West Yellowhead (electoral District)
West Yellowhead is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 87 current riding's mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting.
The district was created in the 1986 boundary redistribution from most of the old Edson electoral district. It is primarily rural and exists in north-western Alberta. The largest communities in the constituency are Edson, Hinton and Jasper.
The district in its early history was a swing riding changing party hands often. Recently support has gone to electing candidates from the Progressive Conservatives who have held the district with sizable majorities since 1997. The current representative is Progressive Conservative MLA Robin Campbell who was first elected in 2008. He was re-elected in the 2012 provincial election.
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