Strathcona-Sherwood Park

Strathcona-Sherwood Park

Alberta electoral district
2010 boundaries
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA	Estefania Cortes-Vargas New Democratic
District created	2010
First contested	2012

Strathcona-Sherwood Park is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district was created in the 2010 boundary redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post voting system.

History

The electoral district was created in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution. It was created from the old Strathcona electoral district which had a portion of land split off north of Alberta Highway 16 to Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville.^[1]

Boundary history

82 Strathcona-Sherwood Park 2010 Boundaries
Bordering Districts
North	East	West	South
Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville	Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville	Edmonton-Ellerslie, Edmonton-Mill Creek and Sherwood Park	Battle River-Wainwright and Leduc-Beaumont
Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act.
Note:

Electoral history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Strathcona-Sherwood Park
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
See Strathcona 2004-2012
28th	2012-2015		Dave Quest	Progressive Conservative
29th	2015-present		Estefania Cortes-Vargas	New Democrat

The electoral district was created in 2010. The current incumbent is Estefania Cortes-Vargas who was first elected as MLA for Strathcona in 2015.

Legislature results

2015 general election

Alberta general election, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	New Democratic	Estefania Cortes-Vargas	9,361	42.6
	Progressive Conservative	Dave Quest	6,623	30.13
	Wildrose	Rob Johnson	5,273	23.99
	Alberta Party	Lynne Kaiser	721	3.28
Total valid votes

References

1. "Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta" (PDF). Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission. June 2010. p. 22. Retrieved January 14, 2012.

External links

• Elections Alberta