Fort McMurray was a

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, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the

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using

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balloting from 1986 to 2004.

Boundary history

The district was created for the 1986 election out of most of

Lac La Biche-McMurray Lac La Biche-McMurray was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using first-past-the-post balloting from 1971 to 1986. It replaced the district of Lac La B ...

. Prior to the

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, the riding was re-defined as consisting of the city of

Fort McMurray Fort McMurray ( ) is an urban service area in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in Alberta, Canada. It is located in northeast Alberta, in the middle of the Athabasca oil sands, surrounded by boreal forest. It has played a significant ...

. Its boundaries remained unchanged even after Fort McMurray was folded into the

Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo (abbreviated RMWB) is a specialized municipality in northeast Alberta, Canada. It is the second largest municipality in Alberta by area and is home to oil sand deposits known as the Athabasca oil sand ...

in 1995. The riding was abolished in 2004, when it was merged with a portion of Athabasca-Wabasca to form

Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo 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 votin ...

Representation history

The riding's first MLA was

Norm Weiss Norman "Norm" Allen Weiss (December 23, 1935 – June 2, 2015) was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1979 to 1993 sitting with the governing Progressive Conserv ...

, who had already served two terms in the abolished

district for the Progressive Conservatives. He retired after serving two more terms. The open seat was picked up by

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candidate

Adam Germain Adam Germain is a former provincial level politician, lawyer and current Court of Queen's Bench Justice from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1993 to 1997. Political career Germain was elected t ...

in 1993, coinciding with an increase in voter turnout. After serving one term, he decided to run in federal politics, leaving the seat open again. The riding returned to the Progressive Conservatives in 1997, with candidate

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decisively defeating his Liberal challenger. He was re-elected with a much larger majority in 2001. When the riding was abolished at the end of his second term, he would continue on as MLA for the new riding of

Election results

1986 general election

1989 general election

1993 general election

1997 general election

2001 general election

References

External links

Elections AlbertaThe Legislative Assembly of Alberta
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