District created 2010 Last contested 2015 | First contested 2012 | |
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MLA Colin PiquetteNew Democratic | ||
Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The electoral district was created in the 2010 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta under the first past the post voting system. The current MLA is New Democrat Colin Piquette.
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History
The electoral district was created in the 2010 Alberta provincial electoral boundary redistribution from the electoral old district of Athabasca-Redwater. The electoral district boundaries were updated to align the district to current municipal boundaries along the sparsely populated north and western boundaries.
Representation history
The predecessor district Athabasca-Redwater that existed from 2004 to 2012 and it antecedents had returned Progressive Conservative candidates since the 1970s while old Redwater returned Liberal candidates until 1997. The current incumbent is Progressive Conservative MLA Jeff Johnson who won his first term in office in the 2008 election with a landslide majority.