Medicine Hat (electoral district)

Infobox Canada electoral district
name = Medicine Hat
province = Alberta


caption = Medicine Hat in relation to the other Alberta federal electoral districts
fed-status = active
fed-district-number = 48021
fed-created = 1907
fed-abolished =
fed-election-first = 1908
fed-election-last = 2006
fed-rep = Monte Solberg
fed-rep-link =
fed-rep-party = Conservative
fed-rep-party-link = Conservative Party of Canada
demo-census-date = 2006
demo-pop = 113085
demo-electors = 79634
demo-electors-date = 2006
demo-area = 33305
demo-cd = Division No. 1, Division No. 2
demo-csd = Medicine Hat, Brooks, Taber, Newell County No. 4, Cypress County, Redcliff, Forty Mile County No. 8

:"For the provincial electoral district by the same name, see Medicine Hat (provincial electoral district)."

Medicine Hat is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1908. The riding covers the town of Medicine Hat and surrounding areas on the southeast side of Alberta, including Cypress County, Forty Mile County, Municipal District of Taber, Newell County and the southern part of Special Area No. 2.

History

Soon after the province of Alberta was admitted to Confederation in 1905, this electoral district was created, in 1907, from Alberta (Provisional District) and Assiniboia West ridings.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

* 1908-1911: Charles Alexander Magrath - Conservative
* 1911-1917: William Ashbury Buchanan - Liberal
* 1917-1921: Arthur Lewis Sifton - Unionist
* 1921-1925: Robert Gardiner - Progressive
* 1925-1935: Frederick William Gershaw - Liberal
* 1935-1940: Archibald Hugh Mitchell - Social Credit
* 1940-1945: Frederick William Gershaw - Liberal
* 1945-1957: William Duncan Wylie - Social Credit
* 1957-1958: Bud Olson - Social Credit
* 1958-1962: Edwin William Brunsden - Progressive Conservative
* 1962-1972: Bud Olson - Social Credit (1962-1967), Liberal (1967-1972)
* 1972-1984: Bert Hargrave - Progressive Conservative
* 1984-1993: Robert Harold Porter - Progressive Conservative
* 1993-present: Monte Solberg - Reform Party (1993-2000), Canadian Alliance (2000-2003), Progressive Conservative (2003-2004), Conservative (2003-present)

Current Member of Parliament

Its Member of Parliament is Monte Solberg, a former broadcaster. He was first elected to Parliament in the 1993 election. He represents the Conservative Party of Canada. He is the Conservative Minister of Human Resources and Social Development. He will not be reoffering in the upcoming federal election.

Election results

CanElec4|2006

See also

* List of Canadian federal electoral districts
* Alberta federal electoral districts
* Past Canadian electoral districts

External links

* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/process/house/hfer/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=Det&Include=Y&rid=431 Library of Parliament Riding Profile]
* [http://www.elections.ca/scripts/webpep/fin/select_election.aspx?entity=1&lang=e Expenditures - 2004]
* [http://www.elections.ca/scripts/ecCandidates2/Default.asp?L=E&Page=SearchByEdResult&DB=AsSubmitted&EL=226&ST=ED&ID=48020 Expenditures - 2000]
* [http://www.elections.ca/eccandidates/district.asp?ran=2008.092&objectType=district&action=provinces&ul=1&ElectionID=191 Expenditures - 1997]
* [http://www.elections.ca/ Elections Canada]
* Website of the [http://www.parl.gc.ca/ Parliament of Canada]