Edmonton-Manning is a
provincial electoral district
An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provi ...
in
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
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. It is situated in the northeast quadrant of the city. It was created in 1993 and is mandated to return a single member to the
Legislative Assembly. The riding is named after former
Social Credit
Social credit is a distributive philosophy of political economy developed in the 1920s and 1930s by C. H. Douglas. Douglas attributed economic downturns to discrepancies between the cost of goods and the compensation of the workers who made t ...
Premier
Ernest Manning, who held office from 1943 to 1968. The riding was last contested in the
2019 Alberta election.
History
The electoral district was created in the 1993 boundary redistribution when
Edmonton-Belmont was merged with a portion of
Edmonton-Beverly. The 2010 boundary redistribution saw some changes made on the south and west boundaries. The first was a minor revision that pushed the south boundary north to 144 Avenue to give some land to
Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview. The second revision was made with
Edmonton-Decore
Edmonton-Decore is a Provinces and territories of Canada, provincial electoral district (Canada), electoral district in Alberta, Canada. It is one of 87 districts mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using th ...
on the west side that moved a small portion of the west boundary from 59A Street to 66 Street to gain some land from that district. Manning also lost some land to Decore when it expanded the west to 66 Street from 82 Street and north from 137 Avenue to 144 Avenue.
Boundary history
Representation history
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27th
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Peter Sandhu
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Conservative
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28th
, 2012–2015
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29th
, 2015–2019
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Heather Sweet
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New Democrat
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* New Democratic Party, a social democratic party in Canada
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30th
, 2019-2023
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31st
, 2023-present
The first election contested in the district occurred in 1993. That election saw incumbent
Edmonton-Belmont NDP MLA
Tom Sigurdson run for a third term in office. He was defeated by Liberal candidate
Peter Sekulic, who won over half the popular vote.
Sekulic would not stand for a second term in office. The 1997 election was won by Liberal candidate
Ed Gibbons, who defeated Progressive Conservative candidate
Tony Vandermeer in a closely contested race. Both candidates ran against each-other again in 2001, during which Vandermeer was elected and Gibbons finished second in the popular vote.
Vandermeer ran for a second term in office in the 2004 election. He was defeated by Liberal candidate
Dan Backs, who took the riding with just over 36% of the popular vote. Backs would be expelled from the Liberal caucus on November 20, 2006, and ran for re-election as an independent candidate. He was not re-elected as an independent.
The race in 2008 ended up being closely contested, between candidates from all four major political parties. Backs ended up finishing a close third place. He was defeated by Progressive Conservative candidate
Peter Sandhu, who won just under 36% of the popular vote. The second, third and fourth place candidates all finished with just about 2,300 votes.
During the 2015 election, NDP challenger
Heather Sweet was elected with 71.5% of the popular vote, defeating Progressive Conservative challenger Gurcharan Garcha who finished second in terms of the popular vote in the riding.
Legislative election results
Elections in the 1990s
Elections in the 2000s
Elections in the 2010s
2023
Senate nominee election results
2004
''Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot''
Student vote results
2004
On November 19, 2004, a student vote was conducted at participating Alberta schools to parallel the 2004 Alberta general election results. The vote was designed to educate students and simulate the electoral process for persons who have not yet reached the legal majority. The vote was conducted in 80 of the 83 provincial electoral districts with students voting for actual election candidates. Schools with a large student body that reside in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district then where they were physically located.
2012
See also
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List of Alberta provincial electoral districts
Alberta provincial electoral districts are currently single member ridings that each elect one member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. There are 87 districts fixed in law in Alberta, Canada.
History
The original 25 districts were drawn u ...
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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 ...
References
External links
Website of the Legislative Assembly of AlbertaCBC's 2004 election coverageCBC's 2008 election coverage
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Alberta provincial electoral districts
Politics of Edmonton