Summary: This is a new riding. Incumbent Conservative Rona Ambrose is running in another riding, so voters here will elect a new MP. Among the candidates, Liberal Karen Liebovici, a former city councillor who ran for mayor in 2013, and Kelly McCauley, who earned the Conservative nomination after the party rejected the candidacy of David Xiao, who was a PC MLA at the time.
Boundaries: This riding is now made up entirely of urban voters within Edmonton city limits. Voters here used to be combined with the suburbs and rural areas to the west of the city in the former riding of Edmonton-Spruce Grove.
Last Election: Incumbent Conservative Rona Ambrose won the former riding in 2011 with 71 per cent of the vote, with the NDP finishing a distant second at 15.8 per cent. Transposing 2011’s votes to these new boundaries, 64 per cent of votes were for the Conservatives, followed by the NDP with 19 per cent.
History: The former riding, Edmonton-Spruce Grove, was created in 2004, and elected Rona Ambrose in every election.
Candidates
Conservative: Kelly McCauley, hotel manager
NDP: Heather MacKenzie, former Public School trustee
Liberal: Karen Liebovici, former city councillor and former MLA
Green: Pamela Bryan, business and management consultant
Marxist-Leninist: Peggy Morton
Libertarian: Alexander Dussault
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