Taber-Warner
 Alberta electoral district
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Taber-Warner within Alberta (2017 boundaries).
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| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
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| District created | 1963 | ||
| District abolished | 1996 | ||
| District re-created | 2017 | ||
| First contested | 1963 | ||
| Last contested | 1993 | ||
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| Population (2016) | 42,625 | ||
| Area (km²) | 14,980 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 2.8 | ||
Taber-Warner is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is mandated to return a single member to the for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. The district has existed twice: the first iteration was represented in the Assembly from 1963 until 1997, and the district will be contested again in the next Alberta general election.
The district was created in 1963 from Taber and Warner, although not including the section of Taber to the north of the Old Man River. Its boundaries saw minor adjustments over the years, but always contained the communities of Taber, Warner, and Coaldale, stretching east from the City of Lethbridge and south to the Montana border. Most of the district was transferred to Cardston-Taber-Warner in 1997, with the Coaldale area transferred to Little Bow.
The second iteration of the district took sections of Cardston-Taber-Warner, Little Bow and Cypress-Medicine Hat. It is significantly larger than the first, now stretching east to the border of Cypress County, but still entirely south of the Old Man and South Saskatchewan rivers.
Taber-Warner's first representative was the incumbent Warner MLA and Social Credit Minister for Public Welfare Leonard Halmrast, who had already served five terms in the Legislature. As no other candidates stood against him in the 1963 election, Taber-Warner holds the distinction of being the last district to elect an MLA by acclamation in Alberta. Halmrast retired at the end of that term.
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