Ponoka—Didsbury is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada.
Geography Under the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution the riding was created from the rural areas of Red Deer—Lacombe and Red Deer—Mountain View:
Contains Ponoka County, Lacombe County, and the municipalities they surround, the western half of Red Deer County including Innisfail and Bowden and the north-eastern half of Mountain View County including Olds and Didsbury.
Demographics According to the 2021 Canadian census
Languages: 92.6% English, 1.2% French, 1.2% Tagalog, 1.2% German, 1.0% Dutch
Religions: 51.2% Christian (12.5% Catholic, 6.3% United Church, 3.4% Lutheran, 2.3% Anglican, 1.8% Baptist, 1.3% Reformed, 1.1% Pentecostal, 1.1% Presbyterian, 21.5% Other), 47.1% No religion
Median income: $42,000 (2020)
Average income: $53,800 (2020)
+ Panethnic groups in Ponoka—Didsbury (2021)Panethnic group2021 European 98,570 Indigenous 6,950 Southeast Asian 2,890 South Asian 885 African 785 East Asian 780 Latin American 530 Middle Eastern 125 Other/multiracial 285 Total responses 111,795 Total population 114,535
History
Electoral results
2021 federal election redistributed results Party Vote % Conservative 41,740 67.87 People's 8,213 13.36 New Democratic 6,735 10.95 Liberal 2,862 4.65 Others 1,946 3.16
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