Medicine Hat (provincial electoral district)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Medicine Hat is an Albertan provincial electoral district, covering most of the city of Medicine Hat.

Under the Alberta electoral boundary re-distribution of 2004, the constituency covers the portion of the city north of the South Saskatchewan River, the Trans-Canada Highway and Carry Drive. The rest of the city and surrounding area is part of the Cypress-Medicine Hat constituency.

The current MLA for this district is Progressive Conservative Rob Renner. He was re-elected in the 26th Alberta general election.

[edit] Plebiscite results

[edit] 1948 Electrification Plebiscite

District results from the first province wide plebiscite on electricity regulation.

Option A	Option B
Are you in favour of the generation and distribution of electricity being continued by the Power Companies?	Are you in favour of the generation and distribution of electricity being made a publicly owned utility administered by the Alberta Government Power Commission?
5,168     81.03%	1,214     18.97%
Province wide result: Option A passed.

v • d • e Alberta provincial electoral districts
North	Athabasca-Redwater • Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock • Bonnyville-Cold Lake • Dunvegan-Central Peace • Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo • Grande Prairie Smoky • Grande Prairie Wapiti • Lac La Biche-St. Paul • Lesser Slave Lake • Peace River • Spruce Grove-Sturgeon-St. Albert • St. Albert
Edmonton:	Edmonton Beverly Clareview • Edmonton Calder • Edmonton Castle Downs • Edmonton Centre • Edmonton Decore • Edmonton Ellerslie • Edmonton Glenora • Edmonton Gold Bar • Edmonton Highlands-Norwood • Edmonton Manning • Edmonton McClung • Edmonton Meadowlark • Edmonton Mill Creek • Edmonton Mill Woods • Edmonton Riverview • Edmonton Rutherford • Edmonton Strathcona • Edmonton Whitemud • Sherwood Park • Strathcona
Central:	Banff-Cochrane • Battle River-Wainwright • Drayton Valley-Calmar • Drumheller-Stettler • Foothills-Rocky View • Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville • Innisfail-Sylvan Lake • Lacombe-Ponoka • Leduc-Beaumont-Devon • Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills • Red Deer North • Red Deer South • Rocky Mountain House • Stony Plain • Vermilion-Lloydminster • West Yellowhead • Wetaskiwin-Camrose • Whitecourt-Ste. Anne
Calgary:	Calgary Bow • Calgary Buffalo • Calgary Cross • Calgary Currie • Calgary East • Calgary Egmont • Calgary Elbow • Calgary Fish Creek • Calgary Foothills • Calgary Fort • Calgary Glenmore • Calgary Hays • Calgary Lougheed • Calgary MacKay • Calgary McCall • Calgary Montrose • Calgary Mountain View • Calgary North Hill • Calgary North West • Calgary Nose Hill • Calgary Shaw • Calgary Varsity • Calgary West
South:	Airdrie-Chestermere • Cardston-Taber-Warner • Cypress-Medicine Hat • Highwood • Lethbridge East • Lethbridge West • Little Bow • Livingstone-Macleod • Medicine Hat • Strathmore-Brooks
See also:	Politics of Alberta • List of Alberta general elections • 2004 election