Spirit River-Fairview | |
Province: | Alberta |
Prov-Status: | defunct |
Prov-Created: | 1971 |
Prov-Abolished: | 1986 |
Prov-Election-First: | 1971 |
Prov-Election-Last: | 1984 |
Spirit River-Fairview was a provincial electoral district in northwestern Alberta, Canada mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first-past-the-post method of voting from 1971 to 1986.[1]
Spirit River-Fairview electoral district was created prior to the 1971 Alberta general election by merger of the Spirit River and Dunvegan electoral districts. The district was abolished in 1986 and recreated into Dunvegan.
Spirit River-Fairview was created in 1971 out of Dunvegan and the north half of Spirit River. It contained the communities of Spirit River, Fairview and Rycroft, and extended northward past the Chinchaga River. Its boundaries remained unchanged until it was abolished in 1986 and replaced by the second incarnation of Dunvegan.
Members of the Legislative Assembly for Spirit River-Fairview | ||||
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Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
See Spirit River 1940-1971 and Dunvegan 1959-1971 | ||||
17th | 1971 - 1975 | Grant Notley | New Democrat | |
18th | 1975 - 1979 | |||
19th | 1979 - 1982 | |||
20th | 1982 - 1984 | |||
1984 - 1985 | Vacant | |||
1985 - 1986 | Jim Gurnett | New Democrat | ||
See Dunvegan 1986-2004 |
The resulting by-election in 1985 saw the NDP hold Spirit River-Fairview, with Jim Gurnett serving as MLA for the remainder of the term, after which the riding was abolished. This makes Spirit River-Fairview the only rural riding in Alberta to have elected only New Democrats to the Legislative Assembly.
|}Swing is calculated from the 1967 result in Dunvegan, which had similar boundaries.
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