Three Hills-Airdrie

Three Hills-Airdrie was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first-past-the-post method of voting from 1993 to 1997.[1]

Three Hills-Airdrie

Alberta electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
District created	1993
District abolished	1997
First contested	1993
Last contested	1993

History

The Three Hills-Airdrie electoral district was created in the 1993 electoral district re-distribution from the Three Hills and Drumheller electoral districts. It would only be contested once in the 1993 Alberta general election, and represented by Progressive Conservative MLA Carol Louise Haley. The district was dissolved in the 1997 electoral district re-distribution into the Airdrie-Rocky View and Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills electoral districts.[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs)

	Name	Party	Elected	Left Office
See: Three Hills 1963-1993 and Drumheller 1930-1993
	Carol Haley	Progressive Conservative	1993	1997
See: Airdrie-Rocky View 1997-2004 and Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills 1997-present

Boundary history

Year	Boundary Change	North	South	East	West
1993	New district	Innisfail-Sylvan Lake and Lacombe-Stettler	Bow Valley and Drumheller.	Olds-Didsbury, Banff-Cochrane, Calgary Nose Creek, Calgary McCall, Calgary Cross, Calgary Montrose and Calgary Shaw.	Highwood.

Election results

1993 general election

1993 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Carol Louise Haley	5,666	51.23%	–
	Liberal	Don MacDonald	3,783	34.20%	–
	New Democratic	Gordon Twigg	553	5.00%	–
	Social Credit	Peter Smits	517	4.67%	–
	Alberta Alliance	George Shenton	424	3.83%	–
	Confederation of Regions	Lawrence Lein	118	1.07%	–
Total			11,061	–	–
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			30	–	–
Eligible electors / Turnout			17,929	61.86%	–
	Progressive Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s) Source: "Three Hills-Airdrie Official Results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

See also

• Alberta provincial electoral districts
• Three Hills, Alberta a town in Alberta.
• Airdrie, Alberta a city in Alberta.

References

1. "Election results for Three Hills-Airdrie". abheritage.ca. Wayback Machine: Heritage Community Foundation. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
2. Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (June 1996). "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.

Further reading

• Office of the Chief Electoral Officer; Legislative Assembly Office (2006). A Century of Democracy: Elections of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1905-2005. The Centennial Series. Edmonton, AB: Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ISBN 0-9689217-8-7. Retrieved 25 May 2020.

External links

• Elections Alberta
• The Legislative Assembly of Alberta