St. Albert (provincial electoral district)
 Alberta electoral district
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| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
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| District created | 1905 | ||
| First contested | 1905 | ||
| Last contested | 2015 | ||
St. Albert formally styled Saint Albert from 1905 to 1909 is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 87 current districts mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta of Alberta, Canada.
The riding encompasses the majority, but not all of, the bedroom community of St. Albert.
The electoral district was formed upon the creation of the province of Alberta, and named Saint Albert. The district stretched from St. Albert all the way to the British Columbia border. The riding was renamed in 1909 and has shrunk in size many times since eventually becoming an urban riding, as it is currently configured today.
The riding has a long and interesting electoral history: this is one of the Alberta's few swing ridings, and has been since its creation. To date, new candidates from an incumbent party have only managed to hold the district twice after an incumbent MLA left office.
The 2010 boundary redistribution kept the riding boundaries exactly the same as the 2003 boundary redistribution.
The electoral district was created in 1905 when the province was founded. The first elected held that year saw hotly contested race between Liberal candidate Lucien Boudreau and Independent Liberal Henry McKenney. The race was very close with McKenney winning by just eight votes. Despite being elected as an Independent McKenney was a supporter of the Rutherford government and caucused with the Liberals.
McKenney only stayed in the St. Albert district for a single term. He decided to run in the Pembina electoral district in the 1909 election. Boudreau ran again that year and won a hotly contested race over future MLA's Wilfrid Gariépy and Omer St. Germain. He was re-elected in 1913 and 1917 facing Conservative candidate Hector Landry both times and winning with comfortable majorities.
Boudreau ran for a fourth term in the 1921 election. He was defeated by United Farmers candidate Telesphore St. Arnaud. Boudreau would run again in the 1926 election as St. Arnaud only sat in office for a single term. He would win a hotly contested race in vote transfers to retake the district. Boudreau would be removed from office on November 18, 1926 after a court convicted Boudreau of bribery and corruption. Boudreau appealed and was re-instated on December 8, 1926.
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