Central Peace-Notley is a provincial

electoral district An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other polity ...

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. The district was one of 87 districts mandated to return a single member (MLA) to the

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using the

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method of voting. It was contested for the first time in the 2019 Alberta election. The riding takes its name from its central location in the

Peace River Country The Peace River Country (or Peace Country; french: Région de la Rivière-de-la-paix) is an aspen parkland region centring on the Peace River in Canada. It extends from northwestern Alberta to the Rocky Mountains in northeastern British Columbia, ...

and from

Grant Notley Walter Grant Notley (January 19, 1939 – October 19, 1984) was a Canadian politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1984 and also served as leader of the Alberta NDP from 1968 to 1984. Early life Notl ...

, who represented the region in the Legislature from 1971 to 1984 while serving as leader of the

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Geography

Central Peace-Notley is a largely rural riding located in northwestern Alberta. There are no cities in the riding. Urban municipalities include the towns of Fairview,

Falher Falher (, ) is a town in the Peace Country area of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the Municipal District of Smoky River No. 130, along Highway 49. Falher is one of the earliest agricultural communities in the Peace River Country and is notab ...

, Fox Creek, McLennan, Spirit River, and Valleyview, and the villages of Berwyn, Donnelly,

Girouxville Girouxville (; ) is a village in northern Alberta, Canada. It is located south of the Town of Peace River. History The community has the name of the local Giroux family, being named after Father Henri Giroux, a Roman Catholic missionary appoi ...

, Hines Creek, and Rycroft. Central Peace-Notley also covers the entirety of six rural municipalities (

Birch Hills County Birch Hills County is a municipal district in north-western Alberta, Canada. It is located in Census Division 19, northeast of Grande Prairie. The district takes its name from a range of hills of the same name, which in turn were named by Cre ...

Clear Hills County Clear Hills County is a municipal district in north western Alberta, Canada. It is located in Census Division 17. In 1950, the massive Chinchaga fire burned through much of the region. On January 1, 2006, the name was changed from ''Municip ...

, the

Municipal District of Fairview No. 136 The Municipal District of Fairview No. 136 is a List of municipal districts in Alberta, municipal district (MD) in northwestern Alberta, Canada. It is located in Division No. 19, Alberta, Census Division 19. The district stretches along the ...

, the

Municipal District of Smoky River No. 130 The Municipal District of Smoky River No. 130 is a municipal district (MD) in northwestern Alberta, Canada. Located in Census Division No. 19, its municipal office is located in the Town of Falher. History On January 1, 1952, its name was ...

, the

Municipal District of Spirit River No. 133 The Municipal District of Spirit River No. 133 is a List of municipal districts in Alberta, municipal district (MD) in Northern Alberta, northwest Alberta, Canada, north of Grande Prairie. Located in the Upper Peace Region, its List of municip ...

, and

Saddle Hills County Saddle Hills County is a municipal district situated in the central portion of the Peace Country in northwest Alberta, Canada. Located approximately northwest of Edmonton and north of Grande Prairie, its municipal office is located approxima ...

) and portions of two others (the

Municipal District of Greenview No. 16 The Municipal District of Greenview No. 16 is a municipal district (MD) in northwest Alberta, Canada. It covers the full extent of Census Division 18, and with an area of , it is the largest municipal district in Alberta. Its administrative& ...

and the

Municipal District of Peace No. 135 The Municipal District of Peace No. 135 is a List of municipal districts in Alberta, municipal district (MD) in northwestern Alberta, Canada. Located in Division No. 19, Alberta, Census Division No. 19, its List of municipal districts in Albert ...

) The riding contains one of the

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reserves of the

Alexander First Nation Alexander First Nation ( cr, Kipohtakaw / ᑭᐳᐦᑕᑲᐤ) is a First Nations band government, headquartered west of Morinville, Alberta. This First Nation is part of the Cree ethno-linguistic group, is a member of the Yellowhead Tribal Co ...

( Alexander 134A) and the

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reserves of the

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Duncan's First Nation Duncan's First Nation is a First Nation in northwestern Alberta, Canada. It operates as an Indian band In Canada, an Indian band or band (french: bande indienne, link=no), sometimes referred to as a First Nation band (french: bande de la Pre ...

( Duncans 151A) and

Horse Lake First Nation The Horse Lake First Nation is a First Nations band government west of Hythe in northwestern Alberta, Canada. It consists of the Beaver and Cree people. It is a party to Treaty 8, and is a member of the Western Cree Tribal Council. Despite being ...

( Clear Hills 152C). In addition to a large Indigenous community, the riding is also home to many

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, especially in the Smoky River area. Clockwise from the north, Central Peace-Notley borders

Peace River The Peace River (french: links=no, rivière de la Paix) is a river in Canada that originates in the Rocky Mountains of northern British Columbia and flows to the northeast through northern Alberta. The Peace River joins the Athabasca River in th ...

Lesser Slave Lake Lesser Slave Lake (french: Petit lac des Esclaves)—known traditionally as "Beaver Lake" (ᐊᒥᐢᐠ ᓵᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ amisk sâkâhikan in the Plains Cree language, and T’saat’ine migeh in Dene Zhatıé) or "Beaver people were over the ...

, Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock, West Yellowhead, Grande Prairie-Wapiti, and the province of

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History

The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended renaming Dunvegan-Central Peace-Notley and expanding its borders to include the portion of Grande Prairie-Smoky east of the

County of Grande Prairie The County of Grande Prairie No. 1 is a municipal district in northwestern Alberta, Canada in Census Division No. 19. It is bounded on the south by the Wapiti River, on the east by the Smoky River and on the west by the province of British ...

. The district also lost the area around Grimshaw to the district of

. Central Peace-Notley along with

are one of two electoral districts in Alberta allowed to have a population between 25 per cent and 50 per cent below the provincial average, as it satisfies all five conditions laid out in the ''Electoral Boundaries Commission Act''. Central Peace-Notley was created in 2017 with a population of 28,993 which was 38 per cent below the average population of an electoral district of 46,803. The district first elected United Conservative MLA

Todd Loewen Douglas Todd Loewen (born September 16, 1966) is a Canadian politician and the Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Central Peace-Notley. Loewen was first elected in 2015 as a member of the Wildrose Party for the electoral district o ...

who had previously been elected to Grande Prairie-Smoky electoral district as a Wildrose candidate in 2015. Loewen defeated NDP candidate, Minister of Energy and Dunvegan-Central Peace-Notley district MLA Margaret McCuaig-Boyd by 7,910 votes. On May 13, 2021 Loewen and

Cypress-Medicine Hat Cypress-Medicine Hat is a provincial electoral district in the southeast corner of Alberta. Under the Alberta electoral boundary re-distribution of 2004, the constituency covers the portion of Medicine Hat south of the South Saskatchewan River ...

MLA

Drew Barnes Drew Barnes (born May 21, 1961) is a Canadian politician who was elected in the 2012, 2015 and 2019 Alberta general elections to represent the electoral district of Cypress-Medicine Hat in the 28th, 29th and 30th Alberta Legislatures, respect ...

were expelled from the United Conservative caucus and became an independent after calling on Premier Kenney to resign.

Electoral results

2019 general election

References

External links

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Geography

History

Electoral results

2019 general election

See also

References

External links