Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview

Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada. The electoral district covers the neighbourhoods of Beverly, Belmont Park and Clareview Town Centre. It was created in 1996, and was first contested in the 1997 election. It was last contested in the 2023 election, and is currently held by Peggy Wright of the NDP.

Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview

Alberta electoral district
Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview within the City of Edmonton, 2017 boundaries
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA	Peggy Wright New Democratic
District created	1996
First contested	1997
Last contested	2023

History

The electoral district was created in the 1996 boundary redistribution from the old electoral district of Edmonton-Beverly-Belmont. In the 2010 boundary redistribution the riding boundaries were extended north into Edmonton-Manning from 137 Avenue to 144 Avenue while the south boundaries were extended to take a large portion from Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood.

Boundary history

25 Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview 2003 boundaries[1]
Bordering districts
North	East	West	South
Edmonton-Manning	Strathcona	Edmonton-Decore	Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood, Sherwood Park
riding map goes here
Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act.
Starting at the intersection of 82 Street with 137 Avenue; then 1. east along 137 Avenue to its intersection with the Canadian National Railway (CNR); 2. northeasterly along the CNR to its intersection with 144 Avenue; 3. east along 144 Avenue to 36 Street; 4. south along 36 Street to 137 Avenue; 5. east along 137 Avenue and its extension to the right bank of the North Saskatchewan River; 6. generally northeast along the right bank of the North Saskatchewan River to the east Edmonton city boundary; 7. south and west along the east city boundary to the right bank of the North Saskatchewan River; 8. north along the right river bank to the east bound lanes of the Yellowhead Trail; 9. northwest along the east bound lanes of Yellowhead Trail to Victoria Trail; 10. southwest along Victoria Trail to 118 Avenue; 11. west along 118 Avenue to 50 Street; 12. north along 50 Street to Yellowhead Trail; 13. west along Yellowhead Trail to 66 Street; 14. north along 66 Street to the CNR line; 15. west along the CNR line to 82 Street; 16. north along 82 Street to the starting point.
Note:

28 Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview 2010 boundaries
Bordering districts
North	East	West	South
Edmonton-Manning	Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville	Edmonton-Decore and Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood	Edmonton-Gold Bar and Sherwood Park
Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act.
Note:

Electoral history overview

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview[2]
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
See Edmonton-Beverly-Belmont 1993-1997
24th	1997-2001		Julius Yankowsky	Progressive Conservative
25th	2001-2004
26th	2004-2008		Ray Martin	New Democrat
27th	2008-2012		Tony Vandermeer	Progressive Conservative
28th	2012–2015		Deron Bilous	New Democrat
29th	2015–2019
30th	2019-2023
31st	2023-		Peggy Wright	New Democrat

The electoral district of Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview was created in the 1997 general election from most of the electoral district of Edmonton-Beverly-Belmont. The district has been somewhat of a swing riding since its creation with the Liberals, New Democrats and Progressive Conservatives all holding a sizable base in the district. While the Liberals have received high numbers of votes, only the Progressive Conservatives and New Democrats have returned MLAs from the riding.

The first Member for the riding was incumbent Julius Yankowsky, who had crossed the floor to the Progressive Conservatives from the Liberals. He won the new district in a close three-way race. He won his third term in the 2001 election with a higher margin of victory.

Despite having three terms of incumbency, Yankowsky was unable to win a third term in office. He faced former New Democratic Party leader Ray Martin, who defeated him taking just over half the popular vote in the district.

Martin held until the 2008 election, after which Edmonton-Manning MLA Tony Vandermeer defeated Martin in a closely contested race. Vandermeer was defeated by New Democrat Deron Bilous in the 2012 provincial election, who was re-elected in the 2015 provincial election with a majority of 9,525 and 73.8% of the popular vote.

Legislative election results

1997

v t e 1997 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Julius E. Yankowsky	3,484	34.99%	–
	Liberal	Johanne Tardif	3,127	31.40%	–
	New Democratic	Bill Stephenson	2,842	28.54%	–
	Social Credit	Doug Smith	376	3.78%	–
	Independent	Andy Chichak	100	1.00%	–
	Forum	Bill Finn	29	0.29%	–
Total			9,958	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			10	22	6
Eligible electors / turnout			19,847	50.25%	–
	Progressive Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s) Source: "Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview 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	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Julius E. Yankowsky	4,732	45.65%	10.66%
	Liberal	Bauni Mackay	3,290	31.74%	0.34%
	New Democratic	Elisabeth Ballermann	1,985	19.15%	-9.39%
	Independent	Ken Shipka	211	2.04%	1.03%
	Alberta First	Teo Zanetic	92	0.89%	–
	Independent	Tanya Gill	56	0.54%	-0.46%
Total			10,366	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			8	17	0
Eligible electors / Turnout			21,290	48.73%	-1.53%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		5.16%
Source(s) Source: "Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview 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	%	±%
	New Democratic	Ray Martin	5,259	50.83%	31.68%
	Progressive Conservative	Julius E. Yankowsky	3,041	29.39%	-16.26%
	Liberal	Sam Parmar	1,164	11.25%	-20.49%
	Alberta Alliance	Philip Gamache	458	4.43%	–
	Social Credit	Ken Shipka	283	2.74%	–
	Green	Benoit Couture	141	1.36%	–
Total			10,346	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			35	53	1
Eligible electors / Turnout			23,569	44.05%	-4.68%
	New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		3.76%
Source(s) Source: "00 - Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview, 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

2008 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Tony Vandermeer	4,182	39.63%	10.24%
	New Democratic	Ray Martin	3,845	36.44%	-14.39%
	Liberal	Dawit Isaac	1,996	18.92%	7.67%
	Wildrose Alliance	Brian Dell	289	2.74%	-1.69%
	Green	Frédérique Pivot	183	1.73%	0.37%
	Social Credit	Robin Porteous	57	0.54%	-2.20%
Total			10,552	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			20	21	3
Eligible electors / Turnout			28,057	37.69%	-6.36%
	Progressive Conservative gain from New Democratic		Swing		-9.12%
Source(s) Source: "25 - Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview, 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. Retrieved April 7, 2021.

2012

v t e 2012 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Deron Bilous	5,264	36.97%	0.53%
	Progressive Conservative	Tony Vandermeer	5,019	35.25%	-4.38%
	Wildrose Alliance	Don Martin	2,909	20.43%	17.69%
	Liberal	Chris Heward	895	6.29%	-12.63%
	Evergreen	Trey Capnerhurst	151	1.06%	-0.67%
Total			14,238	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			39	63	11
Eligible electors / turnout			30,610	46.68%	8.99%
	New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		-0.74%
Source(s) Source: "28 - Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview, 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

v t e 2015 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Deron Bilous	12,049	73.80%	36.83%
	Progressive Conservative	Tony Caterina	2,524	15.46%	-19.79%
	Wildrose	Stephanie Diacon	1,248	7.64%	-12.79%
	Liberal	Tomi Yellowface	359	2.20%	-4.09%
	Alberta Party	Owais Siddiqui	147	0.90%	–
Total			16,327	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			54	74	19
Eligible electors / turnout			35,318	46.44%	-0.24%
	New Democratic hold		Swing		28.31%
Source(s) Source: "28 - Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview, 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

v t e 2019 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Deron Bilous	8,834	50.63	-23.17
	United Conservative	David Egan	6,308	36.15	+13.05
	Alberta Party	Jeff Walters	1,283	7.35	+6.45
	Liberal	Shadea Hussein	494	2.83	+0.63
	Alberta Independence	Paul A. Burts	240	1.38	–
	Green	Michael Hunter	206	1.18	–
	Independent	Andy Andrzej Gudanowski	84	0.48	–
Total			17,449	99.38	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			109	0.62	-0.27
Turnout			17,558	56.26	+9.61
Eligible electors			31,211
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-18.11
Source(s) Source: "27 - Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview, 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. ISBN 978-1-988620-12-1. Retrieved April 7, 2021.

2023

v t e 2023 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Peggy Wright	8,510	57.66	+7.03
	United Conservative	Luke Suvanto	5,690	38.55	+2.40
	Green	Michael Hunter	337	2.28	+1.10
	Independent	Andrzej (Andy) Gudanowski	222	1.50	+1.02
Total			14,759	99.31	–
Rejected and declined			102	0.69
Turnout			14,861	48.99
Eligible voters			30,336
	New Democratic hold		Swing		+2.32
Source(s) Source: Elections Alberta[3]

Senate nominee election results

2004

2004 Senate nominee election results: Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview[4]					Turnout 44.20%
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	% votes	% ballots	Rank
	Progressive Conservative	Betty Unger	3,790	14.49%	43.57%	2
	Independent	Link Byfield	3,200	12.23%	36.79%	4
	Progressive Conservative	Bert Brown	2,748	10.51%	31.59%	1
	Alberta Alliance	Michael Roth	2,695	10.30%	30.98%	7
	Independent	Tom Sindlinger	2,558	9.78%	29.41%	9
	Progressive Conservative	Cliff Breitkreuz	2,507	9.58%	28.82%	3
	Alberta Alliance	Gary Horan	2,450	9.37%	28.16%	10
	Alberta Alliance	Vance Gough	2,388	9.13%	27.45%	8
	Progressive Conservative	David Usherwood	2,005	7.67%	23.05%	6
	Progressive Conservative	Jim Silye	1,817	6.94%	20.89%	5
Total votes			26,158	100%
Total ballots			8,699	3.01 votes per ballot
Rejected, spoiled and declined			1,719

Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot

Student vote results

2004

Participating schools[5]
Balwin Jr High School
Beacon Heights Elementary

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 have 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 that reside in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district then where they were physically located.

2004 Alberta student vote results[6]
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%
	NDP	Ray Martin	94	35.47%
	Green	Benoit Couture	67	25.28%
	Progressive Conservative	Julius Yankowsky	44	16.60%
	Alberta Alliance	Philip Gamache	30	11.32%
	Liberal	Sam Parmar	16	6.04%
	Social Credit	Ken Shipka	14	5.29%
Total			265	100%
Rejected, spoiled and declined			9

2012

2012 Alberta student vote results
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Tony Vandermeer
	Wildrose	Don Martin
	Liberal	Chris Heward		%
	NDP	Deron Bilous		%
Total				100%

See also

• List of Alberta provincial electoral districts
• Canadian provincial electoral districts