Willingdon-Two Hills
{{Short description|Defunct provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=June 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}}
{{Infobox Canada electoral district
| name =Willingdon-Two Hills
| province =Alberta
| image =
| caption =
| prov-rep =
| prov-rep-link =
| prov-status =defunct
| prov-created =1963
| prov-abolished =1971
| prov-election-first =1963
| prov-election-last =1967
}}
Willingdon-Two Hills 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 |title=Election results for Willingdon-Two Hills. |url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/2217/20101208183724/http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/year_result.php?Constit=Willingdon-Two%20Hills |website=abheritage.ca |publisher=Heritage Community Foundation |access-date=22 May 2020}}
History
Willingdon-Two Hills was formed from the abolished Willingdon riding expanded south in 1963 when Vegreville merged with Bruce, to form Vegreville-Bruce. Due to the expanded boundaries the riding name was changed to Willingdon-Two Hills.
Willingdon-Two Hills was dissolved following the 1971 electoral district re-distribution, and the territory was incorporated into Vegreville and Redwater-Andrew electoral districts.
Willingdon-Two Hills is named for the former towns of Willingdon and Two Hills.
=Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs)=
{{AbMLA/top|Members of the Legislative Assembly for Willingdon-Two Hills}}
{{AbMLA/change|See Willingdon electoral district from 1940-1963}}
{{AbMLA/row
| FromYr = 1963
| ToYr = 1967
| Assembly# = 15
| AbParty = Social Credit
| RepName = Nicholas A. Melnyk
| RepLink = Nicholas Melnyk
| #ByElections =
| PartyTerms# = 2
| RepTerms# = 2
}}
{{AbMLA/row
| FromYr = 1967
| ToYr = 1971
| Assembly# = 16
}}
{{AbMLA/change|See Vegreville electoral district from 1971-1993
and Redwater-Andrew electoral district from 1971-1993}}
{{AbMLA/end}}
Electoral history
=1963=
{{Alberta provincial election, 1963/Willingdon-Two Hills}}
=1967=
{{Alberta provincial election, 1967/Willingdon-Two Hills}}
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
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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