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{{Short description|Provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada}}
{{Distinguish|West Lethbridge}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=April 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}}
{{Infobox Canada electoral district
| name                =Lethbridge-West
| province            =Alberta
| image               =Lethbridge-West 2017.svg
| caption             =Lethbridge-West within the [[Lethbridge|City of Lethbridge]], 2017 boundaries
| prov-rep            = [[Rob Miyashiro]]
| prov-rep-link       = 
| prov-rep-party      = NDP
| prov-rep-party-link =
| prov-status         =active
| prov-created        =1971
| prov-abolished      =
| prov-created2       =
| prov-election-first =1971
| prov-election-last  =[[2024 Lethbridge-West provincial by-election|2024 by-election]]
| demo-cd             = [[Division No. 2, Alberta|Division No. 2]]
| demo-csd            = [[Lethbridge, Alberta|Lethbridge]]
}}
'''Lethbridge-West''' is an [[Alberta]] [[Provinces and territories of Canada|provincial]] [[electoral district (Canada)|electoral district]], covering the western half of the city of [[Lethbridge]], including all of [[West Lethbridge]]. Under the Alberta electoral boundary re-distribution of 2004, 13 Street forms most of the dividing line between [[Lethbridge-East]] and Lethbridge West. Scenic Drive and 16 Avenue South form a small part of the boundary. Clockwise from [[Lethbridge-East]], the constituency is bounded at the city limits by [[Little Bow]], by [[Livingstone-Macleod]] and then again by Little Bow.

The [[Legislative Assembly of Alberta|Member of the Legislative Assembly]] for this district is [[Alberta New Democratic Party|New Democrat]] [[Rob Miyashiro]].

==History==
The electoral district was created in the 1971 boundary redistribution from the old electoral district of [[Lethbridge (provincial electoral district)|Lethbridge]] when it was split in half. It also took in territory from the riding of [[Macleod (provincial electoral district)|Macleod]] from west of the [[Oldman River]]. 

The 2010 boundary redistribution made some minor revisions to equalize the population between West and East. North of St. Edward Blvd the boundary was pushed west from 13 Street to Stafford Drive.<ref name="changes">{{cite web|title=Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta |url=http://www.altaebc.ab.ca/EBCFINALReport.pdf |date=June 2010 |access-date=January 14, 2012 |publisher=Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission |page=21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927115425/http://www.altaebc.ab.ca/EBCFINALReport.pdf |archive-date=September 27, 2011 }}</ref>

===Boundary history===
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" style="width:100%;"
!colspan=4|65 Lethbridge-East 2003 boundaries<ref name="2003bound">{{cite book|title=Statutes of the Province of Alberta|chapter=E‑4.1|url=http://www.qp.alberta.ca/574.cfm?page=E04P1.cfm&leg_type=Acts&isbncln=0779738748|publisher=Government of Alberta|year=2003|page=57}}</ref>
|-
!colspan=4|Bordering districts
|-
!North
!East
!West
!South
|-
|[[Little Bow]]
|[[Lethbridge-East]]
|[[Livingstone-Macleod]]
|Little Bow
|-
|colspan=2 align=center|''riding map goes here''
|colspan=2 align=center|''map in relation to other districts in Alberta goes here''
|-
!colspan=4|Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act.
|-
|colspan=4|Starting at the right bank of the Oldman River and the north Lethbridge city boundary; then 1. east along the city boundary to 13 Street North; 2. south along 13 Street North and 13 Street South to 16 Avenue South; 3. west along 16 Avenue South to Scenic Drive South; 4. southeast along Scenic Drive South to the east boundary of Sec. 30 in Twp. 8, Rge. 21 W4; 5. south along Secs. 30, 19 and 18 in the Twp. to the right bank of the Oldman River; 6. upstream along the right bank to the north boundary of Sec. 16, Twp. 8, Rge. 22 W4; 7. east along the north boundary to the west Lethbridge city boundary; 8. north, east and northeast along the west city boundary to the starting point.
|-
|colspan=4|'''Note:'''
|}

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" style="width:100%;"
!colspan=4|69 Lethbridge-West 2010 boundaries
|-
!colspan=4|Bordering districts
|-
!North
!East
!West
!South
|-
|[[Little Bow]]
|[[Lethbridge-East]]
|[[Cardston-Taber-Warner]]
|Little Bow
|-
|colspan=4 align=center|[[File:LethbridgeWest in Lethbridge.jpg|200px]]
|-
!colspan=4|Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act.
|-
|colspan=4|
|-
|colspan=4|'''Note:'''
|}

===Representation history===
{{Align|right|
{{AbMLA/top|Lethbridge-West}}
{{AbMLA/change|Riding created from [[Lethbridge (provincial electoral district)|Lethbridge]] and [[Macleod (provincial electoral district)|Macleod]]}}
{{AbMLA/row
  | FromYr       = 1971
  | ToYr         = 1975
  | Assembly#    = 17
  | AbParty      = Social Credit
  | RepName      = Richard Gruenwald
  | RepLink      = 
  }}
{{AbMLA/row
  | FromYr       = 1975
  | ToYr         = 1979
  | Assembly#    = 18
  | RepName      = John Gogo
  | AbParty      = PC
  | PartyTerms#  = 11
  | RepTerms#    = 5
  }}
{{AbMLA/row
  | FromYr       = 1979
  | ToYr         = 1982
  | Assembly#    = 19
  }}
{{AbMLA/row
  | FromYr       = 1982
  | ToYr         = 1986
  | Assembly#    = 20
  }}
{{AbMLA/row
  | FromYr       = 1986
  | ToYr         = 1989
  | Assembly#    = 21
  }}
{{AbMLA/row
  | FromYr       = 1989
  | ToYr         = 1993
  | Assembly#    = 22
  }}
{{AbMLA/row
  | FromYr       = 1993
  | ToYr         = 1997
  | Assembly#    = 23
  | RepName      = Clint Dunford
  | RepTerms#    = 4
  }}
{{AbMLA/row
  | FromYr       = 1997
  | ToYr         = 2001
  | Assembly#    = 24
  }}
{{AbMLA/row
  | FromYr       = 2001
  | ToYr         = 2004
  | Assembly#    = 25
  | #ByElections = 
  }}
{{AbMLA/row
  | FromYr       = 2004
  | ToYr         = 2008
  | Assembly#    = 26
  }}
{{AbMLA/row
  | FromYr       = 2008
  | ToYr         = 2012
  | Assembly#    = 27
  | RepName      = Greg Weadick
  | RepTerms#    = 2
  }}
{{AbMLA/row
  | FromYr       = 2012
  | ToYr         = 2015
  | Assembly#    = 28
  }}
{{AbMLA/row
  | FromYr       = 2015
  | ToYr         = 2019
  | Assembly#    = 29
  | RepName      = Shannon Phillips
  | AbParty      = NDP
  | RepTerms#    = 3
  | PartyTerms#  = 4
  }}
{{AbMLA/row
  | FromYr       = 2019
  | ToYr         = 2023
  | Assembly#    = 30
  }}
{{AbMLA/row
  | FromYr       = 2023
  | ToYr         = 2024
  | Assembly#    = 31
  | #ByElections = 1
  }}
{{AbMLA/row
  | FromYr       = 2024
  | ToYr         = present
  | RepName      = [[Rob Miyashiro]]
}}
{{AbMLA/end}}
}}
The electoral district was created in 1971 from the old Lethbridge district when it was split in half. Prior to 1971 the city returned candidates from a number of different banners. The first representative returned in the election held that year was Social Credit candidate Richard Gruenwald who won the district with well over half of the popular vote.

Gruenwald would run for a second term in the 1975 election and would be defeated finishing a distant second place behind Progressive Conservative candidate [[John Gogo]] who took almost 60% of the popular vote. Gogo would win his next two terms in 1979 and 1982 with increasing majorities achieving almost 70% of the popular vote.

Gogo would lose significant popularity upon re-election to his fourth term in 1986. He would fall from 70% the previous election to under half. He would hold his seat for a final term in 1989 when he took just over 45% of the popular vote. In his last term in office Premier [[Don Getty]] appointed Gogo as Minister of Advanced education He held that until 1992. Gogo retired from dissolution of the Assembly in 1993.

The 1993 election saw a hotly contested race between Progressive Conservative candidate [[Clint Dunford]] and Liberal candidate Michael Dietrich. Dunford won by a razor thin margin of just over 100 votes to hold the seat for his party and taking just over 41% of the popular vote.

Dunford was re-elected in 1997 winning a slightly higher plurality. After the election he was appointed to the provincial cabinet by Premier [[Ralph Klein]] as Minister of Advanced Education and Career Development. In 1999 he was shuffled to the Minister of Human Resources and Employment portfolio.

Dunford ran for his third term in 2001 increasing his plurality slightly taking 48% of the popular vote and kept his cabinet post. He ran for his fourth term in office in 2004 and fell to an all-time low holding his seat with just 39% of the popular vote. After that election he was shuffled to the Minister of Economic Development until 2006. Dunford retired from the legislature in 2008.

The fourth representative returned from the riding was Progressive Conservative candidate Greg Weadick who won his first term as MLA in [[Alberta general election, 2008|2008]], and was re-elected in [[Alberta general election, 2012|2012]], but was defeated in the [[2015 Alberta general election|2015 general election]] by [[Shannon Phillips]] of the [[Alberta New Democratic Party|NDP]]. In [[Alberta general election, 2019|2019]], Phillips held onto the riding with a reduced margin of victory over the second-place finishing UCP candidate with just 45% of the popular vote.

==Legislative election results==

===Elections in the 2020s===
{{Main|2024 Lethbridge-West provincial by-election}}
{{CANelec/top|AB|Lethbridge-West: December 18, 2024|Lethbridge-West|by=yes|percent=yes|change=yes}}
{{CANelec|AB|NDP|[[Rob Miyashiro]]| 7,238 | 53.35| -0.57}}
{{CANelec|AB|UCP|John Middleton-Hope| 6,093 | 44.91 | +2.40}}
{{CANelec|AB|Alberta|Layton Veverka| 237| 1.75 | -0.15}}
{{CANelec/total|Total valid votes|13,568|99.46|}}
{{CANelec/total|Rejected, spoiled, and declined|74|0.54|-0.47}}
{{CANelec/total|Turnout|13,642| 36.06|-25.71}}
{{CANelec/total|Eligible voters|37,828}}
{{CANelec/hold|AB|NDP|-1.49}}
{{CANelec/source|hide=Source: [[Elections Alberta]]<ref>{{cite web| url=https://officialresults.elections.ab.ca/orResultsED.cfm?ED=72&EventId=109 |website=72-Lethbridge West |publisher=[[Elections Alberta]] |access-date=20 January 2025 |title=Election Results }}</ref>||}}
{{end}}
{{2023 Alberta general election/Lethbridge-West}}

===Elections in the 2010s===
{{2019 Alberta general election/Lethbridge-West}}
{{2015 Alberta general election/Lethbridge-West}}
{{2012 Alberta general election/Lethbridge-West}}
===Elections in the 2000s===
{{2008 Alberta general election/Lethbridge-West}}
{{CANelec/top|AB|2004|Lethbridge-West|percent=yes|change=yes}}
{{CANelec|AB|PC|[[Clint Dunford]]|4,411|39.85|-8.22}}
{{CANelec|AB|Liberal|Bal Boora|3,629|32.78|-6.74}}
{{CANelec|AB|NDP|Mark Sandlands|1,357|12.26| +4.62}}
{{CANelec|AB|Alliance|Merle Terlesky|913|8.25}}
{{CANelec|AB|Greens|Andrew Sheridan|385|3.48}}
{{CANelec|AB|Social Credit|Scott Sawatsky|375|3.39}}
{{CANelec/total|Total valid votes|11,070|99.43|}}
{{CANelec/total|Rejected, spoiled and declined|64|0.57|+0.42}}
{{CANelec/total|Turnout|11,134|45.50|-11.20}}
{{CANelec/total|Eligible voters|24,471}}
{{CANelec/hold|AB|PC|-0.74}}
{{CANelec/source|hide={{cite web|url=http://www.canadianelectionsdatabase.ca/PHASE5/?p=0&type=election&ID=276#page_1=constituency_2093 |title=Lethbridge-West  | publisher=Canadian Elections Database | access-date=December 17, 2024}}}}
|}
{{CANelec/top|AB|2001|Lethbridge-West|percent=yes|change=yes}}
{{CANelec|AB|PC|[[Clint Dunford]]|6,685|48.08| +2.76}}
{{CANelec|AB|Liberal|Leslie Vaala|5,496|39.53| +1.51}}
{{CANelec|AB|NDP|Mark Sandilands|1,062|7.64| +1.21}}
{{CANelec|AB|Alberta First|Brian Stewart|662|4.76|-3.56}}
{{CANelec/total|Total valid votes|13,905|99.85}}
{{CANelec/total|Rejected, spoiled, and declined|21|0.15}}
{{CANelec/total|Turnout|13,926|56.70|+1.12}}
{{CANelec/total|Eligible voters|24,561}}
{{CANelec/hold|AB|PC| +0.63}}
{{CANelec/source|hide={{cite web|url=http://www.canadianelectionsdatabase.ca/PHASE5/?p=0&type=election&ID=275#page_1=constituency_2093 |title=Lethbridge-West  | publisher=Canadian Elections Database | access-date=December 17, 2024}}}}
|}

===Elections in the 1990s===
{{CANelec/top|AB|1997|Lethbridge-West|percent=yes|change=yes}}
{{CANelec|AB|PC|[[Clint Dunford]]|5,679|45.31| +3.39}}
{{CANelec|AB|Liberal|Leslie Vaala|4,765|38.02|-2.92}}
{{CANelec|AB|Social Credit|Brian Stewart|1,043| 8.32|}}
{{CANelec|AB|NDP|Tom Hovan|806|6.43|-2.35}}
{{CANelec|AB|Greens|Don Ferguson|240|1.91}}
{{CANelec/total|Total valid votes|12,533}}
{{CANelec/total|Eligible electors / Turnout|22,549| 55.58| +0.38}}
{{CANelec/hold|AB|PC| +3.15}}
{{CANelec/source|hide={{cite web|url=http://www.canadianelectionsdatabase.ca/PHASE5/?p=0&type=election&ID=354#page_1=constituency_2093 |title=Lethbridge-West  | publisher=Canadian Elections Database | access-date=December 17, 2024}}}}
|}
{{CANelec/top|AB|1993|Lethbridge-West|percent=yes|change=yes}}
{{CANelec|AB|PC|[[Clint Dunford]]|4,643|41.92|-3.52}}
{{CANelec|AB|Liberal|Michael Dietrich|4,534|40.94| +10.17}}
{{CANelec|AB|NDP|Jacqueline Preyde|973|8.78|-15.01}}
{{CANelec|AB|Independent|Jason Kempt|926|8.36}}
{{CANelec/total|Total|11,076|99.56}}
{{CANelec/total|Rejected, spoiled and declined|49|0.44|+0.25}}
{{CANelec/total|Turnout|11,125|55.20|+7.23}}
{{CANelec/total|Eligible voters|20,154}}
{{CANelec/hold|AB|PC|-6.84}}
{{CANelec/source|hide={{cite web|url=http://www.canadianelectionsdatabase.ca/PHASE5/?p=0&type=election&ID=349#page_1=constituency_2093 |title=Lethbridge-West  | publisher=Canadian Elections Database | access-date=December 17, 2024}}}}
|}

===Elections in the 1980s===
{{CANelec/top|AB|1989|Lethbridge-West|percent=yes|change=yes}}
{{CANelec|AB|PC|[[John Gogo]]|4,741|45.44|-3.20}}
{{CANelec|AB|Liberal|Rhonda Ruston |3,210|30.76| +11.56}}
{{CANelec|AB|NDP|Joyce Green|2,483|23.80|-0.60}}
{{CANelec/total|Total valid votes|10,434|99.75}}
{{CANelec/total|Rejected, spoiled and declined|26|0.25|-0.03}}
{{CANelec/total|Turnout|10,460|47.97|+9.68}}
{{CANelec/total|Eligible voters|21,805}}
{{CANelec/hold|AB|PC|-7.38}}
{{CANelec/source|hide={{cite web|url=http://www.canadianelectionsdatabase.ca/PHASE5/?p=0&type=election&ID=344#page_1=constituency_2093|title=Lethbridge-West  | publisher=Canadian Elections Database | access-date=December 17, 2024}}}}
|}
{{CANelec/top|AB|1986|Lethbridge-West|percent=yes|change=yes}}
{{CANelec|AB|PC|[[John Gogo]]|3,999|48.64|-20.89}}
{{CANelec|AB|NDP|Ed Webking  |2,006|24.40| +8.96}}
{{CANelec|AB|Liberal|Nora Galenzoski|1,579|19.20|}}
{{CANelec|AB|Representative|Douglas Pitt |532|6.47|+2.45}}
{{CANelec|AB|CoR|Nora Galenzoski|106|1.29|}}
{{CANelec/total|Total valid votes|8,222|99.72}}
{{CANelec/total|Rejected, spoiled and declined|23|0.28|+0.06}}
{{CANelec/total|Turnout|8,245|38.29|-23.39}}
{{CANelec/total|Eligible voters|21,535}}
{{CANelec/hold|AB|PC|-14.92}}
{{CANelec/source|hide={{cite web|url=http://www.canadianelectionsdatabase.ca/PHASE5/?p=0&type=election&ID=340#page_1=constituency_2093|title=Lethbridge-West  | publisher=Canadian Elections Database | access-date=December 17, 2024}}}}
|}
{{CANelec/top|AB|1982|Lethbridge-West|percent=yes|change=yes}}
{{CANelec|AB|PC|[[John Gogo]]|8,302|69.53| +4.88}}
{{CANelec|AB|NDP|Ian Whishaw |1,844|15.44| +4.39}}
{{CANelec|AB|Western Canada Concept|G.M. Genstad|938|7.86}}
{{CANelec|AB|Social Credit|Jerry Waldern|480|4.02|-14.47}}
{{CANelec|AB|[[Alberta Reform Movement]]|Brenda Perkins|377|3.16}}
{{CANelec/total|Total valid votes|11,941|99.78}}
{{CANelec/total|Rejected, spoiled and declined|26|0.22|+0.14}}
{{CANelec/total|Turnout|11,967|61.68|+7.10}}
{{CANelec/total|Eligible voters|19,403}}
{{CANelec/hold|AB|PC| +0.24}}
{{CANelec/source|hide={{cite web|url=http://www.canadianelectionsdatabase.ca/PHASE5/?p=0&type=election&ID=329#page_1=constituency_2093|title=Lethbridge-West  | publisher=Canadian Elections Database | access-date=December 17, 2024}}}}
|}

===Elections in the 1970s===
{{CANelec/top|AB|1979|Lethbridge-West|percent=yes|change=yes}}
{{CANelec|AB|PC|[[John Gogo]]|5,682|64.65| +5.23}}
{{CANelec|AB|Social Credit|Jerry Waldern|1,625|18.49|-10.01}}
{{CANelec|AB|NDP|Ron Clark|971|11.05|-1.04}}
{{CANelec|AB|Liberal|Bob Wilson|511|5.81}}
{{CANelec/total|Total valid votes|8,789|99.92}}
{{CANelec/total|Rejected, spoiled and declined|7|0.08|-1.86}}
{{CANelec/total|Turnout|8,796|54.58|-9.92}}
{{CANelec/total|Eligible voters|16,117}}
{{CANelec/hold|AB|PC| +7.62}}
{{CANelec/source|hide={{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Constit=Lethbridge-West&Year=1979 |title=Letbridge-West Official Results 1979 Alberta general election |publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation |access-date=March 1, 2010 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/2217/20101208175642/http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Constit=Lethbridge-West&Year=1979 |archive-date=December 8, 2010 }}}}
|}
{{CANelec/top|AB|1975|Lethbridge-West|percent=yes|change=yes}}
{{CANelec|AB|PC|[[John Gogo]]|3,991|59.42| +23.17}}
{{CANelec|AB|Social Credit|[[Richard Gruenwald]]|1,914|28.49|-26.43}}
{{CANelec|AB|NDP|Ian Whishaw |812|12.09| +3.26}}
{{CANelec/total|Total valid votes|6,717|98.06}}
{{CANelec/total|Rejected, spoiled and declined|133|1.94|+0.96}}
{{CANelec/total|Turnout|6,850|64.49|-8.76}}
{{CANelec/total|Eligible voters|10,621}}
{{CANelec/gain|AB|PC|Social Credit| +24.80}}
{{CANelec/source|hide={{cite web|url=http://www.canadianelectionsdatabase.ca/PHASE5/?p=0&type=election&ID=315#page_1=constituency_2093 |title=Lethbridge-West  | publisher=Canadian Elections Database | access-date=December 17, 2024}}}}
|}
{{CANelec/top|AB|1971|Lethbridge-West|percent=yes}}
{{CANelec|AB|Social Credit|[[Richard Gruenwald]]|4,169|54.93}}
{{CANelec|AB|PC|R.J. Gray|2,751|36.25}}
{{CANelec|AB|NDP|Klaas Buijert|670|8.83}}
{{CANelec/total|Total valid votes|7,590|99.02}}
{{CANelec/total|Rejected, spoiled and declined|75|0.98}}
{{CANelec/total|Turnout|7,665|73.25}}
{{CANelec/total|Eligible voters|10,464}}
{{CANelec/pickup|AB|Social Credit}}
{{CANelec/source|hide={{cite web|url=http://www.canadianelectionsdatabase.ca/PHASE5/?p=0&type=election&ID=314#page_1=constituency_2093 |title=Lethbridge-West  | publisher=Canadian Elections Database | access-date=December 17, 2024}}}}
|}

==Senate nominee election results==

===2004===
{| class="wikitable"
| colspan="5" align=center|'''[[2004 Alberta Senate nominee election|2004 Senate nominee election results]]: Lethbridge-West'''<ref name="senresults2004">{{cite web|url=http://www.elections.ab.ca/Public%20Website/files/Reports/SN_snetabulation.pdf |title=Senate Nominee Election 2004 Tabulation of Official Results |publisher=Elections Alberta |access-date=March 1, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090704143923/http://www.elections.ab.ca/Public%20Website/files/Reports/SN_snetabulation.pdf |archive-date=July 4, 2009 }}</ref>
| colspan="2"|'''Turnout 45.59%'''
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|'''Candidate'''
|'''Votes'''
|'''% votes'''
|'''% ballots'''
|'''Rank'''
{{CANelec|AB|PC|[[Bert Brown]]|3,233|13.26%|38.29%|1}}
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Independent|row}}
|Independent
|[[Link Byfield]]
|2,946
|12.08%
|34.89%
|4
{{CANelec|AB|PC|[[Betty Unger]]|2,906|11.92%|34.41%|2}}
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Independent|row}}
|Independent
|[[Tom Sindlinger]]
|2,741
|11.24%
|32.46%
|9
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Alliance|row-name}}
|Vance Gough
|2,263
|9.28%
|26.80%
|8
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Alliance|row-name}}
|Michael Roth
|2,205
|9.04%
|26.11%
|7
{{CANelec|AB|PC|[[Cliff Breitkreuz]]|2,169|8.90%|25.69%|3}}
{{CANelec|AB|PC|David Usherwood|2,043|8.38%|24.20%|6}}
{{CANelec|AB|PC|[[Jim Silye]]|1,970|8.08%|23.33%|5}}
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Alliance|row-name}}
|Gary Horan
|1,905
|7.82%
|22.56%
|10
|-
|colspan="3" align="right"|'''Total votes'''
|'''24,381'''
|colspan="3"|'''100%'''
|-
|colspan="3" align="right"|'''Total ballots'''
|'''8,444'''
|colspan="3"|'''2.89 votes per ballot'''
|-
|colspan="3" align="right"|'''Rejected, spoiled and declined'''
|colspan="4"|'''2,712'''
|}''Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot''

==Student vote results==

===2004===
{| class="wikitable" align=right
!Participating schools<ref name="school">{{cite web|url=http://www.studentvote.ca/admin/election/Schools.htm |title=School by School results |publisher=Student Vote Canada |access-date=2008-04-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071005211819/http://www.studentvote.ca/admin/election/Schools.htm |archive-date=October 5, 2007 }}</ref>
|-
|GS Lakie Middle School
|}
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.

{| class="wikitable"
| colspan="5" align="center"|'''2004 Alberta student vote results'''<ref name="stu2004">{{cite web|url=http://www.studentvote.ca/admin/election/Candidate.htm |title=Riding by Riding Results - the Candidates |publisher=Student Vote Canada |access-date=2008-04-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071006095842/http://www.studentvote.ca/admin/election/Candidate.htm |archive-date=October 6, 2007 }}</ref>
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
|'''Affiliation'''
|'''Candidate'''
|'''Votes'''
|'''%'''
{{CANelec|AB|PC|[[Clint Dunford]]|184|34.26%}}
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Liberal|row}}
|[[Alberta Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|Bal Boora
|133
|24.77%
{{Canadian party colour|AB|NDP|row}}
|[[Alberta New Democratic Party|NDP]]
|Mark Sandilands
|75
|13.97%
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Green|row-name}}
|Andrew Sheridan
|61
|11.36%
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit|row}}
|[[Alberta Social Credit Party|Social Credit]]
|Scott Sawatsky
|44
|8.19%
{{CANelec|AB|Alliance|Merle Terlesky|40|7.45%}}
|-
|colspan="3" align="right"|'''Total'''
|'''537'''
|'''100%'''
|-
|colspan="3" align="right"|'''Rejected, spoiled and declined'''
|colspan="2"|'''19'''
|}

== See also ==
* [[List of Alberta provincial electoral districts]]
* [[Canadian provincial electoral districts]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.assembly.ab.ca/ Legislative Assembly of Alberta]

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[[Category:Alberta provincial electoral districts]]
[[Category:Politics of Lethbridge]]