Red Deer is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1908 to 2015 and since 2025.
Demographics According to the 2021 Canadian census
Languages: 85.7% English, 3.6% Tagalog, 1.7% Spanish, 1.6% French,
Religions: 50.7% Christian (20.0% Catholic, 4.8% United Church, 2.5% Anglican, 2.1% Lutheran, 1.0% Pentecostal, 20.2% Other), 45.0% No religion, 1.9% Muslim
Median income: $43,200 (2020)
Average income: $56,050 (2020)
+ Panethnic groups in Red Deer (2021)Panethnic group2021 European 85,360 Southeast Asian 9,115 Indigenous 7,295 South Asian 2,405 African 2,000 Latin American 1,815 East Asian 1,730 Middle Eastern 1,140 Other/multiracial 930 Total responses 111,785 Total population 114,975
History This riding was created in 1907 from Calgary and Strathcona ridings. At the time this was a vast riding taking in much of Central Alberta between the two major cities of Calgary and Edmonton. The only major urban centre was Red Deer, then a small town of only 1,500 people.
Once an overwhelmingly rural constituency, it has been consistently reduced in geographic size over the years due to the growth of the City of Red Deer. In 2003, about 20% of the district was transferred to the Wetaskiwin riding.
Like most of Alberta, Red Deer elected a Liberal MP from 1908 to 1921, then a UFA MP from 1921 to 1935, then a Social Credit MP from 1935 to 1958.
Like most other Alberta ridings outside Calgary and Edmonton, the major right-wing party of the day usually won here by blowout margins. A centre-left candidate last cleared 20 percent of the vote in 1968, and from 1979 onward centre-left candidates seldom got 15 percent of the vote.
The riding was split almost in half for the 2015 election. The southern portion, including downtown, became Red Deer—Mountain View, while the northern portion was merged with Wetaskiwin to form Red Deer—Lacombe.
The riding was reinstated by the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution, reuniting the city of Red Deer and combining it with rural areas to its southeast.
Historical boundaries
Members of Parliament
This riding elected the following members of Parliament:
Election results
2023 representation order
2021 federal election redistributed results Party Vote % Conservative 32,606 60.51 New Democratic 9,352 17.35 People's 6,084 11.29 Liberal 4,401 8.17 Others 1,445 2.68
2003 representation order
1996 representation order
1987 representation order
1976 representation order
1966 representation order
1952 representation order
1933 representation order
1924 representation order
1914 representation order
1905 representation order
See also List of Canadian electoral districts Historical federal electoral districts of Canada
References
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External links
Expenditures - 2000 Expenditures - 1997 Elections Canada Website of the Parliament of Canada