Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre is a provincial electoral district in central

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. The district was created in the 2010 boundary redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the

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using the first past the post voting system. It includes the towns of

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, Eckville,

Rimbey Rimbey is a town in central Alberta, Canada. It is located at the junction of Highways 20 and 53 in the Blindman River valley area approximately northwest of Red Deer and southwest of Edmonton. Provincially, Rimbey is part of the Rimbey-Roc ...

Rocky Mountain House Rocky Mountain House is a town in west-central Alberta, Canada. It is approximately west of Red Deer at the confluence of the Clearwater and North Saskatchewan Rivers, and at the crossroads of Highway 22 (Cowboy Trail) and Highway 11 (David Th ...

, and

Sundre Sundre is a town in central Alberta, Canada that is surrounded by Mountain View County. It is approximately northwest of Calgary on the Cowboy Trail in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies. Sundre takes its name from a town in Norway, the o ...

History

The electoral district was created in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution. It was created from the old electoral district of

which was expanded to include the town of

which was previously in Lacombe-Ponoka. The riding also gained some land west of Sylvan Lake.

Boundary history

Electoral history

The predecessor Rocky Mountain House had returned Progressive Conservative MLAs since 1971. From 1940 to 1970 popular Social Credit MLA

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represented the district. The current incumbent is

Jason Nixon Jason John Nixon (born May 26, 1980) is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the electoral district of Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre. He was first elected as a member of the Wildros ...

History

Boundary history

Electoral history

Elections

2012 general election

2015 general election

2019 general election

Senate nominee results

2012 Senate nominee election district results

Student vote results

2012 election

References

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