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Electoral Divisions Act


Published: 2012-03-26

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ELECTORAL DIVISIONS ACT ELECTORAL DIVISIONS ACT
Chapter E‑4.2
Table of Contents
                1       Electoral divisions
                2       Names of electoral divisions
                3       Description of electoral divisions
                4       Regulations
                5       Appointment of returning officers and election clerks
                6       Consequential amendment
                7       Repeal
                8       Coming into force Schedule
HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, enacts as follows:
Electoral divisions
1   The electoral divisions for the purpose of the Election Act are the 87 electoral divisions established by this Act.
 
Names of electoral divisions
2   The names of the electoral divisions are those set out in the Schedule.
 
Description of electoral divisions
3   The boundaries of the electoral divisions are those described in the DVD prepared by the Chief Electoral Officer as directed by a resolution of the Legislative Assembly and tabled as Sessional Paper 315/2010.
 
Regulations
4   Notwithstanding section 3, if the boundary between 2 electoral divisions passes through a building used for one or more residences, the Chief Electoral Officer, after consultation with the returning officers for those electoral divisions, may by regulation prescribe the electoral division in which the building is to be located for the purposes of the Election Act.
 
Appointment of returning officers and election clerks
5   The Chief Electoral Officer may at any time before the coming into force of sections 1 to 4 appoint returning officers and election clerks for the electoral divisions established by this Act.
 
6   (This section amends the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act; the amendment has been incorporated into that Act.)  
Repeal
7   The Electoral Divisions Act, SA 2003 cE‑4.1, is repealed and the electoral divisions under that Act are disestablished.
 
Coming into force
8   This Act, except sections 5 and 6, comes into force on the day that a writ is issued under section 40 of the Election Act for the next general election.
 
(NOTE:   The writ issued under section 40 of the Election Act for a general election was issued on March 26, 2012.)
Schedule
Names of the Electoral Divisions
1         Dunvegan‑Central Peace‑Notley (Identified as Dunvegan‑            Central Peace in the DVD referenced in section 3)
2         Lesser Slave Lake
3         Calgary‑Acadia
4         Calgary‑Bow
5         Calgary‑Buffalo
6         Calgary‑Cross
7         Calgary‑Currie
8         Calgary‑East
9         Calgary‑Elbow
10       Calgary‑Fish Creek
11       Calgary‑Foothills
12       Calgary‑Fort
13       Calgary‑Glenmore
14       Calgary‑Greenway
15       Calgary‑Hawkwood
16       Calgary‑Hays
17       Calgary‑Klein
18       Calgary‑Lougheed
19       Calgary‑Mackay‑Nose Hill
20       Calgary‑McCall
21       Calgary‑Mountain View
22       Calgary‑North West
23       Calgary‑Northern Hills
24       Calgary‑Shaw
25       Calgary‑South East
26       Calgary‑Varsity
27       Calgary‑West
28       Edmonton‑Beverly‑Clareview
29       Edmonton‑Calder
30       Edmonton‑Castle Downs
31       Edmonton‑Centre
32       Edmonton‑Decore
33       Edmonton‑Ellerslie
34       Edmonton‑Glenora
35       Edmonton‑Gold Bar
36       Edmonton‑Highlands‑Norwood
37       Edmonton‑Manning
38       Edmonton‑McClung
39       Edmonton‑Meadowlark
40       Edmonton‑Mill Creek
41       Edmonton‑Mill Woods
42       Edmonton‑Riverview
43       Edmonton‑Rutherford
44       Edmonton‑South West
45       Edmonton‑Strathcona
46       Edmonton‑Whitemud
47       Airdrie
48       Athabasca‑Sturgeon‑Redwater
49       Banff‑Cochrane
50       Barrhead‑Morinville‑Westlock
51       Battle River‑Wainwright
52       Bonnyville‑Cold Lake
53       Cardston‑Taber‑Warner
54       Chestermere‑Rocky View
55       Cypress‑Medicine Hat
56       Drayton Valley‑Devon
57       Drumheller‑Stettler
58       Fort McMurray‑Conklin
59       Fort McMurray‑Wood Buffalo
60       Fort Saskatchewan‑Vegreville
61       Grande Prairie‑Smoky
62       Grande Prairie‑Wapiti
63       Highwood
64       Innisfail‑Sylvan Lake
65       Lac La Biche‑St. Paul‑Two Hills
66       Lacombe‑Ponoka
67       Leduc‑Beaumont
68       Lethbridge‑East
69       Lethbridge‑West
70       Little Bow
71       Livingstone‑Macleod
72       Medicine Hat
73       Olds‑Didsbury‑Three Hills
74       Peace River
75       Red Deer‑North
76       Red Deer‑South
77       Rimbey‑Rocky Mountain House‑Sundre
78       Sherwood Park
79       Spruce Grove‑St. Albert
80       St. Albert
81       Stony Plain
82       Strathcona‑Sherwood Park
83       Strathmore‑Brooks
84       Vermilion‑Lloydminster
85       West Yellowhead
86       Wetaskiwin‑Camrose
87       Whitecourt‑Ste. Anne