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Vermilion-Viking was a
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in
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, Canada, mandated to return a single
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to the
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using
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method of voting from 1971 to 1993. Vermilion-Viking is named for the towns of
Vermilion Vermilion (sometimes vermillion) is a color family and pigment most often used between antiquity and the 19th century from the powdered mineral cinnabar (a form of mercury sulfide). It is synonymous with red orange, which often takes a moder ...
and
Viking Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.Roesdahl, pp. 9â ...
.


Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs)


Electoral history


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1986


1989


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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Elections AlbertaThe Legislative Assembly of Alberta
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