Several Edmonton-area ridings have had their boundaries shifted while four new ones have been created as the 2025 federal election campaign swings through its third week.
Ridings in and around Edmonton have the potential to be fierce battlegrounds for incumbents and newcomers alike as the race to April 28 speeds along.
Edmonton Centre
Controversial incumbent Randy Boissonnault, who was ousted from the Liberal cabinet in November, is not running again, so this battleground riding is up for grabs.
Edmonton Centre has been hotly contested over the last 20 years, with close races in several elections since 2004, particularly those between Boissonnault and Conservative James Cumming.
Boissonnault beat Cumming in 2021 by just 615 votes, two years after losing resoundingly to him. In 2015, Boissonnault edged Cumming by just 1,199 votes.
Replacing Boissonnault as the Liberal candidate is Edmonton lawyer and armed forces reservist Eleanor Olszewski. Former public school board trustee Trisha Estabrooks is running for the NDP while government worker Sayid Ahmed is the Conservative candidate.
- Sayid Ahmed – Conservative
- Gregory Bell – Independent
- Ronald S. Billingsley Jr. – Independent
- David John Bohonos – Christian Heritage
- Mike Dutcher – Independent
- Merryn Edwards de la O – Marxist-Leninist
- Trisha Estabrooks – NDP
- Eleanor Olszewski – Liberal
- Naomi Rankin – Communist
- John Ross – PPC
Edmonton Gateway
This new riding born from the 2022 federal electoral district redistribution is located in south Edmonton from parts of the former Edmonton Mill Woods, Edmonton Riverbend and Edmonton-Wetaskiwin ridings.
The 2025 race has already seen controversy, with Rod Loyola dropped as a Liberal candidate after video from 16 years ago emerged of him praising terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah. Loyola, who is now running as an independent and says he wants to run in Edmonton Southeast instead, had given up his provincial seat with the Alberta NDP to run federally.
Tim Uppal, the Conservative MP for the ex-Edmonton Mill Woods district, is seeking re-election in this riding. He’s been elected to the House of Commons four times in the past 17 years, including the two most recent votes.
Edmonton lawyer Jeremy Hoefsloot was declared the Liberal candidate, replacing Loyola, on April 5.
- Jeremy Hoefsloot – Liberal
- Rod Loyola – Independent
- Madeline Mayes – NDP
- Paul McCormack – PPC
- Ashok Patel – Independent
- Tim Uppal – Conservative
Edmonton Griesbach
One of two federal Edmonton ridings currently represented by the NDP, Edmonton Griesbach sees former MP Kerry Diotte tossing his hat into the ring to try to reclaim the northside seat from Blake Desjarlais.
The 31-year-old Desjarlais, who identifies as Two-spirit and is Alberta’s sole Indigenous MP, ousted the then-incumbent Diotte in 2021 by just 1,500 votes, or 3.4 per cent.
- Alex Boykowich – Communist
- Blake Desjarlais – NDP
- Kerry Diotte – Conservative
- Michael Hunter – Green
- Mary Joyce – Marxist-Leninist
- Patrick Lennox – Liberal
- Thomas Matty – PPC
- Brent Tyson – Canadian Future
- Crystal Vargas – Independent
Edmonton Manning
Conservative Ziad Aboultaif is the three-time incumbent in this northeast Edmonton riding. Aboultaif won the 2021 vote by 5,220 ballots, or 10.6 per cent, for 41.1 per cent of the vote over then-NDP candidate Charmaine St. Germain, who captured 30.5 per cent of the vote.
Blair-Marie Coles represents the Liberals, whose 2021 candidate secured 21.3 per cent of the ballots cast in the riding.
- Ziad Aboultaif – Conservative
- Robert Bard – PPC
- Blair-Marie Coles – Liberal
- Lesley Thompson – NDP
Edmonton Northwest
This riding is new as of 2022, created out of parts of the former St. Albert-Edmonton riding and the current Edmonton West riding.
Conservative candidate Billy Morin is the most experienced of the bunch politically, having served as chief of Enoch Cree Nation from 2015-22.
- Omar Abubakar – NDP
- Albert Carson – PPC
- Lindsey Machona – Liberal
- Billy Morin – Conservative
- Colleen Rice – Green
Edmonton Riverbend
Conservative Matt Jeneroux is the three-time incumbent of this south Edmonton riding since it was created in 2015. He won re-election in 2021, claiming 45.15 per cent of the vote.
The Liberal and NDP candidates in the 2021 campaign each secured about 24.9 per cent of the vote and were 15 votes apart.
- Susan Cake – NDP
- Dwayne Dudiak – PPC
- Matt Jeneroux – Conservative
- Mark Minenko – Liberal
Edmonton Southeast
This new riding is made up of the eastern part of the old Edmonton Mill Woods riding and territory south to the city limit.
Edmonton Mayor Amarjeet Sohi is the candidate in the spotlight for the Liberals. The former MP and cabinet minister under Justin Trudeau took a leave of absence from the mayor’s chair when Mark Carney called the election on March 30.
Lawyer Jagsharan Singh Mahal is running for the Conservatives in Edmonton Southeast, with Uppal seeking re-election in neighbouring Edmonton Gateway after representing Edmonton Mill Woods the last two terms.
- Corinne Benson – Communist
- Gurleen Chandi – Independent
- Harpreet Grewal – NDP
- Jagsharan Singh Mahal – Conservative
- Martin Schuetza – PPC
- Amarjeet Sohi – Liberal
Edmonton Strathcona
Heather McPherson is the two-time NDP incumbent in this central Edmonton riding. She won the 2021 vote in a landslide, taking 60.31 per cent of the vote.
The Conservative candidate that year secured 25.33 per cent of the vote, while the Liberal one scored 7.51 per cent of it.
- Miles Berry – Conservative
- Christian Bourque – Communist
- Atul Deshmukh – Green
- Graham Lettner – Independent
- Heather McPherson – NDP
- Ron Thiering – Liberal
- David Wojtowicz – PPC
Edmonton West
Kelly McCauley is seeking a fourth term as MP for the westside riding, which he first won in 2015.
McCauley, representing the Conservatives, took 45.15 per cent of the 2021 vote to win, with the NDP and Liberal candidates capturing 25.34 per cent and 23.25 per cent of it, respectively.
- Brad Fournier – Liberal
- Brent Kinzel – PPC
- Kelly McCauley – Conservative
- Sean McQuillan – NDP
- Peggy Morton – Marxist-Leninist
Leduc-Wetaskiwin
This riding is new, coming out of the 2022 federal electoral district redistribution effort.
It uses the rural portion of the former Edmonton-Wetaskiwin riding, and includes all of Leduc County and the First Nations between Wetaskiwin and Ponoka.
Mike Lake is the incumbent Conservative MP for Edmonton-Wetaskiwin who won the riding in landslides the last three elections. Before 2015, Lake represented the former Edmonton—Mill Woods—Beaumont riding for nine years as a Conservative.
- Ronald Brochu – Liberal
- Kirk Cayer – United
- Christopher Everingham – Canadian Future
- Jose Flores – PPC
- Mike Lake – Conservative
- Katherine Swampy – NDP
Parkland
The newly formed Parkland district, which was created in 2022 from the federal electoral district redistribution, sits west of Edmonton and includes all of Parkland County, the eastern portion of Yellowhead County and a part of Lac Ste. Anne County.
Dane Lloyd is the incumbent Conservative MP for the former St. Albert-Sturgeon River riding and is running in the new electoral district. Lloyd is a three-time incumbent in the St. Albert-Sturgeon River riding and first won the seat in a 2017 by-election to replace Rona Ambrose.
- Daniel Birrell – Green
- Ashley Fearnall – Liberal
- Keri Goad – NDP
- Wade Klassen – United
- Jason Lavigne – PPC
- Dane Lloyd – Conservative
- Kevin Schulthies – Christian Heritage
Sherwood Park-Fort Saskatchewan
Garrett Genuis is the three-term incumbent MP for the Conservatives in this riding east of Edmonton. Genuis has won the riding in a landslide each time.
Local entrepreneur Tanya Holm is running again for the Liberals in Sherwood Park-Fort Saskatchewan, having placed third in 2021 with 12.2 per cent of the vote. The NDP candidate that year secured 20.6 per cent of it. Tradesman Chris Jones is this year’s NDP candidate.
- Randall Emmons – Green
- Garnett Genuis – Conservative
- Tanya Holm – Liberal
- Mark Horseman – Canadian Future
- Chris Jones – NDP
- Jay Sobel – PPC
St. Albert-Sturgeon River
This riding was created in 2022 following federal electoral district restructuring from parts of the former St. Albert-Edmonton, Sturgeon River-Parkland and Yellowhead ridings.
Michael Cooper is the incumbent Conservative MP for St. Albert-Edmonton, which he first won in 2015 and was re-elected twice. He won the former riding in 2021 with 47.6 per cent of the vote, with the NDP and Liberal candidates scored 28.6 per cent and 17.9 per cent of it, respectively.
- Dorothy Anderson – NDP
- Brigitte Cecelia – PPC
- Michael Cooper – Conservative
- Lucia Stachurski – Liberal
- Jeff Willerton – Christian Heritage
