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{{Short description|Provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=April 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}}
{{Infobox Canada electoral district
| name                = Red Deer-North
| province            = Alberta
| image               = Red Deer-North 2017.svg
| caption             = Red Deer-North within the [[Red Deer, Alberta|City of Red Deer]], 2017 boundaries
| prov-rep            = Adriana LaGrange
| prov-rep-link       = 
| prov-rep-party      = UCP
| prov-rep-party-link =  
| prov-status         = active
| prov-created        = 1986
| prov-abolished      = 
| prov-created2       = 
| prov-election-first = 1986
| prov-election-last  = 2023
}}
'''Red Deer North''' is a [[Provinces and territories of Canada|provincial]] [[electoral district (Canada)|electoral district]] in [[Alberta]], Canada. The district is mandated to return a single member to the [[Legislative Assembly of Alberta]] using the [[first past the post]] method of voting. The district was created in the 1986 boundary redistribution. It was an all-urban district, until the 2004 boundary re-distribution. The constituency was expanded to include a small area outside the [[city limits]], including the nearby town of [[Blackfalds, Alberta|Blackfalds]]. The constituency now only fits within the city limits of [[Red Deer, Alberta|Red Deer]].

The district has historically tilted toward the right, like Red Deer as a whole. It had been a [[Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta|Progressive Conservative]] stronghold since it was created, however in [[2015 Alberta general election|the 2015 provincial election]], the seat was won by NDP candidate [[Kim Schreiner]]. The riding returned to its conservative ways in [[2019 Alberta general election|2019]], when [[Adriana LaGrange]] won it for the [[United Conservative Party]].

==History==
The electoral district was created in the 1985 boundary redistribution from the [[Red Deer (provincial electoral district)|Red Deer]] provincial electoral district. The city of Red Deer had been contained in a single electoral district since 1888 when it first started returning members to the [[Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories]]. The city was split into North and [[Red Deer-South]].

By 1996, Red Deer-North had a population of 29,115.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Alberta Treasury |title=Alberta provincial electoral division profile : Red Deer -- North |date=1996 |publisher=Government of Alberta |location=Edmonton |isbn=978-0-7732-1641-9 |url=https://archive.org/details/albertaprovincia10albe |language=English}}</ref>

The 2010 boundary redistribution saw adjustments made to Red Deer-North to give portions of the constituency that were outside of the city of Red Deer to [[Innisfail-Sylvan Lake]] to match the city boundary. The border with Red Deer-South was also adjusted to equalize the population between the two constituencies.<ref name="2010boundarychanges">{{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 = 22 | 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|71 Red Deer-North 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|pages=63–64}}</ref>
|-
!colspan=4|Bordering districts
|-
!North
!East
!West
!South
|-
|[[Lacombe-Ponoka]]
|Lacombe-Ponoka
|[[Innisfail-Sylvan Lake]], Lacombe-Ponoka,
|Innisfail-Sylvan Lake, [[Red Deer-South]]
|-
|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 intersection of the east boundary of Rge. 28 W4 and the right bank of the Blindman River; then 1. downstream along the right bank of the Blindman River to its intersection with the right bank of the Red Deer River; 2. southeasterly along the right bank of the Red Deer River to the intersection with Highway 11; 3. west along Highway 11 to the east boundary of the City of Red Deer (Range Road 271); 4. south along Range Road 271 to its intersection with an extension of Ross Street (50 Street); 5. west along the extension and Ross Street to Taylor Drive; 6. northwest along Taylor Drive to the right bank of the Red Deer River; 7. upstream along the right bank to its intersection with the west Red Deer city boundary; 8. southwest and north along the City of Red Deer boundary to the north boundary of Twp. 38 (Highway 11A); 9. west along the north boundary of Twp. 38 (Highway 11A) to the east boundary of Rge. 28 W4; 10. north along the east boundary of Rge. 28 W4 to the starting point.
|-
|colspan=4|'''Note:'''
|}
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" style="width:100%;"
!colspan=4|75 Red Deer-North 2010 boundaries<ref name="2010bound">{{cite web|title=Bill 28 Electoral Divisions Act|publisher=Legislative Assembly of Alberta|year=2010|url=https://www.assembly.ab.ca/ISYS/LADDAR_files/docs/bills/bill/legislature_27/session_3/20100204_bill-028.pdf}}</ref>
|-
!colspan=4|Bordering districts
|-
!North
!East
!West
!South
|-
|[[Innisfail-Sylvan Lake]]
|Innisfail-Sylvan Lake
|Innisfail-Sylvan Lake
|[[Red Deer-South]]
|-
|colspan=4 align=center|[[File:RedDeerNorth in Red Deer.jpg|200px]]
|-
|colspan=4|'''Note: Boundary descriptions were not used in the 2010 redistribution'''
|}

===Representation history===
{| class="wikitable" align=right
!colspan=5|Members of the Legislative Assembly for Red Deer-North
|-
!Assembly
!Years
!colspan=2|Member
!Party
|-
|align="center" colspan=5|''See [[Red Deer (provincial electoral district)|Red Deer]] 1905–1986''
|-
|[[21st Alberta Legislative Assembly|21st]]
|1986–1989
|rowspan=4 {{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|rowspan=4|[[Stockwell Day]]
|rowspan=4|[[Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta|Progressive<br />Conservative]]
|-
|[[22nd Alberta Legislative Assembly|22nd]]
|1989–1993
|-
|[[23rd Alberta Legislative Assembly|23rd]]
|1993–1997
|-
|rowspan=3|[[24th Alberta Legislative Assembly|24th]]
|1997–2000
|-
|2000
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|Vacant|background}}|
|colspan=2|Vacant
|-
|2000–2001
|rowspan=5 {{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|rowspan=5|[[Mary Anne Jablonski]]
|rowspan=5|Progressive<br />Conservative
|-
|[[25th Alberta Legislative Assembly|25th]]
|2001–2004
|-
|[[26th Alberta Legislative Assembly|26th]]
|2004–2008
|-
|[[27th Alberta Legislative Assembly|27th]]
|2008–2012
|-
|[[28th Alberta Legislative Assembly|27th]]
|2012–2015
|-
|[[29th Alberta Legislative Assembly|29th]]
|2015–2019
|{{Canadian party colour|AB|NDP|background}}|
|[[Kim Schreiner]]
|[[New Democratic Party of Alberta|New Democratic]]
|-
|[[30th Alberta Legislative Assembly|30th]]
|2019–2023
|rowspan=2 {{Canadian party colour|AB|UCP|background}}|
|rowspan=2|[[Adriana LaGrange]]
|rowspan=2|[[United Conservative Party|United Conservative]]
|-
|[[31st Alberta Legislative Assembly|31st]]
|2023–present
|}

The electoral district was created in the 1986 boundary redistribution. The first election held that year saw Progressive Conservative candidate [[Stockwell Day]] win a tight race to pick up the new seat for his party. He was re-elected by a larger margin in the 1989 election.

Premier [[Ralph Klein]] appointed Day to the cabinet in 1992 as the Minister of Labour. He was re-elected  less than a year later in the 1993 election with a landslide majority. In 1996 he was appointed as Minister of Family and Social Services. He won another term with a reduced majority in 1997. After that election Klein appointed him Provincial Treasurer. Day resigned on July 11, 2000 after being elected as federal leader of the [[Canadian Alliance]].

A by-election was held on September 25, 2000. Day was replaced in the legislature by Progressive Conservative candidate [[Mary Anne Jablonski]] who won the hotly contested by-election. She won her second term less than a year later in the 2001 general election. She was re-elected again in 2004 and 2008. In 2008 Premier [[Ed Stelmach]] appointed Jablonski to the cabinet as Minister of Seniors and Community Supports.

Jablonski held the seat without serious difficulty until her retirement in 2015. That year, massive vote splitting resulted in [[Kim Schreiner]] taking the riding for the NDP, winning with just over 29 percent of the vote in a three-way race with the Tories and [[Wildrose Party|Wildrose]]. The riding reverted to form in 2019, with [[Adriana LaGrange]] of the newly merged [[United Conservative Party]] overwhelming Schreiner by a nearly 3-to-1 margin.

==Legislative election results==

===1986===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1986/Red Deer-North}}

===1989===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1989/Red Deer-North}}

===1993===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1993/Red Deer-North}}

===1997===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1997/Red Deer-North}}

===2000 by-election===
{{Alberta provincial by-election, September 25, 2000/Red Deer-North}}

===2001===
{{Alberta provincial election, 2001/Red Deer-North}}

===2004===
{{Alberta provincial election, 2004/Red Deer-North}}

===2008===
{{Alberta provincial election, 2008/Red Deer-North}}

===2012===
{{Alberta provincial election, 2012/Red Deer-North}}

===2015===
{{Alberta provincial election, 2015/Red Deer-North}}

===2019===
{{Alberta provincial election, 2019/Red Deer-North}}

===2023===
{{Alberta provincial election, 2023/Red Deer-North}}

==Senate nominee election results==

===2004===
{| class="wikitable"
|colspan=5 align=center|'''[[2004 Alberta Senate nominee election|2004 Senate nominee election results]]: Red Deer-North'''<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=February 28, 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 39.16%'''
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
!Affiliation
!Candidate
!Votes
!% votes
!% ballots
!Rank
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Alliance|row-name}}
|Michael Roth
|2,775
|12.96%
|40.01%
|7
{{CANelec|AB|PC|[[Betty Unger]]|2,760|12.90%|39.80%|2}}
{{CANelec|AB|PC|[[Bert Brown]]|2,520|11.78%|36.34%|1}}
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Independent|row}}
|Independent
|[[Link Byfield]]
|2,238
|10.46%
|32.27%
|4
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Alliance|row-name}}
|Vance Gough
|2,129
|9.95%
|30.70%
|8
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Alliance|row-name}}
|Gary Horan
|2,048
|9.57%
|29.53%
|10
{{CANelec|AB|PC|[[Cliff Breitkreuz]]|1,986|9.28%|28.64%|3}}
{{CANelec|AB|PC|[[Jim Silye]]|1,727|8.07%|24.90%|5}}
{{CANelec|AB|PC|David Usherwood|1,720|8.03%|24.80%|6}}
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Independent|row}}
|Independent
|[[Tom Sindlinger]]
|1,498
|7.00%
|21.60%
|9
|-
|colspan=3 align="right"|'''Total votes'''
|'''21,401'''
|colspan=3|'''100%'''
|-
|colspan=3 align="right"|'''Total ballots'''
|'''6,935'''
|colspan=3|'''3.09 votes per ballot'''
|-
|colspan=3 align="right"|'''Rejected, spoiled and declined'''
|colspan=4|'''1,844'''
|}''Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot''

===2012===
{| class="wikitable"
| colspan=5 align=center|'''[[2012 Alberta Senate nominee election|2012 Senate nominee election results]]: Red Deer-South'''<ref name="senresults2012">{{cite web |url=http://www.elections.ab.ca/Public%20Website/files/Reports/SN_snetabulation.pdf |title=Senate Nominee Election 2012 Tabulation of Official Results |publisher=Elections Alberta |access-date=February 28, 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 %'''
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
!Affiliation
!Candidate
!Votes
!% votes
!% ballots
!Rank
{{CANelec|AB|PC|Doug Black|0|0%|0%|0}}
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Independent|row}}
|Independent
|[[Len Bracko]]
|0
|0%
|0%
|0
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Independent|row}}
|Independent
|Perry Chahal
|0
|0%
|0%
|0
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Independent|row}}
|Independent
|William Exelby
|0
|0%
|0%
|0
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Independent|row}}
|Independent
|David Fletcher
|0
|0%
|0%
|0
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Independent|row}}
|Independent
|Paul Frank
|0
|0%
|0%
|0
{{CANelec|AB|Wildrose|Raymond Germain}}
{{CANelec|AB|Wildrose||Rob Gregory}}
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Evergreen|row-name}}
|Elizabeth Johannson
|0
|0%
|0%
|0
{{CANelec|AB|Wildrose||Victor Marciano}}
{{CANelec|AB|PC|Mike Shaikh|0|0%|0%|0}}
{{CANelec|AB|PC|Scott Tannas|0|0%|0%|0}}
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Independent|row}}
|Independent
|Ian Urquhart
|0
|0%
|0%
|0
|-
|colspan=3 align="right"|'''Total votes'''
|'''0'''
|colspan=3|'''100%'''
|-
|colspan=3 align="right"|'''Total ballots'''
|'''0'''
|colspan=3|'''0 votes per ballot'''
|-
|colspan=3 align="right"|'''Rejected, spoiled and declined'''
|colspan=4|'''0'''
|}''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>
|-
|Central Middle School
|-
|Eastview Middle School
|-
|Glendale Middle School
|-
|Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High 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|[[Mary Anne Jablonski]]|430|32.07%}}
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Liberal|row}}
|[[Alberta Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|Norm McDougall
|363
|27.07%
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Green|row-name}}
|Colin Fisher
|250
|18.64%
{{CANelec|AB|Alliance|Rand Sisson|154|11.48%}}
{{Canadian party colour|AB|NDP|row}}
|[[Alberta New Democratic Party|NDP]]
|Steven Bedford
|144
|10.74%
|-
|colspan=3 align="right"|'''Total'''
|'''1,341'''
|'''100%'''
|-
|colspan=3 align="right"|'''Rejected, spoiled and declined'''
|colspan=2|'''28'''
|}

===2012===
{| class="wikitable" align=right
!Participating schools<ref name="school"/>
|-
|École Camille J. Lerouge School
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|colspan=5 align=center|'''2012 Alberta student vote results'''
|-
!style="width: 10px;"|
!Affiliation
!Candidate
!Votes
!%
{{CANelec|AB|PC|[[Mary Anne Jablonski]]||%}}
{{CANelec|AB|Wildrose|Randy Weins}}
{{Canadian party colour|AB|Liberal|row}}
|[[Alberta Liberal Party|Liberal]]
|Michael Dawe
|
|%
{{Canadian party colour|AB|NDP|row}}
|[[Alberta New Democratic Party|NDP]]
|Derrek Seelinger
|
|%
{{CANelec|AB|Alberta|Brent Chalmers||%}}
|-
|colspan=3 align="right"|'''Total'''
|''' '''
|'''100%'''
|}

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

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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

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[[Category:Politics of Red Deer, Alberta]]
[[Category:1986 establishments in Alberta]]