Edmonton-Ellerslie

Edmonton-Ellerslie

Alberta electoral district
Edmonton-Ellerslie within the City of Edmonton, 2017 boundaries
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA	Rod Loyola New Democratic
District created	1993
First contested	1993
Last contested	2023

Edmonton-Ellerslie is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. It is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly.

The 2010 boundary redistribution saw the riding shrink on its north boundary to Anthony Henday Drive from roughly 34 Avenue, losing some land to Edmonton -Mill Woods and Edmonton-Mill Creek.

33 Edmonton-Ellerslie 2003 boundaries[1]
Bordering districts
North	East	West	South
Edmonton-Mill Creek and Edmonton-Mill Woods	Strathcona	Edmonton-Rutherford and Edmonton-Whitemud	Leduc-Beaumont-Devon
riding map goes here
Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act
Starting at the intersection of Gateway Boulevard with 34 Avenue; then 1. east along 34 Avenue to 91 Street; 2. south along 91 Street to 28 Avenue; 3. east along 28 Avenue to 50 Street; 4. south along 50 Street to 23 Avenue; 5. east along 23 Avenue to the east Edmonton city boundary; 6. south and west along the east city boundary to Gateway Boulevard; 7. northeast along Gateway Boulevard to the starting point.

33 Edmonton-Ellerslie 2010 boundaries
Bordering districts
North	East	West	South
Edmonton-Mill Creek and Edmonton-Mill Woods	Strathcona-Sherwood Park	Edmonton-Rutherford and Edmonton-South West	Leduc-Beaumont
Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act

The electoral district was created in 1993 from Edmonton-Mill Woods. The first election held that year saw incumbent NDP MLA Gerry Gibeault switch from that district to run in Ellerslie. A wave of support for the Alberta Liberals rolled across Edmonton causing Liberal candidate Debby Carlson to win the riding with over half the popular vote. Gibeault was defeated, finishing a distant second place.

Carlson ran for a second term in 1997. She increased her popular support to take the district easily with almost 57% of the popular vote. The 2001 election was a very tight race. Carlson barely hung on to win her third term in office. She defeated Progressive Conservative candidate Sukhi Randhawa by less than 300 votes and won the seat with 45 percent of the vote.

On May 28, 2004 Carlson vacated her seat to run in the 2004 federal election in the Edmonton—Strathcona district. Her replacement elected in the provincial election that year was Liberal candidate Bharat Agnihotri. He took just under 34% of the popular vote and won by a razor thin plurality of 200 votes over his Progressive Conservative opponent, and just 1200 votesl over his NDP opponent.

The Progressive Conservatives won the riding in the 2008 election when its candidate Naresh Bhardwaj defeated the incumbent MLA trying for re-election and won the set with 42% of the popular vote. The 2012 result was about the same with the P-C candidate winning with a minority of the vote.

NDP candidate Rod Loyola won the seat three consecutive times - 2015, 2019, and 2013.

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

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.

• Website of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

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