Riding Profile:
This west-central Edmonton riding is bordered on the west by 170th Street,
on the north by 118th Avenue, on the east by 121st and 124th Streets,
and on the south in part by the North Saskatchewan River. In the 2004
redistribution the riding gained area from Edmonton-Calder and ceded
area to Edmonton-Meadowlark.
More than one-sixth of this riding's residents are low income, and
the average household earns $48,460 a year, well under the Alberta average.
The biggest employer is retail, followed by the health care and social-service
sectors. About 58 per cent of Edmonton-Glenora's population was born
in-province. More than 16 per cent of the people here are immigrants,
and more than seven per cent are aboriginal.
Political History:
This riding has elected both Conservative and Liberal MLAs since its
founding in 1971. In 2001 Conservative Drew Hutton unseated then-two-term
Liberal incumbent Howard Sapers by 187 votes. Sapers had won office
in 1993 by beating Tory Gwen Harris by 2,595 votes, and then fended
off Tory Kim Mackenzie in 1997 by 1,417 votes. Sapers' predecessors
were Tories Lou Hyndman (1971-86) and Nancy Betkowski (1986-93), both
of whom served in various cabinet posts.
In 2001, voter turnout was 56.7 per cent.
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