Canadian federal election results in rural Alberta

This article shows results of Canadian federal elections in the province of Alberta outside the Calgary and Edmonton areas.

[citation needed] For most of the last 80 years, the major right-wing party of the day has won all or most of the ridings here, often by large margins.

[citation needed] Some ridings in this area had been friendly to Red Tories, but since the 1990s the entire region has turned in a more fiscal and social conservative direction.

[citation needed] For example, former prime minister Joe Clark represented the riding of Yellowhead (and its predecessor, Rocky Mountain) from 1972 to 1993 during his first tenure in parliament, but ran in (and won) the comparatively less conservative seat of Calgary Centre during his comeback to politics in 2000.

[1]: 7  Sociologist Sam Reimer surveyed Albertans and found that those in rural areas had a strong tendency toward anti-immigration views, regardless of religious affiliation.