Rocky Mountain House (electoral district)
Rocky Mountain House was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1940 to 2012.[1]
 Alberta electoral district | |
|---|---|
 2004 boundaries | |
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
| District created | 1940 |
| District abolished | 2012 |
| First contested | 1940 |
| Last contested | 2008 |
History
The district was one of 83 current districts mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting since 1959. Prior to that Single Transferable Vote was in use but no election went to a second count.
The district which was located in central western rural Alberta was created from parts of four electoral districts in the 1940 boundary redistribution. It is named after the town of Rocky Mountain House.
The district was favourable to electing Progressive Conservative candidates since 1971. It was only held by four representatives.
The district was replaced in the 2010 Alberta electoral boundary re-distribution with Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre.[2]
Boundary history
| 73 Rocky Mountain House 2003 Boundaries[3] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Bordering Districts | |||
| North | East | West | South |
| Drayton Valley-Calmar, West Yellowhead | Innisfail-Sylvan Lake, Lacombe-Ponoka, Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills | West Yellowhead | Banff-Cochrane |
| riding map goes here | map in relation to other districts in Alberta goes here | ||
| Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act. | |||
| Starting at the intersection of the east boundary of Rge. 19 W5 and the north boundary of Twp. 44; then 1. east along the north boundary to the west boundary of O’Chiese Indian Reserve No. 203; 2. north, east and south along the boundary to the north boundary of Twp. 44; 3. east along the north boundary to the right bank of the North Saskatchewan River; 4. downstream along the right bank to the east boundary of Rge. 8 W5; 5. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of Twp. 44; 6. east along the north boundary to the east boundary of Sec. 5, Twp. 45, Rge. 4 W5; 7. north along the east boundary of Secs. 5, 8 and 17 to the north boundary of Sec. 16 in the Twp.; 8. east along the north boundary of Secs. 16, 15, 14 and 13 in the Twp. and east along the north boundary of Secs. 18, 17 and 16 in Twp. 45, Rge. 3 W5 to the intersection with Highway 20; 9. southeast along Highway 20 to the north boundary of Twp. 42; 10. west along the north boundary of Twp. 42 to the east boundary of Rge. 3 W5; 11. south along the east boundary of Rge. 3 W5 to the north boundary of Twp. 41; 12. east along the north boundary of Twp. 41 to the east shore of Gull Lake; 13. south along the east shore of Gull Lake to the north boundary of Twp. 40; 14. east along the north boundary of Twp. 40 to the east boundary of Rge. 28 W4; 15. south along the east boundary of Rge. 28 W4 to the right bank of the Blind Man River (at Sec. 12, Twp. 39, Rge. 28 W4); 16. upstream along the right bank of the Blind Man River to the east boundary of Sec. 15 in Twp. 39, Rge. 28 W4; 17. south along the east boundary of Sec. 15 to the north boundary of Sec. 10; 18. west along the north boundary of Secs. 10, 9 and 8 in the Twp. and the north boundary of Secs. 12, 11, 10, 9, 8 and 7 in Twp. 39, Rge. 1 to the east boundary of Rge. 2 W5; 19. north along the east boundary of Rge. 2 W5 to the north boundary of the south half of Sec. 13 in Twp. 39, Rge. 2 W5; 20. west along the north boundary of the south half of Sec. 13 to the east boundary of Sec. 14 in the Twp.; 21. south along the east boundary of Secs. 14, 11 and 2 to the north boundary of the south half of Sec. 2 in the Twp.; 22. west along the north boundary of the south half of Secs. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 to the east boundary of the west half of Sec. 6 in the Twp.; 23. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of Twp. 38 (Highway 11); 24. west along the north boundary of Twp. 38 (Highway 11) to the right bank of the Medicine River; 25. downstream along the right bank to the east boundary of Sec. 26 in Twp. 38, Rge. 3 W5; 26. south along the east boundary of Sec. 26 to the north boundary of Sec. 23; 27. west along the north boundary of Sec. 23 to the east boundary of the west half of Sec. 23 in the Twp.; 28. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of the south half of Sec. 23 in the Twp.; 29. west along the north boundary of the south half to the east boundary of Sec. 22 in the Twp.; 30. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of Sec. 15 in the Twp.; 31. west along the north boundary of Secs. 15, 16, 17 and 18 in the Twp. to the east boundary of Rge. 4 W5; 32. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of Sec. 25 in Twp. 36, Rge. 4 W5; 33. west along the north boundary of Secs. 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 in the Twp. to the east boundary of Rge. 5 W5; 34. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of Sec. 6 in Twp. 36, Rge. 4 W5; 35. east along the north boundary of Secs. 6, 5 and 4 to the east boundary of Sec. 4 in the Twp.; 36. south along the east boundary of Sec. 4 in the Twp. and the east boundary of Secs. 33, 28, 21, 16, 9 and 4 in Twp. 35 and the east boundary of Secs. 33 and 28 in Twp. 34, Rge. 4 W5 to the north boundary of Sec. 22 in the Twp.; 37. east along the north boundary of Secs. 22 and 23 to the east boundary of Sec. 23 in the Twp.; 38. south along the east boundary of Secs. 23 and 14 to the north boundary of Sec. 12 in the Twp.; 39. east along the north boundary to the east boundary of Rge. 4 W5; 40. south along the east boundary to Highway 27; 41. westerly along Highway 27 to Highway 22; 42. south along Highway 22 to the north boundary of Twp. 30; 43. west along the north boundary to the east boundary of Rge. 6 W5; 44. north along the east boundary of Rge. 6 to the north boundary of Sec. 12 in Twp. 31; 45. west along the north boundary of Secs. 12, 11 and 10 to the east boundary of Sec. 16; 46. north along the east boundary of Secs. 16, 21, 28 and 33 to the north boundary of Twp. 31; 47. west along the north boundary of Twp. 31 to the intersection with the right bank of the Red Deer River; 48. upstream along the right bank to the intersection with the east boundary of Rge. 8 W5; 49. south along the east boundary of Rge. 8 to the north boundary of Twp. 30; 50. west along the north boundary of Twp. 30 to the east boundary of Banff National Park; 51. in a generally northwesterly direction along the park boundary to the intersection with Rge. 19 W5; 52. project a line southwest from the east boundary of Rge. 19 to the Alberta-British Columbia boundary at its intersection with the north boundary of Twp. 32; 53. in a generally westerly and northerly direction along the Alberta-British Columbia boundary to the intersection with the south Jasper National Park boundary; 54. in a northeasterly direction along the park boundary to the right bank of the Brazeau River; 55. downstream along the right bank to the north boundary of Twp. 43; 56. east along the north boundary to the east boundary of Rge. 19 W5; 57. north along the east boundary to the starting point. | |||
| Note: | |||
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Rocky Mountain House[4] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| See Edson 1913-1940, Innisfail 1905-1940, Red Deer 1905-1940 and Lacombe 1905-1940 | ||||
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| 9th | 1940–1944 | Alfred Hooke | Social Credit | |
| 10th | 1944–1948 | |||
| 11th | 1948–1952 | |||
| 12th | 1952–1955 | |||
| 13th | 1955–1959 | |||
| 14th | 1959–1963 | |||
| 15th | 1963–1967 | |||
| 16th | 1967–1971 | |||
| 17th | 1971–1975 | Helen Hunley | Progressive Conservative | |
| 18th | 1975–1979 | |||
| 19th | 1979–1982 | John Campbell | ||
| 20th | 1982–1986 | |||
| 21st | 1986–1989 | |||
| 22nd | 1989–1993 | Ty Lund | ||
| 23rd | 1993–1997 | |||
| 24th | 1997–2001 | |||
| 25th | 2001–2004 | |||
| 26th | 2004–2008 | |||
| 27th | 2008–2012 | |||
| See Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre 2012-present | ||||
Electoral history
The electoral district of Rocky Mountain House was created from parts of four different districts in the 1940 boundary re-distribution. The first election held that year saw Social Credit incumbent Alfred Hooke switch from the Red Deer provincial electoral district. He won his second term in office easily defeating two other candidates on the first ballot.
Hooke would be appointed to the first of his many cabinet portfolios as Provincial Secretary by Premier Ernest Manning in 1943. He would run for a third term and his first with ministerial advantage in the 1944 general election winning a larger majority. In 1945 Hooke also became the Minister of Economic Affairs.
The 1948 general election saw Hooke win his fourth straight term in office and third in the district, with a landslide over Co-operative Commonwealth candidate Ray Schmidt. Hooke won re-election five more times in 1952, 1955, 1959, 1963 and 1967.
Pundits had been predicting that Hooke would be defeated in the 1967 general election after a rift grew in the Social Credit party when national Social Credit leader Robert Thompson nominated an independent candidate to run against Hooke. He won the election easily. Hooke served in cabinet until 1968 when Harry Strom became Premier. He was not invited back to cabinet and retired at dissolution of the assembly in 1971.
The second representative in the district was elected in the 1971 general election. Progressive Conservative candidate Helen Hunley defeated Social Credit Harvey Staudinger to pick up the seat for her party. She was appointed to the first cabinet of Premier Peter Lougheed after the election. Hunley was re-elected in the 1975 defeating Staudinger for the second time with a larger victory. She remained in cabinet and retired from the legislature at dissolution in 1979. Hunley would be appointed remained in politics as she was appointed Lieutenant Governor in 1985.
Hunley was replaced in the legislature by Progressive Conservative candidate John Campbell in the 1979 general election. He won election twice more in 1982 and 1986 with large majorities.
The last representative in the district is Progressive Conservative MLA Ty Lund. Lund won the seat in the 1989 election for the first time with a landslide margin to hold the seat for his party. He was re-elected with a bigger majority in the 1993 election. Premier Ralph Klein appointed Lund to cabinet for the first time on September 15, 1994 as Minister of Environment.
He was re-elected four more times in 1997, 2001, 2004 and 2008. He kept serving various cabinet portfolio's until Premier Ed Stelmach took office in 2006.
The riding is notable for the electoral performances of Social Credit candidate Lavern Ahlstrom, who would later lead the party. Despite the party's minor status in recent times, Ahlstrom consistently polled well above his party's average in the elections he contested.
Election results
1940 general election
| 1940 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Social Credit | Alfred J. Hooke | 2,477 | 52.26% | – | ||||
| Independent | Tom Sigurdson | 1,496 | 31.56% | – | ||||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Gus Maki | 767 | 16.18% | – | ||||
| Total | 4,740 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 224 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 7,156 | 69.37% | – | |||||
| Social Credit pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Rocky Mountain House Official Results 1940 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
1944 general election
| 1944 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Social Credit | Alfred J. Hooke | 2,936 | 63.44% | 11.18% | ||||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | George Morrison | 1,302 | 28.13% | 11.95% | ||||
| Farmer–Labour | J. Victor Johanson | 390 | 8.43% | – | ||||
| Total | 4,628 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 71 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 6,984 | 67.28% | -2.09% | |||||
| Social Credit hold | Swing | 7.31% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Rocky Mountain House Official Results 1944 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
1948 general election
| 1948 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Social Credit | Alfred J. Hooke | 3,582 | 72.41% | 8.97% | ||||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Ray E. Schmidt | 1,365 | 27.59% | -0.54% | ||||
| Total | 4,947 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 255 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 8,207 | 63.38% | -3.90% | |||||
| Social Credit hold | Swing | 4.75% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Rocky Mountain House Official Results 1948 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
1952 general election
| 1952 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Social Credit | Alfred J. Hooke | 2,886 | 71.24% | -1.17% | ||||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Hubert M. Smith | 1,165 | 28.76% | 1.17% | ||||
| Total | 4,051 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 211 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 7,577 | 56.25% | -7.14% | |||||
| Social Credit hold | Swing | -1.17% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Rocky Mountain House Official Results 1952 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
1955 general election
| 1955 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Social Credit | Alfred J. Hooke | 2,829 | 63.63% | -7.61% | ||||
| Liberal | C. Stauffer | 1,200 | 26.99% | – | ||||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Bert Rear | 417 | 9.38% | -19.38% | ||||
| Total | 4,446 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 207 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 6,779 | 68.64% | 12.39% | |||||
| Social Credit hold | Swing | -2.92% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Rocky Mountain House Official Results 1955 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
1959 general election
| 1959 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Social Credit | Alfred J. Hooke | 3,235 | 74.68% | 11.05% | ||||
| Liberal | Tom Bert | 660 | 15.24% | -11.76% | ||||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Ray E. Schmidt | 437 | 10.09% | 0.71% | ||||
| Total | 4,332 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 13 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 6,523 | 66.61% | -2.03% | |||||
| Social Credit hold | Swing | 11.40% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Rocky Mountain House Official Results 1959 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
1963 general election
| 1963 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Social Credit | Alfred J. Hooke | 3,175 | 72.74% | -1.94% | ||||
| New Democratic | Robert H. Carlyle | 599 | 13.72% | 3.63% | ||||
| Liberal | Ellis M. Bowen | 591 | 13.54% | -1.70% | ||||
| Total | 4,365 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 25 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 7,311 | 60.05% | -6.56% | |||||
| Social Credit hold | Swing | -0.21% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Rocky Mountain House Official Results 1963 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
1967 general election
| 1967 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Social Credit | Alfred J. Hooke | 2,538 | 53.59% | -19.15% | ||||
| Independent | Will Sinclair | 1,406 | 29.69% | – | ||||
| New Democratic | Gilbert H. C. Farthing | 792 | 16.72% | 3.00% | ||||
| Total | 4,736 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 34 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 7,241 | 65.87% | 5.83% | |||||
| Social Credit hold | Swing | -17.56% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Rocky Mountain House Official Results 1967 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
1971 general election
| 1971 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Helen Hunley | 3,014 | 49.06% | – | ||||
| Social Credit | Harvey Staudinger | 2,472 | 40.24% | -13.35% | ||||
| New Democratic | David Elliot | 657 | 10.70% | -6.03% | ||||
| Total | 6,143 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 36 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 9,126 | 67.71% | 1.83% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative gain from Social Credit | Swing | -7.54% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Rocky Mountain House Official Results 1971 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
1975 general election
| 1975 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Helen Hunley | 4,119 | 66.09% | 17.03% | ||||
| Social Credit | Harvey Staudinger | 1,537 | 24.66% | -15.58% | ||||
| New Democratic | Morris Jenson | 576 | 9.24% | -1.45% | ||||
| Total | 6,232 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 14 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 8,935 | 69.90% | 2.20% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | 16.30% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Rocky Mountain House Official Results 1975 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
1979 general election
| 1979 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jack Campbell | 4,080 | 53.10% | -12.99% | ||||
| Social Credit | Lavern J. Ahlstrom | 2,628 | 34.21% | 9.54% | ||||
| New Democratic | John Younie | 871 | 11.34% | 2.09% | ||||
| Liberal | Roger Hamilton | 104 | 1.35% | – | ||||
| Total | 7,683 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | N/A | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 11,880 | 64.67% | -5.23% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | -11.27% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Rocky Mountain House Official Results 1979 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
1982 general election
| 1982 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jack Campbell | 6,443 | 66.08% | 12.98% | ||||
| Western Canada Concept | Art Carritt | 2,116 | 21.70% | – | ||||
| New Democratic | Dolly (Martin) Brown | 1,191 | 12.22% | 0.88% | ||||
| Total | 9,750 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 13 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 13,303 | 73.39% | 8.72% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | 12.74% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Rocky Mountain House Official Results 1982 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
1986 general election
| 1986 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jack Campbell | 3,844 | 53.31% | -12.77% | ||||
| New Democratic | Dolly (Martin) Brown | 1,266 | 17.56% | 5.34% | ||||
| Representative | Lavern J. Ahlstrom | 1,042 | 14.45% | – | ||||
| Liberal | Bob Paston | 622 | 8.63% | – | ||||
| Confederation of Regions | Art Carritt | 436 | 6.05% | – | ||||
| Total | 7,210 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 17 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 13,662 | 52.90% | -20.49% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | -4.31% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Rocky Mountain House Official Results 1986 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
1989 general election
| 1989 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Ty Lund | 4,392 | 59.81% | 6.50% | ||||
| New Democratic | Dolly (Martin) Brown | 1,727 | 23.52% | 5.96% | ||||
| Liberal | Bob Paston | 1,224 | 16.67% | 8.04% | ||||
| Total | 7,343 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 27 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 13,733 | 53.67% | 0.77% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | 0.27% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Rocky Mountain House Official Results 1989 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
1993 general election
| 1993 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Ty Lund | 5,192 | 55.79% | -4.03% | ||||
| Social Credit | Lavern J. Ahlstrom | 2,330 | 25.03% | – | ||||
| Liberal | Roxanne V. Prior | 1,181 | 12.69% | -3.98% | ||||
| New Democratic | Drew Ludington | 604 | 6.49% | -17.03% | ||||
| Total | 9,307 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 16 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 15,062 | 61.90% | 8.23% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | -2.77% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Rocky Mountain House Official Results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
1997 general election
| 1997 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Ty Lund | 5,610 | 54.81% | -0.97% | ||||
| Social Credit | Lavern J. Ahlstrom | 3,264 | 31.89% | 6.86% | ||||
| Liberal | Roxanne Prior | 880 | 8.60% | -4.09% | ||||
| New Democratic | Christine McMeckan | 481 | 4.70% | -1.79% | ||||
| Total | 10,235 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 22 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 18,464 | 55.55% | -6.35% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | -3.91% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Rocky Mountain House Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
2001 general election
| 2001 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Ty Lund | 7,820 | 70.43% | 15.61% | ||||
| Social Credit | Lavern J. Ahlstrom | 1,705 | 15.35% | -16.54% | ||||
| Liberal | Wijnand Horemans | 1,171 | 10.55% | 1.95% | ||||
| New Democratic | Doug Mac Angus | 408 | 3.67% | -1.03% | ||||
| Total | 11,104 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 25 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 20,051 | 55.50% | -0.05% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | 16.07% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Rocky Mountain House Official Results 2001 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
2004 general election
| 2004 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Ty Lund | 5,773 | 56.33% | -14.10% | ||||
| Liberal | Susan M. Scott | 1,266 | 12.35% | 1.81% | ||||
| Social Credit | Lavern J. Ahlstrom | 1,265 | 12.34% | -3.01% | ||||
| Alberta Alliance | Ed Wilhite | 807 | 7.87% | – | ||||
| Separation | Bruce Hutton | 503 | 4.91% | – | ||||
| Greens | Jennifer Isaac | 335 | 3.27% | – | ||||
| New Democratic | Anthony Jones | 300 | 2.93% | -0.75% | ||||
| Total | 10,249 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 40 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 21,587 | 47.66% | -7.84% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | -5.55% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Rocky Mountain House Statement of Official Results 2004 Alberta general election" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Retrieved June 10, 2020. | ||||||||
2008 general election
| 2008 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Ty Lund | 6,188 | 62.30% | 5.97% | ||||
| Wildrose Alliance | Fanie Van Heerden | 1,156 | 11.64% | 3.77% | ||||
| Liberal | Norm McDougall | 849 | 8.55% | -3.81% | ||||
| Green | Jennifer Ripley | 699 | 7.04% | 3.77% | ||||
| Social Credit | Wilf Tricker | 643 | 6.47% | -5.87% | ||||
| New Democratic | Jorge Sousa | 279 | 2.81% | -0.12% | ||||
| Separation | Bruce Hutton | 119 | 1.20% | -3.71% | ||||
| Total | 9,933 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 40 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 22,934 | 43.49% | -4.18% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | 3.34% | ||||||
Source(s)
The Report on the March 3, 2008 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-seventh Legislative Assembly. Elections Alberta. July 28, 2008. pp. 518–523. "Elections Alberta 2008 General Election". Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
Alberta Senate election
2004 Senate nominee election district results
| 2004 Senate nominee election results: Rocky Mountain House[5] | Turnout 47.26% | |||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % Votes | % Ballots | Rank | |
| Progressive Conservative | Bert Brown | 4,255 | 15.59% | 48.00% | 1 | |
| Progressive Conservative | Betty Unger | 3,961 | 14.51% | 44.69% | 2 | |
| Independent | Link Byfield | 2,996 | 10.97% | 33.80% | 4 | |
| Progressive Conservative | Cliff Breitkreuz | 2,881 | 10.55% | 32.50% | 3 | |
| Progressive Conservative | Jim Silye | 2,748 | 10.07% | 31.00% | 5 | |
| Progressive Conservative | David Usherwood | 2,461 | 9.02% | 27.76% | 6 | |
| Alberta Alliance | Michael Roth | 2,409 | 8.82% | 27.18% | 7 | |
| Alberta Alliance | Vance Gough | 2,082 | 7.63% | 23.49% | 8 | |
| Alberta Alliance | Gary Horan | 2,063 | 7.56% | 23.27% | 10 | |
| Independent | Tom Sindlinger | 1,444 | 5.28% | 16.29% | 9 | |
| Total Votes | 27,300 | 100% | ||||
| Total Ballots | 8,864 | 3.08 Votes Per Ballot | ||||
| Rejected, Spoiled and Declined | 1,337 | |||||
Voters had the option of selecting 4 Candidates on the Ballot
Plebiscite results
1948 Electrification Plebiscite
District results from the first province-wide plebiscite on electricity regulation.
| Option A | Option B |
|---|---|
| Are you in favour of the generation and distribution of electricity being continued by the Power Companies? | Are you in favour of the generation and distribution of electricity being made a publicly owned utility administered by the Alberta Government Power Commission? |
| 2,210 45.63% | 2,633 54.37% |
| Province wide result: Option A passed. | |
1957 liquor plebiscite
| 1957 Alberta liquor plebiscite results: Rocky Mountain House[6] | |||
| Question A: Do you approve additional types of outlets for the sale of beer, wine and spirituous liquor subject to a local vote? | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Ballot Choice | Votes | % | |
| Yes | 1,286 | 52.58% | |
| No | 1,160 | 47.42% | |
| Total Votes | 2,446 | 100% | |
| Rejected, Spoiled and Declined | 7 | ||
| 5,950 Eligible Electors, Turnout 41.23% | |||
On October 30, 1957 a stand-alone plebiscite was held province wide in all 50 of the then current provincial electoral districts in Alberta. The government decided to consult Alberta voters to decide on liquor sales and mixed drinking after a divisive debate in the Legislature. The plebiscite was intended to deal with the growing demand for reforming antiquated liquor control laws.[7]
The plebiscite was conducted in two parts. Question A asked in all districts, asked the voters if the sale of liquor should be expanded in Alberta, while Question B asked in a handful of districts within the corporate limits of Calgary and Edmonton asked if men and woman were allowed to drink together in establishments.[6]
Province wide Question A of the plebiscite passed in 33 of the 50 districts while Question B passed in all five districts. Rocky Mountain House voted in favour of the proposal by a narrow majority. Voter turnout in the district was very low, falling well under the province wide average of 46%.[6] This decline in turnout was attributed to heavy rains, high winds and flooding conditions in the district that kept people away from polling stations.[7]
Official district returns were released to the public on December 31, 1957.[6] The Social Credit government in power at the time did not considered the results binding.[8] However the results of the vote led the government to repeal all existing liquor legislation and introduce an entirely new Liquor Act.[9]
Municipal districts lying inside electoral districts that voted against the Plebiscite were designated Local Option Zones by the Alberta Liquor Control Board and considered effective dry zones, business owners that wanted a license had to petition for a binding municipal plebiscite in order to be granted a license.[10]
2004 Student Vote
| Participating Schools[11] |
|---|
| Ecole Rocky Elementary |
| Sunchild First Nation School |
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.
| 2004 Alberta Student Vote results[12] | ||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Progressive Conservative | Ty Lund | 21 | 51.22% | |
| Liberal | Susan Scott | 9 | 21.95% | |
| Green | Jennifer Isaac | 4 | 9.75% | |
| Social Credit | Lavern Ahlstrom | 2 | 4.88% | |
| NDP | Anthony Jones | 2 | 4.88% | |
| Alberta Alliance | Ed Wilhite | 2 | 4.88% | |
| Separation | Bruce Hutton | 1 | 2.44% | |
| Total | 41 | 100% | ||
| Rejected, Spoiled and Declined | 5 | |||
See also
- List of Alberta provincial electoral districts
- Rocky Mountain House, Alberta a town in central Alberta
References
- "Election results for Rocky Mountain House". abheritage.ca. Wayback Machine: Heritage Community Foundation. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
- Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (June 2010). "Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ISBN 978-0-9865367-1-7. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- Electoral Divisions Act, S.A. 2003, c. E-4.1
- "Members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta 1905-2006" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 26, 2010. Retrieved February 27, 2010.
- "Senate Nominee Election 2004 Tabulation of Official Results" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 4, 2009. Retrieved February 28, 2010.
- Alberta Gazette. Vol. 53 (December 31 ed.). Government of Alberta. 1957. pp. 2, 247–2, 249.
- "Albertans Vote 2 to 1 For More Liquor Outlets". Vol L No 273. The Lethbridge Herald. October 31, 1957. pp. 1–2.
- "No Sudden Change In Alberta Drinking Habits Is Seen". Vol L No 267. The Lethbridge Herald. October 24, 1957. p. 1.
- "Entirely New Act On Liquor". Vol LI No 72. The Lethbridge Herald. March 5, 1958. p. 1.
- "Bill 81". Alberta Bills 12th Legislature 1st Session. Government of Alberta. 1958. p. 40.
- "School by School results". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 5, 2007. Retrieved April 27, 2008.
- "Riding by Riding Results - the Candidates". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 6, 2007. Retrieved April 19, 2008.
Further reading
- Office of the Chief Electoral Officer; Legislative Assembly Office (2006). A Century of Democracy: Elections of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1905-2005. The Centennial Series. Edmonton, AB: Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ISBN 0-9689217-8-7. Retrieved May 25, 2020.
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