| Edmonton | |
| Province: | Northwest Territories |
| Prov-Status: | defunct |
| Prov-Created: | 1883 |
| Prov-Abolished: | 1905 |
| Prov-Election-First: | 1883 by-election |
| Prov-Election-Last: | 1902 general election |
Edmonton was a territorial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Northwest Territories, Canada.
The riding was created by royal proclamation in 1883, the second district to elect a representative to the North-West Legislative Assembly, and the first within the Alberta provisional district.
In 1885 the riding of St. Albert was split off from Edmonton's northwestern area, but in 1888 two ridings were combined again, with Edmonton briefly becoming a two-member district. St. Albert was re-established in 1891, and Edmonton again elected only one member. Strathcona was also split off from Edmonton's southern part in 1902.
When Alberta became a province in 1905, the district continued on as Edmonton (Alberta).
| Assembly | Years | Seat 1 | Seat 2 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member[1] | Party | Member | Party | ||||
| align=center rowspan=2 | 1st Council | 1883-1885 | Frank Oliver | Independent | colspan=3 rowspan=2 | ||
| 1885-1888 | Herbert Wilson | ||||||
| 1st | 1888-1891 | Frank Oliver | Independent | ||||
| 2nd | 1891-1894 | Frank Oliver | colspan=3 rowspan=6 | ||||
| align=center rowspan=3 | 3rd | 1894-1896 | |||||
| 1896 | Vacant | ||||||
| 1896-1898 | Matthew McCauley | Independent | |||||
| 4th | 1898-1902 | ||||||
| 5th | 1902-1905 | Richard Secord | |||||
| See Edmonton (Alberta) 1905-1909 | |||||||
The first general election of the territory was held in 1888, after the dissolution of the Legislative Council. This was the only election in which Edmonton was a double-member district, and both Wilson and Oliver were elected. Wilson retired from politics when the Assembly was dissolved in 1891.
As Edmonton was now a single-member district again, Oliver remained MLA for another five years, with no challengers in the 1891 or 1894 elections. He resigned to run for the House of Commons seat for Alberta, which he successfully captured.
The resulting by-election was a close race between former Edmonton mayor Matthew McCauley and the future premier of Alberta Alexander Rutherford, which McCauley won. Both men contested the seat again in the general election of 1898, but McCauley triumphed a second time.
In 1902, however, McCauley was defeated by former alderman Richard Secord. While MLA, Secord challenged Frank Oliver for his House of Commons seat in the 1904 federal election, but was defeated. He did not seek re-election when Alberta was created in 1905 (although both Rutherford and McCauley went on to become MLAs in the new province).