Nanaimo—Alberni was a federal

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, Canada, that was represented in the

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from 1979 to 1988. It was subsequently recreated and was represented in the House of Commons from 1997 to 2015.

Demographics

Nanaimo—Alberni has the highest median age of all federal electoral districts in Canada (50.1 years of age).

Geography

From 1979 to 1988, it consisted of: * the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District, * the Nanaimo Regional District, * (Lasqueti Island and the adjacent smaller islands in the Powell River Regional District, * the northwest part of Electoral Area H of the Cowichan Valley Regional District. The present district includes Lasqueti Island, the Regional District of Alberni-Clayoquot, and all of the

Regional District of Nanaimo The Regional District of Nanaimo is a regional district located on the eastern coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. It is bordered to the south by the Cowichan Valley Regional District, to the west by the Alberni-Clayoquot Re ...

except the extreme southeastern part, including but the extreme northern part of

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. The southern part of Nanaimo is part of the Nanaimo—Cowichan electoral district.

History

This electoral district was originally created in 1976 from parts of Comox—Alberni and Nanaimo—Cowichan—The Islands ridings. It was abolished in 1987 when it was redistributed into Comox—Alberni and Nanaimo—Cowichan. It was then re-created in 1996 from those two ridings. The 2012 electoral redistribution will see this riding dissolved into the new ridings of Courtenay—Alberni and

Nanaimo—Ladysmith Nanaimo—Ladysmith is a federal electoral district in British Columbia, in southeastern Vancouver Island. Nanaimo—Ladysmith was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally defined in the 2013 representat ...

for the 2015 election.