| Edmonton-Ellerslie | |
| Province: | Alberta |
| Prov-Rep: | Rod Loyola |
| Prov-Rep-Party: | NDP |
| Prov-Rep-Party-Link: | Alberta New Democratic Party |
| Prov-Status: | active |
| Prov-Created: | 1993 |
| Prov-Election-First: | 1993 |
| Prov-Election-Last: | 2023 |
Edmonton-Ellerslie is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. It is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly.
The 2010 boundary redistribution saw the riding shrink on its north boundary to Anthony Henday Drive from roughly 34 Avenue, losing some land to Edmonton -Mill Woods and Edmonton-Mill Creek.
| 33 Edmonton-Ellerslie 2003 boundaries[1] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bordering districts | ||||
| North | East | West | South | |
| Edmonton-Mill Creek and Edmonton-Mill Woods | Strathcona | Edmonton-Rutherford and Edmonton-Whitemud | Leduc-Beaumont-Devon | |
| riding map goes here | ||||
| Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act | ||||
| Starting at the intersection of Gateway Boulevard with 34 Avenue; then 1. east along 34 Avenue to 91 Street; 2. south along 91 Street to 28 Avenue; 3. east along 28 Avenue to 50 Street; 4. south along 50 Street to 23 Avenue; 5. east along 23 Avenue to the east Edmonton city boundary; 6. south and west along the east city boundary to Gateway Boulevard; 7. northeast along Gateway Boulevard to the starting point. | ||||
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Edmonton-Ellerslie | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | ||
| See Edmonton-Mill Woods 1979-1993 | |||||
| 23rd | 1993–1997 | Debby Carlson | Liberal | ||
| 24th | 1997–2001 | ||||
| 25th | 2001–2004 | ||||
| 2004 | Vacant | ||||
| 26th | 2004–2008 | Bharat Agnihotri | Liberal | ||
| 27th | 2008–2012 | Naresh Bhardwaj | Progressive Conservative | ||
| 28th | 2012–2015 | ||||
| 29th | 2015–2019 | Rod Loyola | New Democrat | ||
| 30th | 2019–2023 | ||||
| 31st | 2023– | ||||
Carlson ran for a second term in 1997. She increased her popular support to take the district easily with almost 57% of the popular vote. The 2001 election was a very tight race. Carlson barely hung on to win her third term in office. She defeated Progressive Conservative candidate Sukhi Randhawa by less than 300 votes and won the seat with 45 percent of the vote.
On May 28, 2004 Carlson vacated her seat to run in the 2004 federal election in the Edmonton—Strathcona district. Her replacement elected in the provincial election that year was Liberal candidate Bharat Agnihotri. He took just under 34% of the popular vote and won by a razor thin plurality of 200 votes over his Progressive Conservative opponent, and just 1200 votesl over his NDP opponent.
The Progressive Conservatives won the riding in the 2008 election when its candidate Naresh Bhardwaj defeated the incumbent MLA trying for re-election and won the set with 42% of the popular vote. The 2012 result was about the same with the P-C candidate winning with a minority of the vote.
NDP candidate Rod Loyola won the seat three consecutive times - 2015, 2019, and 2013.
| 2004 Senate nominee election results Edmonton-Ellerslie[2] | Turnout 43.51% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % votes | % ballots | Rank | Independent | Link Byfield | 3,314 | 11.82% | 38.33% | 4 | Michael Roth | 2,901 | 10.35% | 33.55% | 7 | Vance Gough | 2,574 | 9.18% | 29.77% | 8 | Independent | Tom Sindlinger | 2,531 | 9.03% | 29.27% | 9 | Gary Horan | 2,524 | 9.00% | 29.19% | 10 | |
| Total votes | 28,044 | 100% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total ballots | 8,647 | 3.24 votes per ballot | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 1,688 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Participating schools[3] | |
|---|---|
| Holy Trinity Catholic High School | |
| J. Percy Page High School |
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 had 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 who reside in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district than where they were physically located.
| 2004 Alberta student vote results[4] | ||||||||||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | Liberal | Bharat Agnihotri | 321 | 35.99% | NDP | Marilyn Assheton-Smith | 142 | 15.92% | |
| Total | 892 | 100% | ||||||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 24 | |||||||||||
| 2012 Alberta student vote results | ||||||||||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | Liberal | Jennifer Ketsa | % | NDP | Rod Loyola | % | |||
| Total | 100% | |||||||||||