Dunvegan-Central Peace-Notley was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first-past-the-post method of voting from 2012 to 2019.
History The electoral district was created in the 2010 electoral boundary re-distribution from the old electoral district of Dunvegan-Central Peace. The distribution saw the north end of the constituency that resided with the Municipal District of Northern Lights being redistributed to the Peace River electoral district. The electoral district is one of two in the province that is considered a special district and allowed to have less than the average population due to the lack of population and distance between communities.
The change in name came from a write-in campaign from Alberta New Democratic Party members who wanted to tack "Notley" onto the electoral district. Grant Notley was their former leader and an MLA for Spirit River-Fairview, an old electoral district that existed in the area. They pressed for the change due to other former provincial Premiers and Opposition leaders getting districts named after them such as Edmonton-Decore and Calgary-Lougheed. The Electoral Boundaries Commission refused the request, and the name change was facilitated by an amendment to the Electoral Divisions Act proposed by independent MLA Dave Taylor, which was carried by the Legislature.
Boundary history 01 Dunvegan-Central Peace-Notley 2010 BoundariesBordering districtsNorthEastWestSouthPeace RiverLesser Slave LakeBritish Columbia boundaryGrande Prairie-Smoky, Grande Prairie-WapitiNote: Boundary descriptions were not used in the 2010 redistribution
Representation history Members of the Legislative Assembly forDunvegan-Central Peace-NotleyAssemblyYearsMemberPartySee Dunvegan-Central Peace 2004-201228th2012–2015Hector GoudreauPC29th2015–2019Margaret McCuaig-BoydNDPSee Central Peace-Notley 2019- The former Progressive Conservative MLA Hector Goudreau served three terms in office after first being elected in the 2001 election, but after resigning as chair of the Cabinet Policy Committee on Community Development after allegations of bullying local school officials, he did not run again in the 2015 provincial election. NDP MLA Marg McCuaig-Boyd was elected in the orange wave that swept the province in the 2015 election, and served as the provincial Energy Minister.
Election results
See also List of Alberta provincial electoral districts Canadian provincial electoral districts
References
External links Elections Alberta The Legislative Assembly of Alberta