title: Drumheller-Chinook
text: # Drumheller-Chinook
  
  Drumheller-Chinook was a provincial 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 1997 to 2004.
  
  ## History
  
  The electoral district was created in the 1996 boundary redistribution from the Drumheller and Chinook electoral districts.
  
  The electoral district would be combined with Lacombe-Stettler to form Drumheller-Stettler in 2003.
  
  ### Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs)
  
  Members of the Legislative Assembly for Drumheller-Chinook :
  
  | Assembly | Years | Member | Party |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | See Drumheller electoral district from 1971-1997 and Chinook electoral district from 1979-1997 |||||
  | 24th | 1997–2001 | Shirley McClellan | Progressive Conservative |
  | 25th | 2001–2004 | Shirley McClellan | Progressive Conservative |
  | See Drumheller-Stettler electoral district from 2004-Present |||||
  
  ## Electoral history
  
  ### 1997 general election
  
  vte1997 Alberta general election :
  
  | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Progressive Conservative | Shirley McClellan | 6,063 | 63.48% | – |
  | | Social Credit | Dale Trefz | 2,056 | 21.53% | – |
  | | Liberal | Einar Davison | 1,432 | 14.99% | – |
  | Total | Total | Total | 9,551 | – | – |
  | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | Rejected, spoiled and declined | 30 | – | – |
  | Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | 16,133 | 59.39% | – |
  | | Progressive Conservative pickup new district. | Progressive Conservative pickup new district. | Progressive Conservative pickup new district. | Progressive Conservative pickup new district. | Progressive Conservative pickup new district. | Progressive Conservative pickup new district. | Progressive Conservative pickup new district. |
  | Source(s) Source: "Drumheller-Chinook Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. |||||||
  
  ### 2001 general election
  
  vte2001 Alberta general election :
  
  | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Progressive Conservative | Shirley McClellan | 6,684 | 73.02% | 9.54% |
  | | Liberal | Greg Pyra | 921 | 10.06% | -4.93% |
  | | Independent | Eileen Walker | 819 | 8.95% | – |
  | | New Democratic | Gerry Hamilton | 546 | 5.96% | – |
  | | Social Credit | Peter Smits | 184 | 2.01% | -19.52% |
  | Total | Total | Total | 9,154 | – | – |
  | Rejected, spoiled, and declined | Rejected, spoiled, and declined | Rejected, spoiled, and declined | 31 | – | – |
  | Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | Eligible electors / turnout | 16,066 | 57.17% | – |
  | | Progressive Conservative hold | Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | Swing | 10.50% |
  | Source(s) Source: "Drumheller-Chinook Official Results 2001 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. |||||||
  