Drayton Valley-Devon

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Drayton Valley-Devon
Alberta electoral district
Drayton Valley-Devon 2017.svg
Drayton Valley-Devon within Alberta, 2017 boundaries
Provincial electoral district
LegislatureLegislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA
 
 		 
Mark Smith
United Conservative
District created2010
First contested2012
Last contested2019

Drayton Valley-Devon 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. Drayton Valley-Devon is currently represented by United Conservative Party MLA Mark Smith who was first elected in 2015.

History

The electoral district was created in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution. It was created from the old electoral district of Drayton Valley-Calmar which was expanded east into land that was part of the Leduc-Beaumont-Devon riding to include the town of Devon[1]

Boundary history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for
Drayton Valley-Devon
Assembly Years Member Party
See Drayton Valley-Calmar 1993-2012
28th 2012-2015 Diana McQueen Progressive Conservative
29th 2015–2017 Mark Smith Wildrose
2017-2019 United Conservative
30th 2019–present

Electoral history

Drayton Valley-Devon and its antecedent, Drayton Valley-Calmar, elected Progressive Conservative MLAs with solid majorities from the 1970s to 2015. Just since 2015, it has elected one person, Mark Smith, who first ran for the Wildrose party and then for the United Conservatives.

The first MLA elected to Drayton Valley-Devon was Progressive Conservative Diana McQueen who was a cabinet minister in the Allison Redford government. The current incumbent is Mark Smith a former member of the Wildrose Party who joined the United Conservative Party.

Elections

2012 general election

2012 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Diana McQueen 7,359 51.65% –
Wildrose Dean Shular 5,467 38.37% –
New Democratic Doris Bannister 878 6.16% –
Liberal Chantel Lillycrop 544 3.82% –
Total 14,248 – –
Rejected, spoiled, and declined 56 – –
Eligible electors / turnout 25,705 55.65% –
Progressive Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s)
Source: "Elections Alberta 2012 General Election". Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2015 general election

2015 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Wildrose Mark Smith 6,284 37.02% -1.35%
Progressive Conservative Diana McQueen 5,182 30.53% -21.12%
New Democratic Katherine Swampy 4,816 28.37% 22.21%
Alberta Party Connie Jensen 416 2.45% –
Green Jennifer R Roach 276 1.63% –
Total 16,974 – –
Rejected, spoiled and declined 34 – –
Eligible electors / turnout 29,733 57.20% 1.56%
Wildrose gain from Progressive Conservative Swing -3.39%
Source(s)
Source: "Elections Alberta 2015 General Election". Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2019 general election

2019 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Conservative Mark Smith 18,092 71.12% +3.58%†
New Democratic Kieran Quirke 4,233 16.64% -11.74%
Alberta Party Gail Upton 1,634 6.42% +3.97%
Freedom Conservative Steve Goodman 624 2.45% –
Alberta Advantage Mark Gregor 298 1.17% –
Alberta Independence Les Marks 233 0.92% –
Liberal Ronald Brochu 217 0.85% –
Independent Carol Nordlund-Kinsey 106 0.42% –
Total 25,437 – –
Rejected, spoiled and declined 101 – –
Eligible electors / turnout 34,554 73.91% +16.71%
United Conservative hold Swing %
Source(s)
Source: "2019 Election Results - 58 - Drayton Valley-Devon". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved June 7, 2020.
†From combined Wildrose and Progressive Conservative results in the 2015 general election

Senate nominee results

2012 Senate nominee election district results

Student vote results

2012 election

Registered schools

Please note: Only schools registered under Drayton Valley-Devon have been included, as some schools within jurisdiction are registered in other ridings.

Calmar
  • New Humble Centre School
  • Calmar Secondary School

Devon

  • Riverview Middle School
  • John Maland High School
  • Devon Christian School

Drayton Valley

  • Aurora Elementary School
  • Drayton Christian School
  • H.W. Pickup Junior High School
  • Holy Trinity Academy
  • St. Anthony School

Falun

  • Falun School

Pigeon Lake

  • Pigeon Lake Regional School

Thorsby

  • Thorsby Elementary School
  • Thorsby Junior/Senior High School

Warburg

  • Warburg School

Winfield

  • Winfield School

[3]

Results

2012 Alberta student vote results
Affiliation Candidate Votes %
Progressive Conservative Diana McQueen 579 43.05%
Wildrose Dean Shular 367 27.29%
  Liberal Chantel Lillycrop 253 18.81%
  NDP Doris Bannister 146 10.86%
Total 1345 100%

References

  1. ^ Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (February 2003). "Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta". Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  2. ^ "Bill 28 Electoral Divisions Act" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. 2010.
  3. ^ http://www.studentvote.ca/ab2012/ Alberta Election Student Vote Registration

External links

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