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Red Deer-South

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Red Deer-South
Alberta electoral district
Red Deer-South within the City of Red Deer, 2017 boundaries
Provincial electoral district
LegislatureLegislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA
 
 
 
Jason Stephan
United Conservative
District created1986
First contested1986
Last contested2023

Red Deer-South is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada.

The district was created from Red Deer in 1986. Under the Alberta electoral boundary re-distribution of 2004, the constituency borders Red Deer North at the Red Deer River, Taylor Drive, Ross Street, 30th Avenue and 39th Street. At the city limits, the constituency is bounded by Innisfail-Sylvan Lake.

The current MLA for this district is Jason Stephan from the United Conservative Party.

History

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The electoral district was created in the 1985 boundary redistribution from the Red Deer provincial electoral district. The city of Red Deer had been contained in a single electoral district since 1888 when it first started returning members to the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories. The city was split into South and Red Deer-North.

The 2010 boundary redistribution saw adjustments made to the boundary with Red Deer-North to equalize the population between the two constituencies.[1]

Boundary history

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Representation history

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Members of the Legislative Assembly for Red Deer-South
Assembly Years Member Party
See Red Deer 1905-1986
21st 1986–1989 John Oldring Progressive
Conservative
22nd 1989–1993
23rd 1993–1997 Victor Doerksen
24th 1997–2001
25th 2001–2004
26th 2004–2008
27th 2008–2012 Cal Dallas
28th 2012-2015
29th 2015–2019 Barb Miller New Democratic
30th 2019–2023 Jason Stephan United Conservative
31st 2023–

Since the electoral district was created in 1986, the voters of Red Deer-South have returned Progressive Conservative candidates in every election until 2015, joining the province-wide NDP victory. The first representative was John Oldring who served two terms in office. He served as a cabinet minister in the government of Don Getty in his second term and retired in 1993 after a failed leadership bid for the Progressive Conservative Party.

Victor Doerksen was the second MLA for the district. He was first elected in 1993 after a very hotly contested election with a Liberal candidate. He would eke out his second term in 1997 facing another strong challenge from the Liberals. His third term would be won with the highest popular vote in the history of the riding. He would be appointed to cabinet in the government of Ralph Klein shortly after the election and hold his portfolio until 2006 when he resigned to run for leadership of the Progressive Conservatives. After his bid for leadership failed he retired from office in 2008.

The next representative was Cal Dallas, elected to his first term in 2008. He was appointed Minister of International and Intergovernmental Relations by Premier Allison Redford in October 2011.

Legislative election results

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1986

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1986 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative John Oldring 4,023 56.31%
New Democratic Connie Barnaby 1,667 23.33%
Liberal Lionel Lizee 1,455 20.36%
Total 7,145
Rejected, spoiled and declined 27
Eligible electors / turnout 17,339 41.36%
Progressive Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s)
Source: "Red Deer-South Official Results 1986 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1989

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1989 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative John Oldring 4,637 49.59% -6.72%
Liberal Roxanne V. Prior 2,874 30.73% 10.37%
New Democratic Linda Ross 1,840 19.68% -3.65%
Total 9,351
Rejected, spoiled and declined 38
Eligible electors / turnout 18,795 49.95% 8.59%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -7.06%
Source(s)
Source: "Red Deer-South Official Results 1989 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1993

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1993 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Victor Doerksen 5,663 46.50% -3.09%
Liberal Don Sinclair 4,879 40.06% 9.33%
Social Credit Randy Thorsteinson 882 7.24%
New Democratic Malcolm Reville 639 5.25% -14.43%
Natural Law Ken Arnold 116 0.95%
Total 12,179
Rejected, spoiled and declined 20
Eligible electors / turnout 20,180 60.45% 10.50%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -6.21%
Source(s)
Source: "Red Deer-South Official Results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1997

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1997 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Victor Doerksen 5,751 47.03% 0.53%
Liberal Larry Pimm 4,966 40.61% 0.55%
Social Credit Randy Thorsteinson 1,145 9.36% 2.12%
New Democratic Joanne Stanley 367 3.00% -2.25%
Total 12,229
Rejected, spoiled and declined 27 12 3
Eligible electors / turnout 21,537 56.92% -3.53%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -0.01%
Source(s)
Source: "Red Deer-South Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.[3]

2001

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2001 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Victor Doerksen 7,684 60.10% 13.07%
Liberal Garfield Marks 3,927 30.72% -9.89%
New Democratic Erika Bullwinkle 512 4.00% 1.00%
Alberta First Bob Argent 459 3.59%
Independent Ryan Lamarche 203 1.59%
Total 12,785
Rejected, spoiled and declined 34 12 2
Eligible electors / turnout 25,283 50.71% -6.21%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 11.48%
Source(s)
Source: "Red Deer-South Official Results 2001 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.[4]

2004

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2004 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Victor Doerksen 5,373 44.91% -15.19%
Liberal Walter Kubanek 4,077 34.08% 3.36%
Alberta Alliance Patti Argent 1,418 11.85%
New Democratic Jeff Sloychuk 835 6.98% 2.97%
Separation Judy Milne 261 2.18%
Total 11,964
Rejected, spoiled and declined 46 23 0
Eligible electors / turnout 27,486 43.69% -7.01%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -9.28%
Source(s)
Source: [5]
  1. Results of the Separation Party compared to Alberta First Party

2008

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2008 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Cal Dallas 7,139 56.18% 11.27%
Liberal Diane Kubanek 3,414 26.86% -7.21%
Wildrose Alliance Ed Klop 949 7.47%
Green Evan Bedford 609 4.79%
New Democratic Teresa Bryanton 597 4.70% -2.28%
Total 12,708
Rejected, spoiled and declined 47 17 1
Eligible electors / turnout 34,703 36.76% -6.94%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 9.24%
Source(s)
Source: The Report on the March 3, 2008 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-seventh Legislative Assembly. Elections Alberta. July 28, 2008. pp. 512–517.

2012

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2012 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Cal Dallas 7,048 43.60% -12.58%
Wildrose Alliance Nathan Stephan 5,612 34.71% 27.25%
New Democratic Lorna S. Watkinson-Zimmer 1,707 10.56% 5.86%
Liberal Jason Chilibeck 1,195 7.39% -19.47%
Alberta Party Serge Gingras 604 3.74%
Total 16,166
Rejected, spoiled and declined 81 43 7
Eligible electors / turnout 32,708 49.69% 12.94%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -10.21%
Source(s)
Source: "76 - Red Deer-South, 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 % ±%
New Democratic Barb Miller 7,024 35.86% 25.30%
Progressive Conservative Darcy Mykytyshyn 5,414 27.64% -15.96%
Wildrose Norman Wiebe 4,812 24.56% -10.15%
Alberta Party Serge Gingras 1,035 5.28% 1.55%
Liberal Deborah Checkel 738 3.77% -3.62%
Green Ben Dubois 274 1.40%
Independent Patti Argent 232 1.18%
Independent William Berry 60 0.31%
Total 19,589
Rejected, spoiled and declined 49 43 9
Eligible electors / turnout 37,771 52.02% 2.32%
New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative Swing -0.33%
Source(s)
Source: "76 - Red Deer-South, 2015 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2019

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2019 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Conservative Jason Stephan 16,159 60.31% 8.11%
New Democratic Barb Miller 6,844 25.54% -10.31%
Alberta Party Ryan Mcdougall 3,244 12.11% 6.82%
Freedom Conservative Teah-Jay Cartwright 299 1.12%
Green Lori Curran 246 0.92% -0.48%
Total 26,792
Rejected, spoiled and declined 161 58 12
Eligible electors / turnout 37,495 71.92% 19.90%
United Conservative gain from New Democratic Swing 13.27%
Source(s)
Source: "79 - Red Deer-South, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2023

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2023 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Conservative Jason Stephan 13,469 56.06 -4.25
New Democratic Michelle Baer 9,976 41.52 +15.98
Green Ashley MacDonald 274 1.14 +0.22
Wildrose Loyalty Coalition Jesse Stretch 160 0.67
Solidarity Movement Pamela Liebenberg 146 0.61
Total 24,025 99.36
Rejected and declined 155 0.64
Turnout 24,180 61.81
Eligible voters 39,120
United Conservative hold Swing -10.11
Source(s)

Senate nominee election results

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2004

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2004 Senate nominee election results: Red Deer-South[7] Turnout 44.58%
Affiliation Candidate Votes % votes % ballots Rank
Progressive Conservative Betty Unger 3,837 13.64% 42.81% 2
Progressive Conservative Bert Brown 3,708 13.18% 41.37% 1
Alberta Alliance Michael Roth 3,192 11.35% 35.61% 7
  Independent Link Byfield 3,068 10.91% 34.23% 4
Progressive Conservative Cliff Breitkreuz 2,865 10.18% 31.97% 3
Progressive Conservative David Usherwood 2,439 8.67% 27.21% 6
Alberta Alliance Vance Gough 2,438 8.66% 27.20% 8
Progressive Conservative Jim Silye 2,376 8.45% 26.51% 5
Alberta Alliance Gary Horan 2,257 8.02% 25.18% 10
  Independent Tom Sindlinger 1,955 6.94% 21.81% 9
Total votes 28,135 100%
Total ballots 8,963 3.14 votes per ballot
Rejected, spoiled and declined 3,290

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

2012

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2012 Senate nominee election results: Red Deer-South[8] Turnout %
Affiliation Candidate Votes % votes % ballots Rank
Progressive Conservative Doug Black 5,552
Progressive Conservative Scott Tannas 4,979
Progressive Conservative Mike Shaikh 4,053
Wildrose Rob Gregory 4,004
Wildrose Raymond Germain 3,954
Wildrose Victor Marciano 3,361
Evergreen Elizabeth Johannson 1,867
Independent Len Bracko 1,472
Independent David Fletcher 1,435
Independent Ian Urquhart 1,364
Independent Paul Frank 1,301
Independent William Exelby 942
Independent Perry Chahal 726
Total votes 35,010 100%
Total ballots 0 0 votes per ballot
Rejected, spoiled and declined 0

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

Student vote results

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2004

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Participating schools[9]
Eastview Middle School
St. Francis of Assisi Middle School
St. Thomas Aquinas Middle School
Westpark Middle 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 who reside 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 Victor Doerksen 355 29.81%
  NDP Jeff Sloychuk 294 24.68%
  Liberal Walter Kubanek 277 23.26%
Alberta Alliance Patti Argent 194 16.29%
Separation Judy Milne 71 5.96%
Total 1,191 100%
Rejected, spoiled and declined 38

2012

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Participating schools
École Secondaire Notre Dame High School

During the week of April 16, 2012 - April 20, 2012 a student vote was conducted at participating Alberta schools to parallel the 2012 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 86 of the 87 provincial electoral districts with students voting for actual election candidates. Students from École Secondaire Notre Dame High School participated in the vote on April 19, 2012.

2012 Alberta student vote results
Affiliation Candidate Votes %
Progressive Conservative Cal Dallas 115 32.95%
Wildrose Nathan Stephan 68 19.48%
  NDP Lorna Watkinson-Zimmer 55 15.76%
  Liberal Jason Chilibeck 52 14.90%
Alberta Party Serge Gingras 29 8.31%
Total 349 100%
Rejected, spoiled and declined 30

References

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  1. ^ "Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta" (PDF). Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission. June 2010. p. 22. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 27, 2011. Retrieved January 14, 2012.
  2. ^ "E‑4.1". Statutes of the Province of Alberta. Government of Alberta. 2003. p. 64.
  3. ^ "1997 General Election". Elections Alberta. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
  4. ^ "Red Deer-South Official Results 2001 Alberta general election" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
  5. ^ "Red Deer-South Statement of Official Results 2004 Alberta general election" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
  6. ^ "79 - Red Deer-South". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
  7. ^ "Senate Nominee Election 2004 Tabulation of Official Results" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 4, 2009. Retrieved February 28, 2010.
  8. ^ "Senate Nominee Election 2012 Tabulation of Official Results" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 4, 2009. Retrieved February 28, 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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