| Edmonton-Gold Bar | |
| Province: | Alberta |
| Prov-Rep: | Marlin Schmidt |
| Prov-Rep-Party: | NDP |
| Prov-Status: | active |
| Prov-Created: | 1971 |
| Prov-Election-First: | 1971 |
| Prov-Election-Last: | 2023 |
Edmonton-Gold Bar is a provincial electoral district, in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 87 in the province mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting.
The district is primarily urban and located in the central east portion of city of Edmonton. It was created in the 1971 boundary redistribution from part of Strathcona East.
In addition to its namesake neighbourhood of Gold Bar, the riding also contains the neighbourhoods of Capilano, Fulton Place, Terrace Heights, Forest Heights, Ottewell, Kenilworth, Holyrood, Avonmore, King Edward Park, Cloverdale, Bonnie Doon, Idylwylde & Strathearn.
The district is currently represented by Marlin Schmidt of the Alberta NDP.
The electoral district was created in the 1971 boundary redistribution from the old electoral district of Strathcona East.
The 2010 boundary redistribution saw significant changes to the riding. All the land north of the North Saskatchewan River was ceded to Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood, while the south boundary was moved from 92 Avenue to 82 Avenue to the Canadian Pacific Rail line to 63 Avenue into Edmonton-Mill Creek. The west boundary changed from Connors Road to travel through the Mill Creek Ravine. Its neighbour to the west is Edmonton-Strathcona.
| 32 Edmonton-Gold Bar 2003 boundaries[1] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bordering districts | ||||
| North | East | West | South | |
| Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood | Sherwood Park | Edmonton-Calder and Edmonton-Centre | Edmonton-Mill Creek and Edmonton-Strathcona | |
| riding map goes here | ||||
| Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act. | ||||
| Starting at the intersection of 97 Street with Norwood Boulevard; then 1. northeast along Norwood Boulevard and 112 Avenue to the Light Rail Transit (LRT) Line; 2. southwest along the LRT line to 84 Street; 3. south along 84 Street to Jasper Avenue; 4. northeast along Jasper Avenue to 82 Street; 5. south along the extension of 82 Street to the right bank of the North Saskatchewan River; 6. east along the right bank of the North Saskatchewan River to the east Edmonton city boundary; 7. south, east and south along the Edmonton city boundary to 92 Avenue; 8. west along 92 Avenue to 50 Street; 9. south along 50 Street to 90 Avenue; 10. northwest along 90 Avenue to Connors Road; 11. northwest along Connors Road to the Low Level Bridge and the right bank of the North Saskatchewan River; 12. northeast along the right bank of the North Saskatchewan River to the southerly extension of 97 Street; 13. north along the extension and 97 Street to the starting point. | ||||
| Note: | ||||
| 35 Edmonton-Gold Bar 2010 boundaries[2] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bordering districts | ||||
| North | East | West | South | |
| Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview and Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood | Sherwood Park | Edmonton-Centre and Edmonton-Strathcona | Edmonton-Mill Creek | |
| Note: Boundary descriptions were not used in the 2010 redistribution | ||||
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Edmonton-Gold Bar[3] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See: Strathcona East 1959-1971 | ||||
| 17th | 1971–1975 | William Yurko | Progressive Conservative | |
| 18th | 1975–1979 | |||
| 1979 | Vacant | |||
| 19th | 1979–1982 | Al Hiebert | Progressive Conservative | |
| 20th | 1982–1986 | |||
| 21st | 1986–1989 | Bettie Hewes | Liberal | |
| 22nd | 1989–1993 | |||
| 23rd | 1993–1997 | |||
| 24th | 1997–2001 | Hugh MacDonald | ||
| 25th | 2001–2004 | |||
| 26th | 2004–2008 | |||
| 27th | 2008–2012 | |||
| 28th | 2012–2015 | David Dorward | Progressive Conservative | |
| 29th | 2015–2019 | Marlin Schmidt | New Democratic | |
| 30th | 2019–2023 | |||
| 31st | 2023– | |||
Yurko faced two other candidates in the election held that year and won the new district with a comfortable majority to pick up the seat for his party. After the election Premier Peter Lougheed appointed Yurko as a cabinet minister. He ran for a second term in the 1975 general election. Yurko won a bigger percentage despite losing some of his popular vote as the opposition vote collapsed.
Yurko resigned from his cabinet post in 1978 with the intention of seeking the nomination the Progressive Conservative nomination in Edmonton East for the 1979 federal election. He won the nomination and resigned his seat in early 1979.
The election in 1979 saw Progressive Conservative candidate Al Hiebert easily win a four cornered race to hold the open seat for his party. Hiebert was re-elected with a larger majority in the 1982 general election.
The 1986 election in the district saw a major upset with Hiebert getting defeated by Liberal candidate Bettie Hewes who managed to increase the Liberal vote in the district by over 5800 votes. Hewes won a stronger majority when she was re-elected to her second term in the 1989 general election. She won a landslide running for her third term winning the highest popular vote of any candidate in the 1993 general election. After the election Hewes briefly served as a leader of the opposition and of the Liberal party. She did not run for re-election in 1997 and retired at dissolution of the assembly.
Since 2015, the representative for Edmonton Goldbar has been Marlin Schmidt of the Alberta New Democratic Party.
| 2004 Senate nominee election results Edmonton-Gold Bar[4] | Turnout 55.03% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % votes | % ballots | Rank | Independent | Link Byfield | 3,970 | 14.23% | 40.92% | 4 | Independent | Tom Sindlinger | 2,895 | 10.37% | 29.84% | 9 | Michael Roth | 2,594 | 9.30% | 26.74% | 7 | Vance Gough | 2,342 | 8.39% | 24.14% | 8 | Gary Horan | 2,251 | 8.07% | 23.20% | 10 | |
| Total votes | 27,907 | 100% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total ballots | 9,701 | 2.88 votes per ballot | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 4,235 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Participating schools[5] | |
|---|---|
| Austin OBrien School | |
| Braemar School | |
| McNally High School | |
| Ottewell School | |
| St. Gabriel School |
| 2004 Alberta student vote results[6] | ||||||||||||||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | Liberal | Hugh MacDonald | 477 | 47.23% | NDP | Keith Turnbull | 214 | 21.19% | Independent | Dave Dowling | 28 | 2.77% | |
| Total | 1,010 | 100% | ||||||||||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 43 | |||||||||||||||
| 2012 Alberta student vote results | ||||||||||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | Liberal | Josipa Petrunic | % | NDP | Marlin Schmidt | % | |||
| Total | 100% | |||||||||||