# Barrhead-Westlock

Barrhead-Westlock 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 1993 to 2004.

## History
### Boundary history

Barrhead-Westlock was created from Barrhead, Westlock-Sturgeon and a small portion of Athabasca-Lac La Biche in 1993. Its largest communities were its namesake towns Barrhead and Westlock, as well as the town of Swan Hills. Its boundaries remained unchanged in the redistribution that took effect in 1997.
The riding was replaced by Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock in the 2003 electoral boundary re-distribution, which covered the entire area of Barrhead-Westlock and a small portion of Redwater.

### Representation history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Barrhead-Westlock :
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party |
| See Barrhead 1971-1993 and Westlock-Sturgeon 1986-1993. |||||
| 23rd | 1993-1997 | Ken Kowalski | Progressive Conservative |
| 24th | 1997-2001 | Ken Kowalski | Progressive Conservative |
| 25th | 2001-2004 | Ken Kowalski | Progressive Conservative |
| See Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock electoral district from 2004-2019 |||||
Barrhead-Westlock's only MLA was Ken Kowalski, who had already served as the Progressive Conservative member for Barrhead since 1979.
After the 1997 election, Kowalski became the 11th Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.
When Barrhead-Westlock was abolished for the 2004 election, Kowalski continued his political career, serving two more terms in the new riding of Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock as MLA and Speaker of the Assembly.

## Election results
### 1993

vte1993 Alberta general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Progressive Conservative | Ken Kowalski | 6,312 | 55.04% | – |
| | Liberal | Dale Greig | 3,309 | 28.85% | – |
| | New Democratic | Harold Wharton | 1,076 | 9.38% | – |
| | Social Credit | Dale Harris | 561 | 4.89% | – |
| | Confederation of Regions | Adam Hauch | 143 | 1.25% | – |
| | Independent | Leonard Stahl | 79 | 0.58% | – |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 11,468 | – | – |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 25 | – | – |
| Registered electors / turnout | Registered electors / turnout | Registered electors / turnout | 16,439 | 69.91% | – |
| | Progressive Conservative pickup new district. | Progressive Conservative pickup new district. | Progressive Conservative pickup new district. | Progressive Conservative pickup new district. | Progressive Conservative pickup new district. | Progressive Conservative pickup new district. | Progressive Conservative pickup new district. |
| Source(s) Source: "Barrhead-Westlock Official Results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. |||||||

### 1997

vte1997 Alberta general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Progressive Conservative | Ken Kowalski | 6,195 | 60.66% | +5.62% |
| | Liberal | Dale Greig | 2,130 | 20.86% | -7.99% |
| | Social Credit | J. Harvey Yuill | 1,244 | 12.18% | +7.29% |
| | New Democratic | Joe Woytowich | 643 | 6.30% | -3.08% |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 10,212 | – | – |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 29 | – | – |
| Registered electors / turnout | Registered electors / turnout | Registered electors / turnout | 16,778 | 61.04% | -8.87% |
| | Progressive Conservative hold | Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | Swing | +6.81% |
| Source(s) Source: "Barrhead-Westlock Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. |||||||

### 2001

vte2001 Alberta general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Progressive Conservative | Ken Kowalski | 7,183 | 69.31% | +8.65% |
| | Social Credit | Jeff Willerton | 1,352 | 13.05% | +0.87% |
| | Liberal | Laurie Hodge | 1,259 | 12.15% | -8.71% |
| | New Democratic | Suzanne Forbes | 569 | 5.49% | -0.81% |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 10,401 | – | – |
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 38 | – | – |
| Registered electors / turnout | Registered electors / turnout | Registered electors / turnout | 16,794 | 61.93% | +0.89% |
| | Progressive Conservative hold | Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | Swing | +3.89% |
| Source(s) Source: "Barrhead-Westlock Official Results 2001 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. |||||||