Leduc—Wetaskiwin
 Alberta electoral district | |||
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Interactive map of riding boundaries from the 2025 federal election | |||
| Federal electoral district | |||
| Legislature | House of Commons | ||
| MP |
Conservative | ||
| District created | 2023 | ||
| First contested | 2025 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2021)[1] | 114,237 | ||
| Electors (2025) | 87,394 | ||
| Area (km²) | 6,063 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 18.8 | ||
| Census division(s) | Division No. 8, Division No. 11 | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Leduc, Beaumont, Leduc County, Wetaskiwin, Wetaskiwin County, Ponoka County (part), Devon, Samson, Ermineskin, Calmar | ||
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Leduc—Wetaskiwin is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada.[2] It came into effect upon the call of the 2025 Canadian federal election.
Geography
[edit]Under the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution the riding will be created from the rural areas of Edmonton—Wetaskiwin, as well as the entirety of Leduc County (including Warburg and Thorsby), and all of the Indian Reserves between Wetaskiwin and Ponoka.[1]
Demographics
[edit]According to the 2021 Canadian census[3]
Languages: 88.9% English, 2.2% French, 1.7% Tagalog, 1.4% German, 1.1% Cree, 1.1% Punjabi
Religions: 48.5% Christian (17.4% Catholic, 4.2% United Church, 4.0% Lutheran, 2.3% Anglican, 1.9% Baptist, 1.7% Pentecostal, 17.1% Other), 43.9% No religion, 3.9% Traditional Indigenous spirituality, 1.3% Sikh
Median income: $44,400 (2020)
Average income: $57,500 (2020)
| Panethnic group | 2021 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pop. | % | |||||||||||||
| European[a] | 85,850 | 76.08% | ||||||||||||
| Indigenous | 15,810 | 14.01% | ||||||||||||
| Southeast Asian[b] | 4,105 | 3.64% | ||||||||||||
| South Asian | 2,945 | 2.61% | ||||||||||||
| African | 1,490 | 1.32% | ||||||||||||
| East Asian[c] | 840 | 0.74% | ||||||||||||
| Middle Eastern[d] | 480 | 0.43% | ||||||||||||
| Latin American | 750 | 0.66% | ||||||||||||
| Other/multiracial[e] | 575 | 0.51% | ||||||||||||
| Total responses | 112,840 | 98.77% | ||||||||||||
| Total population | 114,240 | 100% | ||||||||||||
| Notes: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses. Demographics based on 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution riding boundaries. | ||||||||||||||
History
[edit]| Parliament | Years | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leduc—Wetaskiwin Riding created from Battle River—Crowfoot, Edmonton—Wetaskiwin, Red Deer—Lacombe, and Yellowhead |
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| 45th | 2025–present | Mike Lake | Conservative | |
Electoral results
[edit]| 2025 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Mike Lake | 47,947 | 74.73 | +11.36 | $78,773.56 | |||
| Liberal | Ronald Brochu | 11,136 | 17.36 | +10.26 | none listed | |||
| New Democratic | Katherine Swampy | 3,927 | 6.12 | –11.48 | $1,884.42 | |||
| People's | Jose Flores | 688 | 1.07 | –10.13 | none listed | |||
| United | Kirk Cayer | 318 | 0.50 | – | none listed | |||
| Canadian Future | Christopher Everingham | 145 | 0.23 | – | $3,090.35 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 64,161 | 99.47 | – | $134,133.97 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 341 | 0.53 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 64,502 | 71.44 | – | |||||
| Eligible voters | 90,284 | |||||||
| Conservative notional hold | Swing | +0.55 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[4][5] | ||||||||
| 2021 federal election redistributed results[6] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Conservative | 34,770 | 63.37 | |
| New Democratic | 9,658 | 17.60 | |
| People's | 6,147 | 11.20 | |
| Liberal | 3,896 | 7.10 | |
| Green | 9 | 0.02 | |
| Others | 391 | 0.71 | |
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Leduc—Wetaskiwin – Final boundaries". Federal Electoral Districts Redistribution. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
- ↑ Cummings, Madeleine (28 October 2022). "Some Alberta communities push back on proposed changes to federal riding boundaries - Draft map splits up Edmonton-Wetaskiwin, the most populous riding in Canada". CBC News.
- ↑ "Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Leduc--Wetaskiwin [Federal electoral district (2023 Representation Order)], Alberta". Statistics Canada. 9 February 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
- ↑ "Forty-Fifth General Election 2025 — Poll-by-poll Results: Leduc—Wetaskiwin". elections.ca. Elections Canada. 2025.
- ↑ Canada, Chief Electoral Officer (2025). "Candidate Campaign Returns, 2025 General Election: Part 3C – Summary of Electoral Campaign Expenses and Other Outflows – Election expenses subject to the limit – Total". elections.ca. Elections Canada.
Expenses are reported "as amended" where amendments have been filed; otherwise, they are reported "as submitted".
- ↑ "Transposition of Votes from the 44th General Election to the 2023 Representation Orders". Elections Canada. 2 January 2013. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
Notes
[edit]- ↑ Statistic includes all persons that did not make up part of a visible minority or an indigenous identity.
- ↑ Statistic includes total responses of "Filipino" and "Southeast Asian" under visible minority section on census.
- ↑ Statistic includes total responses of "Chinese", "Korean", and "Japanese" under visible minority section on census.
- ↑ Statistic includes total responses of "West Asian" and "Arab" under visible minority section on census.
- ↑ Statistic includes total responses of "Visible minority, n.i.e." and "Multiple visible minorities" under visible minority section on census.
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