Strathcona East was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The riding was created in 1959, out of the Edmonton district when it broke up into nine ridings.
In 1971 the riding was split between Edmonton-Gold Bar and Edmonton Ottewell
The historic 1959 redistribution of the provincial ridings of Calgary and Edmonton standardized the voting system back to First Past the Post. From 1926 to 1959 Calgary and Edmonton members were elected by Single Transferable Vote. The rest of the province had the option of how to count ballots. The redistribution created nine ridings in Edmonton.
The other eight ridings were Edmonton Centre, Edmonton North, Edmonton Norwood, Edmonton North East, Edmonton North West, Strathcona West, Strathcona Centre and Jasper West.