Whitecourt (provincial electoral district)

Whitecourt was a provincial electoral district in western Alberta, Canada. It was mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1993.

The district replaced Lac Ste. Anne for the 1971 election, with only minor boundary changes from the previous district. Its boundaries again remained mostly unchanged when replaced by Whitecourt-Ste. Anne in 1993, although the area around Fox Creek was transferred to Grande Prairie-Smoky.

The district's only MLA was Progressive Conservative Peter Trynchy. He entered the Legislature upon winning the seat in the 1971 election and served eight terms altogether, six as MLA for Whitecourt and two in Whitecourt-Ste. Anne, finally retiring in 2001.

The 1982 election saw the rise of the separatist Western Canada Concept, which failed to win any seats. Their result in Whitecourt was the fourth-best in the province, despite Social Credit candidate George Richardson's status as party leader. Trynchy still won an outright majority of votes, benefitting from a surge in turnout.

Representative Party swing in 1986 is calculated from Social Credit results in 1982.

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