Livingstone-Macleod is a

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, Canada. The district is one of 87 current districts in the province mandated to return a single member to the

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using the

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method of voting. The electoral district located in rural southwestern Alberta was created with minimal boundary changes in the 1997 boundary re-distribution from the old riding of

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. The district is named after Mount Livingstone and the town of

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. The district also contains the communities of

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and the municipality of the

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. The district and its antecedent have been favorable to electing Progressive Conservative candidates in the past few decades, but this history was broken in the

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when Wildrose candidate

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was elected.

History

The electoral district was created in the 1996 boundary redistribution primarily from the old electoral district of

. Significant changes were made to the district in the 2010 boundary redistribution. The Blood Reserve was transferred to the electoral district of

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while land south of the town of

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that was in Highwood as well as a portion of land in that constituency in the north west and the portion of land that was part of the abolished

Foothills-Rocky View Foothills-Rocky View was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from under the First Past the Post voting system 2004 to 2012. History The Foothills-Rocky Vi ...

electoral district south of Tsuu T'ina Nation was transferred into the electoral district.

Boundary history

Electoral history

The electoral district was created in the 1997 boundary redistribution. The election held that year saw

Progressive Conservative incumbent David Coutts win more than half the popular vote over Liberal candidate Ernie Patterson to pick up the seat for his party. The two would face each other again in the 2001 general election. Coutts would be re-elected with a larger majority to win his third term in office. Coutts won his fourth term in the 2004 election taking just over half of the popular vote in the riding. He retired from office at dissolution of the assembly in 2004. The second representative of the district was Progressive Conservative MLA Evan Berger; elected to his first term in the 2008 general election.

Legislature results

1997 general election

2001 general election

2004 general election

2008 general election

2012 general election

2015 general election

2019 general election

Senate nominee results

2004 Senate nominee election district results

''Voters had the option of selecting 4 Candidates on the Ballot''

2012 Senate nominee election district results

Student Vote results

2004 election

On November 19, 2004 a Student Vote was conducted at participating Alberta schools to parallel the 2004 Alberta general election results. The vote was designed to educate students and simulate the electoral process for persons who have not yet reached the legal majority. The vote was conducted in 80 of the 83 provincial electoral districts with students voting for actual election candidates. Schools with a large student body that reside in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district then where they were physically located.

2012 election

References

External links

Website of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
{{AB-ED Alberta provincial electoral districts