate Votes %
Progressive Conservative Doug Griffiths %
Wildrose Dave Nelson
  Liberal Amber Greenleese %
  NDP %
Total 100%

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (June 2010). "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. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  2. ^ Electoral Divisions Act, S.A. 2003, c. E-4.1
  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 27, 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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