Vermilion-Lloydminster
 Alberta electoral district
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2003 boundaries
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| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
Progressive Conservative |
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| District created | 1993 | ||
| First contested | 1993 | ||
| Last contested | 2015 | ||
Vermilion-Lloydminster is an Alberta provincial electoral district, located in east-central Alberta. The district was created in 1993 and is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta under the first past the post method of voting.
The largest communities in the constituency are Lloydminster, Vermilion and Viking.
The electoral district was created in the 1993 boundary redistribution out of the old Lloydminster and Vermilion-Viking districts.
Under the Alberta electoral boundary re-distribution of 2004, the constituency is bounded by the Saskatchewan border to the east, and clockwise from there is bounded by Battle River-Wainwright, Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville, Lac La Biche-St. Paul and Bonnyville-Cold Lake. The district remained completely unchanged in the 2010 distribution.
The riding was created in 1993 and has been returning Progressive Conservative MLA's with large majorities since it was created. The first member was Steve West who had previously served as MLA for Vermilion-Viking for two terms beginning in 1986. While representing this riding he served a number of cabinet portfolios in the government of Ralph Klein. West retired from office in 2001.
The second representative of the riding is Lloyd Snelgrove who was first elected in 2001 and has since served three terms in office. Snelgrove briefly served as Minister of Finance under the government of Ed Stelmach. He decided to leave the Progressive Conservative caucus on January 27, 2012 and sit is an Independent after becoming disenchanted with Premier Alison Redford.
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