Riding Profile:
This west-central Edmonton riding is bordered on the west by the city limits, on the north by Stony Plain Road, on the east mostly by 158th, 159th and 163rd Streets, and on the south by Whitemud Drive. In the 2004 redistribution the riding gained a small area in the east from Edmonton-Glenora and lost the neighbourhoods directly south of there to Edmonton-Riverview.

Retail provides the most jobs here, followed by the accommodation and food-service industry. The average household income, at $57,853, is somewhat below the Alberta average, and there's a higher-than-average number of low-income residents at 13.6 per cent. Twenty-two per cent of people are immigrants, while 54 per cent were born in Alberta.

Political History:
Over the past three decades, Edmonton-Meadowlark has been a Liberal versus Conservative battleground. Tory incumbent Bob Maskell won his seat in 2001 by upsetting MLA Karen Leibovici, a Liberal, by a 444-vote margin. Leibovici had first won here in 1993 with a 3,237-vote victory over Tory Laurier Pushor. She beat Pushor again, this time by 1,375 votes, in 1996. From 1971-86, Tory Gerry Amerongen held the seat. Then-Liberal leader Grant Mitchell ended Amerongen's reign in 1986 and was re-elected in 1989.

In 2001, voter turnout was 56 per cent.