# Edmonton-Ellerslie

Edmonton-Ellerslie is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. It is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly.

## History

The 2010 boundary redistribution saw the riding shrink on its north boundary to Anthony Henday Drive from roughly 34 Avenue, losing some land to Edmonton -Mill Woods and Edmonton-Mill Creek.

### Boundary history

33 Edmonton-Ellerslie 2003 boundaries :
| Bordering districts ||||
| North | East | West | South |
| Edmonton-Mill Creek and Edmonton-Mill Woods | Strathcona | Edmonton-Rutherford and Edmonton-Whitemud | Leduc-Beaumont-Devon |
| riding map goes here | riding map goes here | | |
| Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act ||||
| Starting at the intersection of Gateway Boulevard with 34 Avenue; then 1. east along 34 Avenue to 91 Street; 2. south along 91 Street to 28 Avenue; 3. east along 28 Avenue to 50 Street; 4. south along 50 Street to 23 Avenue; 5. east along 23 Avenue to the east Edmonton city boundary; 6. south and west along the east city boundary to Gateway Boulevard; 7. northeast along Gateway Boulevard to the starting point. ||||
33 Edmonton-Ellerslie 2010 boundaries :
| Bordering districts ||||
| North | East | West | South |
| Edmonton-Mill Creek and Edmonton-Mill Woods | Strathcona-Sherwood Park | Edmonton-Rutherford and Edmonton-South West | Leduc-Beaumont |
| Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act ||||

### Electoral history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Edmonton-Ellerslie :
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party |
| See Edmonton-Mill Woods 1979-1993 |||||
| 23rd | 1993–1997 | Debby Carlson | Liberal |
| 24th | 1997–2001 | Debby Carlson | Liberal |
| 25th | 2001–2004 | Debby Carlson | Liberal |
| 25th | 2004 | Vacant | Vacant |
| 26th | 2004–2008 | Bharat Agnihotri | Liberal |
| 27th | 2008–2012 | Naresh Bhardwaj | Progressive Conservative |
| 28th | 2012–2015 | Naresh Bhardwaj | Progressive Conservative |
| 29th | 2015–2019 | Rod Loyola | New Democrat |
| 30th | 2019–2023 | Rod Loyola | New Democrat |
| 31st | 2023– | Rod Loyola | New Democrat |
The electoral district was created in 1993 from Edmonton-Mill Woods. The first election held that year saw incumbent NDP MLA Gerry Gibeault switch from that district to run in Ellerslie. A wave of support for the Alberta Liberals rolled across Edmonton causing Liberal candidate Debby Carlson to win the riding with over half the popular vote. Gibeault was defeated, finishing a distant second place.
Carlson ran for a second term in 1997. She increased her popular support to take the district easily with almost 57% of the popular vote. The 2001 election was a very tight race. Carlson barely hung on to win her third term in office. She defeated Progressive Conservative candidate Sukhi Randhawa by less than 300 votes and won the seat with 45 percent of the vote.
On May 28, 2004 Carlson vacated her seat to run in the 2004 federal election in the Edmonton—Strathcona district. Her replacement elected in the provincial election that year was Liberal candidate Bharat Agnihotri. He took just under 34% of the popular vote and won by a razor thin plurality of 200 votes over his Progressive Conservative opponent, and just 1200 votesl over his NDP opponent.
The Progressive Conservatives won the riding in the 2008 election when its candidate Naresh Bhardwaj defeated the incumbent MLA trying for re-election and won the set with 42% of the popular vote. The 2012 result was about the same with the P-C candidate winning with a minority of the vote.
NDP candidate Rod Loyola won the seat three consecutive times - 2015, 2019, and 2013.

## Legislative election results
### 1993

1993 Alberta general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal | Debby Carlson | 5,466 | 53.57% | – |
| | New Democratic | Gerry Gibeault | 2,144 | 21.01% | – |
| | Progressive Conservative | Bas Roopnarine | 2,116 | 20.74% | – |
| | Social Credit | Ken Way | 398 | 3.90% | – |
| | Natural Law | Rhonda Day | 79 | 0.77% | – |
| Total | Total | Total | 10,203 | – | – |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 15 | – | – |
| Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | 17,320 | 59.00% | – |
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| Source(s) Source: "Edmonton-Ellerslie Official Results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. |||||||

### 1997

1997 Alberta general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal | Debby Carlson | 5,752 | 56.69% | 3.12% |
| | Progressive Conservative | Jasbeer Singh | 2,641 | 26.03% | 5.29% |
| | New Democratic | Henry Johns | 913 | 9.00% | -12.01% |
| | Social Credit | Ken Way | 840 | 8.28% | 4.38% |
| Total | Total | Total | 10,146 | – | – |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 28 | 24 | 0 |
| Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | 18,290 | 55.63% | -3.37% |
| | Liberal hold | Liberal hold | Swing | Swing | -0.95% |
| Source(s) Source: "Edmonton-Ellerslie Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (1997). Report of the Chief Electoral Officer, November, 1996 general enumeration and Tuesday, March 11, 1997 general election Twenty-fourth Legislative Assembly. Edmonton: Alberta Legislative Assembly, Office of the Chief Electoral Officer. |||||||

### 2001

2001 Alberta general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal | Debby Carlson | 4,481 | 44.86% | -11.83% |
| | Progressive Conservative | Sukhi Randhawa | 4,209 | 42.14% | 16.11% |
| | New Democratic | Deborah Morrison | 1,299 | 13.00% | 4.01% |
| Total | Total | Total | 9,989 | – | – |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 41 | 17 | 3 |
| Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | 19,210 | 52.23% | -3.40% |
| | Liberal hold | Liberal hold | Swing | Swing | -13.97% |
| Source(s) Source: "Edmonton-Ellerslie Official Results 2001 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2001). The report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the 2000 provincial confirmation process and Monday, March 12, 2001, Provincial General Election of the twenty-fifth Legislative Assembly. Edmonton: Alberta Legislative Assembly, Office of the Chief Electoral Officer. |||||||

### 2004

2004 Alberta general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal | Bharat Agnihotri | 3,446 | 33.80% | -11.06% |
| | Progressive Conservative | Gurnam Dodd | 3,245 | 31.83% | -10.31% |
| | New Democratic | Marilyn Assheton-Smith | 2,258 | 22.15% | 9.14% |
| | Alberta Alliance | Eleanor Maroes | 1,009 | 9.90% | – |
| | Social Credit | Amelia Maciejewski | 238 | 2.33% | – |
| Total | Total | Total | 10,196 | – | – |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 31 | 24 | 7 |
| Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | 23,563 | 43.43% | -8.80% |
| | Liberal hold | Liberal hold | Swing | Swing | -0.38% |
| Source(s) Source: "00 - Edmonton-Ellerslie, 2004 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2005). Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the General Enumeration and General Election of the Twenty-sixth Legislative Assembly (Report). Edmonton: Alberta Legislative Assembly, Office of the Chief Electoral Officer. |||||||

### 2008

vte2008 Alberta general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Progressive Conservative | Naresh Bhardwaj | 4,581 | 41.90% | 10.08% |
| | Liberal | Bharat Agnihotri | 3,592 | 32.86% | -0.94% |
| | New Democratic | Marilyn Assheton-Smith | 1,891 | 17.30% | -4.85% |
| | Wildrose Alliance | Krista Leddy | 471 | 4.31% | -5.59% |
| | Green | Paul J. Boos | 335 | 3.06% | – |
| | Social Credit | Cheryl Ullah | 62 | 0.57% | -1.77% |
| Total | Total | Total | 10,932 | – | – |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 60 | 19 | 2 |
| Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | 28,944 | 37.98% | -5.45% |
| | Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal | Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | Swing | 3.54% |
| Source(s) Source: "30 - Edmonton-Ellerslie, 2008 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Chief Electoral Officer (2008). The Report on the March 3, 2008 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-Seventh Legislative Assembly (Report). Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 290–293. Retrieved April 7, 2021. |||||||

### 2012

vte2012 Alberta general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Progressive Conservative | Naresh Bhardwaj | 5,677 | 42.97% | 1.06% |
| | Wildrose Alliance | Jackie Lovely | 3,258 | 24.66% | 20.35% |
| | New Democratic | Rod Loyola | 2,114 | 16.00% | -1.30% |
| | Liberal | Jennifer Ketsa | 1,504 | 11.38% | -21.47% |
| | Alberta Party | Chinwe Okelu | 523 | 3.96% | – |
| | Independent | Athena Bernal-Born | 137 | 1.04% | – |
| Total | Total | Total | 13,213 | – | – |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 115 | 39 | 3 |
| Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | 26,721 | 49.89% | 11.91% |
| | Progressive Conservative hold | Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | Swing | 4.63% |
| Source(s) Source: "33 - Edmonton-Ellerslie, 2012 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Chief Electoral Officer (2012). The Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the 2011 Provincial Enumeration and Monday, April 23, 2012 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-eighth Legislative Assembly (PDF) (Report). Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 6, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2021. |||||||

### 2015

vte2015 Alberta general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | New Democratic | Rod Loyola | 11,034 | 61.57% | 45.57% |
| | Progressive Conservative | Harman Kandola | 3,549 | 19.80% | -23.16% |
| | Wildrose | Jackie Lovely | 2,499 | 13.94% | -10.72% |
| | Liberal | Mike McGowan | 839 | 4.68% | -6.70% |
| Total | Total | Total | 17,921 | – | – |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 65 | 44 | 18 |
| Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | 34,266 | 52.54% | 2.65% |
| | New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative | New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative | Swing | Swing | 34.37% |
| Source(s) Source: "33 - Edmonton-Ellerslie, 2015 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Chief Electoral Officer (2016). 2015 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer (PDF) (Report). Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. |||||||

### 2019

vte2019 Alberta general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | New Democratic | Rod Loyola | 9,717 | 50.95% | -10.62% |
| | United Conservative | Sanjay Patel | 7,230 | 37.91% | 4.17% |
| | Alberta Party | Hazelyn Williams | 1,273 | 6.67% | – |
| | Liberal | Mike McGowan | 390 | 2.04% | -2.64% |
| | Alberta Advantage | Yash Sharma | 263 | 1.38% | – |
| | Alberta Independence | Brian S. Lockyer | 199 | 1.04% | – |
| Total | Total | Total | 19,072 | – | – |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 88 | 61 | 14 |
| Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | 29,297 | 65.45% | 12.91% |
| | New Democratic hold | New Democratic hold | Swing | Swing | -14.36% |
| Source(s) Source: "31 - Edmonton-Ellerslie, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2019). 2019 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Volume II (PDF) (Report). Vol. 2. Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 120–123. ISBN 978-1-988620-12-1. Retrieved April 7, 2021. |||||||

### 2023

vte2023 Alberta general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | New Democratic | Rod Loyola | 11,429 | 61.75 | +10.80 |
| | United Conservative | Ranjit Bath | 6,817 | 36.83 | -1.08 |
| | Wildrose Loyalty Coalition | Angela Stretch | 264 | 1.43 | – |
| Total | Total | Total | 18,510 | 99.42 | – |
| Rejected and declined | Rejected and declined | Rejected and declined | 108 | 0.58 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 18,618 | 54.80 |
| Eligible voters | Eligible voters | Eligible voters | 33,972 |
| | New Democratic hold | New Democratic hold | Swing | Swing | +5.94 |
| Source(s) Source: Elections Alberta |||||||

## Senate nominee election results
### 2004

| 2004 Senate nominee election results: Edmonton-Ellerslie | 2004 Senate nominee election results: Edmonton-Ellerslie | 2004 Senate nominee election results: Edmonton-Ellerslie | 2004 Senate nominee election results: Edmonton-Ellerslie | 2004 Senate nominee election results: Edmonton-Ellerslie | Turnout 43.51% | Turnout 43.51% |
| Affiliation | Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % votes | % ballots | Rank |
| | Progressive Conservative | Betty Unger | 3,949 | 14.08% | 45.67% | 2 |
| | Independent | Link Byfield | 3,314 | 11.82% | 38.33% | 4 |
| | Progressive Conservative | Bert Brown | 3,122 | 11.13% | 36.11% | 1 |
| | Alberta Alliance | Michael Roth | 2,901 | 10.35% | 33.55% | 7 |
| | Progressive Conservative | Cliff Breitkreuz | 2,899 | 10.34% | 33.53% | 3 |
| | Alberta Alliance | Vance Gough | 2,574 | 9.18% | 29.77% | 8 |
| | Independent | Tom Sindlinger | 2,531 | 9.03% | 29.27% | 9 |
| | Alberta Alliance | Gary Horan | 2,524 | 9.00% | 29.19% | 10 |
| | Progressive Conservative | David Usherwood | 2,356 | 8.40% | 27.25% | 6 |
| | Progressive Conservative | Jim Silye | 1,874 | 6.67% | 21.67% | 5 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 28,044 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Total ballots | Total ballots | Total ballots | 8,647 | 3.24 votes per ballot | 3.24 votes per ballot | 3.24 votes per ballot |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 1,688 | 1,688 | 1,688 | 1,688 |
Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot.

### 2012
## Student vote results
### 2004

* Participating schools
* Holy Trinity Catholic High School
* J. Percy Page 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 had 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 who reside in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district than where they were physically located.
2004 Alberta student vote results :
| Affiliation | Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Liberal | Bharat Agnihotri | 321 | 35.99% |
| | Progressive Conservative | Gurnam Dodd | 309 | 34.64% |
| | NDP | Marilyn Assheton-Smith | 142 | 15.92% |
| | Alberta Alliance | Eleanor Maroes | 67 | 7.51% |
| | Social Credit | Amelia Maciejewski | 53 | 5.94% |
| Total | Total | Total | 892 | 100% |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 24 | 24 |

### 2012

2012 Alberta student vote results :
| Affiliation | Affiliation | Candidate | % |
| | Progressive Conservative | Naresh Bhardwaj |
| | Wildrose | Jackie Lovely |
| | Liberal | Jennifer Ketsa | % |
| | Alberta Party | Chinwe Okelu |
| | NDP | Rod Loyola | % |
| Total | Total | Total | 100% |