Stony Plain (electoral district)

Stony Plain, originally named Stonyplain, was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1905 to 2019.[1] The district returned a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta throughout its history, using the first past the post method of voting for most of its existence but single transferable vote from 1926 to 1957.

Stony Plain

Alberta electoral district
2010 boundaries
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
District created	1905
District abolished	2019
First contested	1905
Last contested	2015

The district was created in 1905 when Alberta became a province. The riding in its original boundaries stretched from the west Edmonton city limits to the British Columbia border, but over time it was significantly reduced in size. The riding was named Stonyplain from 1905 to 1909 before being changed to Stony Plain.

History

Stony Plain was founded as Stonyplain, one of the original 25 electoral districts contested in the 1905 Alberta general election upon Alberta joining Confederation in September 1905. It was renamed Stony Plain for the 1909 Alberta general election, retaining this name until its abolition. The original boundaries of the riding took it to the British Columbia from west Edmonton city limits, but over the next hundred years the riding was significantly decreased in area to a small fraction of its former size.[2]

The 2010 electoral boundary re-distribution saw the riding transfer land north of Alberta Highway 16 to the electoral district of Whitecourt-Ste. Anne. In the 2017 re-distribution, the riding was abolished, with the town of Stony Plain moved to Spruce Grove-Stony Plain and the rural areas transferred to Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland and Drayton Valley-Devon. The area continued to be represented in the Legislative Assembly until the 2019 election, when new riding borders took effect.[3]

Boundary history

77 Stony Plain 2003 boundaries[4]
Bordering districts
North	East	West	South
Spruce Grove-Sturgeon-St. Albert, Whitecourt-Ste. Anne	Edmonton-Calder, Edmonton-Meadowlark, Edmonton-McClung, Edmonton-Whitemud, Leduc-Beaumont-Devon	Whitecourt-Ste. Anne	Drayton Valley-Calmar
riding map goes here
Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act
Starting at the intersection of the right bank of the Pembina River and the north boundary of Twp. 54; then 1. east along the north boundary to the east boundary of Sec. 33 in Twp. 54, Rge. 6 W5; 2. south along the east boundary of Secs. 33, 28, 21, 16, 9 and 4 in the Twp. and the east boundary of Secs. 33 and 28 in Twp. 53, Rge. 6 W5 to the north shore of Isle Lake; 3. in a generally northeasterly direction along the north shore to the north boundary of Twp. 53; 4. east along the north boundary to the east boundary of Sec. 32 in Twp. 53, Rge. 5 W5; 5. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of Sec. 28 in the Twp.; 6. east along the north boundary of ecs. 28, 27, 26 and 25 in the Twp. and the north boundary of Secs. 30, 29, 28, 27, 26 and 25 in Twp. 53, Rges. 4 and 3 W5 and the north boundary of Secs. 30 and 29 in Twp. 53, Rge. 2 W5 to the east boundary of Sec. 29; 7. south along the east boundary to the north boundary of Sec. 21 in the Twp.; 8. east along the north boundary of Secs. 21, 22, 23 and 24 in the Twp. and the north boundary of Sec. 19 in Twp. 53, Rge. 1 W5 to the east boundary of Sec. 30 in the Twp.; 9. north along the east boundary of Secs. 30 and 31 in the Twp. and the east boundary of Secs. 6 and 7 in Twp. 54, Rge. 1 W5 to the north boundary of Sec. 8 in the Twp.; 10. east along the north boundary of Secs. 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 in the Twp. and the north boundary of Sec. 12 in Twp. 54, Rge. 28 W4 and the north boundary of Secs. 7, 8 and 9 in Twp. 54, Rge. 27 W4 to the east boundary of Sec. 9 in the Twp.; 11. south along the east boundary of Secs. 9 and 4 in the Twp. and the east boundary of Secs. 33, 28, 21, 16 and 9 in Twp. 53, Rge. 27 W4 to the north Spruce Grove city boundary; 12. westerly, southerly, easterly and north along the city boundary to the north boundary of Twp. 52; 13. east along the north boundary to the west Edmonton city boundary; 14. southerly and easterly along the city boundary to the right bank of the North Saskatchewan River; 15. upstream along the right bank to the east boundary of Sec. 21, Twp. 50, Rge. 6 W5; 16. north along the east boundary to the north boundary of Sec. 21; 17. west along the north boundary of Secs. 21 and 20 in the Twp. to the east boundary of Sec. 30 in the Twp.; 18. north along the east boundary to the north boundary of Sec. 30; 19. west along the north boundary to the east boundary of Rge. 7 W5; 20. north along the east boundary to the north boundary of Twp. 50; 21. west along the north boundary to the right bank of the Pembina River; 22. downstream along the right bank of the Pembina River to the starting point.
Note:

81 Stony Plain 2010 boundaries
Bordering districts
North	East	West	South
Spruce Grove-St. Albert and Whitecourt-Ste. Anne	Edmonton-Meadowlark and Edmonton-South West	Whitecourt-Ste. Anne	Drayton Valley-Devon and Leduc-Beaumont
Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act
Note:

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Stony Plain[5]
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
1st	1905–1909		John McPherson	Liberal
2nd	1909–1913
3rd	1913–1917		Conrad Weidenhammer	Conservative
4th	1917–1921		Frederick Lundy
5th	1921–1926		Willard Washburn	United Farmers
6th	1926–1930
7th	1930–1935		Donald Macleod
8th	1935–1939		William Hayes	Social Credit
	1939–1940		Vacant
9th	1940–1944		Cornelia Wood	Social Credit
10th	1944–1948
11th	1948–1952
12th	1952–1955
13th	1955–1959		John McLaughlin	Liberal
14th	1959–1963		Cornelia Wood	Social Credit
15th	1963–1967
	1967			Independent
16th	1967–1971		Ralph Jespersen	Social Credit
17th	1971–1975		William Purdy	Progressive Conservative
18th	1975–1979
19th	1979–1982
20th	1982–1986
21st	1986–1989		Jim Heron
22nd	1989–1993		Stan Woloshyn	New Democrat
	1993			Progressive Conservative
23rd	1993–1997
24th	1997–2001
25th	2001–2004
26th	2004–2008		Fred Lindsay
27th	2008–2012
28th	2012–2015		Ken Lemke
29th	2015–2019		Erin Babcock	New Democrat
See Spruce Grove-Stony Plain, Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland, and Drayton Valley-Devon 2019–

Electoral history

The electoral district of Stony Plain was created when the province was first formed in 1905. It was one of the longest-surviving original districts, remaining intact for every boundary redistribution until 2017.

The first election in 1905 saw a three-way battle which was handily won by Liberal candidate John McPherson, who was reelected in 1909. He was defeated by Conservative party candidate Conrad Weidenhammer in 1913, who chose to retire after a single term. Conservative Frederick Lundy won the tight 1917 race to hold the district. He ran again in the 1921 election, but was defeated by United Farmers candidate Willard Washburn in a landslide. Washburn held the district for two terms before retiring in 1930. The United Farmers ran candidate Donald Macleod who held the district in a tight race over Liberal candidate George Bryan.

Macleod was defeated in 1935, finishing a very distant third place to Social Credit candidate William Hayes. The seat became vacant when Hayes died on April 2, 1939,[6] and it would not be filled before the 1940 election. Cornelia Wood was nominated to be the Social Credit candidate, she won the district for her party in a tight race that went to ballot transfers. Wood was re-elected for three terms before being defeated by Liberal candidate John McLaughlin in 1955. McLaughlin would be defeated by Wood again in 1959. The two ran against each other twice more, with Wood coming up the winner each time.

Wood lost her nomination race to run as the Social Credit candidate again in the 1967 general election to Ralph Jespersen.[7] She later left the Social Credit caucus on April 24, 1967 to run as an Independent Social Credit candidate.[8] She would be defeated finishing a distant fourth place in a landslide by Jespersen.

Jespersen would only last a single term in office before being defeated by William Purdy in the 1971 general election. Purdy was re-elected three more times before retiring at dissolution in 1986. His replacement in the legislature was Progressive Conservative candidate Jim Heron. Heron served a term in office before being defeated by New Democrat Stan Woloshyn.

Woloshyn only stayed with the NDP caucus for a few years before crossing the floor to the Progressive Conservative caucus on February 23, 1993. He ran for re-election as a Progressive Conservative that year and won. In 1996 Premier Ralph Klein appointed him to the provincial cabinet. He won re-election again in 1997 and 2001 before retiring in 2004.

Fred Lindsay replaced Woloshyn in 2004 as the Progressive Conservative MLA for the riding and was re-elected in 2008. Former mayor Ken Lemke retained the riding for the PCs in the 2012 election. The last person to represent Stony Plain was Erin Babcock, who won the riding for the Alberta New Democratic Party in the 2015 election. At the 2019 election, the first after the riding was abolished, Babcock ran for reelection in the new Spruce Grove-Stony Plain riding, but lost to Searle Turton from the United Conservative Party. Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland and Drayton Valley-Devon, the other ridings to take in parts of the former Stony Plain riding, were also won by United Conservatives.

Election results

1905 general election

1905 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John A. McPherson	354	57.94%	–
	Conservative	Dan Bronx	187	30.61%	–
	Independent	Conrad Weidenhammer	70	11.46%	–
Total			611	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			N/A	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			N/A	N/A	–
	Liberal pickup new district.
Source(s) Source: "Stony Plain Official Results 1905 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1909 general election

1909 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John A. McPherson	398	43.74%	-14.20%
	Independent	Dan Bronx	250	27.47%	16.02%
	Independent	Charlie R. Cropley	154	16.92%	5.47%
	Conservative	John McKinley	108	11.87%	-18.74%
Total			910	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			N/A	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			N/A	N/A	–
	Liberal hold		Swing		-5.53%
Source(s) Source: "Stony Plain Official Results 1909 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1913 general election

1913 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Conrad Weidenhammer	577	61.06%	49.19%
	Liberal	John A. McPherson	368	38.94%	-4.79%
Total			945	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			N/A	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			N/A	N/A	–
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		2.93%
Source(s) Source: "Stony Plain Official Results 1913 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1917 general election

1917 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Frederick W. Lundy	744	51.35%	-9.71%
	Liberal	Francis A. Smith	705	48.65%	9.71%
Total			1,449	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			N/A	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			N/A	N/A	–
	Conservative hold		Swing		-9.71%
Source(s) Source: "Stony Plain Official Results 1917 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1921 general election

1921 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Farmers	Willard M. Washburn	1,001	50.02%	–
	Liberal	Jake Miller	647	32.33%	-16.32%
	Conservative	Frederick W. Lundy	306	15.29%	-36.05%
	Independent	Dan Brox	47	2.35%	–
Total			2,001	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			N/A	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			N/A	N/A	–
	United Farmers gain from Conservative		Swing		7.50%
Source(s) Source: "Stony Plain Official Results 1921 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1926 general election

1926 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Farmers	Willard M. Washburn	759	40.72%	-9.31%
	Liberal	Frederick W. Lundy	414	22.21%	-10.12%
	Conservative	Richard M. Oatway	368	19.74%	4.45%
	Independent Liberal	M. McKinley	323	17.33%	–
Total			1,864	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			203	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			2,997	68.97%	–
	United Farmers hold		Swing		0.41%
Source(s) Source: "Stony Plain Official Results 1926 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1930 general election

1930 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Farmers	Donald Macleod	1,406	53.00%	12.28%
	Liberal	George J. Bryan	1,247	47.00%	24.79%
Total			2,653	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			219	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			4,150	69.20%	0.24%
	United Farmers hold		Swing		-6.26%
Source(s) Source: "Stony Plain Official Results 1930 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1935 general election

1935 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	William E. Hayes	2,832	59.16%	–
	Liberal	George J. Bryan	1,472	30.75%	-16.25%
	United Farmers	Donald Macleod	312	6.52%	-46.48%
	Conservative	R. C. Johnson	171	3.57%	–
Total			4,787	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			177	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			5,993	82.83%	13.63%
	Social Credit gain from United Farmers		Swing		11.21%
Source(s) Source: "Stony Plain Official Results 1935 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1940 general election

1940 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	±%
	Social Credit	Cornelia R. Wood	1,914	44.72%	2,213	-14.44%
	Independent	William J. Connolly	1,228	28.69%	1,606	–
	Co-operative Commonwealth	T. J. Hardwick	942	22.01%	–	–
	Independent Farmer	George E. Bevington	196	4.58%	–	–
Total			4,280	–	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			168	–	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			6,124	72.63%	-10.20%	–
	Social Credit hold		Swing		-6.19%
Source(s) Source: "Stony Plain Official Results 1940 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Instant-runoff voting requires a candidate to receive a plurality (greater than 50%) of the votes. As no candidate received a plurality of votes, the bottom candidate was eliminated and their 2nd place votes were applied to both other candidates until one received a plurality

1944 general election

1944 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Cornelia R. Wood	2,557	65.10%	20.38%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Harold Anderson	1,371	34.90%	12.89%
Total			3,928	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			48	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			5,683	69.96%	-2.67%
	Social Credit hold		Swing		7.08%
Source(s) Source: "Stony Plain Official Results 1944 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1948 general election

1948 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Cornelia R. Wood	2,188	53.40%	-11.69%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Harold Anderson	1,037	25.31%	-9.59%
	Liberal	William K. Robertson	872	21.28%	–
Total			4,097	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			222	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			6,267	68.92%	-1.05%
	Social Credit hold		Swing		-1.05%
Source(s) Source: "Stony Plain Official Results 1948 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1952 general election

1952 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes 1st count	%	Votes final count	±%
	Social Credit	Cornelia R. Wood	1,991	46.62%	2,177	-6.79%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	John M. Evien	1,218	28.52%	1,530	3.21%
	Liberal	Charles L. Wudel	1,062	24.87%	–	3.58%
Total			4,271	–	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			345	–	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			6,716	68.73%	-0.19%	–
	Social Credit hold		Swing		-5.00%
Source(s) Source: "Stony Plain Official Results 1952 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Instant-runoff voting requires a candidate to receive a plurality (greater than 50%) of the votes. As no candidate received a plurality of votes, the bottom candidate was eliminated and their 2nd place votes were applied to both other candidates until one received a plurality

1955 general election

1955 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Harold McLaughlin	2,865	52.95%	28.08%
	Social Credit	Cornelia R. Wood	1,788	33.04%	-13.57%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	John M. Evien	758	14.01%	-14.51%
Total			5,411	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			427	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			8,173	71.43%	2.70%
	Liberal gain from Social Credit		Swing		0.90%
Source(s) Source: "Stony Plain Official Results 1955 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1959 general election

1959 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Cornelia R. Wood	2,880	46.47%	13.42%
	Liberal	John Harold McLaughlin	2,091	33.74%	-19.21%
	Progressive Conservative	Robert K. Clarkson	1,227	19.80%	–
Total			6,198	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			29	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			9,403	66.22%	-5.21%
	Social Credit gain from Liberal		Swing		-3.59%
Source(s) Source: "Stony Plain Official Results 1959 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1963 general election

1963 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Cornelia R. Wood	2,716	48.18%	1.72%
	Liberal	John Harold McLaughlin	1,065	18.89%	-14.84%
	Progressive Conservative	Peter Germaniuk	903	16.02%	-3.78%
	Independent Movement	Rudolph Zander	595	10.56%	–
	New Democratic	Conral D. (Red) Fuhr	358	6.35%	–
Total			5,637	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			868	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			10,445	62.28%	-3.94%
	Social Credit hold		Swing		8.28%
Source(s) Source: "Stony Plain Official Results 1963 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1967 general election

1967 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Ralph A. Jespersen	2,316	36.43%	-11.76%
	New Democratic	Maurice R. McCullagh	1,855	29.18%	22.82%
	Progressive Conservative	Frank Flanagan	1,670	26.27%	10.25%
	Independent Social Credit	Cornelia R. Wood	517	8.13%	–
Total			6,358	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			31	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			9,838	64.94%	2.66%
	Social Credit hold		Swing		-11.02%
Source(s) Source: "Stony Plain Official Results 1967 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1971 general election

1971 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	William (Bill) F. Purdy	3,348	48.48%	22.21%
	Social Credit	Ralph A. Jespersen	2,788	40.37%	3.94%
	New Democratic	Michael Crowson	770	11.15%	-18.03%
Total			6,906	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			44	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			10,098	68.83%	3.88%
	Progressive Conservative gain from Social Credit		Swing		0.43%
Source(s) Source: "Stony Plain Official Results 1971 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1975 general election

1975 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	William (Bill) F. Purdy	5,109	63.53%	15.05%
	Social Credit	Dean Throness	1,113	13.84%	-26.53%
	New Democratic	Jim Bell	923	11.48%	0.33%
	Liberal	Betty Howery	628	7.81%	–
	Independent Progressive Conservative	Arthur Killoran	269	3.34%	–
Total			8,042	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			28	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			13,720	58.82%	-10.01%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		20.79%
Source(s) Source: "Stony Plain Official Results 1975 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1979 general election

1979 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	William (Bill) F. Purdy	6,927	58.94%	-4.59%
	Social Credit	Oscar Venoasen	2,274	19.35%	5.51%
	Liberal	Andy R. McKinnon	1,250	10.64%	2.83%
	New Democratic	Sara Johnson	1,218	10.36%	-1.11%
	Independent Conservative	Eleanor T. Louden	83	0.71%	–
Total			11,752	–	–
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			N/A	–	–
Eligible electors / Turnout			19,212	61.17%	2.35%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-5.05%
Source(s) Source: "Stony Plain Official Results 1979 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1982 general election

1982 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	William (Bill) F. Purdy	10,210	59.77%	0.83%
	New Democratic	Jim Bell	2,905	17.01%	6.64%
	Western Canada Concept	John G. Parkes	2,337	13.68%	–
	Independent	Ernie Clintberg	1,048	6.14%	–
	Social Credit	Ralph Eikeland	299	1.75%	-17.60%
	Reform	Murray Fuhr	202	1.18%	–
	Independent	Dick Martens	80	0.47%	–
Total			17,081	–	–
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			14	–	–
Eligible electors / Turnout			25,523	66.98%	5.81%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		1.59%
Source(s) Source: "Stony Plain Official Results 1982 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1986 general election

1986 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Jim P. Heron	4,535	43.63%	-16.15%
	New Democratic	Rick Hardy	3,046	29.30%	12.30%
	Representative	Ernest Clintberg	1,343	12.92%	–
	Liberal	Ed Wilson	1,285	12.36%	–
	Western Canada Concept	J. Richard Dougherty	186	1.79%	-11.89%
Total			10,395	–	–
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			12	–	–
Eligible electors / Turnout			21,923	47.47%	-19.51%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-14.22%
Source(s) Source: "Stony Plain Official Results 1986 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1989 general election

1989 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Stan Woloshyn	4,699	37.32%	8.01%
	Progressive Conservative	Jim P. Heron	4,604	36.56%	-7.06%
	Liberal	Dan Fitze	2,732	21.70%	9.33%
	Social Credit	John Torringa	557	4.42%	–
Total			12,592	–	–
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			8	–	–
Eligible electors / Turnout			22,866	55.10%	7.63%
	New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		-6.78%
Source(s) Source: "Stony Plain Official Results 1989 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1993 general election

1993 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Stan Woloshyn	4,855	41.32%	4.76%
	Liberal	Albert Schatzke	4,607	39.21%	17.51%
	New Democratic	Laurence Johnson	1,481	12.60%	-24.71%
	Social Credit	Gary Morton	674	5.74%	1.31%
	Natural Law	Lois Burger	133	1.13%	–
Total			11,750	–	–
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			14	–	–
Eligible electors / Turnout			19,569	60.12%	5.01%
	Progressive Conservative gain from New Democratic		Swing		0.68%
Source(s) Source: "Stony Plain Official Results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1997 general election

1997 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Stan Woloshyn	6,267	48.92%	7.60%
	Liberal	Peter Marchiel	3,906	30.49%	-8.72%
	Social Credit	Pat Hansard	1,742	13.60%	7.86%
	New Democratic	Felice Young	895	6.99%	-5.62%
Total			12,810	–	–
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			20	–	–
Eligible electors / Turnout			21,383	60.00%	-0.11%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		8.16%
Source(s) Source: "Stony Plain Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2001 general election

2001 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Stan Woloshyn	9,197	67.20%	18.28%
	Liberal	Monika Cappis	3,228	23.59%	-6.91%
	New Democratic	Stephen Lindop	1,261	9.21%	2.23%
Total			13,686	–	–
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			28	–	–
Eligible electors / Turnout			23,668	57.94%	-2.06%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		12.59%
Source(s) Source: "Stony Plain Official Results 2001 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2004 general election

2004 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Fred Lindsay	5,581	44.51%	-22.69%
	Liberal	Bill Fraser	3,381	26.97%	3.38%
	Alberta Alliance	Marilyn Burns	1,904	15.19%	–
	New Democratic	Ruth Yanor	1,362	10.86%	1.65%
	Social Credit	Henry Neumann	310	2.47%	–
Total			12,538	–	–
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			44	–	–
Eligible electors / Turnout			26,086	48.23%	-9.71%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-13.03%
Source(s) Source: "Stony Plain Official Results 2004 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2008 general election

2008 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Fred Lindsay	8,467	63.38%	18.87%
	Liberal	Bill Fraser	2,552	19.10%	-7.86%
	New Democratic	Shelina Brown	976	7.31%	-3.56%
	Wildrose Alliance	Sandy Pariseau	793	5.94%	-9.25
	Green	Nora Shea	571	4.27%	–
Total			13,359	–	–
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			36	–	–
Eligible electors / Turnout			29,026	46.15%	-2.08%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		13.37%
Source(s) Source: "Elections Alberta 2008 General Election". Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2012 general election

2012 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Ken Lemke	7,490	45.22%	-18.16%
	Wildrose	Hal Tagg	6,254	37.76%	31.83%
	New Democratic	Linda Robinson	1,324	7.99%	0.69%
	Liberal	Arlin Biffert	1,128	6.81%	-12.29%
	Alberta Party	Kurtis Ewanchuk	217	1.31%	–
	Evergreen	Matthew Burnett	149	0.90%	-3.37
Total			16,562	–	–
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			77	–	–
Eligible electors / Turnout			30,316	54.89%	8.74%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-18.41%
Source(s) Source: "81 - Stony Plain Official Results 2012 Alberta general election". Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2015 general election

2015 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Erin Babcock	7,268	37.83%	29.83%
	Wildrose	Kathy Rondeau	5,586	29.07%	-8.69%
	Progressive Conservative	Ken Lemke	4,944	25.73%	-19.49%
	Liberal	Mike Hanlon	657	3.42%	-3.39%
	Alberta Party	Sandy Simmie	538	2.80%	1.49%
	Green	Matthew Burnett	220	1.15%	0.25%
Total			19,213	–	–
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			66	–	–
Eligible electors / Turnout			32,852	58.68%	3.80%
	New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		0.65%
Source(s) Source: "81 - Stony Plain Official Results 2015 Alberta general election". Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

Senate nominee results

2004 Senate nominee election district results

2004 Senate nominee election results: Stony Plain[9]					Turnout 48.33%
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	% votes	% ballots	Rank
	Progressive Conservative	Cliff Breitkreuz	5,469	16.67%	50.51%	3
	Progressive Conservative	Betty Unger	4,753	14.49%	43.90%	2
	Independent	Link Byfield	3,783	11.53%	34.94%	4
	Progressive Conservative	Bert Brown	3,684	11.23%	34.03%	1
	Alberta Alliance	Michael Roth	2,978	9.08%	27.51%	7
	Alberta Alliance	Gary Horan	2,690	8.20%	24.85%	10
	Alberta Alliance	Vance Gough	2,591	7.90%	23.93%	8
	Progressive Conservative	David Usherwood	2,364	7.21%	21.83%	6
	Progressive Conservative	Jim Silye	2,322	7.07%	21.45%	5
	Independent	Tom Sindlinger	2,173	6.62%	20.07%	9
Total votes			32,807	100%
Total ballots			10,827	3.03 votes per ballot
Rejected, spoiled and declined			1,779

Voters had the option of selecting 4 candidates on the ballot.

Plebiscite results

1948 electrification plebiscite

District results from the first province wide plebiscite on electricity regulation:

Option A	Option B
Are you in favour of the generation and distribution of electricity being continued by the Power Companies?	Are you in favour of the generation and distribution of electricity being made a publicly owned utility administered by the Alberta Government Power Commission?
1,360     35.88%	2,430     64.12%
Province wide result: Option A passed.

1957 liquor plebiscite

1957 Alberta liquor plebiscite results: Stony Plain[10]
Question A: Do you approve additional types of outlets for the sale of beer, wine and spirituous liquor subject to a local vote?
	Ballot choice	Votes	%
	Yes	2,372	72.01%
	No	922	27.99%
Total votes		2,864	100%
Rejected, spoiled and declined		38
8,663 eligible electors, turnout 38.64%

On October 30, 1957 a stand-alone plebiscite was held province wide in all 50 of the then current provincial electoral districts in Alberta. The government decided to consult Alberta voters to decide on liquor sales and mixed drinking after a divisive debate in the legislature. The plebiscite was intended to deal with the growing demand for reforming antiquated liquor control laws.[11]

The plebiscite was conducted in two parts. Question A, asked in all districts, asked the voters if the sale of liquor should be expanded in Alberta, while Question B, asked in a handful of districts within the corporate limits of Calgary and Edmonton, asked if men and women should be allowed to drink together in establishments.[10]

Province wide Question A of the plebiscite passed in 33 of the 50 districts while Question B passed in all five districts. Stony Plain voted in favour of the proposal by a landslide majority. Voter turnout in the district was well under the province wide average of 46%.[10]

Official district returns were released to the public on December 31, 1957.[10] The Social Credit government in power at the time did not consider the results binding.[12] However the results of the vote led the government to repeal all existing liquor legislation and introduce an entirely new Liquor Act.[13]

Municipal districts lying inside electoral districts that voted against the plebiscite were designated Local Option Zones by the Alberta Liquor Control Board and considered effective dry zones. Business owners who wanted a license had to petition for a binding municipal plebiscite in order to be granted a license.[14]

Student vote results

2004 student vote

Participating schools[15]
High Park School
John Paul II School
Muir Lake School
Seba Beach School
St. Johns School of Alberta
St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic High School
Wabamun 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 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 who resided in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district then where they were physically located.

2004 Alberta student vote results[16]
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Fred Lindsay	297	38.27%
	NDP	Ruth Yanor	183	23.58%
	Liberal	Bill Fraser	124	15.98%
	Alberta Alliance	Marilyn Burns	123	15.85%
	Social Credit	Henry Neumann	49	6.32%
Total			776	100%
Rejected, spoiled and declined			19

2012 student vote

2012 Alberta student vote results[17]
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Ken Lemke	329	33.43%
	Wildrose	Hal Tagg	275	27.95%
	Liberal	Arlin Biffert	150	15.24
	NDP	Linda Robinson	95	9.65%
	Evergreen	Matthew Burnett	73	7.42%
	Alberta Party	Kurtis Ewanchuk	62	6.30%
Total			984	100%

2015 student vote

2015 Alberta student vote results[18]
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%
	NDP	Erin Babcock	480	33.50%
	Wildrose	Kathy Rondeau	320	22.33%
	Progressive Conservative	Ken Lemke	228	15.91%
	Liberal	Mike Hanlon	178	12.42%
	Alberta Party	Sandy Simmie	126	8.79%
	Green	Matt Burnett	101	7.05%
Total			1433	100%

See also

• Alberta provincial electoral districts
• Stony Plain, a town in central Alberta

References

1. "Election results for Stony Plain". abheritage.ca. Wayback Machine: Heritage Community Foundation. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
2. Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (June 2010). "Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
3. Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (October 2017). "Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ISBN 978-1-988620-04-6. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
4. Electoral Divisions Act, S.A. 2003, c. E-4.1
5. "Members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta 1905-2006" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 30, 2007. Retrieved February 27, 2010.
6. "Premier Attends Members Funeral". Vol XXXII No. 97. Lethbridge Daily Herald. p. 5.
7. "Socred MLA Turned Aside". Vol. LX No. 53. The Lethbridge Daily Herald. February 13, 1967. p. 1.
8. "Former MLA says 'Meeting Mishandled'". Vol. LX No. 122. Lethbridge Daily Herald. April 24, 1967. p. 1.
9. "Senate Nominee Election 2004 Tabulation of Official Results" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 4, 2009. Retrieved February 28, 2010.
10. Alberta Gazette. 53 (December 31 ed.). Government of Alberta. 1957. pp. 2, 247–2, 249.
11. "Albertans Vote 2 to 1 For More Liquor Outlets". Vol L No 273. The Lethbridge Herald. October 31, 1957. pp. 1–2.
12. "No Sudden Change In Alberta Drinking Habits Is Seen". Vol L No 267. The Lethbridge Herald. October 24, 1957. p. 1.
13. "Entirely New Act On Liquor". Vol LI No 72. The Lethbridge Herald. March 5, 1958. p. 1.
14. "Bill 81". Alberta Bills 12th Legislature 1st Session. Government of Alberta. 1958. p. 40.
15. "School by School results". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 5, 2007. Retrieved 2008-04-27.
16. "Riding by Riding Results - the Candidates". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 6, 2007. Retrieved 2008-04-19.
17. "Student Vote Alberta 2012 - Stony Plain". Student Vote Canada. Retrieved 2015-05-13.
18. "STUDENT VOTE RESULTS - STONY PLAIN". Student Vote Canada. Retrieved 2015-05-13.

Further reading

• Office of the Chief Electoral Officer; Legislative Assembly Office (2006). A Century of Democracy: Elections of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1905-2005. The Centennial Series. Edmonton, AB: Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ISBN 0-9689217-8-7. Retrieved 25 May 2020.

External links

• Electoral Divisions Act 2003
• Demographics for Stony Plain
• Riding Map for Stony Plain
• Student Vote Alberta 2004
• Website of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
• Elections Alberta