Drayton Valley-Devon
Alberta electoral district
Drayton Valley-Devon within Alberta, 2017 boundaries
Provincial electoral district
LegislatureLegislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA
 
 		 
Andrew Boitchenko
United Conservative
District created2010
First contested2012
Last contested2023

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 Andrew Boitchenko.[1] Prior to 2023, the district was represented by 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[2]

Boundary history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for
Drayton Valley-Devon
Assembly Years Member Party
Riding created from Drayton Valley-Calmar and Leduc-Beaumont-Devon
28th 2012-2015 Diana McQueen Progressive Conservative
29th 2015–2017 Mark Smith Wildrose
2017-2019 United Conservative
30th 2019–2023
31st 2023–present Andrew Boitchenko

Electoral history

Drayton Valley-Devon and its antecedent, Drayton Valley-Calmar, elected Progressive Conservative MLAs with solid majorities from the 1970s to 2015. Since 2015, it has elected two people, Mark Smith, who first ran for the Wildrose Party in 2015 and then for the United Conservatives in 2019, and Andrew Boitchenko, who ran for the United Conservatives in 2023.[1]

The first MLA elected to Drayton Valley-Devon was Progressive Conservative Diana McQueen, who was a cabinet minister in the Allison Redford government. The incumbent is Andrew Boitchenko.

Legislative election results

2012

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

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.


2015 Alberta general election redistributed results
Party Votes %
Wildrose 7,168 36.35
New Democratic 5,894 29.89
Progressive Conservative 5,658 28.69
Alberta Party 453 2.30
Green 283 1.44
Liberal 262 1.33
Source(s)
Source: Ridingbuilder

2019

2019 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Conservative Mark Smith 18,092 71.12 +6.08†
New Democratic Kieran Quirke 4,233 16.64 -13.25
Alberta Party Gail Upton 1,634 6.42 +4.13
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 -0.48
Independent Carol Nordlund-Kinsey 106 0.42 –
Total 25,437 99.14 –
Rejected, spoiled and declined 220 0.86 –
Turnout 25,657 74.25
Eligible voters 34,554
United Conservative notional hold Swing +9.66
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 redistributed results in the 2015 general election

2023

2023 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Conservative Andrew Boitchenko 16,532 73.70 +2.58
New Democratic Harry Singh 5,009 22.33 +5.69
Wildrose Loyalty Coalition Jon Hokanson 580 2.59 –
Advantage Party Dale Withers 189 0.84 -0.33
Solidarity Movement Gail Tookey 121 0.54 –
Total 22,431 99.42 –
Rejected and declined 131 0.58
Turnout 22,562 61.90
Eligible voters 36,448
United Conservative hold Swing -1.56
Source(s)
Source: Elections Alberta[4]

Senate nominee election results

2012

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

Devon

Drayton Valley

Falun

Pigeon Lake

Thorsby

Warburg

Winfield

[5]

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. ^ a b "Alberta election 2023 results: Drayton Valley-Devon | Globalnews.ca". Global News. Retrieved May 30, 2023.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Bill 28 Electoral Divisions Act" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. 2010.
  4. ^ "58 - Drayton Valley-Devon". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved June 9, 2023.
  5. ^ http://www.studentvote.ca/ab2012/ Alberta Election Student Vote Registration

External links

Places adjacent to Drayton Valley-Devon
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