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{{Short description|Defunct provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=May 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}}
{{Infobox Canada electoral district
| name                =Dunvegan
| province            =Alberta
| image               =
| caption             =
| prov-rep-party-link = 
| prov-status         =defunct
| prov-created        =1959
| prov-abolished      =1971
| prov-election-first =1959
| prov-election-last  =2001
| prov-created2       =1986
| prov-abolished2     =2004
}}
'''Dunvegan''' was a [[Provinces and territories of Canada|provincial]] [[electoral district (Canada)|electoral district]] in [[Alberta]], Canada, mandated to return a single member to the [[Legislative Assembly of Alberta]] using the [[first past the post]] method of voting from 1959 to 1971, and again from 1986 to 2004.<ref>{{cite web |title=Election results for Dunvegan. |url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/year_result.php?Constit=Dunvegan |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/2217/20101208183724/http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/year_result.php?Constit=Dunvegan |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 December 2010 |website=abheritage.ca |publisher=Heritage Community Foundation |access-date=22 May 2020}}</ref>

The seat for Dunvegan in the Leglislative Assembly was held by the governing party for every year it existed. The riding was named for the small community of [[Dunvegan, Alberta|Dunvegan]], once home to a [[fur trade]] post, and now the site of a [[Dunvegan Provincial Park|provincial park and historic site]].

==History==

===Boundary history===
The first riding named Dunvegan was created out of the western half of [[Peace River (provincial electoral district)|Peace River]] in 1959. It was bounded on the south by the [[Peace River]] and extended north to the [[Northwest Territories]] border, containing the entire northwest corner of Alberta.<ref>{{cite web|title=Alberta Heritage Foundation: Constituency Map for the year of 1959|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/process/election_results.php?year=1959|access-date=2016-08-30|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/2217/20101208163230/http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/process/election_results.php?year=1959|archive-date=2010-12-08}}</ref> When it was abolished in 1971, the north section of the riding was transferred back to Peace River, and the southern two-thirds of the riding, along with the northern half of [[Spirit River (electoral district)|Spirit River]], became [[Spirit River-Fairview]].

In 1986 Dunvegan was re-created, replacing all of Spirit River-Fairview and a small part of [[Smoky River (electoral district)|Smoky River]]. In 1993 it absorbed another part of Smoky River (including the community of [[Falher, Alberta|Falher]]) as well as a small part of Peace River (including [[Grimshaw, Alberta|Grimshaw]]).

The Dunvegan electoral district was dissolved in the 2003 electoral boundary re-distribution, and replaced by the [[Dunvegan-Central Peace]] electoral district for the [[2004 Alberta general election]] with no changes to the district's boundaries.<ref name="2003boundarychanges">{{cite web|title=Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta |url=https://archive.org/details/proposedelectora00albe_1 |date=February 2003 |access-date=May 29, 2020 |author=Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission |publisher=[[Legislative Assembly of Alberta]]}}</ref>

===Representation history===
{| class="wikitable" align=right
!colspan=5|Members of the Legislative Assembly for Dunvegan
|-
!Assembly
!Years
!colspan="2"|Member
!Party
|-
|align="center" colspan=5|''See [[Peace River (provincial electoral district)|Peace River]] 1905-1959''
|-
|[[14th Alberta Legislative Assembly|14th]]
|[[1959 Alberta general election|1959]]-1963
|rowspan=3 {{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit|background}}|
|[[Joseph Scruggs]]
|rowspan=3|{{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit|name}}
|-
|[[15th Alberta Legislative Assembly|15th]]
|[[1963 Alberta general election|1963]]-1967
|rowspan=2|[[Ernest Leonard Lee|Ernest Lee]]
|-
|[[16th Alberta Legislative Assembly|16th]]
|[[1967 Alberta general election|1967]]-1971
|-
|colspan=5 align=center |''See [[Spirit River-Fairview]] 1971-1986''
|-
|[[22nd Alberta Legislative Assembly|22nd]]
|[[1986 Alberta general election|1986]]-1989
|rowspan=5 {{Canadian party colour|AB|PC|background}}|
|rowspan=4|[[Glen Clegg]]
|rowspan=5|[[Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta|Progressive<br />Conservative]]
|-
|[[23rd Alberta Legislative Assembly|23rd]]
|[[1989 Alberta general election|1989]]-1993
|-
|[[24th Alberta Legislative Assembly|24th]]
|[[1993 Alberta general election|1993]]-1997
|-
|[[25th Alberta Legislative Assembly|25th]]
|[[1997 Alberta general election|1997]]-2001
|-
|[[26th Alberta Legislative Assembly|26th]]
|[[2001 Alberta general election|2001]]-2004
|[[Hector Goudreau]]
|-
|colspan=5 align=center|''See [[Dunvegan-Central Peace]] 2004-2012''
|}
The first MLA for Dunvegan was [[Joseph Scruggs]], who narrowly picked the riding up for the governing [[Social Credit Party of Alberta|Social Credit]]. He did not run for re-election in 1963, but [[Ernest Leonard Lee|Ernest Lee]] held the riding for the government for two more terms.

The riding was then replaced by [[Spirit River-Fairview]], which was picked up by [[Alberta New Democratic Party|New Democrat]] leader [[Grant Notley]], who held that riding almost until it was replaced by Dunvegan in 1986.

In that election, the governing [[Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta|Progressive Conservatives]] would win the riding for the first time, despite an NDP surge elsewhere in the province. MLA [[Glen Clegg]] represented the area for five terms, retiring in 2001.

PC candidate [[Hector Goudreau]] would hold the riding for the government in its final term, and went on to represent [[Dunvegan-Central Peace]] for both terms it existed, as well as [[Dunvegan-Central Peace-Notley]] until 2015.

==Election results==

===1950s===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1959/Dunvegan}}

===1960s===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1963/Dunvegan}}
{{Alberta provincial election, 1967/Dunvegan}}

===1980s===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1986/Dunvegan}}
{{Alberta provincial election, 1989/Dunvegan}}

===1990s===
{{Alberta provincial election, 1993/Dunvegan}}
{{Alberta provincial election, 1997/Dunvegan}}

===2000s===
{{Alberta provincial election, 2001/Dunvegan}}

== See also ==
* [[List of Alberta provincial electoral districts]]
* [[Canadian provincial electoral districts]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
*{{cite book |author1=Office of the Chief Electoral Officer |author2=Legislative Assembly Office |author2-link=Legislative Assembly of Alberta |author-link1=Elections Alberta |title=A Century of Democracy: Elections of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1905-2005 |date=2006 |publisher=Legislative Assembly of Alberta |series=The Centennial Series |location=Edmonton, AB |isbn=0-9689217-8-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/centennialseries04perr/mode/2up |access-date=25 May 2020}}

==External links==
*[http://www.electionsalberta.ab.ca/ Elections Alberta]
*[https://www.assembly.ab.ca/ The Legislative Assembly of Alberta]

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