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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Provincial Election 2012: Livingstone-Macleod riding Factoids and a map



  • This will be the Province of Alberta's 28th General Election.
  • The election will be held on Monday, April 23.  
  • There are 2.265 million electors on the Alberta list of electors.
  • A Senate nominee election will be held concurrently to select three nominees for appointment to the Senate of Canada. Alberta is the only province that elects their Senate nominees.
  • Voter turnout in the last Provincial Election, held in 2008, was an average of 40.6% province-wide.  It was the lowest voter turnout in Alberta's history.  
  • The Progressive Conservative Party dominated the 2008 election, winning 72 seats of 83, an increase of 20%, and 52.7% of the popular vote.
  • Livingstone-Macleod Progressive Conservative candidate Evan Berger won the riding by a 64% of the popular vote in the 2008 election, winning at 58 of 60 polling stations.
  • The Livingstone-Macleod riding boundaries have changed significantly since the last election.  A great deal of land south of High River has been added.  The Blood Reserve has been removed from Livingstone-Macleod and added to Cardston-Taber-Warner.  



Portion of Elections Alberta map showing new boundaries of Livingstone-Macleod  riding


Related links:
www.electionsalberta.ab.ca/Public%20Website/112.htm#
www.altaebc.ab.ca/EBCFINALReport.pdf
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livingstone-Macleod

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