Wetaskiwin-Camrose

Wetaskiwin-Camrose

Alberta electoral district
2004 boundaries
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA	Verlyn Olson Progressive Conservative
District created	1993
First contested	1993
Last contested	2008

Wetaskiwin-Camrose is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. It is one of 87 current district in the province mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting.

The district was created in the 1993 boundary redistribution from the Wetaskiwin-Leduc and Camrose districts. It is located in rural central eastern Alberta. It includes its namesakes Wetaskiwin and Camrose as well as the town of Millet and the Samson 137 and Montana 139 Indian reserves.

The district and its antecedents has been favorable to electing Progressive Conservative candidates in the past few decades. The current representative is Progressive Conservative Verlyn Olson who won his first term in the 2008 election.

History

The electoral district was created in the 1993 boundary redistribution from the old electoral districts of Camrose and Wetaskiwin-Leduc. The 2010 boundary redistribution saw a portion of land lying east of the city of Camrose transferred in the Battle River-Wainwright electoral district.^[1]

Boundary history

82 Wetaskiwin-Camrose 2003 Boundaries[2]
Bordering Districts
North	East	West	South
Leduc-Beaumont-Devon	Battle River-Wainwright	Drayton Valley-Calmar	Lacombe-Ponoka
riding map goes here
Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act.
Starting at the centre line of Highway 2 and the north boundary of Twp. 47; then 1. east along the north boundary of Twp. 47 to the east boundary of Sec. 3 in Twp. 48, Rge. 25 W4; 2. north along the east boundary of Sec. 3 to the north boundary of Sec. 2; 3. east along the north boundary of Secs. 2 and 1 in Rge. 25 W4 and Secs. 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 in Rges. 24 W4 and 23 W4 and Secs. 6, 5, 4, 3 and 2 in Rge. 22 W4 to the east boundary of Sec. 2 in Twp. 48, Rge. 22 W4; 4. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of Twp. 47; 5. east along the north boundary to the east boundary of Rge. 19 W4 (Highway 834); 6. south along the east boundary of Rge. 19 W4 to the north boundary of Twp. 45; 7. west along the north boundary of Twp. 45 to the east boundary of Sec. 32, Twp. 45, Rge. 23 W4; 8. south along Secs. 32, 29, 20, 17, 8 and 5 to the north boundary of Twp. 44, Rge. 23 W4 at its intersection with the northeast corner of the Samson Indian Reserve No. 137 ; 9. southerly, westerly, northerly and easterly along the boundaries of the Samson Indian Reserve No. 137 and Montana Indian Reserve No. 139 to the north boundary of Twp. 44 at its intersection with the east boundary of Ermineskin Indian Reserve No. 138 (including the western part of the Samson Indian Reserve No. 137); 10. west, north and westerly along the boundaries of Indian Reserve No. 138 and Louis Bull Indian Reserve No. 138B to the north boundary of Sec. 30, Twp. 45, Rge. 26 W4; 11. west along the north boundary of Sec. 30 in Rge. 25 W4 and Sec. 25 in Rge. 26 W4 to the centre line of Highway 2; 12. north along the centre line to the starting point.
Note:

86 Wetaskiwin-Camrose 2010 Boundaries
Bordering Districts
North	East	West	South
Leduc-Beaumont	Battle River-Wainwright	Drayton Valley-Devon	Lacombe-Ponoka
Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act.
Note:

Electoral history

The electoral district was created in the 1993 boundary redistribution. The election held that year saw incumbent Camrose MLA Ken Rostad run in the new electoral district. He picked up the new seat for the Progressive Conservative party facing a strong challenge from Liberal candidate Bob Prestage.

Rostad retired at dissolution of the assembly in 1997. His replacement in the legislature was Progressive Conservative candidate LeRoy Johnson. He won the district with a landslide to hold it for his party. He was re-elected to a second term in the 2001 general election with a bigger majority. He won a third term in office in 2004 and retired at the end of his third term in 2008.

The current representative in the district is Progressive Conservative Verlyn Olson who was elected to his first term in the 2008 general election.

Legislature results

1993 general election

1997 general election

2001 general election

2004 general election

2008 general election

2012 general election

Senate nominee results

2004 Senate nominee election district results

Voters had the option of selecting 4 Candidates on the Ballot

2012 Senate nominee election district results

Student Vote results

2004 election

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.

2012 election

References

External links

• Website of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta