Grande Prairie-Wapiti

Grande Prairie-Wapiti is provincial electoral district, located in northwestern Alberta, Canada. It is one of 87 mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting.

The electoral district was created in the 1993 boundary redistribution from the old Grande Prairie electoral district. The district covers the city of Grande Prairie, the rural portion to the west and the towns of Beaverlodge and Wembley.

The district and its antecedent have been a strong hold for Progressive Conservative candidates in recent decades. The current representative for this district is Progressive Conservative Wayne Drysdale. He won election for the first time in 2008. To date there have been three representatives who have held the district.

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