Riding Profile:
This new north Edmonton riding is bordered on the north by the city
limits, on the east mostly by 69th and 82nd Streets, on the south by
the CNR line and on the west by 97th Street. The riding was created
in the 2004 redistribution, combining most of Edmonton-Glengarry with
a small area of Edmonton-Manning.
Three of every 10 people in Edmonton-Decore are immigrants, and 65.4
per cent speak English at home, the third-lowest rate in the province.
Household incomes, at $61,574, are slightly below the provincial average,
while the number of low income homes, at 14.2 per cent, is slightly
above. Retail and manufacturing provide the most jobs. Almost 54 per
cent of residents were born in the province, about four per cent are
aboriginal.
Political History:
The new riding of Edmonton-Decore draws most of its voters from the
old Edmonton-Glengarry riding, which had been represented by Liberals
and New Democrats since 1986. The incumbent there is Liberal Bill Bonner,
who was first elected in 1997 in a 1,300-vote win over a Tory candidate.
Bonner won again in 2001, with 69 votes separating him from runner-up
Tory Andrew Beniuk. Before Bonner, Liberal leader Laurence Decore was
MLA from 1989-97. Decore won office by unseating the NDP's John Younie,
who served here from 1986-89.
In 2001, voter turnout was 48.3 per cent.
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