 Alberta electoral district | |||
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 Edmonton-Ellerslie within the City of Edmonton, 2017 boundaries | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
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 Mill Woods and Edmonton-Mill Creek.
| 33 Edmonton-Ellerslie 2003 boundaries[1] | |||
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| 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 | 
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| 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 | |||
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| Bordering districts | |||
| North | East | West | South |
| Edmonton-Mill Creek and Edmonton-Mill Woods | Strathcona-Sherwood Park | Edmonton-Rutherford and Edmonton-South West | Leduc-Beaumont |
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| Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act | |||
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Edmonton-Ellerslie | ||||
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| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Edmonton-Mill Woods 1979-1993 | ||||
| 23rd | 1993–1997 | Debby Carlson | Liberal | |
| 24th | 1997–2001 | |||
| 25th | 2001–2004 | |||
| 2004 | Vacant | |||
| 26th | 2004–2008 | Bharat Agnihotri | Liberal | |
| 27th | 2008–2012 | Naresh Bhardwaj | Progressive Conservative | |
| 28th | 2012–2015 | |||
| 29th | 2015–2019 | Rod Loyola | New Democrat | |
| 30th | 2019–2023 | |||
| 31st | 2023– | |||
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 would prove to be a very tight race as Carlson would barely hang on to win her third term in office. She defeated Progressive Conservative candidate Sukhi Randhawa by less than 300 votes.
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 would be Liberal candidate Bharat Agnihotri. He would win by a razor thin plurality of 200 votes, taking just under 34% of the popular vote.
The Progressive Conservatives would win the riding in the 2008 election as candidate Naresh Bhardwaj defeated Agnihotri, taking almost 42% of the popular vote.
| 1993 Alberta general election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Debby Carlson | 5,466 | 53.57% | – | ||||
| New Democratic | Gerry Gibeault | 2,144 | 21.01% | – | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Bas Roopnarine | 2,116 | 20.74% | – | ||||
| Social Credit | Ken Way | 398 | 3.90% | – | ||||
| Natural Law | Rhonda Day | 79 | 0.77% | – | ||||
| Total | 10,203 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 15 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 17,320 | 59.00% | – | |||||
| Liberal pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Edmonton-Ellerslie Official Results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
| 1997 Alberta general election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Debby Carlson | 5,752 | 56.69% | 3.12% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jasbeer Singh | 2,641 | 26.03% | 5.29% | ||||
| New Democratic | Henry Johns | 913 | 9.00% | -12.01% | ||||
| Social Credit | Ken Way | 840 | 8.28% | 4.38% | ||||
| Total | 10,146 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 28 | 24 | 0 | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 18,290 | 55.63% | -3.37% | |||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -0.95% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Edmonton-Ellerslie Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (1997). Report of the Chief Electoral Officer, November, 1996 general enumeration and Tuesday, March 11, 1997 general election Twenty-fourth Legislative Assembly. Edmonton: Alberta Legislative Assembly, Office of the Chief Electoral Officer. | ||||||||
| 2001 Alberta general election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Debby Carlson | 4,481 | 44.86% | -11.83% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Sukhi Randhawa | 4,209 | 42.14% | 16.11% | ||||
| New Democratic | Deborah Morrison | 1,299 | 13.00% | 4.01% | ||||
| Total | 9,989 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 41 | 17 | 3 | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 19,210 | 52.23% | -3.40% | |||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -13.97% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Edmonton-Ellerslie Official Results 2001 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2001). The report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the 2000 provincial confirmation process and Monday, March 12, 2001, Provincial General Election of the twenty-fifth Legislative Assembly. Edmonton: Alberta Legislative Assembly, Office of the Chief Electoral Officer. | ||||||||
| 2004 Alberta general election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Bharat Agnihotri | 3,446 | 33.80% | -11.06% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Gurnam Dodd | 3,245 | 31.83% | -10.31% | ||||
| New Democratic | Marilyn Assheton-Smith | 2,258 | 22.15% | 9.14% | ||||
| Alberta Alliance | Eleanor Maroes | 1,009 | 9.90% | – | ||||
| Social Credit | Amelia Maciejewski | 238 | 2.33% | – | ||||
| Total | 10,196 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 31 | 24 | 7 | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 23,563 | 43.43% | -8.80% | |||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -0.38% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "00 - Edmonton-Ellerslie, 2004 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2005). Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the General Enumeration and General Election of the Twenty-sixth Legislative Assembly (Report). Edmonton: Alberta Legislative Assembly, Office of the Chief Electoral Officer. | ||||||||
| 2008 Alberta general election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Naresh Bhardwaj | 4,581 | 41.90% | 10.08% | ||||
| Liberal | Bharat Agnihotri | 3,592 | 32.86% | -0.94% | ||||
| New Democratic | Marilyn Assheton-Smith | 1,891 | 17.30% | -4.85% | ||||
| Wildrose Alliance | Krista Leddy | 471 | 4.31% | -5.59% | ||||
| Green | Paul J. Boos | 335 | 3.06% | – | ||||
| Social Credit | Cheryl Ullah | 62 | 0.57% | -1.77% | ||||
| Total | 10,932 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 60 | 19 | 2 | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 28,944 | 37.98% | -5.45% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | 3.54% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "30 - Edmonton-Ellerslie, 2008 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Chief Electoral Officer (2008). The Report on the March 3, 2008 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-Seventh Legislative Assembly (Report). Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 290–293. Retrieved April 7, 2021. | ||||||||
| 2012 Alberta general election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Naresh Bhardwaj | 5,677 | 42.97% | 1.06% | ||||
| Wildrose Alliance | Jackie Lovely | 3,258 | 24.66% | 20.35% | ||||
| New Democratic | Rod Loyola | 2,114 | 16.00% | -1.30% | ||||
| Liberal | Jennifer Ketsa | 1,504 | 11.38% | -21.47% | ||||
| Alberta Party | Chinwe Okelu | 523 | 3.96% | – | ||||
| Independent | Athena Bernal-Born | 137 | 1.04% | – | ||||
| Total | 13,213 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 115 | 39 | 3 | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 26,721 | 49.89% | 11.91% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | 4.63% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "33 - Edmonton-Ellerslie, 2012 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Chief Electoral Officer (2012). The Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the 2011 Provincial Enumeration and Monday, April 23, 2012 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-eighth Legislative Assembly (PDF) (Report). Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 6, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2021. | ||||||||
| 2015 Alberta general election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Rod Loyola | 11,034 | 61.57% | 45.57% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Harman Kandola | 3,549 | 19.80% | -23.16% | ||||
| Wildrose | Jackie Lovely | 2,499 | 13.94% | -10.72% | ||||
| Liberal | Mike McGowan | 839 | 4.68% | -6.70% | ||||
| Total | 17,921 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 65 | 44 | 18 | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 34,266 | 52.54% | 2.65% | |||||
| New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative | Swing | 34.37% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "33 - Edmonton-Ellerslie, 2015 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Chief Electoral Officer (2016). 2015 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer (PDF) (Report). Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. | ||||||||
| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Rod Loyola | 9,717 | 50.95% | -10.62% | ||||
| United Conservative | Sanjay Patel | 7,230 | 37.91% | 4.17% | ||||
| Alberta Party | Hazelyn Williams | 1,273 | 6.67% | – | ||||
| Liberal | Mike McGowan | 390 | 2.04% | -2.64% | ||||
| Alberta Advantage | Yash Sharma | 263 | 1.38% | – | ||||
| Alberta Independence | Brian S. Lockyer | 199 | 1.04% | – | ||||
| Total | 19,072 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 88 | 61 | 14 | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 29,297 | 65.45% | 12.91% | |||||
| New Democratic hold | Swing | -14.36% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "31 - Edmonton-Ellerslie, 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. 120–123. ISBN 978-1-988620-12-1. Retrieved April 7, 2021. | ||||||||
| 2023 Alberta general election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Rod Loyola | 11,429 | 61.75 | +10.80 | ||||
| United Conservative | R. Singh Bath | 6,817 | 36.83 | -1.08 | ||||
| Wildrose Loyalty Coalition | Angela Stretch | 264 | 1.43 | – | ||||
| Total | 18,510 | 99.42 | – | |||||
| Rejected and declined | 108 | 0.58 | ||||||
| Turnout | 18,618 | 54.80 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 33,972 | |||||||
| New Democratic hold | Swing | +5.94 | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: Elections Alberta[2] | ||||||||
| 2004 Senate nominee election results: Edmonton-Ellerslie[3] | Turnout 43.51% | |||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % votes | % ballots | Rank | |
| Progressive Conservative | Betty Unger | 3,949 | 14.08% | 45.67% | 2 | |
| Independent | Link Byfield | 3,314 | 11.82% | 38.33% | 4 | |
| Progressive Conservative | Bert Brown | 3,122 | 11.13% | 36.11% | 1 | |
| Alberta Alliance | Michael Roth | 2,901 | 10.35% | 33.55% | 7 | |
| Progressive Conservative | Cliff Breitkreuz | 2,899 | 10.34% | 33.53% | 3 | |
| Alberta Alliance | Vance Gough | 2,574 | 9.18% | 29.77% | 8 | |
| Independent | Tom Sindlinger | 2,531 | 9.03% | 29.27% | 9 | |
| Alberta Alliance | Gary Horan | 2,524 | 9.00% | 29.19% | 10 | |
| Progressive Conservative | David Usherwood | 2,356 | 8.40% | 27.25% | 6 | |
| Progressive Conservative | Jim Silye | 1,874 | 6.67% | 21.67% | 5 | |
| Total votes | 28,044 | 100% | ||||
| Total ballots | 8,647 | 3.24 votes per ballot | ||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 1,688 | |||||
Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot.
| Participating schools[4] |
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| Holy Trinity Catholic High School |
| J. Percy Page 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 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[5] | ||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Liberal | Bharat Agnihotri | 321 | 35.99% | |
| Progressive Conservative | Gurnam Dodd | 309 | 34.64% | |
| NDP | Marilyn Assheton-Smith | 142 | 15.92% | |
| Alberta Alliance | Eleanor Maroes | 67 | 7.51% | |
| Social Credit | Amelia Maciejewski | 53 | 5.94% | |
| Total | 892 | 100% | ||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 24 | |||
| 2012 Alberta student vote results | ||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Progressive Conservative | Naresh Bhardwaj | |||
| Wildrose | Jackie Lovely | |||
| Liberal | Jennifer Ketsa | % | ||
| Alberta Party | Chinwe Okelu | |||
| NDP | Rod Loyola | % | ||
| Total | 100% | |||