Strathcona Centre
{{Short description|Defunct provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada}}
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Strathcona Centre 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 1959 to 1971.{{cite web |title=Election results for Strathcona Centre. |url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/2217/20101208183724/http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/year_result.php?Constit=Strathcona-Centre|website=abheritage.ca |publisher=Heritage Community Foundation |access-date=22 May 2020}}
History
It was created in 1959 after the Edmonton district was broken up into ridings.
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.
In 1971 the riding was split, the west part became the north part of Edmonton-Whitemud with a small part being transferred to Edmonton-Parkallen, and the east part became Edmonton-Strathcona with the Bonnie Doon Shopping Centre transferred to Edmonton-Avonmore.
=Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs)=
{{AbMLA/top|Strathcona Centre}}
{{AbMLA/change|Riding created from Edmonton}}
{{AbMLA/row
| FromYr = 1959
| ToYr = 1963
| Assembly# = 14
| AbParty = Social Credit
| RepName = Joseph Donovan Ross
| RepLink =
| #ByElections =
| PartyTerms# = 3
| RepTerms# = 3
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{{AbMLA/row
| FromYr = 1963
| ToYr = 1967
| Assembly# = 15
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{{AbMLA/row
| FromYr = 1967
| ToYr = 1971
| Assembly# = 16
}}
{{AbMLA/change|Riding dissolved into Edmonton-Strathcona,
Edmonton-Whitemud, Edmonton-Parkallen and Edmonton-Avonmore}}
{{AbMLA/end}}
Election results
=1959=
{{1959 Alberta general election/Strathcona Centre}}
=1963=
{{1963 Alberta general election/Strathcona Centre}}
=1967=
{{1967 Alberta general election/Strathcona Centre}}
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book |author1=Office of the Chief Electoral Officer |author2=Legislative Assembly Office |author2-link=Legislative Assembly of Alberta |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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