Edmonton-South (previously styled Edmonton South) is a provincial electoral district in

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, Canada. The first iteration was used for the 1913 and 1917 provincial elections. The district was re-created again for the

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Geography

The first iteration of Edmonton South included the part of

south of the

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, which had recently been amalgamated into Edmonton. The re-created Edmonton-South has the

Whitemud Creek Whitemud Creek is a tributary of the North Saskatchewan River in central Alberta, Canada. For part of its length, the creek flows through the City of Edmonton, separating neighbourhoods in the Riverbend and Terwillegar Heights areas from o ...

and Rabbit Hill Road as its western boundary, the Henday as its northern boundary (except the area between Rabbit Hill Road and the Whitemud Creek south of 23rd Ave NW), 91st St SW and 88 St SW as its eastern boundary, and extends South to Highway 19 on the west side of the QEII according to the City of Edmonton's plan to annex a portion of

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History

Edmonton South was created when the district of Strathcona, centering on the old

City of Strathcona Strathcona was a city in Alberta, Canada on the south side of the North Saskatchewan River. Originally founded in 1891, it amalgamated with the City of Edmonton in 1912. History Strathcona's recorded history began in the 1870s. Its first r ...

, was renamed due to the city's merger with

. The incumbent in 1913 was

Alexander Rutherford Alexander Cameron Rutherford (February 2, 1857 – June 11, 1941) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the first premier of Alberta from 1905 to 1910. Born in Ormond, Canada West, he studied and practiced law in Ottawa before h ...

, who had resigned as

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in 1910 but remained a

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MLA. He ran for re-election as a private member in the renamed Edmonton South, but was defeated by Conservative

Herbert Crawford Herbert Howard Crawford (March 10, 1878 – January 27, 1946) was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He was born in Brampton, Ontario. Biography Crawford attempted a run at Edmonton municipal politics running for the position ...

, a Whyte Avenue merchant. A similar surprise occurred in southside Edmonton in 1989, when sitting premier

Don Getty Donald Ross Getty (August 30, 1933 – February 26, 2016) was a Canadian politician who served as the 11th premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergo ...

(MLA for

Edmonton-Whitemud Edmonton-Whitemud is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada. In 1989, its constituents unseated the Premier of the day, Donald Getty, by voting for Liberal candidate Percy Wickman. The district was rep ...

) was unseated by a Liberal challenger. Crawford was re-elected in 1917, and served a second term as an opposition MLA. Edmonton South merged with

Edmonton West Edmonton West (french: Edmonton-Ouest) is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1917 to 1988, from 1997 to 2004 and again since 2015. Demographics History and geography T ...

and

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to form the multi-member

constituency in 1921, where Crawford was not re-elected, placing ninth. In 2017, the Electoral Boundaries Commission decided to re-use the name Edmonton-South for a new district, carving it mostly from

Edmonton-South West Edmonton-South West is a provincial electoral district in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The district was created in the 2010 boundary redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first pa ...

and smaller parts of

Edmonton-Ellerslie Edmonton-Ellerslie is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. It is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly. History The electoral district was created in 1993 from Edmonton-Mill Woods. The 2010 boundary redi ...

and

Leduc-Beaumont Leduc-Beaumont is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 87 districts mandated to return a single member (MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting. History ...

Geography

History

Election Results

1910s

2010s

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