Bonnyville-Cold Lake

Bonnyville-Cold Lake

Alberta electoral district
2010 boundaries
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA	Scott Cyr Wildrose
District created	1997
First contested	1997
Last contested	2015

Bonnyville-Cold Lake is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 87 current districts mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting. It is currently represented by Wildrose MLA Scott Cyr, who was first elected in 2015.

Geography

Municipalities within Bonnyville-Cold Lake.

This primarily rural electoral district is found in northeastern Alberta along the Saskatchewan border. The riding is coterminous with the Municipal District of Bonnyville No. 87, and also contains the following municipalities:

• The City of Cold Lake (including CFB Cold Lake)
• The Town of Bonnyville
• The Village of Glendon
• The summer villages of Bonnyville Beach and Pelican Narrows
• The Kehewin First Nation, the Cold Lake First Nations (in three reserves), and the Frog Lake First Nation (in two reserves: Unipouheos and Puskiakiwenin)
• The Elizabeth and Fishing Lake Métis Settlements in the southeast of the riding (not pictured on map).

The district borders Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills to the North, West and Southwest, and Vermilion-Lloydminster to the Southeast.

History

The district was created in the 1997 Boundary redistribution from the electoral district of Bonnyville, retaining the same boundaries as the old district. The riding had been held from its creation until 2015 by the Progressive Conservatives, although the Liberals held the antecedent riding from 1993 to 1997.

Boundary history

The 2003 redistribution saw the riding lose some uninhabited territory in its north, part of the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range, to Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills. This gave Bonnyville-Cold Lake the same boundaries as the Municipal District.

48 Bonnyville-Cold Lake 2003 Boundaries[1]
Bordering Districts
North	East	West	South
Lac La Biche-St. Paul	Saskatchewan border	Lac La Biche-St. Paul	Lac La Biche-St. Paul, Vermilion-Lloydminster
riding map goes here
Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act.
Starting at the east boundary of Sec. 35, Twp. 66, Rge. 9 W4 and the south boundary of the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range (CLAWR); then 1. east along the south boundary of CLAWR to the east boundary of the Province; 2. south along the east boundary of the Province to the south boundary of Fishing Lake Métis Settlement; 3. west and south along the Métis Settlement boundary to the east boundary of Unipouheous Indian Reserve No. 121; 4. south, west and north along Indian Reserve No. 121 to the south boundary of Puskiakiwenin Indian Reserve No. 122; 5. west, north and east along the boundary of Indian Reserve No. 122 to the east boundary of Rge. 4 W4; 6. north along the east boundary of Rge. 4 W4 to the north boundary of Twp. 58; 7. west along the north boundary of Twp. 58 to the east boundary of Kehewin Indian Reserve No. 123; 8. south, west and north along the Indian Reserve boundary to the north boundary of Twp. 58; 9. west along the north boundary to the east boundary of the west half of Sec. 1 in Twp. 59, Rge. 9 W4; 10. north along the east boundary of the west half of Secs. 1, 12, 13, 24, 25 and 36 in the Twp. and the east boundary of the west half of Secs. 1, 12 and 13 in Twp. 60, Rge. 9 W4 to the north boundary of Sec. 13 in the Twp.; 11. west along the north boundary of Secs. 13, 14, 15 and 16 to the east boundary of Sec. 20 in the Twp.; 12. north along the east boundary of Secs. 20, 29 and 32 in the Twp. to the north boundary of Twp. 60; 13. west along the north boundary to the east boundary of the west half of Sec. 5 in Twp. 61, Rge. 9 W4; 14. north along the east boundary of the west half of Secs. 5, 8, 17, 20, 29 and 32 in the Twp. to the north boundary of Twp. 61; 15. west along the north boundary to the east boundary of Sec. 6 in Twp. 62, Rge. 9 W4; 16. north along the east boundary to the north boundary of the south half of Sec. 16; 17. west along the north boundary of the south half of Sec. 6 in the Twp. and Secs. 1 and 2 in Twp. 62, Rge. 10 W4 to the east boundary of the west half of Sec. 2 in the Twp.; 18. north along the east boundary of the west half of Secs. 2, 11, 14, 23, 26 and 35 in the Twp. and the east boundary of Sec. 2 in Twp. 63 to the intersection with the Beaver River; 19. upstream along the right bank of the Beaver River to the east boundary of Sec. 9 in Twp. 63, Rge. 10 W4; 20. north along the east boundary of Secs. 9, 16, 21, 28 and 33 in the Twp. and the east boundary of Secs. 4, 9, 16, 21, 28 and 33 in Twp. 64, Rge. 10 W4 and the east boundary of Sec. 4 in Twp. 65 to the north boundary of Sec. 3 in Twp. 65, Rge. 10 W4; 21. east along the north boundary of Secs. 3, 2 and 1 in the Twp. and the north boundary of Secs. 6 and 5 in Rge. 9 to the east boundary of Sec. 8, Twp. 65, Rge. 9 W4; 22. north along the east boundary of Secs. 8, 17, 20 and 29 to the north boundary of Sec. 28 in the Twp.; 23. east along the north boundary of Secs. 28, 27 and 26 to the east boundary of Sec. 35 in the Twp.; 24. north along the east boundary of Sec. 35 in the Twp. and Secs. 2, 11, 14, 23, 26 and 35 in Twp. 66, Rge. 9 W4 to the starting point.
Note:

In the 2010 Boundary redistribution the riding remained unchanged with no boundary alterations from the 2003 boundaries.^[2]

52 Bonnyville-Cold Lake 2010 Boundaries[3]
Bordering Districts
North	East	West	South
Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills		Saskatchewan border	Vermilion-Lloydminster
Note: No changes were made to the riding in the 2010 Boundary Redistribution[2]

Representation history

In the district's first election in 1997, Progressive Conservative candidate Dennis Ducharme defeated incumbent Liberal MLA Leo Vasseur by a wide margin to pick up the newly-renamed district for his party.

Ducharme was re-elected with landslides in 2001 with over 70% of the vote and in 2004 with almost 65% of the vote. He was appointed to the cabinet briefly in 2006 under the government of Ralph Klein. He retired in 2008.

The second representative of the district was Genia Leskiw. She won her first election with a landslide of over 75% of the popular vote, and held the riding from Wildrose challenger Roy Doonanco in 2012 by only a 7% margin.

In the 2015 election, Wildrose candidate Scott Cyr won by a significant margin over Progressive Conservative candidate Craig Copeland, who was running during a hiatus from being the mayor of Cold Lake.

Legislature results

1997 general election

2001 general election

2004 general election

2008 general election

2012 general election

2015 general election

Senate nominee results

2004 Senate nominee election district results

Voters had the option of selecting 4 Candidates on the Ballot

2012 Senate nominee election district results

Voters had the option of selecting 3 Candidates on the Ballot

Student Vote results

2004 election

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 have 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 that reside in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district then where they were physically located.

2012 election

References

External links

• Website of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

Coordinates: 54°01′44″N 110°27′29″W / 54.029°N 110.458°W / 54.029; -110.458