Strathmore-Brooks
 Alberta electoral district
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2004 boundaries
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| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
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| District created | 1996 | ||
| First contested | 1997 | ||
| Last contested | 2015 | ||
Strathmore-Brooks is a rural provincial electoral district in southern Alberta, Canada. The district was created in 1996 and is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
The electoral district was created in the 1996 boundary redistribution from most of the old electoral district of Bow Valley. The 2010 boundary redistribution saw the electoral district completely untouched using exactly the same boundaries as 2003.
The electoral district was created in 1997. The first election that year saw Progressive Conservative incumbent Lyle Oberg win the new district with over 70% of the popular vote. Oberg had served as MLA for Bow Valley from 1993 to 1997 before it was abolished.
After the election Oberg was appointed to serve in the cabinet of Premier Ralph Klein. He ran for his third term in the 2001 general election and won. He took a slightly higher percentage of the popular vote.
Oberg ran for his third term in the district and fourth as an MLA. His popularity started to slide. He was re-elected with a reduced majority losing over 10% of his popular vote.
Controversy would follow in 2006 after Oberg resigned his cabinet pos to seek the leadership of the Progressive Conservative party in the wake of Ralph Klein's resignation. He was removed from Progressive Conservative caucus days later on March 22, 2006 and forced to sit as an Independent after suggesting that he knew where the skeletons were in the closet of the Progressive Conservative government.
Oberg ran for leadership of the party as an Independent and lost. He was readmitted to the caucus on July 25, 2006 by Premier Ed Stelmach and returned to cabinet. Oberg did not stand for re-election in 2008. The election that year returned Progressive Conservative candidate Arno Doerksen with a landslide majority.
In the 2012 General Election, Wildrose candidate Jason Hale defeated Doerksen by a comfortable margin as the party went on to dominate rural southern Alberta.
In December 2014, Hale crossed the floor with 8 other Wildrose MLAs to the Progressive Conservative Party. In January 2015, Derek Fildebrandt announced that he would seek the Wildrose nomination to challenge Hale. Hale announced his retirement from politics soon afterwards.
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