Whitecourt-Ste. Anne
 Alberta electoral district
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| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
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| District created | 1993 | ||
| First contested | 1993 | ||
| Last contested | 2015 | ||
Whitecourt-Ste. Anne is an Alberta provincial electoral district, located in central Alberta. The district is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting. The district was created in 1993 from the old Whitecourt electoral district and Stony Plain and some of Barrhead.
Towns include Mayerthorpe, Onoway and Whitecourt. The current MLA for this district is New Democrat Oneil Carlier who hails from the community of Darwell. He won his bid for election in the 29th Alberta general election.
The electoral district was created in the 1993 boundary redistribution from the former electoral district of Whitecourt and a portion of Stony Plain.
The 2010 boundary redistribution saw land north of Alberta Highway 16 from within Stony Plain transferred to this district.
The electoral district was created in 1993 primarily from the districts of Whitecourt and Stony Plain. Long time Progressive Conservative incumbent Peter Trynchy who had been in the legislature since 1971 and held numerous cabinet portfolios ran for re-election that year. Trynchy faced a tough fight to keep his seat from Liberal candidate Jurgen Preugschas. Trynchy ran for his final term in office in the 1997 election. He won a large majority to easily retain his seat.
The second member to represent the riding is George VanderBurg. He was elected to his first term with a landslide majority in the 2001 general election. He won a second term with a greatly reduced margin in the 2004 general election. VanderBurg was appointed to a cabinet portfolio in the Alberta government for the first time in 2006. He won his third term in office with a larger margin against Senator-in-waiting Link Byfield in the 2008 general election. In the 2012 general election, he retained his seat for a fourth term in office by a narrow margin over the Wildrose candidate, Maryann Chichak.
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