# Westlock-Sturgeon

Westlock-Sturgeon was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using first-past-the-post balloting from 1986 to 1993.

## History
### Boundary history

Members of the Legislative Assembly :
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party |
| See Athabasca 1905-1986, Redwater-Andrew 1971-1986, and St. Albert 1905-1986. |||||
| 21st | 1986-1989 | Nicholas Taylor | Liberal |
| 22nd | 1989-1993 | Nicholas Taylor | Liberal |
| See Barrhead-Westlock 1993-2004, Redwater 1993-2004, and Spruce Grove-Sturgeon-St. Albert 1993-2012 |||||
The riding was created for the 1986 election from parts of three ridings: the town of Westlock was transferred from Athabasca, while the part of Sturgeon County around Morinville was transferred from St. Albert, along with a small part of Redwater-Andrew.
The riding was abolished only seven years later at the next redistribution. The northern half of the riding was transferred to Barrhead-Westlock, with Morinville and the area east of it going to Redwater and the remainder to Spruce Grove-Sturgeon-St. Albert.

### Representation history

The riding's only MLA was Nicholas Taylor, who had led the Liberal Party through its decade-long drought. His election in 1986, along with three other Liberals in Edmonton and Calgary, was a breakthrough for the party.
He was replaced by Laurence Decore as party leader only two years later, but was re-elected in Westlock-Sturgeon in 1989. For the second term in a row, Taylor was the only Liberal MLA in rural Alberta. When the riding was abolished in 1993, he went on to serve as MLA for Redwater.

## Election results
### 1986

vte1986 Alberta general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal | Nicholas Taylor | 4,523 | 38.95% | – |
| | Progressive Conservative | Lawrence Kluthe | 4,049 | 34.87% | – |
| | New Democratic | Bruce Lennon | 1,996 | 17.19% | – |
| | Representative | Tom Carleton | 911 | 7.84% | – |
| | Confederation of Regions | Adam Hauch | 78 | 0.67% | – |
| | Communist | Laurent St. Denis | 29 | 0.25% | – |
| | Heritage | Stan Pearson | 25 | 0.22% | – |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 11,611 | – | – |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 12 | – | – |
| Registered electors / turnout | Registered electors / turnout | Registered electors / turnout | 18,572 | 62.58% | – |
| | Liberal pickup new district. | Liberal pickup new district. | Liberal pickup new district. | Liberal pickup new district. | Liberal pickup new district. | Liberal pickup new district. | Liberal pickup new district. |
| Source(s) Source: "Westlock-Sturgeon Official Results 1986 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. |||||||

### 1989

vte1989 Alberta general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal | Nicholas Taylor | 5,401 | 44.80% | +5.85% |
| | Progressive Conservative | Leo Seguin | 4,958 | 41.13% | +6.26% |
| | New Democratic | Tom Turner | 1,696 | 14.07% | -3.12% |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 12,055 | – | – |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 15 | – | – |
| Registered electors / turnout | Registered electors / turnout | Registered electors / turnout | 19,662 | 61.38% | -1.20% |
| | Liberal hold | Liberal hold | Swing | Swing | -0.21% |
| Source(s) Source: "Westlock-Sturgeon Official Results 1989 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. |||||||