Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre

Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre

Alberta electoral district
Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre within Alberta, 2017 boundaries
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA	Jason Nixon United Conservative
District created	2010
First contested	2012
Last contested	2015

Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre is a provincial electoral district in central Alberta, Canada. The district was created in the 2010 boundary redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post voting system. It includes the towns of Bentley, Eckville, Rimbey, Rocky Mountain House, and Sundre.

History

The electoral district was created in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution. It was created from the old electoral district of Rocky Mountain House which was expanded to include the town of Rimbey, Alberta which was previously in Lacombe-Ponoka. The riding also gained some land west of Sylvan Lake.

Boundary history

77 Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre 2010 Boundaries
Bordering Districts
North	East	West	South
Drayton Valley-Devon and West Yellowhead	Innisfail-Sylvan Lake, Lacombe-Ponoka, and Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills	British Columbia boundary	Banff-Cochrane
Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act.
Note:

Electoral history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
See Rocky Mountain House 1940-2012
28th	2012–2014		Joe Anglin	Wildrose
	2014–2015			Independent
29th	2015–2017		Jason Nixon	Wildrose
	2017–2019			United Conservative
30th	2019–

The predecessor Rocky Mountain House had returned Progressive Conservative MLAs since 1971. From 1940 to 1970 popular Social Credit MLA Alfred Hooke represented the district. The current incumbent is Jason Nixon who won the seat for the Wildrose Party in the 2015 election.

Elections

2012 general election

2012 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Wildrose	Joe Anglin	7,664	51.42
	Progressive Conservative	Ty Lund	6,044	40.55
	New Democratic	Doreen Broska	776	5.21
	Liberal	Mason Sisson	420	2.82
Total valid votes			14,904	99.35
Rejected, spoiled, and declined			98	0.65
Turnout			15,002	53.84
Registered electors			27,863
	Wildrose pickup new district.
Source(s) Elections Alberta. "Electoral Division Results: Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre". Retrieved November 22, 2018.

2015 general election

2015 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Wildrose	Jason Nixon	6,670	40.11	-11.31
	Progressive Conservative	Tammy Cote	5,296	31.65	-8.90
	New Democratic	Hannah Schlamp	2,791	16.78	+11.57
	Independent	Joe Anglin	1,871	11.25	–
Total valid votes			16,628	99.36	+0.01
Rejected, spoiled, and declined			107	0.64	-0.01
Turnout			16,735	51.37	-2.47
Registered electors			32,578
	Wildrose hold		Swing		-1.21
Source(s) Elections Alberta. "Electoral Division Results: Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre". Retrieved November 22, 2018.

2019 general election

2019 Alberta general election
The 2019 general election will be held on April 16.
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Alberta Party	Joe Anglin
	Freedom Conservative	Dawn Bedard
	Green	Jane Drummond
	Independent	Gordon Francey
	New Democratic	Jeff Ible
	Alberta Advantage	Paula Lamoureux
	United Conservative	Jason Nixon
	Independence	David Rogers
Total valid votes
Rejected, spoiled and declined
Registered electors
Turnout

Student vote results

2012 election

2012 Alberta Student Vote results
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Diana McQueen		%
	Wildrose	Dean Shular
	Liberal	Mason Sisson		%
	NDP			%
Total				100%

External links

• Elections Alberta