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Edmonton-McClung
Edmonton-McClung is a provincial electoral district in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The district was created in 1993 and is named after Nellie McClung. The current MLA is Lorne Dach of the NDP, who was first elected in 2015. History The electoral district was created in the 1993 boundary redistribution out of the southern portion of Edmonton-Meadowlark. The district underwent minor changes in 1997 and 2004 and changed significantly in the 2010 boundary redistribution when the portions of the district to the south and east of Anthony Henday drive were put in the new electoral district of Edmonton-South West. Boundary history Electoral history Edmonton-McClung was created in 1993. The first election held in the constituency was won by Incumbent Liberal candidate Grant Mitchell. Mitchell had previously served as Edmonton-Meadowlark MLA from 1986 to 1993. He became leader of the Liberals and of the official opposition after Laurence Decore stepped down in 1994. The 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorne Dach
Lorne Dach (born 1957 or 1958) is a Canadian politician who was elected in the 2015 Alberta general election to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the electoral district of Edmonton-McClung and was re-elected on April 16, 2019. As of June 21, 2024, he serves as the Official Opposition critic for Transportation and for Economic Corridors. Personal life Dach has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Alberta The University of Alberta (also known as U of A or UAlberta, ) is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta, and Henry Marshall Tory, t .... Before being elected, Dach spent 30 years in the real estate business industry as an Associate Broker. Dach has volunteered for homeEd on their board of directors, city of Edmonton Non-Profit Housing Corporation and as a probation officer with Alberta Solicitor General's court intake uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmonton-Meadowlark
Edmonton Meadowlark 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 1971 to 2019. The electoral district located on the western edge of Edmonton was created in the 1971 boundary redistribution from the old electoral districts of Edmonton Jasper Place and Edmonton West. The district has switched support between Progressive Conservative and Liberal candidates with regular frequency since it was created, a trend broken by the election of the New Democrat MLA Jon Carson in the 2015 general election. History The electoral district was created in the 1971 boundary redistribution from the old electoral districts of Edmonton Jasper Place and Edmonton West. The 1993 redistribution would see the district go through a significant redrawing as most of the riding which was south of Whitemud Drive would be moved into the new district of Edmonton-McClung ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmonton-South West
Edmonton-South West is a provincial electoral district in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The district was created in the 2010 boundary redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post voting system. History The electoral district was created in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution. It was created from the south part of Edmonton-Whitemud below Anthony Henday Drive and the south and western portion of Edmonton-McClung along Anthony Henday as well. Boundary history Electoral history The electoral district was created from the electoral districts of Edmonton-McClung and Whitemud. The area has had a recent history of switching between Progressive Conservative and Liberal candidates. During the 2019 Alberta general election MLA Thomas Dang chose to run in Edmonton-South following the 2017 Electoral Boundary Re-distribution. UCP candidate Madu would defeat four candidates capturing 10,245 votes (45%) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mo Elsalhy
Mo Elsalhy (born 20 March 1971) is a politician, pharmacist and businessman from Alberta, Canada. He received his Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from the University of Alberta in 1994. Political career Elsalhy contested the nomination for Edmonton McClung against Maurice Tougas in 2004, and started campaigning three months before the nomination day. He was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing Edmonton McClung in the 2004 general election for the Alberta Liberal Party. Despite being heavily outspent, he defeated Mark Norris, the only cabinet minister to lose a seat in this election. He was then assigned the role of Critic for the Government Services and Innovation and Science portfolios by Opposition Leader Kevin Taft. He was also made Deputy House Leader and was chosen Shadow Minister of Justice and Attorney General and Shadow Solicitor General and Minister of Public Security. He also chaired the Democratic Renewal Committee for the Offi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Xiao
David Hui Xiao (born November 17, 1960) is a Canadian businessman and politician. From 2008 to 2015 he was Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, representing the constituency of Edmonton-McClung as a Progressive Conservative. Early life Xiao was born in Guizhou Province in southwest China. His father was an accountant in the coal mining industry and his mother was a teacher. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in English literature from the Beijing Second Foreign Language University, Xiao began working as a translator and eventually got into business, which gave him the opportunity to travel to Canada. He moved his family to Edmonton during the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989, seeking freedom and opportunity. In Canada, Xiao was a successful entrepreneur before entering public life, working in consulting, international trade, publishing, commercial real estate and marketing. As a business consultant, Xiao worked with some of the world's biggest companies, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmonton-Whitemud
Edmonton-Whitemud is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada. In 1989, its constituents unseated the Premier of the day, Donald Getty, by voting for Liberal candidate Percy Wickman. The district was represented by Dave Hancock who was in his fourth term as the Member of the Legislative Assembly. Hancock has also served as Minister of Justice twice, Attorney General and prior to that as Minister of Intergovernmental and Aboriginal Affairs. On December 15, 2006, Hancock was made Minister of Health and Wellness in Premier Ed Stelmach's cabinet. He later served as Deputy Premier under Stelmach's successor Alison Redford. Following Redford's resignation as Premier, Hancock was named as her replacement and sworn into office on March 23, 2014, meaning the Edmonton-Whitemud district was the seat of the Premier of Alberta for the second time. Since 2015, the riding has been represented by a succession of NDP MLAs, currently Rakhi Pancholi. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Alberta General Election
The 2015 Alberta general election was held on May 5, following a request of Premier Jim Prentice to the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Donald Ethell to dissolve the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Legislative Assembly on April 7. This election elected members to the 29th Alberta Legislature. It was only the fourth time in provincial history that saw a change of governing party, and was the last provincial election for both the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, Alberta Progressive Conservative and Wildrose Party, Wildrose parties, which merged in 2017 to form the United Conservative Party (although each ran a token candidate in the 2019 Alberta general election, 2019 election). The provincial Election Act Fixed election dates in Canada, fixed the election date to a three-month period between March 1 and May 31 in the fourth calendar year after the preceding election day in this case, April 23, 2012. However, the act does not affect the powers of the Lieutenant Govern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy MacBeth
Nancy MacBeth ( Elliott; born December 29, 1948) is a Canadian politician who was the leader of the Alberta Liberal Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1998 to 2001. She was the first female opposition leader in the province's history. Early life Born in Edmonton, Alberta, MacBeth received a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Alberta, in French and Russian; studying Université Laval, studying French Canadian literature. She subsequently worked as an executive assistant for several Alberta cabinet ministers. Early political career MacBeth, then known as Nancy Betkowski, first entered electoral politics as an Alberta Progressive Conservative Party Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the riding of Edmonton-Glenora from 1986 to 1993 in the government of Don Getty. She was Minister of Education from 1986 to 1988, and was then appointed Minister of Health, serving in that position until 1992. She then ran as a candidate in the party's 1992 leadership convention ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmonton-Riverview
Edmonton Riverview is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting. Created in the 1997 boundary redistribution, the district includes re-distributed areas of the Edmonton-Glenora, Edmonton-Strathcona, and Edmonton-Whitemud. Neighbourhoods in this riding include: Windsor Park, Belgravia, Parkallen, Crestwood, Laurier Heights, and Parkview. Edmonton-Riverview remains one of the more affluent ridings in Edmonton, featuring some of the city's most expensive real estate. The riding is currently represented by New Democrat Lori Sigurdson. History The electoral district was created in the 1996 boundary redistribution out of parts of Edmonton-Glenora and Edmonton-Strathcona. The 2010 boundary redistribution saw the riding change on its western boundary with the boundary between Whitemud Drive and 87 Avenue moving west to run along 170 Str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hudson (theatre Director)
John Hudson (born January 25, 1962) is a Canadian theatre producer and director, and also a politician living in Edmonton, Alberta. He ran to represent the constituency of Edmonton-McClung for the Alberta Party in the 2012 Alberta general election and the 2015 Alberta general election. Early life and education Hudson was born in Campbellton, New Brunswick to Mary Hudson (Urquhart) and Dr. Aubrey Hudson. The family moved from Canada’s east coast in 1965 when John was three years old and settled in Calgary, Alberta. John grew up with his parents, grandmother and three sisters. His mother was a stockbroker, and his father was a general pathologist who taught at the University of Calgary and was on staff at the Grace and General Hospitals. Hudson attended Western Canada High School in Calgary, graduating in 1979. His football team won the City Championship in 1976. He also played rugby and joined the wrestling team. He studied at Augustana University Augustana University is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stony Plain (electoral District)
Stony Plain (named Stonyplain until 1909) was a Provinces and territories of Canada, provincial electoral district (Canada), electoral district in Alberta, Canada, between 1905 and 2019. The district returned a single Member of the Legislative Assembly, member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta throughout its history, using the first past the post method of voting for most of its existence but single transferable vote from 1926 to 1957. The district was created in 1905 when Alberta became a province. The riding in its original boundaries stretched from the west Edmonton city limits to the British Columbia border, but over time it was significantly reduced in size. History Stony Plain was founded as Stonyplain, one of the original 25 electoral districts contested in the 1905 Alberta general election upon Alberta joining Canadian Confederation, Confederation in September 1905. It was renamed Stony Plain for the 1909 Alberta general election, retaining this name until its aboli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Norris (Canadian Politician)
Mark Norris (born 1962) is an Alberta politician, former MLA and candidate for the leadership of the Progressive Conservatives. Norris was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta and earned his Bachelor of Arts in political science from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia. He returned to Edmonton following his university years and purchased from his father Paul J. Norris, in 1990, an advertising and sign manufacturing company. Norris won a seat in the Alberta legislature in 2001 provincial election as the MLA for Edmonton McClung, becoming a celebrated figure within the party for doing so because he had defeated former Tory leadership candidate-turned- Liberal leader Nancy MacBeth. Norris served as the Minister of Economic Development in the Albertan Cabinet under Premier Ralph Klein, but became the only cabinet minister to lose his seat in the 2004 provincial election. Norris does not rule Alberta separatism out as an option. He told the ''Calgary Sun'' in March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
