Jasper West

Jasper West was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting from 1959 to 1963.[1]

Jasper West
Alberta electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
LegislatureLegislative Assembly of Alberta
District created1959
District abolished1971
First contested1959
Last contested1967

Historu

It was created after Edmonton broke up into nine districts after the province standardized to the First Past the Post voting system in 1959.

In 1963 the district was renamed Edmonton Jasper Place, which in 1971 was re-made into the Edmonton-Meadowlark district.

1959 Redistribution

The historic 1959 redistribution of the provincial ridings of Calgary and Edmonton dismantled the proportional representation system previously in use in the cities and changed the voting system to First Past the Post single member districts. From 1924 to 1956 Calgary and Edmonton members were elected by Single Transferable Vote in multi-member districts. The rest of the province had used Instant-runoff voting in single-member districts.

The 1959 redistribution created nine districts in Edmonton.

The other eight ridings were Edmonton Centre, Edmonton North, Edmonton Norwood, Edmonton North East, Edmonton North West, Strathcona Centre, Strathcona East and Strathcona West.

Election Results 1959
1959 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes%±%
Social CreditRichard H. Jamieson5,04740.91%–
Progressive ConservativeJohn Percy Page4,50736.54%–
LiberalAbe William Miller2,78222.55%–
Total 12,336––
Rejected, spoiled and declined 80––
Eligible electors / turnout 19,59263.37%–
Social Credit pickup new district.
Source(s)
Source: "Jasper-West Official Results 1959 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

See also

References
  1. "Election results for Jasper West". abheritage.ca. Heritage Community Foundation. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved May 22, 2020.

Further reading

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