Yellowhead, AB — 2015 Federal Election Results Map
Yellowhead — 2015 Election Results
📌 The Canadian federal electoral district of Yellowhead was contested in the 2015 election.
🏆 Jim Eglinski, the Conservative candidate, won the riding with 37,950 votes (72.3% of the vote).
🥈 The runner-up was Ryan Maguhn (Liberal) with 7,467 votes (14.2%), defeated by a margin of 30,483 votes.
📊 Other notable candidates: Ken Kuzminski (NDP-New Democratic Party, 9%).
Riding information
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Yellowhead is one of Alberta's largest federal ridings, stretching from the foothills west of Edmonton to the British Columbia border. Named for the Yellowhead Pass through the Canadian Rockies, the riding encompasses Jasper National Park, the resource towns of Edson, Hinton, and Drayton Valley, and a vast expanse of boreal forest, ranch country, and mountain wilderness.
Candidates
Jim Eglinski (Conservative) — Born in Two Hills, Alberta, and raised on a farm in Chipman, Eglinski served 35 years with the RCMP, holding nine postings and five detachment commands before retiring as a staff sergeant in Fort St. John, British Columbia, in 2002. He then served as a Fort St. John city councillor from 2002 to 2005 and as mayor from 2005 to 2008. He won the Yellowhead seat in a November 2014 by-election and was seeking his first full term.
Ryan Maguhn (Liberal) — A Hinton native, Maguhn earned a Bachelor of Science and teaching certificate from Bemidji State University in Minnesota. He returned to Hinton in 2005 to teach at Gerard Redmond Community Catholic School and was elected to Hinton town council in a 2012 by-election, winning a full term in 2013.
Ken Kuzminski (NDP) — Kuzminski ran for the NDP in the riding, hoping to benefit from the party's recent provincial momentum in Alberta.
Sandra Wolf Lange (Green Party) and Cory Lystang (Libertarian) also sought election.
About the Riding
Yellowhead covers a vast territory of forests, mountains, and resource-dependent communities. The town of Edson (population roughly 8,500) serves as a service centre for the surrounding coal, oil, and gas industries. Hinton (about 10,000) sits at the gateway to Jasper National Park and is home to major forestry operations. Drayton Valley (about 7,000), in the riding's southeastern corner, is an oil and gas hub. Jasper, inside the national park, relies on tourism, welcoming millions of visitors annually. The energy sector — oil, gas, coal, and forestry — dominates the local economy, supplemented by ranching on the eastern plains. Federal issues in 2015 included resource royalties and pipeline access, the economic impact of falling oil prices, forestry policy, and parks management. The riding's sheer size — requiring hours of driving to traverse — makes infrastructure and rural connectivity persistent concerns.
