Lac La Biche-McMurray
Lac La Biche-McMurray was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using first-past-the-post balloting from 1971 to 1986.The riding's first MLA was Dan Bouvier, newly-minted member for Lac La Biche.Elected under the Social Credit banner, he resigned from caucus a year later "in the interest of [his] constituents".The riding was then picked up by the governing Progressive Conservatives, with Ron Tesolin winning by a large margin over four rivals.In the late 70's, the population of Lac La Biche-McMurray inflated alongside the economic boom in the Athabasca oil sands, seen in the near-doubling of eligible electors for the 1979 election.