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%

External links

Website of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

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