Edmonton-Strathcona (provincial electoral district)

The 2010 boundary redistribution made some changes to the boundaries. The northwestern corner of the riding had some small alterations with Edmonton-Riverview. The parcel of land that comprised the east portion of the riding to give it its distinctive ell shape was expanded from Whyte Avenue south to 63 Avenue in land that was part of Edmonton-Mill Creek the eastern border was expanded out to run on the Mill Creek Ravine with Edmonton-Gold Bar.

Boundary history

41 Edmonton-Strathcona 2003 Boundaries^[2]
Bordering Districts
North	East	West	South
Edmonton-Gold Bar and Edmonton-Centre	Edmonton-Mill Creek and Edmonton-Mill Woods	Edmonton-Riverview	Edmonton-Rutherford
riding map goes here
Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act.
Starting at the intersection of the northerly extension of 111 Street with the right bank of the North Saskatchewan River; then 1. generally northeast along the right bank of the North Saskatchewan River to Connors Road; 2. generally southeast along Connors Road to 90 Avenue; 3. east along 90 Avenue to 75 Street; 4. south along 75 Street to Whyte Avenue (82 Avenue); 5. west along Whyte Avenue (82 Avenue) to Gateway Boulevard; 6. south along Gateway Boulevard to Whitemud Drive; 7. west along Whitemud Drive to the centre line of 111 Street; 8. north along the centre line of 111 Street to 61 Avenue; 9. east along 61 Avenue to 109 Street; 10. north along 109 Street to University Avenue; 11. northwest along University Avenue to 112 Street; 12. north along 112 Street to 87 Avenue; 13. east along 87 Avenue to 111 Street; 14. north along 111 Street and its northerly extension to the starting point.
Note:

45 Edmonton-Strathcona 2010 Boundaries
Bordering Districts
North	East	West	South
Edmonton-Centre and Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood	Edmonton-Gold Bar and Edmonton-Mill Creek	Edmonton-Riverview	Edmonton-Mill Woods and Edmonton-Rutherford

Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act.

Note:

Representation history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Edmonton-Strathcona
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
See: Strathcona Centre 1959-1971
17th	1971–1975		Julian Koziak	Progressive Conservative
18th	1975–1979
19th	1979–1982
20th	1982–1986
21st	1986–1989		Gordon Wright	New Democrat
22nd	1989–1990		Gordon Wright	New Democrat
	1990		Vacant
	1990-1993		Barrie Chivers	New Democrat
23rd	1993–1997		Al Zariwny	Liberal
24th	1997–2001		Raj Pannu	New Democrat
25th	2001–2004
26th	2004–2008
27th	2008–2012	Rachel Notley
28th	2012–2015
29th	2015–

The electoral district was created from the constituency of Strathcona-Centre and was first contested in 1971. Changing from a long history of electing Social Credit MLAs in the area, the constituency's voters elected Conservative Julian Koziak from the Conservative landslide of 1971 to a local NDP breakthrough in 1986. Since 1986, the constituency has been one of the more left-leaning ridings in Edmonton, having been held by either the NDP (1986-1993, 1997–present) or the Liberals (1993-1997) without interruption.

The election of 1971 saw a hotly contested three-way race as incumbent Social Credit MLA J. Donovan Ross ran for his sixth term in office. He had served as MLA for the predecessor district Strathcona Centre starting in 1959 and previously as an MLA for the multi-member Edmonton constituency starting in 1952. He was defeated by Progressive Conservative candidate Julian Koziak who won just under half the votes in the constituency. Partly on the strength of a clean sweep of Edmonton, the Tories pushed out Social Credit to win government for the first time. NDP candidate Timothy Christian polled a strong vote, carrying on the strong showing of the NDP that had previously been shown in that part of Edmonton since the formation of the Alberta NDP in 1962.

Koziak ran for his second term in 1975 and faced a hotly contested race against future NDP MLA Gordon Wright. Koziak was reelected after increasing his share of the vote to 54%, and was appointed to the provincial cabinet by Peter Lougheed in 1975. Koziak and Wright would face each other four more times. Although this was during the height of the Lougheed government's popularity, Wright managed to narrow the margin each time.

The 1986 election, which saw the NDP win a record number of seats (16) in the province, established the constituency as a stronghold for the party. On his sixth attempt for the seat, Wright won in resounding fashion, defeating Koziak by almost 17 points. He won his second term in 1989 with a reduced majority and died a year later on October 18, 1990, leaving the seat vacant. A by-election was held in December 1990 and returned NDP candidate Barrie Chivers with a large majority.

Chivers ran for a second term in office in the 1993 election. He was defeated by Liberal candidate Al Zariwny, who won the riding with just under 40% of the vote. The Liberals swept Edmonton that year, due in part to a massive surge under its leader Laurence Decore, a former Edmonton mayor.

Zariwny did not stand for a second term in office in 1997 and the riding returned NDP candidate Raj Pannu by 58 votes over Liberal candidate Mary McDonald. That race was split almost three ways, with Pannu winning with just 31% of the vote. The third-placing candidate, Progressive Conservative John Logan, finished just 176 votes behind Pannu.

The NDP chose Pannu to be leader of the party in 2000. He ran for a second term a year later in 2001 under the slogan Raj Against the Machine. He was re-elected with a large majority, winning over half the vote. Pannu ceded the leadership of the NDP to Brian Mason in 2004. He ran for his second term in office and won the highest vote count in Edmonton-Strathcona history, with over 60%. Pannu retired from public life at dissolution of the Legislature in 2008.

The current MLA is Rachel Notley who was elected in the 2008 election. She was re-elected in the 2012 provincial election with the highest share of the vote of any MLA in Alberta, and subsequently became the Premier of Alberta following the results of the 2015 provincial election after succeeding Brian Mason as the leader of the NDP.

Legislature results

1971 general election

1971 Alberta general election results^[3]			Turnout 69.99%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Progressive Conservative	Julian Koziak	4,541	49.97%
	Social Credit	Joseph Ross	2,973	32.71%
	New Democratic	Timothy Christian	1,574	17.32%
Total			9,088
Rejected, spoiled and declined			46
Eligible electors / Turnout			13,051	%

1975 general election

1975 Alberta general election results^[4]			Turnout 55.56%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Progressive Conservative	Julian Koziak	3,996	54.44%	4.47%
	New Democratic	Gordon Wright	2,109	28.73%	11.41%
	Social Credit	Betty Horch	768	10.46%	-22.25%
	Liberal	Arthur Yates	415	5.65%	*
	Communist	Kimball Cariou	28	0.38%	*
	Constitutional Socialist	Harry Garfinkle	24	0.34%	*
Total			7,340
Rejected, spoiled and declined			31
Eligible electors / Turnout			13,268	%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		7.94%

1979 general election

1979 Alberta general election results^[5]			Turnout 67.57%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Progressive Conservative	Julian Koziak	5,464	44.99%	-9.45%
	New Democratic	Gordon Wright	4,808	39.59%	10.86%
	Social Credit	E.J.C. Charman	927	7.63%	-2.83%
	Liberal	George Walton	739	6.09%	0.44%
	Independent Progressive Conservative	Gerry Ball	155	1.28%	*
	Communist	Joseph Hill	52	0.42%	0.04%	*
Total			12,145
Rejected, spoiled and declined			14
Eligible electors / Turnout			17,995	%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-10.16%

1982 general election

1982 Alberta general election results^[6]			Turnout 73.63%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Progressive Conservative	Julian Koziak	7,105	47.90%	2.91%
	New Democratic	Gordon Wright	6,643	44.78%	5.19%
	Western Canada Concept	Randy Coombes	743	5.01%	*
	Alberta Reform Movement	Murray Scambler	279	1.88%	*
	Communist	Joseph Hill	64	0.43%	0.01%
Total			14,834
Rejected, spoiled and declined			51
Eligible electors / Turnout			20,216	%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		4.05%

1986 general election

1986 Alberta general election results^[7]			Turnout 57.28%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	New Democratic	Gordon Wright	6,443	54.15%	9.37%
	Progressive Conservative	Julian Koziak	4,467	37.54%	-10.36%
	Liberal	Peter Schneider	788	6.62%	*
	Representative	Shane Venner	102	0.86%
	Western Canada Concept	Dexter Dombro	72	0.61%	-4.40%	*
	Communist	Robin Boodle	26	0.22%		-0.21%	*
Total			11,898	100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			25
20,815 Eligible Electors
	NDP pickup from Progressive Conservative				Swing 9.87%

1989 general election

1989 Alberta general election results^[8]			Turnout Unknown		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	New Democratic	Gordon Wright	6,696	45.68%	-8.47%
	Liberal	Philip Lister	4,237	28.91%	22.29%
	Progressive Conservative	Jack Scott	3,724	25.41%	-12.13%
Total			14,657
Rejected, spoiled and declined			Unknown
Eligible electors / Turnout			21,696	%
	NDP hold				Swing -15.38%

1990 by-election

December 17, 1990 by-election results^[9]			Turnout 48.51%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	New Democratic	Barrie Chivers	4,927	52.76%	7.08%
	Liberal	Nadene Thomas	2,252	24.11%	-1.82%
	Progressive Conservative	Eric Young	1,512	16.19%	-9.22%
	Greens	Betty Paschen	424	4.54%
	Social Credit	Robert Alford	224	2.40%
Total			9,339
Rejected, spoiled and declined			24
Eligible electors / Turnout			19,252	%
	NDP hold				Swing 4.45%

1993 general election

1993 Alberta general election results^[10]			Turnout 63.02%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Liberal	Al Zariwny	6,542	39.41%	15.30%
	New Democratic	Barrie Chivers	5,121	30.85%	-21.91%
	Progressive Conservative	Don Grimble	4,071	24.52%	8.33%
	Social Credit	Patrick Ellis	460	2.77%	0.37%
	Greens	Betty Paschen	253	1.52%	-3.02%
	Natural Law	Benjamin Toane	108	0.65%
	Communist	Naomi Rankin	47	0.28%	*
Total			16,602
Rejected, spoiled and declined			60
Eligible electors / Turnout			26,440	%
	Liberal pickup from NDP				Swing 18.61%

1997 general election

1997 Alberta general election results^[11]			Turnout 56.34%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	New Democratic	Raj Pannu	4,272	31.84%	0.99%
	Liberal	Mary MacDonald	4,214	31.41%	-8.00%
	Progressive Conservative	John Logan	4,096	30.53%	6.01%
	Social Credit	John Forget	552	4.11%	1.34%
	Greens	Myles Kitagawa	236	1.76%	0.24%
	Natural Law	Eshwar Jagdeo	47	0.35%	-0.30%
Total			13,417
Rejected, spoiled and declined			41
Eligible electors / Turnout			23,886	%
	NDP pickup from Liberal				Swing 4.50%

2001 general election

2001 Alberta general election results^[12]			Turnout 56.95%		Swing
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	New Democratic	Raj Pannu	6,998	50.61%	18.77%
	Progressive Conservative	John Logan	4,749	34.35%	3.82%
	Liberal	Jim Jacuta	1,944	14.06%	-17.35%
	Alberta First	James Lakinn	136	0.98%
Total			13,827
Rejected, spoiled and declined			57
Eligible electors / Turnout			24,381	%
	NDP hold				Swing 11.30%

2004 general election

Alberta general election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	New Democratic	Raj Pannu	7,463	60.66%	10.05%
	Progressive Conservative	Shannon Stubbs	2,266	18.42%	−15.93%
	Liberal	Stephen Leard	1,854	15.07%	1.01%
	Greens	Adrian Cole	288	2.34%
	Alberta Alliance	Jeremy Burns	273	2.21%
	Social Credit	Kelly Graham	160	1.30%
Total			12,304
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			89
Eligible Electors / Turnout			24,830	49.91%
	New Democratic hold		Swing		12.99%
Source: "Edmonton-Strathcona Statement of Official Results 2004 Alberta general election" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Retrieved February 11, 2012.

2008 general election

Alberta general election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	New Democratic	Rachel Notley	5,862	49.32%	−11.34%
	Progressive Conservative	T.J. Keil	3,031	25.50%	7.08%
	Liberal	Tim Vant	2,452	20.63%	5.56%
	Greens	Adrian Cole	540	4.55%	2.21%
Total			11,885
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			79
Eligible electors / Turnout			24,830	35.25%
	New Democratic hold		Swing		−9.21%
Source: The Report on the March 3, 2008 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-seventh Legislative Assembly. Elections Alberta. pp. 336–339.

2012 general election

Alberta general election, 2012
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	New Democratic	Rachel Notley	9,496	62.58	+13.26
	Progressive Conservative	Emerson Mayers	3,038	20.02	−5.48
	Wildrose	Meagen LaFave	1,788	11.78	–
	Liberal	Ed Ramsden	670	4.42	−16.21
	Evergreen	Terry Noel	183	1.21	−3.34
Total valid votes			15,175	98.94	–
Total rejected ballots			163	1.06	–
Turnout			15,338	54.62	+19.37
Eligible voters			28,079	–	–
	New Democratic hold		Swing		+9.37
Source: "2012 General Report" (PDF). Elections Alberta. pp. 268–271. Retrieved May 10, 2015.

2015 general election

Alberta general election, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	New Democratic	Rachel Notley	13,597	82.42	+19.84
	Progressive Conservative	Shelley Wegner	2,242	13.59	-6.43
	Liberal	Steve Kochan	659	4.00	-0.42
Total valid votes			16,492
Spoiled, declined, and rejected			191
Eligible voters & Turnout			32,976	50.59	-4.03
	New Democratic hold		Swing		+13.14
Source(s) "Edmonton-Strathcona". Elections Alberta. Retrieved 26 April 2017.

Senate nominee results

2004 Senate nominee election district results

2004 Senate nominee election results: Edmonton-Strathcona^[13]					Turnout 49.41%
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	% Votes	% Ballots	Rank
	Independent	Link Byfield	3,780	16.52%	47.76%	4
	Progressive Conservative	Betty Unger	3,381	14.77%	42.72%	2
	Independent	Tom Sindlinger	3,221	14.07%	40.70%	9
	Progressive Conservative	Bert Brown	2,123	9.28%	26.83%	1
	Progressive Conservative	Cliff Breitkreuz	2,084	9.11%	26.33%	3
	Alberta Alliance	Michael Roth	1,924	8.41%	24.31%	7
	Progressive Conservative	David Usherwood	1,667	7.28%	%	6
	Alberta Alliance	Vance Gough	1,663	7.27%	21.06%	8
	Alberta Alliance	Gary Horan	1,627	7.11%	20.56%	10
	Progressive Conservative	Jim Silye	1,418	6.18%	17.92%	5
Total Votes			22,888	100%
Total Ballots			7,914	2.89 Votes Per Ballot
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			4,335

Voters had the option of selecting 4 Candidates on the Ballot

Student Vote results

2004 election

Participating Schools^[14]
Strathcona High 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^[15]
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%
	NDP	Raj Pannu	350	37.35%
	Liberal	Stephen Leard	279	29.78%
	Progressive Conservative	Shannon Stubbs	177	18.89%
	Green	Adrian Cole	73	7.79%
	Alberta Alliance	Jeremy Burns	37	3.95%
	Social Credit	Kelly Graham	21	2.24%
Total			937	100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			1

2012 election

2012 Alberta Student Vote results^[16]
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%
	NDP	Rachel Notley	588	32.54%
	Progressive Conservative	Emerson Mayers	461	25.51%
	Liberal	Ed Ramsden	413	22.86%
	Wildrose	Meagen LeFave	205	11.34%
	Evergreen	Terry Noel	140	7.75%
Total			1,807	100%

References

↑ http://www.ndpopposition.ab.ca/RachelNotley/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.details&ID=7038&t=5&i=0
↑ "E‑4.1". Statutes of the Province of Alberta. Government of Alberta. 2003. p. 21.
↑ "Edmonton-Strathcona results 1971 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved February 11, 2012.
↑ "Edmonton-Strathcona results 1975 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved February 11, 2012.
↑ "Edmonton-Strathcona results 1979 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved February 11, 2012.
↑ "Edmonton-Strathcona results 1982 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved February 11, 2012.
↑ "Edmonton-Strathcona results 1986 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved February 11, 2012.
↑ "Edmonton-Strathcona results 1989 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved February 11, 2012.
↑ "Edmonton-Strathcona By-election official results". Elections Alberta. October 18, 1990. Archived from the original on June 7, 2009. Retrieved February 6, 2012.
↑ "Edmonton-Strathcona results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved February 11, 2012.
↑ "1997 General Election". Elections Alberta. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
↑ "Edmonton-Strathcona official results 2001 Alberta general election" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Retrieved February 12, 2012.
↑ "Senate Nominee Election 2004 Tabulation of Official Results" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 4, 2009. Retrieved February 28, 2010.
↑ "School by School results". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 5, 2007. Retrieved 2008-04-18.
↑ "Riding by Riding Results - the Candidates". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 6, 2007. Retrieved 2008-04-19.
↑ "Edmonton-Strathcona". Student Vote Canada. Retrieved 2012-06-06.

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