| Wetaskiwin-Camrose | |
| Province: | Alberta |
| Prov-Status: | defunct |
| Prov-Created: | 1993 |
| Prov-Abolished: | 2019 |
| Prov-Election-First: | 1993 |
| Prov-Election-Last: | 2015 |
Wetaskiwin-Camrose 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 method of voting from 1993 to 2019.
The district was created in the 1993 boundary re-distribution from the Wetaskiwin-Leduc and Camrose districts. It is located in rural central eastern Alberta. It includes its namesakes Wetaskiwin and Camrose as well as the town of Millet and the Samson 137 and Montana 139 Indian reserves.
The district and its antecedents had been favourable to electing Progressive Conservative candidates for the past few decades, however, this changed in the 2015 Alberta general election when New Democratic Bruce Hinkley who won his first term.
The 2010 electoral boundary re-distribution saw a portion of land lying east of the city of Camrose transferred in the Battle River-Wainwright electoral district.[1]
The Wetaskiwin-Camrose electoral district was dissolved in the 2017 electoral boundary re-distribution, and portions of the district would form the newly created Camrose and Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin electoral districts.[2]
| 82 Wetaskiwin-Camrose 2003 boundaries[3] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bordering districts | ||||
| North | East | West | South | |
| Leduc-Beaumont-Devon | Battle River-Wainwright | Drayton Valley-Calmar | Lacombe-Ponoka | |
| riding map goes here | ||||
| Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act. | ||||
| Starting at the centre line of Highway 2 and the north boundary of Twp. 47; then 1. east along the north boundary of Twp. 47 to the east boundary of Sec. 3 in Twp. 48, Rge. 25 W4; 2. north along the east boundary of Sec. 3 to the north boundary of Sec. 2; 3. east along the north boundary of Secs. 2 and 1 in Rge. 25 W4 and Secs. 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 in Rges. 24 W4 and 23 W4 and Secs. 6, 5, 4, 3 and 2 in Rge. 22 W4 to the east boundary of Sec. 2 in Twp. 48, Rge. 22 W4; 4. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of Twp. 47; 5. east along the north boundary to the east boundary of Rge. 19 W4 (Highway 834); 6. south along the east boundary of Rge. 19 W4 to the north boundary of Twp. 45; 7. west along the north boundary of Twp. 45 to the east boundary of Sec. 32, Twp. 45, Rge. 23 W4; 8. south along Secs. 32, 29, 20, 17, 8 and 5 to the north boundary of Twp. 44, Rge. 23 W4 at its intersection with the northeast corner of the Samson Indian Reserve No. 137 ; 9. southerly, westerly, northerly and easterly along the boundaries of the Samson Indian Reserve No. 137 and Montana Indian Reserve No. 139 to the north boundary of Twp. 44 at its intersection with the east boundary of Ermineskin Indian Reserve No. 138 (including the western part of the Samson Indian Reserve No. 137); 10. west, north and westerly along the boundaries of Indian Reserve No. 138 and Louis Bull Indian Reserve No. 138B to the north boundary of Sec. 30, Twp. 45, Rge. 26 W4; 11. west along the north boundary of Sec. 30 in Rge. 25 W4 and Sec. 25 in Rge. 26 W4 to the centre line of Highway 2; 12. north along the centre line to the starting point. | ||||
| Note: | ||||
| 86 Wetaskiwin-Camrose 2010 boundaries | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bordering districts | ||||
| North | East | West | South | |
| Leduc-Beaumont | Battle River-Wainwright | Drayton Valley-Devon | Lacombe-Ponoka | |
| Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act. | ||||
| Note: | ||||
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Wetaskiwin-Camrose[4] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | ||
| See Camrose 1909-1993 and Wetaskiwin-Leduc 1971-1993 | |||||
| 23rd | 1993-1997 | Ken Rostad | Progressive Conservative | ||
| 24th | 1997-2001 | LeRoy Johnson | |||
| 25th | 2001-2004 | ||||
| 26th | 2004-2008 | ||||
| 27th | 2008–2012 | Verlyn Olson | |||
| 28th | 2012-2015 | ||||
| 29th | 2015–2019 | Bruce Hinkley | New Democrat | ||
| See Camrose and Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin after 2019 | |||||
The electoral district was created in the 1993 boundary redistribution. The election held that year saw incumbent Camrose MLA Ken Rostad run in the new electoral district. He picked up the new seat for the Progressive Conservative party facing a strong challenge from Liberal candidate Bob Prestage.
Rostad retired at dissolution of the assembly in 1997. His replacement in the legislature was Progressive Conservative candidate LeRoy Johnson. He won the district with a landslide to hold it for his party. He was re-elected to a second term in the 2001 general election with a bigger majority. He won a third term in office in 2004 and retired at the end of his third term in 2008. Progressive Conservative Verlyn Olson who was elected to his first term in the 2008 general election and second term in 2012, before losing to New Democratic Bruce Hinkley in the 2015 election.
| 2004 Senate nominee election results Wetaskiwin-Camrose[5] | Turnout 45.79% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % votes | % ballots | Rank | Independent | Link Byfield | 2,879 | 10.41% | 32.42% | 4 | Michael Roth | 2,399 | 8.67% | 27.02% | 7 | Vance Gough | 2,020 | 7.30% | 22.75% | 8 | Gary Horan | 1,967 | 7.11% | 22.15% | 10 | Independent | Tom Sindlinger | 1,533 | 5.55% | 17.26% | 9 | |
| Total votes | 27,657 | 100% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total ballots | 8,880 | 3.12 votes per ballot | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 2,201 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Participating schools[6] | |
|---|---|
| Camrose Composite High School | |
| Ecole Parkdale School | |
| Ecole Queen Elizabeth Junior High | |
| Griffith Scott School | |
| Our Lady of Mount Pleasant Jr./Sr. High | |
| Sacred Heart School | |
| Wetaskiwin Composite High School |
| 2004 Alberta student vote[7] | ||||||||||||||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | NDP | Clay Lawson | 213 | 21.58% | Liberal | Keith Elliott | 190 | 19.25% | Social Credit | Monika Schaefer | 43 | 4.36% | |
| Total | 987 | 100% | ||||||||||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 35 | |||||||||||||||
| 2012 Alberta student vote results | ||||||||||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | Liberal | Owen Chubb | % | NDP | Bruce Hinkley | % | |||
| Total | 100% | |||||||||||