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Name Party Electoral district First elected/previously elected Blake Richards: Conservative: Banff—Airdrie: 2008 Damien Kurek: Conservative Battle River—Crowfoot
Name Party Electoral district MP since Blake Richards: Conservative: Banff—Airdrie: 2008 Damien Kurek: Conservative Battle River—Crowfoot: 2019
The 31st Alberta Legislative Assembly was constituted after the general election on 29 May 2023. The United Conservative Party (UCP), led by incumbent Premier Danielle Smith , won a majority of seats (49) and formed the government.
Like the Canadian federal government, Alberta uses a Westminster-style parliamentary government, in which members are sent to the Legislative Assembly after general elections and the lieutenant governor appoints the person who can command a majority of the members of the Assembly, typically the leader of the party with the most seats, as ...
It sits in the Alberta Legislature Building in Edmonton. Since 2012 the Legislative Assembly has had 87 members, elected first past the post from single-member electoral districts. [1] Bills passed by the Legislative Assembly are given royal assent by the lieutenant governor of Alberta, as the viceregal representative of the King of Canada. [2]
29th Alberta Legislature; Majority parliament: 11 June 2015 – 19 March 2019: Parliament leaders; Premier: Rachel Notley May 24, 2015 — April 30, 2019: Cabinet: Notley cabinet: Leader of the Opposition: Brian Jean May 5, 2015 — July 23, 2017: Nathan Cooper July 24, 2017 — October 29, 2017: Jason Nixon October 30, 2017 – January 3, 2018 ...
The current member of Parliament is Heather McPherson of the New Democratic Party who was first elected in the 2019 federal election and re-elected in the 2021 federal election. Winning 61% of the district vote in 2021, McPherson holds the largest margin of victory among elected NDP MPs in the 44th parliament.
The 43rd Canadian Parliament was in session from December 5, 2019, to August 15, 2021, with the membership of its Lower House, the House of Commons of Canada, having been determined by the results of the 2019 federal election held on October 21, 2019.