Jasper West was a provincial

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, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the

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using the

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method of voting from 1959 to 1963.

History

It was created after

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broke up into nine districts after the province standardized to the

First Past the Post First-past-the-post (FPTP)—also called choose-one, first-preference plurality (FPP), or simply plurality—is a single-winner voting rule. Voters mark one candidate as their favorite, or First-preference votes, first-preference, and the cand ...

voting system in 1959. In 1963 the district was renamed Edmonton Jasper Place, which in 1971 was re-made into the Edmonton-Meadowlark district.

1959 Redistribution

The historic 1959 redistribution of the provincial ridings of

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and

dismantled the

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system previously in use in the cities and changed the voting system to

single member districts. From 1924 to 1956 Calgary and Edmonton members were elected by

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in multi-member districts. The rest of the province had used

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in single-member districts. The 1959 redistribution created nine districts in Edmonton. The other eight ridings were Edmonton Centre, Edmonton North, Edmonton Norwood, Edmonton North East, Edmonton North West,

Strathcona Centre 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. History It was created in 195 ...

Strathcona East Strathcona East 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. History The historic 1959 redis ...

, and

Strathcona West Strathcona West was a provincial electoral district, located 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. History The historic ...

Election Results 1959

References

External links

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History

1959 Redistribution

Election Results 1959

See also

References

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