Grande Prairie-Wapiti

Alberta electoral district

2004 boundaries

Provincial electoral district

Legislature

Legislative Assembly of Alberta

MLA

Wayne Drysdale
Progressive Conservative

District created

1993

First contested

1993

Last contested

2015

Grande Prairie-Wapiti is provincial electoral district, located in northwestern Alberta, Canada. It is one of 87 mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting.

The electoral district was created in the 1993 boundary redistribution from the old Grande Prairie electoral district. The district covers the city of Grande Prairie, the rural portion to the west and the towns of Beaverlodge and Wembley.

The district and its antecedent have been a stronghold for Progressive Conservative candidates in recent decades. The current representative for this district is Progressive Conservative Wayne Drysdale. He won election for the first time in 2008. To date there have been three representatives who have held the district.

The electoral district was created in the 1993 boundary redistribution from the old Grande Prairie electoral district. It remained mostly unchanged in the 1997 and 2003 re-distributions. The Boundaries Commission proposed to abolish the district to create a completely urban Grande Prairie district but it changed its decision under public pressure. The 2010 distribution made minor changes to the border with Grande Prairie-Smoky in the city of Grande Prairie but stayed the same in the rural areas.

The electoral district was created in the 1993 boundary redistribution from the old Grande Prairie district. The first representative elected in 1993 was Progressive Conservative candidate Wayne Jaques. He won a hotly contested race over Liberal candidate Dwight Logan to pick up the new district for his party. Jaques was re-elected in the 1997 election with a much larger margin. He retired from provincial politics in 2001.

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