Edmonton-Gold Bar is a provincial electoral district, in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 87 in the province mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting. The district is primarily urban and located in the central east portion of city of Edmonton. It was created in the 1971 boundary redistribution from part of Strathcona East. In addition to its namesake neighbourhood of Gold Bar, the riding also contains the neighbourhoods of Capilano, Fulton Place, Terrace Heights, Forest Heights, Ottewell, Kenilworth, Holyrood, Avonmore, King Edward Park, Cloverdale, Bonnie Doon, Idylwylde, and Strathearn.

The district is currently represented by Marlin Schmidt of the Alberta NDP.

History The electoral district was created in the 1971 boundary redistribution from the old electoral district of Strathcona East.

The 2010 boundary redistribution saw significant changes to the riding. All the land north of the North Saskatchewan River was ceded to Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood, while the south boundary was moved from 92 Avenue to 82 Avenue to the Canadian Pacific Rail line to 63 Avenue into Edmonton-Mill Creek. The west boundary changed from Connors Road to travel through the Mill Creek Ravine. Its neighbour to the west is Edmonton-Strathcona.

Boundary history 32 Edmonton-Gold Bar 2003 boundariesBordering districtsNorthEastWestSouthEdmonton-Highlands-NorwoodSherwood ParkEdmonton-Calder and Edmonton-CentreEdmonton-Mill Creek and Edmonton-Strathconariding map goes hereLegal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act.Starting at the intersection of 97 Street with Norwood Boulevard; then 1. northeast along Norwood Boulevard and 112 Avenue to the Light Rail Transit (LRT) Line; 2. southwest along the LRT line to 84 Street; 3. south along 84 Street to Jasper Avenue; 4. northeast along Jasper Avenue to 82 Street; 5. south along the extension of 82 Street to the right bank of the North Saskatchewan River; 6. east along the right bank of the North Saskatchewan River to the east Edmonton city boundary; 7. south, east and south along the Edmonton city boundary to 92 Avenue; 8. west along 92 Avenue to 50 Street; 9. south along 50 Street to 90 Avenue; 10. northwest along 90 Avenue to Connors Road; 11. northwest along Connors Road to the Low Level Bridge and the right bank of the North Saskatchewan River; 12. northeast along the right bank of the North Saskatchewan River to the southerly extension of 97 Street; 13. north along the extension and 97 Street to the starting point.Note:

35 Edmonton-Gold Bar 2010 boundariesBordering districtsNorthEastWestSouthEdmonton-Beverly-Clareview and Edmonton-Highlands-NorwoodSherwood ParkEdmonton-Centre and Edmonton-StrathconaEdmonton-Mill CreekNote: Boundary descriptions were not used in the 2010 redistribution

Representation history Members of the Legislative Assembly for Edmonton-Gold BarAssemblyYearsMemberPartySee: Strathcona East 1959-197117th1971–1975William YurkoProgressive Conservative18th1975–19791979Vacant19th1979–1982Al HiebertProgressive Conservative20th1982–198621st1986–1989Bettie HewesLiberal22nd1989–199323rd1993–199724th1997–2001Hugh MacDonald25th2001–200426th2004–200827th2008–201228th2012–2015David DorwardProgressive Conservative29th2015–2019Marlin SchmidtNew Democratic30th2019–202331st2023–

The electoral district was created in the 1971 boundary redistribution. The election that year saw Strathcona East incumbent Progressive Conservative MLA William Yurko run here due to his old seat being abolished.

Yurko faced two other candidates in the election held that year and won the new district with a comfortable majority to pick up the seat for his party. After the election Premier Peter Lougheed appointed Yurko as a cabinet minister. He ran for a second term in the 1975 general election. Yurko won a bigger percentage despite losing some of his popular vote as the opposition vote collapsed.

Yurko resigned from his cabinet post in 1978 with the intention of seeking the nomination the Progressive Conservative nomination in Edmonton East for the 1979 federal election. He won the nomination and resigned his seat in early 1979.

The election in 1979 saw Progressive Conservative candidate Al Hiebert easily win a four cornered race to hold the open seat for his party. Hiebert was re-elected with a larger majority in the 1982 general election.

The 1986 election in the district saw a major upset with Hiebert getting defeated by Liberal candidate Bettie Hewes who managed to increase the Liberal vote in the district by over 5800 votes. Hewes won a stronger majority when she was re-elected to her second term in the 1989 general election. She won a landslide running for her third term winning the highest popular vote of any candidate in the 1993 general election. After the election Hewes briefly served as a leader of the opposition and of the Liberal party. She did not run for re-election in 1997 and retired at dissolution of the assembly.

Since 2015, the representative for Edmonton Goldbar has been Marlin Schmidt of the Alberta New Democratic Party.

Legislative election results

1971

1975

1979

1982

1986

1989

1993

1997

2001

2004 Sukhi Randhawa won the Conservative nomination for Edmonton Gold Bar but later withdrew his candidacy. A new nomination meeting was held.

2008

2012

2015

2019

2023

Senate nominee election results

2004 2004 Senate nominee election results: Edmonton-Gold BarTurnout 55.03%AffiliationCandidateVotes% votes% ballotsRankIndependentLink Byfield3,97014.23%40.92%4IndependentTom Sindlinger2,89510.37%29.84%9Michael Roth2,5949.30%26.74%7Vance Gough2,3428.39%24.14%8Gary Horan2,2518.07%23.20%10Total votes27,907100%Total ballots9,7012.88 votes per ballotRejected, spoiled and declined4,235 Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot

Student vote results

2004 Participating schoolsAustin O'Brien High SchoolBraemar SchoolMcNally High SchoolOttewell SchoolSt. Gabriel 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 that reside 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 resultsAffiliationCandidateVotes%LiberalHugh MacDonald47747.23%NDPKeith Turnbull21421.19%IndependentDave Dowling282.77%Total1,010100%Rejected, spoiled and declined43

2012 2012 Alberta student vote resultsAffiliationCandidateVotes%LiberalJosipa Petrunic%NDPMarlin Schmidt%Total 100%

See also List of Alberta provincial electoral districts Canadian provincial electoral districts

References

External links Website of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta CBC's election coverage