Barrhead-Westlock
Barrhead-Westlock was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
History
Boundary history
Barrhead-Westlock was created from Barrhead, Westlock-Sturgeon and a small portion of Athabasca-Lac La Biche in 1993. Its largest communities were its namesake towns Barrhead and Westlock, as well as the town of Swan Hills. Its boundaries remained unchanged in the redistribution that took effect in 1997.
The riding was replaced by Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock in 2004, which covered the entire area of Barrhead-Westlock and a small portion of Redwater.
Representation history
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Barrhead-Westlock | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Barrhead 1971-1993 and Westlock-Sturgeon 1986-1993. | ||||
| 23rd | 1993-1997 | Ken Kowalski | Progressive Conservative | |
| 24th | 1997-2001 | |||
| 25th | 2001-2004 | |||
| See Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock after 2004 | ||||
Barrhead-Westlock's only MLA was Ken Kowalski, who had already served as the Progressive Conservative member for Barrhead since 1979.
After the 1997 election, Kowalski became the 11th Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.
When Barrhead-Westlock was abolished for the 2004 election, Kowalski continued his political career, serving two more terms in the new riding of Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock as MLA and Speaker of the Assembly.
Election results
1990s
| Alberta general election, 1993 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Ken Kowalski | 6,312 | 55.04% | |||||
| Liberal | Dale Greig | 3,309 | 28.85% | |||||
| New Democratic | Harold Wharton | 1,076 | 9.38% | |||||
| Social Credit | Dale Harris | 561 | 4.89% | |||||
| Confederation of Regions | Adam Hauch | 143 | 1.25% | |||||
| Independent | Leonard Stahl | 67 | 0.58% | |||||
| Total valid votes[1] | 11,468 | |||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 25 | |||||||
| Registered electors / Turnout | 16,439 | 69.91% | ||||||
| Progressive Conservative pickup new district. | ||||||||
| Alberta general election, 1997 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Ken Kowalski | 6,195 | 60.66% | +5.62% | ||||
| Liberal | Dale Greig | 2,130 | 20.86% | -7.99% | ||||
| Social Credit | J. Harvey Yuill | 1,244 | 12.18% | +7.29% | ||||
| New Democratic | Joe Woytowich | 643 | 6.30% | -3.08% | ||||
| Total valid votes[1] | 10,212 | |||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 29 | |||||||
| Registered electors / Turnout | 16,778 | 61.04% | -8.87% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | +6.81% | ||||||
2000s
| Alberta general election, 2001 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Ken Kowalski | 7,183 | 69.31% | +8.65% | ||||
| Social Credit | Jeff Willerton | 1,352 | 13.05% | +0.87% | ||||
| Liberal | 1,259 | 12.15% | -8.71% | |||||
| New Democratic | Suzanne Forbes | 569 | 5.49% | -0.81% | ||||
| Total valid votes[1] | 10,401 | |||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 38 | |||||||
| Registered electors / Turnout | 16,794 | 61.93% | +0.89% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | +3.89% | ||||||
References
- 1 2 3 "Results for Barrhead-Westlock". Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved 2016-09-04.