Edmonton Strathcona

Edmonton Strathcona
Province	Alberta
Fed-status	active
Fed-district-number	48019
Fed-created	1952
Fed-election-first	1953
Fed-election-last	2025
Fed-rep	Heather McPherson
Fed-rep-party	NDP
Demo-pop-ref	^[1]
Demo-area-ref	^[2]
Demo-census-date	2016
Demo-pop	106066
Demo-electors	77,285
Demo-electors-date	2019
Demo-area	80
Demo-cd	Division No. 11
Demo-csd	Edmonton (part)

Edmonton Strathcona (formerly known as Edmonton—Strathcona) is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1953. It spans the south-central part of the city of Edmonton. In the periods from 2008 to 2015 and 2019 to 2021, during the 40th, 41st, and 43rd Canadian Parliaments, Edmonton Strathcona was the only federal riding in Alberta not represented by the Conservative Party.

Geography

Edmonton Strathcona encompasses the neighbourhoods of Allendale, Argyll, Avonmore, Belgravia, Bonnie Doon, Capilano, Cloverdale, Empire Park, Forest Heights, Fulton Place, Garneau, Gold Bar, Grandview Heights, Hazeldean, Holyrood, Idylwylde, Kenilworth, King Edward Park, Lansdowne, Lendrum Place, Malmo Plains, McKernan, Ottewell, Parkallen, Pleasantview, Queen Alexandra Park, Ritchie, Riverdale, Strathcona, Strathearn, Terrace Heights, and Windsor Park.

The riding contains the historic district of Old Strathcona, the University of Alberta, the University of Alberta Campus Saint-Jean and the Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre.

It borders on the federal ridings of Edmonton Centre, Edmonton Griesbach, Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, Edmonton Southeast, Edmonton Gateway and Edmonton Riverbend.

This district is bounded:^[3]

On the north by the North Saskatchewan River (except for a jog that goes around the neighbourhood of Riverdale, which is north of the river).
On the west by the Whitemud Creek from the North Saskatchewan River to Whitemud Drive.
On the south by Whitemud Drive, from Whitemud Creek to the City Limits.
On the east by Edmonton's City Limits.

Political geography

As evidenced by the 2008 and 2011 elections, this riding is heavily polarized between more urban New Democratic Party (NDP) voters concentrated in the northwest of the riding and suburban Conservative voters concentrated in the south and east.

The NDP picked up this seat in 2008 for the first time in its history, when Edmonton lawyer Linda Duncan defeated Tory incumbent Rahim Jaffer, thanks to a consolidation of non-Conservative votes. They have retained the riding since and it has established itself as clearly the most left-leaning riding in Alberta. Since the 2021 federal election, Edmonton-Strathcona has been the safest NDP seat in all of Canada.

Demographics

According to the 2011 Canadian census; 2013 representation^[4]^[5]

Languages: 77.3% English, 3.8% French, 3.5% Chinese, 2.5% German, 1.5% Ukrainian, 1.3% Spanish, 1.3% Tagalog
Religions: 52.8% Christian (22.1% Catholic, 5.6% United Church, 3.5% Lutheran, 3.5% Anglican, 2.2% Baptist, 2.0% Christian Orthodox, 1.1% Pentecostal, 13.0% Other), 2.5% Muslim, 1.2% Hindu, 1.1% Buddhist, 40.6% No religion
Median income (2010): $35,026
Average income (2010): $46,710

Panethnic groups in Edmonton Strathcona (2011−2021)
Panethnic group	2021^[6]		2016^[7]		2011^[8]
Panethnic group	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%
European^[a]	71,690	71.24%	75,835	73.84%	79,705	79.24%
East Asian^[b]	6,895	6.85%	7,240	7.05%	5,565	5.53%
Indigenous	6,305	6.27%	5,405	5.26%	4,320	4.29%
South Asian	4,855	4.82%	4,150	4.04%	2,825	2.81%
Southeast Asian^[c]	3,615	3.59%	3,655	3.56%	2,925	2.91%
African	2,410	2.39%	2,335	2.27%	1,505	1.5%
Middle Eastern^[d]	2,180	2.17%	1,955	1.9%	1,840	1.83%
Latin American	1,500	1.49%	1,385	1.35%	1,185	1.18%
Other/Multiracial^[e]	1,190	1.18%	735	0.72%	730	0.73%
Total responses	100,635	98.48%	102,695	96.82%	100,585	97.48%
Total population	102,188	100%	106,066	100%	103,183	100%
Notes: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses. Demographics based on 2012 Canadian federal electoral redistribution riding boundaries.

History

The Strathcona riding dates back to Territorial times (see Strathcona (federal electoral district). It was represented by Liberal MPs, then a Liberal MP who after election became a Unionist, then became a Conservative), and a United Farmer of Alberta MP in that early incarnation. (This riding was abolished in 1924, and its area was split among the Edmonton East, Edmonton West and Vegreville ridings.)

The electoral district of Edmonton—Strathcona (later Edmonton Strathcona) was created in 1952 from Edmonton East and Edmonton West ridings.

Edmonton—Strathcona gained territory from Edmonton East and was renamed "Edmonton Strathcona" during the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of the House of Commons:

Current member of Parliament

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.

Election results