Dunvegan-Central Peace-Notley

{{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 =Dunvegan-Central Peace-Notley | province =Alberta | image =DunveganCentralPeaceNotley in Alberta.jpg | caption =2010 boundaries | prov-status =defunct | prov-created =2010 | prov-abolished =2019 | prov-created2 = | prov-election-first =2012 | prov-election-last =2015 }} '''Dunvegan-Central Peace-Notley''' 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 2012 to 2019.

==History== The electoral district was created in the 2010 electoral boundary re-distribution from the old electoral district of Dunvegan-Central Peace. The distribution saw the north end of the constituency that resided with the Municipal District of Northern Lights being redistributed to the Peace River electoral district.<ref name="changes">{{cite book |title=Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta |url=http://www.assembly.ab.ca/lao/library/egovdocs/2010/alch/9780986536717.pdf |date=June 2010 |access-date=May 29, 2020 |author=Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission |isbn=978-0-9865367-1-7 |publisher=Legislative Assembly of Alberta |archive-date=2020-06-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200603142640/http://www.assembly.ab.ca/lao/library/egovdocs/2010/alch/9780986536717.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> The electoral district is one of two in the province that is considered a special district and allowed to have less than the average population due to the lack of population and distance between communities.<ref name="changes"/>

The change in name came from a write-in campaign from Alberta New Democratic Party members who wanted to tack "Notley" onto the electoral district. Grant Notley was their former leader and an MLA for Spirit River-Fairview, an old electoral district that existed in the area.<ref name="notley">{{cite web|title=Dunvegan riding renamed in honour of Notley|url=http://www.prrecordgazette.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2879603&archive=true|publisher=The Record Gazette|author=Remo Zaccagna}}</ref> They pressed for the change due to other former provincial Premiers and Opposition leaders getting districts named after them such as Edmonton-Decore and Calgary-Lougheed.<ref name="changes"/> The Electoral Boundaries Commission refused the request, and the name change was facilitated by an amendment to the ''Electoral Divisions Act'' proposed by independent MLA Dave Taylor, which was carried by the Legislature.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Zaccagna |first1=Remo |title=Constituency renamed; Region: Grant Notley recognized |work=The Daily Herald-Tribune |date=December 1, 2010 |page=4 |id={{ProQuest|2203355113}}}}</ref>

===Boundary history=== {| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" style="width:100%;" !colspan=4|01 Dunvegan-Central Peace-Notley 2010 Boundaries<ref name="2010boundariesact">{{cite web|url=https://www.assembly.ab.ca/ISYS/LADDAR_files/docs/bills/bill/legislature_27/session_3/20100204_am-028-SA1.pdf|title=Bill 28 Sub Amendment 1|publisher=Legislative Assembly of Alberta|date=November 24, 2010|access-date=September 15, 2014|archive-date=March 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234907/https://www.assembly.ab.ca/ISYS/LADDAR_files/docs/bills/bill/legislature_27/session_3/20100204_am-028-SA1.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> |- !colspan=4|Bordering districts |- !North !East !West !South |- |Peace River |Lesser Slave Lake |British Columbia boundary |Grande Prairie-Smoky, Grande Prairie-Wapiti |- |colspan=2 align=center|200px |colspan=2 align=center|200px |- |colspan=4|'''Note: Boundary descriptions were not used in the 2010 redistribution''' |}

===Representation history=== {| class="wikitable" align=right !colspan=5|Members of the Legislative Assembly for<br>Dunvegan-Central Peace-Notley |- !Assembly !Years !colspan="2"|Member !Party |- |align="center" colspan=5|''See Dunvegan-Central Peace 2004-2012'' |-

|28th |2012–2015 |{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}| |Hector Goudreau |PC |- |29th |2015–2019 |{{Canadian party colour|AB|NDP|background}}| |Margaret McCuaig-Boyd |NDP |- |align="center" colspan=5|''See Central Peace-Notley 2019-'' |} The former Progressive Conservative MLA Hector Goudreau served three terms in office after first being elected in the 2001 election, but after resigning as chair of the Cabinet Policy Committee on Community Development after allegations of bullying local school officials,<ref>{{cite news |author1=Rusnell, Charles |author2=McKenna, Niall |title=School board gets warning letter from Tory MLA |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/school-board-gets-warning-letter-from-tory-mla-1.1218922 |access-date=27 May 2020 |work=CBC News |publisher=cbc.ca |date=March 3, 2012 |archive-date=14 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214220918/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/school-board-gets-warning-letter-from-tory-mla-1.1218922 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Nodge |first1=Matt |title=Hector Goudreau resigns from committee over letter controversy |url=https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/hector-goudreau-resigns-from-committee-over-letter-controversy-1.777491 |access-date=27 May 2020 |work=CTV News |publisher=ctvedmonton.ca |date=March 6, 2012 |archive-date=3 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201203072306/https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/hector-goudreau-resigns-from-committee-over-letter-controversy-1.777491 |url-status=dead }}</ref> he did not run again in the 2015 provincial election. NDP MLA Marg McCuaig-Boyd was elected in the orange wave that swept the province in the 2015 election, and served as the provincial Energy Minister.

==Election results== {{2012 Alberta general election/Dunvegan-Central Peace-Notley}} {{2015 Alberta general election/Dunvegan-Central Peace-Notley}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==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