| Westlock-Sturgeon | |
| Province: | Alberta |
| Prov-Status: | defunct |
| Prov-Created: | 1986 |
| Prov-Abolished: | 1993 |
| Prov-Election-First: | 1986 |
| Prov-Election-Last: | 1989 |
Westlock-Sturgeon was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using first-past-the-post balloting from 1986 to 1993.[1]
| Members of the Legislative Assembly | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Athabasca 1905-1986, Redwater-Andrew 1971-1986, and St. Albert 1905-1986. | ||||
| 21st | 1986-1989 | Nicholas Taylor | Liberal | |
| 22nd | 1989-1993 | |||
| See Barrhead-Westlock 1993-2004, Redwater 1993-2004, and Spruce Grove-Sturgeon-St. Albert 1993-2012 | ||||
The riding was abolished only seven years later at the next redistribution. The northern half of the riding was transferred to Barrhead-Westlock, with Morinville and the area east of it going to Redwater and the remainder to Spruce Grove-Sturgeon-St. Albert.
The riding's only MLA was Nicholas Taylor, who had led the Liberal Party through its decade-long drought. His election in 1986, along with three other Liberals in Edmonton and Calgary, was a breakthrough for the party.
He was replaced by Laurence Decore as party leader only two years later, but was re-elected in Westlock-Sturgeon in 1989. For the second term in a row, Taylor was the only Liberal MLA in rural Alberta. When the riding was abolished in 1993, he went on to serve as MLA for Redwater.