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Edmonton—Strathcona

Edmonton Strathcona
Alberta electoral district
Edmonton Strathcona 2013 Riding.jpg
Edmonton Strathcona in relation to other federal electoral districts in Edmonton (2013 boundaries)
Federal electoral district
Legislature House of Commons
MP
 
 
 
Linda Duncan
New Democratic
District created 1952
First contested 1953
Last contested 2015
District webpage profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011) 103,183
Electors (2015) 76,160
Area (km²) 80
Pop. density (per km²) 1,289.8
Census divisions Division No. 11
Census subdivisions Edmonton

Edmonton Strathcona (formerly known as Edmonton—Strathcona) is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1953. It spans the south central part of the city of Edmonton. Between 2008 and 2015, Edmonton—Strathcona was the only federal riding in Alberta not held by the Conservative Party.

The riding is home to most of Edmonton's francophones. The historic district of Old Strathcona, the University of Alberta and the Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre are all located in the riding.

Edmonton–Strathcona encompasses the neighbourhoods of Allendale, Argyll, Avonmore, Belgravia, Bonnie Doon, Capilano, Cloverdale, Empire Park, Forest Heights, Fulton Place, Garneau, Gold Bar, Grandview Heights, Hazeldean, Holyrood, Idylwylde, Kenilworth, King Edward Park, Lansdowne, Lendrum Place, Malmo Plains, McKernan, Ottewell, Parkallen, Pleasantview, Queen Alexandra Park, Ritchie, Riverdale, Strathcona, Strathearn, Terrace Heights, and Windsor Park.

It borders on the federal ridings of Edmonton Centre, Edmonton Griesbach, Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, Edmonton Mill Woods, and Edmonton Riverbend.

This district is bounded:

As evidenced by the 2008 and 2011 elections, this riding is heavily polarized between more urban NDP voters in the northwest of the riding and suburban Conservative voters in the south and east.

The NDP picked up this seat in 2008 for the first time in its history, when Edmonton lawyer Linda Duncan defeated Tory incumbent Rahim Jaffer, thanks to a consolidation of non-Conservative votes.


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