Edmonton-Gold Bar is a provincial electoral district, in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 87 in the province mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting.
The district is primarily urban and located in the central east portion of city of Edmonton. It was created in the 1971 boundary redistribution from part of Strathcona East.
The district was a stronghold for Liberal candidates from 1986 to 2012. Prior to that, the Progressive Conservatives maintained a stronghold. The Progressive Conservatives re-won the district in the Alberta general election, 2012 when David Dorward was elected.
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