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.

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

Election Results 1959 - 1967

1967 Results 1963 Results 1959 Results
Affiliation Candidate Votes % Affiliation Candidate Votes % Affiliation Candidate Votes %
     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%

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