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Strathmore-Brooks
Alberta electoral district
2004 boundaries
Defunct provincial electoral district
LegislatureLegislative Assembly of Alberta
District created1996
District abolished2019
First contested1997
Last contested2015

Strathmore-Brooks 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 1997 to 2019.

History

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The electoral district was created in the 1996 boundary re-distribution from most of the old electoral district of Bow Valley.[1]

The 2004 electoral boundary re-distribution saw the boundaries revised to include a portion of land from the dissolved Drumheller-Chinook electoral district, and losing a small portion of the south-east portion of the district to Little Bow.[2]

The 2010 electoral boundary re-distribution saw the electoral district completely untouched using exactly the same boundaries as set in 2003.[2]

The Strathmore-Brooks electoral district was dissolved in the 2017 electoral boundary re-distribution, and portions of the district would form the Brooks-Medicine Hat, Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills and Chestermere-Strathmore electoral districts.[3]

Boundary history

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Representation history

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Members of the Legislative Assembly for Strathmore-Brooks
Assembly Years Member Party
See Bow Valley 1971–1993
24th 1997–2001 Lyle Oberg Progressive Conservative
25th 2001–2004
26th 2004–2006
2006 Independent
2006–2008 Progressive Conservative
27th 2008–2012 Arno Doerksen
28th 2012–2014 Jason Hale Wildrose
2014–2015 Progressive Conservative
29th 2015–2016 Derek Fildebrandt Wildrose
2016 Independent[5]
2016–2017 Wildrose
2017 United Conservative
2017–2018 Independent
2018–2019 Freedom Conservative
See Brooks-Medicine Hat, Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills and Chestermere-Strathmore 2019–

The electoral district was created in 1997. The first election that year saw Progressive Conservative incumbent Lyle Oberg win the new district with over 70% of the popular vote. Oberg had served as MLA for Bow Valley from 1993 to 1997 before it was abolished.

After the election Oberg was appointed to serve in the cabinet of Premier Ralph Klein. He ran for his third term in the 2001 general election and won. He took a slightly higher percentage of the popular vote.

Oberg ran for his third term in the district and fourth as an MLA. His popularity started to slide. He was re-elected with a reduced majority losing over 10% of his popular vote.

Controversy would follow in 2006 after Oberg resigned his cabinet post to seek the leadership of the Progressive Conservative party in the wake of Ralph Klein's resignation. He was removed from Progressive Conservative caucus days later on March 22, 2006, and forced to sit as an Independent after suggesting that he knew where the skeletons were in the closet of the Progressive Conservative government.

Oberg ran for leadership of the party as an Independent and lost. He was readmitted to the caucus on July 25, 2006, by Premier Ed Stelmach and returned to cabinet. Oberg did not stand for re-election in 2008. The election that year returned Progressive Conservative candidate Arno Doerksen with a landslide majority.

In the 2012 general election, Wildrose candidate Jason Hale defeated Doerksen by a comfortable margin as the party went on to dominate rural southern Alberta.

In December 2014, Hale crossed the floor with 8 other Wildrose MLAs to the Progressive Conservative Party. In January 2015, Derek Fildebrandt announced that he would seek the Wildrose nomination to challenge Hale. Hale announced his retirement from politics soon afterwards.

Fildebrandt went on to win the riding by a huge margin over PC candidate Molly Douglass in the 2015 general election.[6] Fildebrandt was subsequently appointed the Official Opposition Shadow Minister of Finance and Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee.

On July 22, Wildrose and PC members voted to join and form the United Conservative Party of Alberta (UCP). Fildebrandt was officially recognized as a UCP MLA on July 24. However, he was again removed from caucus and, this time, permanently banned from re-joining the UCP after a string of scandals including an illegal hunting charge that had not been disclosed to the party.[7]

In 2018 Fildebrandt joined, and became leader of, the Freedom Conservative Party of Alberta (previously known as Alberta First, the Separation Party of Alberta, and the Western Freedom Party).

Legislative election results

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1997

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1997 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Lyle Oberg 7,235 72.57%
Liberal Roger Nelson 1,272 12.76%
Social Credit Dan Borden 862 8.65%
New Democratic Richard Knutson 600 6.02%
Total 9,969
Rejected, spoiled and declined 24
Eligible electors / turnout 21,271 46.98%
Progressive Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s)
Source: "Strathmore-Brooks Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2001

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2001 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Lyle Oberg 8,585 75.09% 2.51%
Liberal Barry Morishita 1,774 15.52% 2.76%
Independent Christopher Sutherland 511 4.47%
New Democratic Don MacFarlane 290 2.54% -3.48%
Social Credit Rudy Martens 273 2.39% -6.26%
Total 11,433
Rejected, spoiled and declined 29
Eligible electors / turnout 24,372 47.03% 0.05%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -0.12%
Source(s)
Source: "Strathmore-Brooks Official Results 2001 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2004

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2004 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Lyle Oberg 5,916 64.05% -11.04%
Liberal Carrol Jaques 1,178 12.75% -2.76%
Alberta Alliance Mark D. Ogden 831 9.00%
Separation Jay Kolody 576 6.24%
New Democratic Don MacFarlane 416 4.50% 1.97%
Social Credit Rudy Martens 319 3.45% 1.07%
Total 9,236
Rejected, spoiled and declined 67
Eligible electors / turnout 25,686 36.22% -10.81%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -4.14%

2008

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2008 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Arno Doerksen 7,623 74.56 10.51
Liberal Gerry Hart 991 9.69 -3.06
Wildrose Alliance Amanda H. Shehata 935 9.15 0.15
Green Chris Bayford 362 3.54
New Democratic Brian Stokes 313 3.06 -1.44
Total 10,224 99.47
Rejected, spoiled and declined 54 0.53
Turnout 10,278 33.02
Eligible electors 31,127
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 6.78

2012

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2012 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Wildrose Jason Hale 8,157 55.58 +46.44
Progressive Conservative Arno Doerksen 5,743 39.13 -35.43
New Democratic Brad Bailey 409 2.79 -0.27
Liberal Alex Wychopen 299 2.04 -7.66
Separation Glen Dundas 68 0.46
Total 14,676 99.31
Rejected, spoiled and declined 102 0.69 +0.16
Turnout 14,778 52.79 +19.77
Eligible electors 27,996
Wildrose gain from Progressive Conservative Swing +40.93
Source(s)
Source: "83 - Strathmore-Brooks Official Results 2012 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2015

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2015 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Wildrose Derek Fildebrandt 8,652 52.55 -3.03
Progressive Conservative Molly Douglass 4,452 27.04 -12.09
New Democratic Lynn MacWilliam 2,463 14.96 +12.17
Green Mike Worthington 322 1.96
Alberta Party Einar Davison 304 1.85
Liberal Ali Abdulbaki 200 1.21 -0.82
Alberta First Glen Dundas 72 0.44 -0.03
Total 16,465 99.49
Rejected, spoiled and declined 85 0.51 -0.18
Turnout 16,550 49.83 -2.96
Eligible electors 33,215
Wildrose hold Swing 4.53
Source(s)
Source: "83 - Strathmore-Brooks Official Results 2015 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

^ Alberta First change calculated from Separation Party.

Senate nominee election results

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2004

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2004 Senate nominee election results: Strathmore-Brooks[8] Turnout 36.18%
Affiliation Candidate Votes % votes % ballots Rank
Progressive Conservative Bert Brown 4,999 18.61% 59.79% 1
Progressive Conservative Betty Unger 3,754 13.98% 44.90% 2
Progressive Conservative Jim Silye 3,160 11.77% 37.80% 5
Progressive Conservative Cliff Breitkreuz 2,949 10.98% 35.27% 3
Progressive Conservative David Usherwood 2,651 9.87% 31.71% 6
  Independent Link Byfield 2,546 9.48% 30.45% 4
Alberta Alliance Vance Gough 1,972 7.34% 23.59% 8
Alberta Alliance Michael Roth 1,957 7.29% 23.41% 7
Alberta Alliance Gary Horan 1,598 5.95% 19.11% 10
  Independent Tom Sindlinger 1,271 4.73% 15.20% 9
Total votes 26,857 100%
Total ballots 8,361 3.21 votes per ballot
Rejected, spoiled and declined 932

Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot.

2012

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Student vote results

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2004

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Participating schools[9]
Eastbrook Elementary
Hussar School
Lathom Colony School
Newell Christian School
Sacred Heart Academy
Strathmore High School

On November 19, 2004, a student vote was conducted at participating Alberta schools to parallel the 2004 Alberta general election results. The vote was designed to educate students and simulate the electoral process for persons who had not yet reached the legal majority. The vote was conducted in 80 of the 83 provincial electoral districts with students voting for actual election candidates. Schools with a large student body that resided in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district than where they were physically located.

2004 Alberta student vote results[10]
Affiliation Candidate Votes %
Progressive Conservative Lyle Oberg 319 47.12%
  Liberal Carrol Jaques 112 16.54%
Separation Jay Kolody 86 12.70%
Alberta Alliance Mark Ogden 69 10.19%
  NDP Don Macfarlane 67 9.90%
Social Credit Rudy Martens 24 3.55%
Total 677 100%
Rejected, spoiled and declined 24

2012

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2012 Alberta student vote results
Affiliation Candidate Votes %
Progressive Conservative Arno Doerksen %
Wildrose Jason Hale
  Liberal Alex Wychopen %
  NDP Brad Bailey %
Total 100%

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (June 1996). "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. ^ a b c Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (June 2010). "Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ISBN 978-0-9865367-1-7. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  3. ^ Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (October 2017). "Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ISBN 978-1-988620-04-6. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  4. ^ Electoral Divisions Act, S.A. 2003, c. E-4.1
  5. ^ "Wildrose's Derek Fildebrandt suspended for 'unacceptable' comment on social media". CBC News. Retrieved July 27, 2017.
  6. ^ "Alberta Election 2015: Wildrose's Derek Fildebrandt wins Strathmore-Brooks | Globalnews.ca". May 5, 2015.
  7. ^ "'A very fiery and short political career': Derek Fildebrandt barred from rejoining UCP". Calgary Herald. February 3, 2018. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
  8. ^ "Senate Nominee Election 2004 Tabulation of Official Results" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 4, 2009. Retrieved March 1, 2010.
  9. ^ "School by School results". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 5, 2007. Retrieved April 27, 2008.
  10. ^ "Riding by Riding Results - the Candidates". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 6, 2007. Retrieved April 19, 2008.

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