Grande Prairie is a federal

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in northwestern

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, created in 2012 as Grande Prairie—Mackenzie from the

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district. It contains the western half of Alberta's Peace region, including the city of

Grande Prairie Grande Prairie is a city in Northern Alberta, northwestern Alberta, Canada, within the southern portion of an area known as Peace River Country. It is located at the intersection of Alberta Highway 43, Highway 43 (part of the CANAMEX Corridor) ...

(where more than half its residents live) and stretching to the border with the

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. It is impossible to traverse the district by road without leaving it, as the section of the

contained within has no bridges or ferries. Following the

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, this riding was renamed at the

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. It lost the remainder of

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including the communities of Rainbow Lake, Hay Lake 209, Upper Hay River 212, High Level and Bushe River 207 to

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Demographics

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of the

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Election results

Grande Prairie, 2023 representation order

Grande Prairie—Mackenzie, 2013 representation order

Notes

References

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