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Edmonton-Mill Woods
Edmonton-Mill Woods is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. It is one of 87 current electoral districts mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting. This urban district is located in south central Edmonton was created in the 1979 boundary redistribution from Edmonton-Avonmore. The electoral district since its creation has been a swing riding controlled by the Progressive Conservatives, New Democrats and Liberals. The current representative is New Democrat Christina Gray who was first elected in 2015, and re-elected in 2019. History The electoral district was created in the 1979 boundary redistribution from Edmonton-Avonmore. The 2010 boundary redistribution saw some changes made to the riding. The south boundary was pushed southward from 23 Avenue east of Mill Woods Drive to Anthony Henday Drive in land that used to be part of Edmonton-Ellerslie. The east boundary was changed to cede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Massey
Donald Lee Massey is a former municipal and provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1993 until 2004. In that period he also served as Leader of the Official Opposition and Leader of the Alberta Liberal Party in 2004. From 1977 until 1989 he was a Public School Trustee in Edmonton. Municipal politics Massey first ran for public office in the 1974 Edmonton municipal election. He ran for the office of Public School Trustee finishing an eighth place with 23,471 votes. He was just 100 votes short from earning the seventh place seat that went to Mel Binder. He ran again for School Trustee in the 1977 Edmonton municipal election, this time there were two seats added. Massey won the fifth place seat with 33,444 votes. Massey would run as an incumbent in the 1980 Edmonton municipal election. He would see a significant drop in his popular vote, but would finish fourth place out of the top nine with 19,060 votes. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmonton
Edmonton is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Alberta. It is situated on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region, which is surrounded by Central Alberta, Alberta's central region, and is in Treaty 6, Treaty 6 territory. It anchors the northern end of what Statistics Canada defines as the "Calgary–Edmonton Corridor". The area that later became the city of Edmonton was first inhabited by First Nations in Alberta, First Nations peoples and was also a historic site for the Métis in Alberta, Métis. By 1795, many trading posts had been established around the area that later became the Edmonton census metropolitan area. "Fort Edmonton", as it was known, became the main centre for trade in the area after the 1821 merger of the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company. It remained sparsely populated until the Canadian acquisition of Rupert's Land in 1870, followed eventually by the arri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmonton-Ottewell
Edmonton-Ottewell 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 1979. History Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) Election results 1971 1975 See also * List of Alberta provincial electoral districts * Canadian provincial electoral districts Canadian provincial electoral districts have boundaries that are non- coterminous with those of the federal electoral districts, except for districts in the province of Ontario, where districts in the Southern Ontario region are coterminous wh ... * Ottewell, a community in Edmonton References Further reading * External linksElections Alberta {{coord missing, Alberta [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Pawlus
Mike Pawlus (1923-2010) was a minor provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He led the right-wing Heritage Party of Alberta during the entire existence of the party. Political career After the Heritage Party was founded in 1984 and registered with Elections Alberta, Pawlus, a "semi-retired engineer and businessman," became leader. He first ran for a seat in the Alberta Legislature in the Spirit River-Fairview by-election held on February 21, 1985. Pawlus and the Heritage Party won just 18 votes in the election, finishing last in a field of 17 candidates. He lost to Jim Gurnett of the New Democratic Party. Pawlus ran for his second attempt at office in the Edmonton-Whitemud by-election held on December 11, 1985. He improved his performance but still finished last and lost to Premier Don Getty this time, only winning 53 votes for a vote share of 0.54%. Pawlus led the Heritage Party into the failed coalition with the Western Canada Concept and Social Credit that create ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Mather
Richard Mather (July 20, 1941 – August 13, 1997) was a municipal politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of Edmonton city council from 1995 until his death in 1997. He also served as a public school trustee from 1983 to 1995. Early life Richard Mather was born in Edmonton, Alberta Alberta is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Canada. It is a part of Western Canada and is one of the three Canadian Prairies, prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to its west, Saskatchewan to its east, t ..., Canada on July 20, 1941. He married Weslyn Mather. Political career Mather ran for a seat as an Edmonton public school trustee in the 1983 Edmonton municipal election and won the fifth place seat out of 17 candidates in the at large vote. He was re-elected again in 1986, 1989, 1992 before retiring as a School Trustee in 1995. In 1989 Mather became the first President of the Public School Boards' Association of Alberta. He served ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milt Pahl
Milton George Pahl (October 30, 1943 – March 1, 2023) was a provincial level politician and current businessman from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1979 to 1986. During his time in office he sat as a member of the governing Progressive Conservative caucus. He served as a Member of the Executive Council as Minister without portfolio responsible for native affairs in the Government of Alberta from 1982 to 1986. Political career Pahl ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the 1979 Alberta general election. He won the new electoral district of Edmonton-Mill Woods with a landslide to pick up the seat for the governing Progressive Conservative party. Pahl ran for a second term in office in the 1982 Alberta general election. He more than doubled his popular vote to be re-elected by a substantial margin. After the election Premier Peter Lougheed appointed Pahl to a position in the Executive Council of Alberta as Minister witho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerry Gibeault
Gerry Gibeault (born 1953) is a former Canadian politician who was a school trustee with Edmonton Public Schools from 1995 to 2010 representing Ward I (Mill Woods). He also served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1986 to 1993 sitting with the New Democratic Party caucus in opposition. Early life Gibeault graduated from the University of Alberta where he attained a Bachelor of Arts in economics. He became a librarian for the Edmonton Catholic School Board, and then Central Alberta Media Services until he was elected to the Alberta Legislature in 1986. Provincial political career Gibeault ran as a candidate for the New Democrats in the Edmonton-Mill Woods electoral district for the 1982 Alberta general election. He was defeated by incumbent Progressive Conservative MLA Milt Pahl. Gibeault defeated Pahl in the 1986 Alberta general election. Pahl's popular support fell by 6,000 votes, while Gibeault also lost votes from the 1982 election. Gibeault improved hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Alford (politician)
Robert J. Alford (born December 10, 1950, in Edson, Alberta) is a Canadian politician. He married in 1975 and raised two daughters. Education Alford graduated from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (S.A.I.T.) in 1971 with a diploma in Aircraft Maintenance Technology. Politics Reform Party of Canada Alford entered politics as the Edmonton Southeast Reform Party Riding Association Policy Vice-President in 1988, and served in this position for one year. He worked as a campaign volunteer in the 1988 and 1997 federal elections, and in the 1989 Alberta Senate nominee election. Alberta Social Credit Party Alford joined the Alberta Social Credit Party in 1988, and shortly became the Provincial Policy Vice-President and the ''de facto'' leader. He was confirmed as Alberta Social Credit Party leader in 1990, succeeding Harvey Yuill. In 1992, Alford changed roles within the party, becoming President. He served in that position until 1993. Alford ran as an Alberta Social Credi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naomi Rankin
Naomi Rankin (born 1951 or 1952) is a Canadian politician who has served as the leader of the Communist Party – Alberta since 1992. She is the longest-serving party leader in Alberta, and has been a perennial candidate in the province's federal and provincial elections since 1982. Political career Rankin became leader of the Communist Party in Alberta in 1992, after the collapse of the Soviet Union sent the party into crisis. Since 1982, she has run in every provincial and federal election for the Communist Party – Alberta and the Communist Party of Canada respectively. Rankin herself usually fields around 100 votes. In a typical election campaign, Rankin goes door-to-door and distributes pamphlets, as she tries to engage voters in discussions about the party's main platforms. In the 1980s, these included the nationalization of transnational oil and gas companies, and making Alberta a nuclear weapons-free zone. Since then, issues on the Communist Party agenda have includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naresh Bhardwaj
Naresh Bhardwaj (born 1959) is a Canadian politician, who was elected in the 2008 provincial election to represent the electoral district of Edmonton-Ellerslie in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He was a member of the Progressive Conservatives. He was Associate Minister of Persons with Disabilities in the cabinet of Jim Prentice. Political career Bhardwaj ran in the 2012 Alberta general election as an incumbent PC candidate, winning a second term on April 23, 2012. He was made Associate Minister of Persons with disabilities in 2013. He did not run in the 2015 general election. He will be the United Conservative Party (UCP) candidate in the 2025 Edmonton-Ellerslie provincial by-election. Controversy In March 2015, Bhardwaj was accused of offering a $10,000 bribe to prevent other candidates from challenging him in an election, however he was later cleared of any wrongdoing by an internal PC Party investigation, and the Edmonton Police Service closed their investigati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elections Alberta
Elections Alberta is an independent, non-partisan office of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta responsible for administering provincial elections, by-elections, and referendums within the province. This is in accordance with the Alberta Election Act. Elections Alberta also oversees political parties and candidates in accordance with the Election Finances and Contributions Disclosure Act. History The Office of the Chief Electoral Officer (Elections Alberta), was created in 1977 to act as an independent body to oversee Alberta's Elections Finances and Contribution Disclosure Act and Election Act. Prior to 1977, these acts were overseen by the clerk of the Legislative Assembly. Jurisdiction Elections Alberta oversees the creation of political parties and riding associations, compiles election statistics on ridings, and collects financial statements from party candidates and riding associations. It maintains a list of electors, through enumeration that occurs before an election. El ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Leddy
The Alberta Party, formally the Alberta Party Political Association from 1998 to 2004, is a political party in the province of Alberta, Canada. The party describes itself as centrist and pragmatic in that it is not dogmatically ideological in its approach to politics. History Early history The Alberta Party began in the early 1980s as an alliance of small separatist political parties. The right side of Alberta's political spectrum was fragmented by parties spawned in the wake of the National Energy Program and feelings that Premier Peter Lougheed had done little to prevent the economic collapse they believe it had caused. Some of these parties had already achieved some small success in attaining seats in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, though in the 1982 general election Social Credit, the Alberta Reform Movement and the Western Canada Concept lost their representation in the Legislature. The Heritage Party of Alberta, Representative Party of Alberta and the Confederation o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
