Jasper West was a provincial electoral district in

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, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the

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using the

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method of voting from 1959 to 1963.

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It was created after

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broke up into nine districts after the province standardized to the

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voting system in 1959. In 1963 the district was renamed Edmonton Jasper Place, which in 1971 was re-made into the Edmonton-Meadowlark district.

1959 Redistribution

The historic 1959 redistribution of the provincial ridings of Calgary and

dismantled the

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system previously in use in the cities and changed the voting system to

single member districts. From 1924 to 1956 Calgary and Edmonton members were elected by

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in multi-member districts. The rest of the province had used Instant-runoff voting in single-member districts. The 1959 redistribution created nine districts in Edmonton. The other eight ridings were

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, Edmonton North,

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, Edmonton North East, Edmonton North West, Strathcona Centre, Strathcona East and Strathcona West.

Election Results 1959

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1959 Redistribution

Election Results 1959

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