Bonnyville-Cold Lake-St. Paul

Bonnyville-Cold Lake-St. Paul is a current provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 87 districts mandated to return a single member (MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting. It was contested for the first time in the 2019 Alberta election.

Bonnyville-Cold Lake-St. Paul
Alberta electoral district
Bonnyville-Cold Lake-St. Paul within Alberta.
Provincial electoral district
LegislatureLegislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA
 
 		 
Dave Hanson
United Conservative
District created2017
First contested2019
Demographics
Population (2016)[1]53,809
Area (km²)15,870
Pop. density (per km²)3.4
Census division(s)12

Geography

The district is located in northeastern Alberta, containing the communities of Cold Lake, Bonnyville, St. Paul and Elk Point, the MD of Bonnyville, most of St. Paul County, the Elizabeth and Fishing Lake Metis settlements, the Cold Lake First Nations, Kehewin First Nation, and Saddle Lake. It also includes CFB Cold Lake and the uninhabited Air Weapons Range (Improvement District No. 349).

History
Members for Bonnyville-Cold Lake-St. Paul
Assembly Years Member Party
See Bonnyville-Cold Lake 1997-2019 and
Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills 2012-2019
30th 2019– Dave Hanson United Conservative

The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended joining part of Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills to Bonnyville-Cold Lake. The Commission recommended naming the district Cold Lake-St. Paul, but the Assembly decided to retain Bonnyville in the name.

Some local officials expressed discontent with the creation of this riding, especially given that it is the most populous of the new districts.[2] According to the 2016 census, its population is 15% above the mean. The Commission justified this variance because, in their opinion, "this is an area where future population growth is likely to fall well below the provincial average."[3]

The district first elected United Conservative MLA Dave Hanson who had previously been elected to Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills as a Wildrose candidate in 2015. Hanson originally contested the UCP nomination against former Wildrose MLA for Bonnyville-Cold Lake Scott Cyr who would drop out prior to the constituency vote.[4] Hanson would defeat his next closest competitor, NDP candidate and teacher Kari Whan by over 12,000 votes.[5]

Electoral results
Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta general election
Party Votes %
Wildrose7,38143.90
Progressive Conservative4,90129.15
New Democratic3,76022.36
Alberta Party628[lower-alpha 1]3.73
Green143[lower-alpha 2]0.85
Total valid votes 16,813 100.00
  1. No candidate in Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills
  2. No candidate in Bonnyville-Cold Lake
2019 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes%±%Expenditures
United ConservativeDavid B. Hanson15,94373.090.04$38,896
New DemocraticKari Whan3,06114.03-8.33$3,288
Alberta PartyGlenn Andersen2,22310.19–$16,235
Alberta IndependenceDavid Garnett-Bennett2170.99–$500
Alberta Advantage PartyDavid Inscho2070.95–$1,580
IndependentKacey L Daniels1620.74–$1,714
Total 21,813––
Rejected, spoiled and declined 395013
Eligible electors / Turnout 33,19965.86–
United Conservative notional hold Swing +4.18
Source(s)
Source: Elections Alberta[6][7][8]
Note: Expenses is the sum of "Election Expenses", "Other Expenses" and "Transfers Issued". The Elections Act limits "Election Expenses" to $50,000.
Change is based on re-distributed results from the 2015 Alberta general election.

See also

References
  1. Statistics Canada: 2016
  2. MacEachern, Meagan (October 24, 2017). "Local dignitaries displeased with the Electoral Boundaries Commission final report". The Bonnyville Nouvelle. Great West Newspapers. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
  3. Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (October 2017). "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 978-1-988620-04-6. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  4. "MLA Scott Cyr withdraws from UCP nomination battle against caucus colleague". CBC News. Edmonton. April 18, 2018. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
  5. MacEachern, Meagan (January 31, 2019). "Kari Whan: new to politics, but eager to get started". Lakeland Today. Great West Newspapers. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
  6. "51 - Bonnyville-Cold Lake-St. Paul, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  7. Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2019). 2019 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Volume II (PDF) (Report). Vol. 2. Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 211–217. ISBN 978-1-988620-12-1. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
  8. Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2019). 2019 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Volume III Election Finances (PDF) (Report). Vol. 3. Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 68–82. ISBN 978-1-988620-13-8. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 15, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2021.

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