Edmonton-West Henday

Edmonton-West Henday

Alberta electoral district
Edmonton-West Henday within the city of Edmonton (2017 boundaries)
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA	Brooks Arcand-Paul New Democratic
District created	2017
First contested	2019
Last contested	2023
Demographics
Population (2016)[1]	43,046
Area (km²)	76.5
Pop. density (per km²)	562.7

Edmonton-West Henday is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 87 districts mandated to return a single member (MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting. It was contested for the first time in the 2019 Alberta election.

Geography

The district is located in western Edmonton, consisting of two residential areas separated by a large, mostly un-populated industrial area. In the northeast corner of the riding are the neighbourhoods of Wellington, Athlone and Calder, and in the south of the riding are the neighbourhoods of Terra Losa, La Perle, Belmead, Stewart Greens, Webber Greens, Suder Greens, Potter Greens, Breckenridge Greens, Rosenthal and Secord.

History

Edmonton-West Henday
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Edmonton-Calder and Edmonton-Meadowlark
30th	2019–2023		Jon Carson	New Democratic
31st	2023–Present		Brooks Arcand-Paul

The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended renaming Edmonton-Meadowlark, alongside a change in boundaries that saw the Meadowlark Park neighbourhood (among others) moved out of the riding. The Commission decided to name the district after Anthony Henday Drive which bisects the riding, rather than simply "Edmonton-West" to avoid confusion with the federal district of that name.[2]

Electoral results

2023

v t e 2023 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Brooks Arcand-Paul	11,495	56.84	+12.76
	United Conservative	Slava Cravcenko	7,956	39.34	-2.15
	Liberal	Dan Bildhauer	391	1.93	+0.38
	Green	Kristina Howard	382	1.89	–
Total			20,224	99.42	–
Rejected and declined			118	0.58
Turnout			20,342	57.66
Eligible voters			35,281
	New Democratic hold		Swing		+7.46
Source(s) Source: Elections Alberta[3]

2019

v t e 2019 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Jon Carson	8,820	44.08	-16.16
	United Conservative	Nicole Williams	8,302	41.49	+8.53
	Alberta Party	Winston Leung	2,337	11.68	–
	Liberal	Leah Mcrorie	311	1.55	-5.25
	Alberta Independence	Dave Bjorkman	239	1.19	–
Total			20,009	99.28	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			146	0.72
Turnout			20,155	66.00
Eligible electors			30,538
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-12.35
Source(s) Source: "45 - Edmonton-West Henday, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2019). 2019 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Volume II (PDF) (Report). Vol. 2. Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 176–179. ISBN 978-1-988620-12-1. Retrieved April 7, 2021.

2015

Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta election
Party		Votes	%
	New Democratic	8,956	60.24
	Progressive Conservative	3,281	22.07
	Wildrose	1,619	10.89
	Liberal	1,011	6.80
Source(s) Source: Ridingbuilder

References

1. Statistics Canada: 2016
2. Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (October 2017). "Final Report" (PDF). p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 24, 2018. Retrieved January 30, 2018.
3. "45 - Edmonton-West Henday". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved June 9, 2023.