| Bonnyville-Cold Lake | |
| Province: | Alberta |
| Prov-Status: | defunct |
| Prov-Created: | 1997 |
| Prov-Abolished: | 2019 |
| Prov-Election-First: | 1997 |
| Prov-Election-Last: | 2015 |
Bonnyville-Cold Lake was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting from 1997 to 2019.
Bonnyville-Cold Lake is primarily rural electoral district is found in northeastern Alberta along the Saskatchewan border. The riding was coterminous with the Municipal District of Bonnyville No. 87, and also contains the following municipalities:
The district bordered Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills to the North, West and Southwest, and Vermilion-Lloydminster to the Southeast.
The district was created in the 1997 Boundary redistribution from the electoral district of Bonnyville, retaining the same boundaries as the old district.[1] The riding had been held from its creation until 2015 by the Progressive Conservatives, although the Liberals held the antecedent riding from 1993 to 1997.
The 2003 electoral boundary re-distribution saw the riding lose some uninhabited territory in its north, part of the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range, to Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills. This gave Bonnyville-Cold Lake the same boundaries as the Municipal District.[2]
In the 2010 electoral boundary re-distribution the riding remained unchanged with no boundary alterations from the 2003 boundaries.[3]
The Bonnyville-Cold Lake electoral district was dissolved in the 2017 electoral boundary re-distribution, and would be renamed Bonnyville-Cold Lake-St. Paul electoral district for the 2019 Alberta general election.[4]
| 48 Bonnyville-Cold Lake 2003 boundaries[5] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bordering districts | ||||
| North | East | West | South | |
| Lac La Biche-St. Paul | Saskatchewan border | Lac La Biche-St. Paul | Lac La Biche-St. Paul, Vermilion-Lloydminster | |
| riding map goes here | ||||
| Legal description from Electoral Divisions Act. S.A.. 2003. E-4.1. http://canlii.ca/t/53m7s. CanLii. | ||||
| Starting at the east boundary of Sec. 35, Twp. 66, Rge. 9 W4 and the south boundary of the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range (CLAWR); then 1. east along the south boundary of CLAWR to the east boundary of the Province; 2. south along the east boundary of the Province to the south boundary of Fishing Lake Métis Settlement; 3. west and south along the Métis Settlement boundary to the east boundary of Unipouheous Indian Reserve No. 121; 4. south, west and north along Indian Reserve No. 121 to the south boundary of Puskiakiwenin Indian Reserve No. 122; 5. west, north and east along the boundary of Indian Reserve No. 122 to the east boundary of Rge. 4 W4; 6. north along the east boundary of Rge. 4 W4 to the north boundary of Twp. 58; 7. west along the north boundary of Twp. 58 to the east boundary of Kehewin Indian Reserve No. 123; 8. south, west and north along the Indian Reserve boundary to the north boundary of Twp. 58; 9. west along the north boundary to the east boundary of the west half of Sec. 1 in Twp. 59, Rge. 9 W4; 10. north along the east boundary of the west half of Secs. 1, 12, 13, 24, 25 and 36 in the Twp. and the east boundary of the west half of Secs. 1, 12 and 13 in Twp. 60, Rge. 9 W4 to the north boundary of Sec. 13 in the Twp.; 11. west along the north boundary of Secs. 13, 14, 15 and 16 to the east boundary of Sec. 20 in the Twp.; 12. north along the east boundary of Secs. 20, 29 and 32 in the Twp. to the north boundary of Twp. 60; 13. west along the north boundary to the east boundary of the west half of Sec. 5 in Twp. 61, Rge. 9 W4; 14. north along the east boundary of the west half of Secs. 5, 8, 17, 20, 29 and 32 in the Twp. to the north boundary of Twp. 61; 15. west along the north boundary to the east boundary of Sec. 6 in Twp. 62, Rge. 9 W4; 16. north along the east boundary to the north boundary of the south half of Sec. 16; 17. west along the north boundary of the south half of Sec. 6 in the Twp. and Secs. 1 and 2 in Twp. 62, Rge. 10 W4 to the east boundary of the west half of Sec. 2 in the Twp.; 18. north along the east boundary of the west half of Secs. 2, 11, 14, 23, 26 and 35 in the Twp. and the east boundary of Sec. 2 in Twp. 63 to the intersection with the Beaver River; 19. upstream along the right bank of the Beaver River to the east boundary of Sec. 9 in Twp. 63, Rge. 10 W4; 20. north along the east boundary of Secs. 9, 16, 21, 28 and 33 in the Twp. and the east boundary of Secs. 4, 9, 16, 21, 28 and 33 in Twp. 64, Rge. 10 W4 and the east boundary of Sec. 4 in Twp. 65 to the north boundary of Sec. 3 in Twp. 65, Rge. 10 W4; 21. east along the north boundary of Secs. 3, 2 and 1 in the Twp. and the north boundary of Secs. 6 and 5 in Rge. 9 to the east boundary of Sec. 8, Twp. 65, Rge. 9 W4; 22. north along the east boundary of Secs. 8, 17, 20 and 29 to the north boundary of Sec. 28 in the Twp.; 23. east along the north boundary of Secs. 28, 27 and 26 to the east boundary of Sec. 35 in the Twp.; 24. north along the east boundary of Sec. 35 in the Twp. and Secs. 2, 11, 14, 23, 26 and 35 in Twp. 66, Rge. 9 W4 to the starting point. | ||||
| Note: | ||||
| 52 Bonnyville-Cold Lake 2010 boundaries[6] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bordering districts | ||||
| North | East | West | South | |
| Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills | Saskatchewan border | Vermilion-Lloydminster | ||
| align=center colspan=2 | ||||
| Note: No changes were made to the riding in the 2010 Boundary Redistribution | ||||
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| See Bonnyville 1952-1997 | |||||
| 24th | 1997–2001 | Denis Ducharme | Progressive Conservative | ||
| 25th | 2001–2004 | ||||
| 26th | 2004–2008 | ||||
| 27th | 2008–2012 | Genia Leskiw | |||
| 28th | 2012–2015 | ||||
| 29th | 2015–2017 | Scott Cyr | Wildrose | ||
| 2017–2019 | United Conservative | ||||
| See Bonnyville-Cold Lake-St. Paul after 2019 | |||||
Ducharme was re-elected with landslides in 2001 with over 70% of the vote and in 2004 with almost 65% of the vote. He was appointed to the cabinet briefly in 2006 under the government of Ralph Klein. He retired in 2008.
The second representative of the district was Genia Leskiw. She won her first election with a landslide of over 75% of the popular vote, and held the riding from Wildrose challenger Roy Doonanco in 2012 by only a 7% margin.
In the 2015 election, Wildrose candidate Scott Cyr won by a significant margin over Progressive Conservative candidate Craig Copeland, who was running during a hiatus from being the mayor of Cold Lake. He subsequently joined the United Conservative Party when the parties merged in 2017.
Despite the hotly contested elections in 2012 and 2015, Ducharme, Leskiw, Cyr, and Copeland jointly endorsed Jason Kenney for Conservative leader in its 2017 leadership election.[8]
| 2004 Senate nominee election results Bonnyville-Cold Lake[9] | Turnout 32.32% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % votes | % ballots | Rank | Independent | Link Byfield | 1,484 | 9.86% | 31.81% | 4 | Michael Roth | 1,344 | 8.93% | 28.81% | 7 | Vance Gough | 1,265 | 8.40% | 27.76% | 8 | Gary Horan | 1,217 | 8.08% | 26.09% | 10 | Independent | Tom Sindlinger | 825 | 5.48% | 17.69% | 9 | |
| Total votes | 15,057 | 100% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total ballots | 4,665 | 3.23 votes per ballot | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 1,056 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012 Senate nominee election results Bonnyville-Cold Lake[10] | Turnout 43.85% | ||||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % votes | % ballots | Rank | ||
| Total votes | 21,646 | 100% | |||||
| Total ballots | 8,785 | 2.46 votes per ballot | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 944 | ||||||
| Participating schools[11] | |
|---|---|
| Assumption Jr/Sr High School | |
| Elizabeth School | |
| LeGoff School | |
| Notre Dame High School |
| 2004 Alberta student vote results[12] | |||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
| 2012 Alberta student vote results[13] | |||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | ||