Barrhead-Westlock

{{Short description|Defunct provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada}} {{Use Canadian English|date=April 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox Canada electoral district | name =Barrhead-Westlock | province =Alberta | image = | caption = | prov-status =defunct | prov-created =1993 | prov-abolished =2004 | prov-election-first =1993 | prov-election-last =2001 }} '''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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Election results for Barrhead-Westlock. |url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/year_result.php?Constit=Barrhead-Westlock |website=abheritage.ca |publisher=Heritage Community Foundation |access-date=22 May 2020 |archive-date=December 8, 2010 |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/2217/20101208183724/http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/year_result.php?Constit=Barrhead-Westlock |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>

==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.<ref name="1996boundarychanges">{{cite web|title=Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta |url=https://archive.org/details/proposedelectora00albe_0/page/n195/mode/2up |date=June 1996 |access-date=May 29, 2020 |author=Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission |publisher=Legislative Assembly of Alberta}}</ref>

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.<ref name="2003boundarychanges">{{cite web|title=Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta |url=https://archive.org/details/proposedelectora00albe_1 |date=February 2003 |access-date=May 29, 2020 |author=Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission |publisher=Legislative Assembly of Alberta}}</ref>

===Representation history=== {|class=wikitable align=right !colspan=5|Members of the Legislative Assembly for Barrhead-Westlock |- !Assembly !Years !colspan=2|Member !Party |- |colspan=5 align=right|''See Barrhead 1971-1993 and Westlock-Sturgeon 1986-1993.'' |- |23rd |1993-1997 |rowspan=3 {{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}| |rowspan=3|Ken Kowalski |rowspan=3|Progressive<br />Conservative |- |24th |1997-2001 |- |25th |2001-2004 |- |colspan=5 align=center|''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=== {{1993 Alberta general election/Barrhead-Westlock}}

===1997=== {{1997 Alberta general election/Barrhead-Westlock}}

===2001=== {{2001 Alberta general election/Barrhead-Westlock}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading== *{{cite book |author1=Office of the Chief Electoral Officer |author2=Legislative Assembly Office |author2-link=Legislative Assembly of Alberta |author-link1=Elections Alberta |title=A Century of Democracy: Elections of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1905-2005 |date=2006 |publisher=Legislative Assembly of Alberta |series=The Centennial Series |location=Edmonton, AB |isbn=0-9689217-8-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/centennialseries04perr/mode/2up |access-date=25 May 2020}}

==External links== *[http://www.electionsalberta.ab.ca/ Elections Alberta] *[http://www.assembly.ab.ca/ The Legislative Assembly of Alberta]

Category:Former provincial electoral districts of Alberta