Medicine Hat-Redcliff – Wikipedia
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Defunct provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada
Medicine Hat-Redcliff 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 1971 to 1979.[1]
History[edit]
The Medicine Hat-Redcliff electoral district was named for the City of Medicine Hat and the Town of Redcliff.
The electoral district was created in the 1971 re-distribution absorbing the district of Medicine Hat, and was abolished in the 1979 re-distribution splitting into Cypress-Medicine Hat and Medicine Hat electoral districts.
Representatives[edit]
The district was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta by William Wyse in the 17th Alberta Legislative Assembly from 1971 to 1975, and Jim Horsman in the 18th Alberta Legislative Assembly from 1975 to 1979.
Electoral history[edit]
1971 general election[edit]
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1971 Alberta general election |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
±% |
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| Social Credit | William Wyse | 6,447 | 48.93% | – | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jim Horsman | 4,140 | 31.42% | – | ||||
| New Democratic | Frank Armstrong | 2,128 | 16.15% | – | ||||
| Liberal | Theodore Anhorn | 462 | 3.51% | – | ||||
| Total | 13,177 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, Spoiled and Declined | 67 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | 17,903 | 73.98% | – | |||||
| Social Credit pickup new district. | ||||||||
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Source(s)
Source:
“Medicine Hat-Redcliff Official Results 1971 Alberta general election”. Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. |
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1975 general election[edit]
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