Jasper West
Jasper West was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting from 1959 to 1963.Historu
It was created after Edmonton broke up into nine districts after the province standardized to the First Past the Post voting system in 1959.
In 1963 the district was renamed Edmonton Jasper Place.1959 Redistribution
The historic 1959 redistribution of the provincial ridings of Calgary and Edmonton standardized the voting system back to First Past the Post single member districts. From 1926 to 1959 Calgary and Edmonton members were elected by Single Transferable Vote in multi-member districts. The rest of the province used STV in single-member districts. The redistribution created nine ridings in Edmonton.
The other eight ridings were Edmonton Centre, Edmonton North, Edmonton Norwood, Edmonton North East, Edmonton North West, Strathcona Centre, Strathcona East and Strathcona West.Also see
