Hand Hills-Acadia
{{Short description|Defunct provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada}}
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Hand Hills-Acadia was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first-past-the-post method of voting from 1963 to 1971.{{cite web | url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/year_result.php?Constit=Hand%20Hills-Acadia | title=Election results for Hand Hills-Acadia | publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation | access-date=December 8, 2009 | archive-date=December 8, 2010 | archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/2217/20101208183914/http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/year_result.php?Constit=Hand%20Hills-Acadia | url-status=bot: unknown }} It was formed prior to the 1963 Alberta general election from the previous electoral district of Hand Hills.
The electoral district took its name from Hand Hills.{{cite book|title=Place-names of Alberta|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015070267029;view=1up;seq=65|year=1928|publisher=Geographic Board of Canada.|location=Ottawa|page=61}}
Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs)
{{AbMLA/top|Members of the Legislative Assembly for Hand Hills-Acadia}}
{{AbMLA/change|See Hand Hills electoral district from 1913-1963}}
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| FromYr = 1963
| ToYr = 1967
| Assembly# = 15
| AbParty = Social Credit
| RepName = Clinton Keith French
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| PartyTerms# = 2
| RepTerms# = 2
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{{AbMLA/row
| FromYr = 1967
| ToYr = 1971
| Assembly# = 16
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{{AbMLA/change|See Drumheller electoral district from 1971-1997
and Hanna-Oyen from 1971-1979}}
{{AbMLA/end}}
Election results
=1963=
{{Alberta provincial election, 1963/Hand Hills-Acadia}}
=1967=
{{Alberta provincial election, 1967/Hand Hills-Acadia}}
See also
- List of Alberta provincial electoral districts
- Hand Hills, a range of hills in Alberta
- Acadia, Alberta, a rural municipality in Alberta
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book |author1=Office of the Chief Electoral Officer |author2=Legislative Assembly Office |author-link1=Elections Alberta |title=A Century of Democracy: Elections of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1905-2005 |date=2006 |publisher=Legislative Assembly of Alberta |series=The Centennial Series |location=Edmonton, AB |isbn=0-9689217-8-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/centennialseries04perr/mode/2up |access-date=25 May 2020}}
External links
- [http://www.electionsalberta.ab.ca/ Elections Alberta]
- [http://www.assembly.ab.ca/ The Legislative Assembly of Alberta]
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