Edmonton-South

Edmonton-South (previously styled Edmonton South) is a provincial electoral district in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The first iteration was used for the 1913 and 1917 provincial elections. The district was re-created again for the 30th Alberta general election.

This article is about the provincial electoral district. For the former federal electoral district, see Edmonton South.

Edmonton-South

Alberta electoral district
Edmonton-South within the City of Edmonton (2017 boundaries).
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA	Thomas Dang New Democratic
District created	1913
District abolished	1921
District re-created	2017
First contested	1913
Last contested	2019
Demographics
Population (2016)[1]	45,801
Area (km²)	72.7
Pop. density (per km²)	630

Geography

The first iteration of Edmonton South included the part of Edmonton south of the North Saskatchewan River, which had recently been amalgamated into Edmonton.

The re-created Edmonton-South has the Whitemud Creek and Rabbit Hill Road as its western boundary, the Henday as its northern boundary (except the area between Rabbit Hill Road and the Whitemud Creek south of 23rd Ave NW), 91st St SW and 88 St SW as its eastern boundary, and extends South to Highway 19 on the west side of the QEII according to the City of Edmonton's plan to annex a portion of Leduc County.[2]

History

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Edmonton-South
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
See Strathcona 1905-1913
3rd	1913-1917		Herbert Crawford	Conservative
4th	1917-1921
See Edmonton 1921-1955
See Edmonton-South West 2012-2019
30th	2019-		Thomas Dang	New Democrat

Edmonton South was created when the district of Strathcona, centering on the old City of Strathcona, was renamed due to the city's merger with Edmonton.

The incumbent in 1913 was Alexander Rutherford, who had resigned as Premier of Alberta in 1910 but remained a Liberal MLA. He ran for re-election as a private member in the renamed Edmonton South, but was defeated by Conservative Herbert Crawford, a Whyte Avenue merchant. A similar surprise occurred in southside Edmonton in 1989, when sitting premier Don Getty (MLA for Edmonton-Whitemud) was unseated by a Liberal challenger.

Crawford was re-elected in 1917, and served a second term as an opposition MLA. Edmonton South merged with Edmonton West and Edmonton East to form the multi-member Edmonton constituency in 1921, where Crawford was not re-elected, placing ninth.

In 2017, the Electoral Boundaries Commission decided to re-use the name Edmonton-South for a new district, carving it mostly from Edmonton-South West and smaller parts of Edmonton-Whitemud, Edmonton-Ellerslie and Leduc-Beaumont.

Election Results

1910s

1913 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Herbert Crawford	1,523	54.43%	+40.35%
	Liberal	Alexander Rutherford	1,275	45.57%	-40.35%
Total valid votes			2,798
	Conservative notional gain		Swing		+40.35%
Source(s) Alberta Heritage Foundation. "Election Results, Edmonton South". Archived from the original on 2010-12-08.

1917 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Herbert Crawford	2,761	55.90%	+1.47%
	Liberal	Robert Douglas	2,178	44.10%	-1.47%
Total valid votes			4,939
Registered voters / Turnout			6,923	71.34%
	Conservative hold		Swing		+1.47%
Source(s) Alberta Heritage Foundation. "Election Results, Edmonton South". Archived from the original on 2010-12-08.

2010s

Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta general election
	New Democratic	6,857	53.91%
	Progressive Conservative	3,826	30.08%
	Wildrose	1,235	9.71%
	Others	803	6.31%

2019 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Thomas Dang	10,673	46.6%	-7.31%
	United Conservative	Olatunde Obasan	9,881	43.2%	+4.2%
	Alberta Party	Pramod Kumar	2,156	9.4%	+6.8%
	Green	Ben Roach	180	0.8%	--
Total valid votes			22,890
Rejected, spoiled, and declined			146	51	11
Registered electors			34,524
Turnout			66.8%
	New Democratic hold		Swing		%
Source: Elections Alberta[3]

External links

• Website of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

References

1. Statistics Canada: 2016
2. Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission. "Final Report Maps: Edmonton-South" (PDF). abebc.ca.
3. "2019 Provincial General Election Results". Elections Alberta. Retrieved 2019-04-27.