Central Peace-Notley


Central Peace-Notley is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district was one of 87 districts mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting. It was contested for the first time in the 2019 Alberta election.
The riding takes its name from its central location in the Peace River Country and from Grant Notley, who represented the region in the Legislature from 1971 to 1984 while serving as leader of the Alberta New Democratic Party.

Geography

Central Peace-Notley is a largely rural riding located in northwestern Alberta.
There are no cities in the riding. Urban municipalities include the towns of Fairview, Falher, Fox Creek, McLennan, Spirit River, and Valleyview, and the villages of Berwyn, Donnelly, Girouxville, Hines Creek, and Rycroft.
Central Peace-Notley also covers the entirety of six rural municipalities and portions of two others
The riding contains one of the Treaty 6 reserves of the Alexander First Nation and the Treaty 8 reserves of the Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation, Duncan's First Nation and Horse Lake First Nation. In addition to a large Indigenous community, the riding is also home to many Franco-Albertans, especially in the Smoky River area.
Clockwise from the north, Central Peace-Notley borders Peace River, Lesser Slave Lake, Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock, West Yellowhead, Grande Prairie-Wapiti, and the province of British Columbia.

History

The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended renaming Dunvegan-Central Peace-Notley and expanding its borders to include the portion of Grande Prairie-Smoky east of the County of Grande Prairie. The district also lost the area around Grimshaw to the district of Peace River.
The district is one of two electoral districts in Alberta allowed to have a population less than 25% below the provincial average, as it satisfies all five conditions laid out in the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act.
The district first elected United Conservative MLA Todd Loewen who had previously been elected to Grande Prairie-Smoky electoral district as a Wildrose candidate in 2015. Loewen defeated NDP candidate, Minister of Energy and Dunvegan-Central Peace-Notley district MLA Margaret McCuaig-Boyd by 7,910 votes.

Electoral results

2019 general election