Electoral boundary changes filed with legislative assembly

LEDUC -- Alberta's Electoral Boundaries Commission has submitted its recommendations to the Legislative Assembly.

Under the proposed changes, the current provincial riding of Leduc-Beaumont would be broken up into separate constituencies. If the changes are approved this spring, Leduc would join the new riding of "Leduc-Devon". In its final report issued Mar. 26, 2026, the commission said that the new riding will consist of portions of Leduc County west of Highway 2 and south of the City of Leduc, as well as portions west of Highway 814 and north of Highway 623. It also contains the Towns of Devon, Calmar, and Thorsby.

"The Commission acknowledges that most presentations received preferred a configuration where Leduc and Beaumont are in the same electoral division," said the commission. "However, that would result in an electoral division that would be by far the most populous in the province. Placing Beaumont together with Edmonton, while areas in Leduc County west of Highway 2 enter an electoral division with Leduc, enables us to achieve effective representation for all Albertans while removing only two electoral divisions from rural Alberta."

For the City of Beaumont, they will form a new riding of "Edmonton-Beaumont". 

"This electoral division consists of the entirety of the City of Beaumont. It also contains portions of the present Edmonton-Ellerslie: a) south of 41 Street SW, and b) south of the Anthony Henday Boulevard and east of 66 Street. This new electoral division is the most significant hybrid electoral division the Commission proposes. It reflects the link between Beaumont and south Edmonton, and the unanimous desire not to divide Beaumont," said the commission. "While the Commission recognizes that there was more support for Beaumont to be united with Leduc, not only would such an electoral division have had an undesirably high population; it would have had significant cascading consequences on the rest of the province, which would have impeded effective representation."

These electoral boundary changes will not become official until being fully adopted in the Alberta legislature.