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Grande Prairie-Smoky
Alberta electoral district
	; 2004 boundaries
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
District created	1993
First contested	1993
Last contested	2008

Grande Prairie Smoky is an Alberta provincial electoral district, located in northwestern Alberta.

The riding was created in 1993 when the old Grande Prairie riding was split in this riding and Grande Prairie Wapiti. Under the Alberta electoral boundary re-distribution of 2004, the constituency includes the northern half of the city of Grande Prairie and the surrounding areas to the east of the city. Its border with Grande Prairie-Wapiti within the city is Richmond Avenue and the Canadian National Railway. Clockwise from Grande Prairie Wapiti, the constituency also borders Dunvegan-Central Peace, Lesser Slave Lake, Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock, Whitecourt-Ste. Anne and West Yellowhead. Other major towns include Fox Creek, Sexsmith and Valleyview.

The current MLA for this district is Progressive Conservative Mel Knight. He won re-election in the district in the 26th Alberta general election.

[edit] Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs)

Name	Party	Elected	Left Office
Walter Paszkowski	Progressive Conservative	1993	2001
Mel Knight	Progressive Conservative	2001	present

[edit] Election results

2008 Alberta general election results			Turnout 30.5%
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Mel Knight	4,769	59.4%
	Liberal	John Croken	1,089	13.6%
	Wildrose Alliance	Todd Loewen	1,049	13.1%
	NDP	Neil Peacock	832	10.4%
	Green	Rebecca Villebrun	285	3.6%
2004 Alberta general election results			Turnout 35.3%
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Mel Knight	4,369	56.4%
	Liberal	Neil Peacock	1,965	25.4%
	NDP	Georgina Szoke	724	9.4%
	Alberta Alliance	Hank Rahn	685	8.8%
2001 Alberta general election results			Turnout 43.9%
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Mel Knight	6,241	67.5%
	Liberal	Barry Robinson	1,777	19.2%
	NDP	Leon Pendleton	842	9.1%
	Independent	Dennis Young	380	4.1%

[edit] 2004 Senate nominee election district results

2004 Senate nominee election results: Grande Prairie Smoky^[1]					Turnout 35.30%
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	% Votes	% Ballots	Rank
	Progressive Conservative	Cliff Breitkreuz	3,304	16.08%	50.85%	3
	Progressive Conservative	Betty Unger	2,831	13.77%	43.57%	2
	Progressive Conservative	Bert Brown	2,779	13.52%	42.77%	1
	Independent	Link Byfield	2,124	10.34%	32.69%	4
	Progressive Conservative	David Usherwood	1,872	9.11%	28.81%	6
	Progressive Conservative	Jim Silye	1,775	8.64%	27.32%	5
	Alberta Alliance	Michael Roth	1,645	8.01%	25.32%	7
	Alberta Alliance	Gary Horan	1,492	7.26%	22.96%	10
	Alberta Alliance	Vance Gough	1,477	7.19%	22.73%	8
	Independent	Tom Sindlinger	1,251	6.08%	19.26%	9
Total Votes			20,550	100%
Total Ballots			6,497	3.16 Votes Per Ballot
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			1,299

Voters had the option of selecting 4 Candidates on the Ballot

[edit] 2004 Student Vote

Participating Schools^[2]
Grande Prairie Composite HS
Harry Balfour School
Harry Gray Elementary School
Hillside Jr-Sr High School
Peace Wapiti Academy
Sexsmith Secondary School
St. Marys School
St. Stephens

On November 19, 2004 a Student Vote was conducted at participating Alberta schools to parallel the 2004 Alberta general election results. The vote was designed to educate students and simulate the electoral process for persons who have not yet reached the legal majority. The vote was conducted in 80 of the 83 provincial electoral districts with students voting for actual election candidates. Schools with a large student body that reside in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district then where they were physically located.

2004 Alberta Student Vote results^[3]
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Mel Knight	609	44.88%
	Liberal	Neil Peacock	386	28.45%
	NDP	Georgina Szoke	252	18.57%
	Alberta Alliance	Hank Rahn	110	8.10%
Total			1,357	100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			54

[edit] References

^ "Senate Nominee Election 2004 Tabulation of Official Results". Elections Alberta. http://www.elections.ab.ca/Public%20Website/files/Reports/SN_snetabulation.pdf. Retrieved 2008-03-08.
^ "School by School results". Student Vote Canada. http://www.studentvote.ca/admin/election/Schools.htm. Retrieved 2008-04-27.
^ "Riding by Riding Results - the Candidates". Student Vote Canada. http://www.studentvote.ca/admin/election/Candidate.htm. Retrieved 2008-04-19.

[edit] External links

Coordinates: 55°22′44″N 118°19′23″W / 55.379°N 118.323°W / 55.379; -118.323

[senresults2004-0] "Senate Nominee Election 2004 Tabulation of Official Results". Elections Alberta. http://www.elections.ab.ca/Public%20Website/files/Reports/SN_snetabulation.pdf. Retrieved 2008-03-08.

[school-1] "School by School results". Student Vote Canada. http://www.studentvote.ca/admin/election/Schools.htm. Retrieved 2008-04-27.

[stu2004-2] "Riding by Riding Results - the Candidates". Student Vote Canada. http://www.studentvote.ca/admin/election/Candidate.htm. Retrieved 2008-04-19.

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