District created 1993 Last contested 2015 | First contested 1993 Province Alberta | |
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Legislature Legislative Assembly of Alberta MLA Wayne Drysdale
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Wayne drysdale mla for grande prairie wapiti discusses the pc government s one year anniversary
Grande Prairie-Wapiti is provincial electoral district, located in northwestern Alberta, Canada. It is one of 87 mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting.
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- Wayne drysdale mla for grande prairie wapiti discusses the pc government s one year anniversary
- Wayne drysdale for grande prairie wapiti
- History
- Electoral history
- 2004 Senate nominee election district results
- 2004 election
- References
The electoral district was created in the 1993 boundary redistribution from the old Grande Prairie electoral district. The district covers the city of Grande Prairie, the rural portion to the west and the towns of Beaverlodge and Wembley.
The district and its antecedent have been a stronghold for Progressive Conservative candidates in recent decades. The current representative for this district is Progressive Conservative Wayne Drysdale. He won election for the first time in 2008. To date there have been three representatives who have held the district.
Wayne drysdale for grande prairie wapiti
History
The electoral district was created in the 1993 boundary redistribution from the old Grande Prairie electoral district. It remained mostly unchanged in the 1997 and 2003 re-distributions. The Boundaries Commission proposed to abolish the district to create a completely urban Grande Prairie district but it changed its decision under public pressure. The 2010 distribution made minor changes to the border with Grande Prairie-Smoky in the city of Grande Prairie but stayed the same in the rural areas.
Electoral history
The electoral district was created in the 1993 boundary redistribution from the old Grande Prairie district. The first representative elected in 1993 was Progressive Conservative candidate Wayne Jaques. He won a hotly contested race over Liberal candidate Dwight Logan to pick up the new district for his party. Jaques was re-elected in the 1997 election with a much larger margin. He retired from provincial politics in 2001.
The second representative was Progressive Conservative was Gordon Graydon who won his first term in office in 2001 with a landslide over a field of five other candidates. He won a second term in the 2004 general election winning over half the popular vote. After the 2004 election Premier Ralph Klein appointed Graydon Minister of Gaming. He held that post until 2006. Graydon retired from provincial politics in 2008.
The third representative is current Progressive Conservative MLA is Wayne Drysdale who was elected in the 2008 election for the first time.
2004 Senate nominee election district results
Voters had the option of selecting 4 Candidates on the Ballot
2004 election
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.