Peace River—Westlock, AB — 2015 Federal Election Results Map
Peace River—Westlock — 2015 Election Results
📌 The Canadian federal electoral district of Peace River—Westlock was contested in the 2015 election.
🏆 Arnold Viersen, the Conservative candidate, won the riding with 34,342 votes (69.4% of the vote).
🥈 The runner-up was Cameron Alexis (NDP-New Democratic Party) with 7,127 votes (14.4%), defeated by a margin of 27,215 votes.
📊 Other notable candidates: Chris Brown (Liberal, 13%).
Riding information
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One of Canada's largest federal ridings by area, Peace River—Westlock stretches across north-central Alberta from just north of Edmonton to the Peace Country. Created during the 2012 redistribution, the riding takes in communities including Peace River, Westlock, Barrhead, Slave Lake, High Prairie, Fairview, Whitecourt, Swan Hills, and Fox Creek.
Candidates
Arnold Viersen (Conservative) — Raised in the Dutch-Canadian community of Neerlandia, northwest of Athabasca, Viersen attended Covenant Canadian Reformed School from grades one through twelve and worked as a journeyman auto mechanic before entering politics. He resided on an acreage in Westlock County near his childhood home.
Cameron Alexis (NDP) — A retired RCMP officer who served in the force for 23 years, Alexis had also served as Chief of the Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation, Grand Chief of Treaty Six, and Assembly of First Nations Regional Chief for Alberta. He brought extensive experience in Indigenous governance and policing to the campaign.
Chris Brown (Liberal) — Brown ran as the Liberal candidate in a riding that historically returned Conservative members with large margins.
Sabrina Lee Levac (Green Party) and Jeremy Sergeew (Libertarian) also sought election.
About the Riding
Peace River—Westlock encompasses boreal forest, muskeg, and farmland across a vast swath of northern Alberta. The riding's southern communities — Westlock, Barrhead, and Whitecourt — serve as agricultural service centres and benefit from proximity to Edmonton. Further north, the town of Peace River sits at the confluence of the Peace and Smoky rivers and functions as a regional hub for the Peace Country. Slave Lake, on the southeastern shore of Lesser Slave Lake, was rebuilding after a devastating wildfire destroyed roughly a third of the community in May 2011. The economy blends mixed farming — grain, canola, peas, beef, and dairy — with oil and gas production, forestry, and some tourism. Several First Nations and Metis settlements are located within the riding, including communities of the Bigstone Cree Nation and the Driftpile Cree Nation. Federal issues during the 2015 campaign included energy sector pipeline access, agricultural trade policy, Indigenous housing and services, rural broadband infrastructure, and continued support for communities recovering from natural disasters.
