Strathcona Centre
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Strathcona Centre was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada It was created in 1959 after the Edmonton district, broke up into ridings.
In 1971 the riding was split, the west part, became the north part of Edmonton Whitemud, and the east part became Edmonton Strathcona.
[edit] 1959 Redistribution
The historic 1959 redistribution of the provincial ridings of Calgary and Edmonton standardized the voting system back to First Past the Post. From 1926 to 1959 Calgary and Edmonton members were elected by Single Transferable Vote. The rest of the province had the option of how to count ballots. The redistribution created nine ridings in Edmonton.
The other eight ridings were Edmonton Centre, Edmonton North, Edmonton Norwood, Edmonton North East, Edmonton North West, Strathcona East, Strathcona West and Jasper West
[edit] Election Results 1959 - 1967
| 1967 Results | 1963 Results | 1959 Results | ||||||||||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % |
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| Social Credit | Joseph Donovan Ross | 4,052 | 40.65% | Social Credit | Joseph Donovan Ross | 5,232 | 58.71% | Social Credit | Joseph Donovan Ross | 4,564 | 54.16% | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Larry Boddy | 2,493 | 25.01% | Liberal | Ian Nicoll | 2,418 | 27.13% | Progressive Conservative | Pat Walsh | 2,226 | 26.46% | |||
| Liberal | Ian Nicoll | 1,794 | 18.00% | NDP | Harry Strynadka | 1,262 | 14.16% | Liberal | Leslie Lyons | 1,215 | 14.41% | |||
| NDP | Gordon Weese | 1,627 | 16.34% | C.C.F. | Keith Wright | 422 | 7.97% | |||||||
