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The Political RecordFederal electoral districtsNo. 48015Alberta

Edmonton Centre

Edmonton-Centre

Edmonton Centre is a federal riding in Alberta. Eleanor Olszewski (Liberal) has represented Edmonton Centre since the 2025 election. Eleanor Olszewski (Liberal) took Edmonton Centre from the Conservatives in the 2025 election by 3,512 votes (6.4 points), with 44.3% of the vote. Sayid Ahmed (Conservative) was second with 37.9%, on a turnout of 63.1% of 87,067 electors. Member as of .

Edmonton Griesbach · ConservativeEdmonton Northwest · ConservativeEdmonton Strathcona · New DemocraticEdmonton West · ConservativeEdmonton Centre
Fig. 1 — Edmonton Centre on the board, 2023 boundaries; the ridings next door as the House holds them on . Open it on the board →

Who represents Edmonton Centre

LEleanor Olszewski
Eleanor Olszewski's piece from the board. Illustration after the official portrait © House of Commons.

Eleanor Olszewski

Member of Parliament for Edmonton Centre

Liberal

MP since · first term

  • Minister of Emergency Management and Community Resilience
  • Minister responsible for Prairies Economic Development Canada

48 speeches in the 45th Parliament, most often on The Economy.

Contact and office · House of Commons →

The 2025 result: Liberal gain from the Conservatives

Share of the valid votes by candidate, Edmonton Centre, April 28, 2025

Share of the valid votes by candidate, Edmonton Centre, April 28, 2025Of the 54,428 valid votes, Eleanor Olszewski (Liberal) took 44.3%, Sayid Ahmed (Conservative) 37.9% and Trisha Estabrooks (New Democratic) 15.5%; the 7 other candidates took 2.2% together.2025Turnout 63.1% of 87,067 electorsEleanor OlszewskiLiberal44.3% · 24,1383,512 votes ahead · 6.5 ptsSayid AhmedConservative37.9% · 20,626Trisha EstabrooksNew Democratic15.5% · 8,440Others (7)2.2% · 1,224050%100%
Share of the valid votes by candidate, Edmonton Centre, April 28, 2025Of the 54,428 valid votes, Eleanor Olszewski (Liberal) took 44.3%, Sayid Ahmed (Conservative) 37.9% and Trisha Estabrooks (New Democratic) 15.5%; the 7 other candidates took 2.2% together.2025Turnout 63.1% of 87,067 electorsEleanor OlszewskiLiberal44.3% · 24,1383,512 votes ahead · 6.5 ptsSayid AhmedConservative37.9% · 20,626Trisha EstabrooksNew Democratic15.5% · 8,440Others (7)2.2% · 1,224050%100%
Shares of the 54,428 valid votes; a candidate under 1% is counted with the others. Source: Elections Canada, official voting results, the 2025 general election.
The figures
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Eleanor OlszewskiLiberal24,13844.3%
Sayid AhmedConservative20,62637.9%
Trisha EstabrooksNew Democratic8,44015.5%
Others (7)1,2242.2%

Eleanor Olszewski (Liberal) won Edmonton Centre on with 24,138 votes, 44.3% of the 54,428 valid votes. Sayid Ahmed (Conservative) was second with 20,626 (37.9%), 3,512 votes and 6.4 points behind.

Of the 54,428 valid votes, Eleanor Olszewski (Liberal) took 44.3%, Sayid Ahmed (Conservative) 37.9% and Trisha Estabrooks (New Democratic) 15.5%; the 7 other candidates took 2.2% together. Turnout was 63.1% of 87,067 electors: 54,907 ballots cast, 54,428 of them valid, for 10 candidates.

Since 2021

Against the 2021 result on these boundaries, the Liberals are up 13.3 (31.0% to 44.3%), the Conservatives up 5.5 (32.4% to 37.9%) and the New Democrats down 14.7 (30.2% to 15.5%), in points of the valid votes.

2021 is Elections Canada's transposition of that election onto the 2023 boundaries, not an election held on these lines.

Since 2004: no party has held it

The party first in Edmonton Centre at each general election, 2004 to 2025, on today's boundaries

  1. 2004Conservative42.9%by 2.3 points over the Liberals
  2. 2006Conservative46.4%by 9.7 points over the Liberals
  3. 2008Conservative50.4%by 24.3 points over the Liberals
  4. 2011Conservative49.6%by 24.7 points over the New Democrats
  5. 2015†Conservative37.0%by 1.6 points over the Liberals
  6. 2019Conservative44.4%by 14.4 points over the Liberals
  7. 2021Conservative32.4%by 1.4 points over the Liberals
  8. 2025changed handsLiberal44.3%by 6.4 points over the Conservatives
Each election carried onto today's boundaries by where the riding's 2025 electors lived: our estimate to 2019, Elections Canada's transposition for 2021, the official result for 2025. Parties are counted as they ran. † The first two are within two points, so which party was first is less certain.
The figures
YearFirstShareSecondMargin (pts)Basis
2004Conservative42.9%Liberal2.3carried, our estimate
2006Conservative46.4%Liberal9.7carried, our estimate
2008Conservative50.4%Liberal24.3carried, our estimate
2011Conservative49.6%New Democratic24.7carried, our estimate
2015†Conservative37.0%Liberal1.6carried, our estimate
2019Conservative44.4%Liberal14.4carried, our estimate
2021Conservative32.4%Liberal1.4transposed by Elections Canada
2025Liberal44.3%Conservative6.4official result

The Conservatives were first at seven of the eight general elections from 2004 to 2025, the Liberals at one; it changed hands once. In 2025 the Liberals took 44.3% of the vote here, 12.7 points above their average of 31.6% at the seven general elections from 2004 to 2021.

On today's boundaries the Conservatives were first here in 2004 (42.9%), 2006 (46.4%), 2008 (50.4%), 2011 (49.6%), 2015 (37.0%), 2019 (44.4%) and 2021 (32.4%) and the Liberals in 2025 (44.3%), each with the share of the valid votes shown.

A stronghold is a party first at every general election since 2004, by an average of 20 points or more over the next party; held, first at every one; usually, first at all but one. By-elections are not counted. By this rule 160 of the 343 ridings have no degree. The results before 2021 are carried onto today's boundaries by where the riding's 2025 electors lived: our estimate, from the older boundaries of Taylor, Lucas, Kirby and Hewitt and the results in Sevi's "Who Runs?". 2021 is Elections Canada's transposition, and 2025 the official result. In 2015 the carried top two are within two points, so which party was first is less certain.

Before 2025
  • 2021 Liberal · Randy Boissonnault, by 615 votes (1.3 pts)
  • 2019 Conservative · James Cumming, by 4,482 votes (8.4 pts)
  • 2015 Liberal · Randy Boissonnault, by 1,199 votes (2.2 pts)

In the old Edmonton Centre on the 2013 boundaries, the riding most of the 2025 electors in today's Edmonton Centre lived in; Elections Canada's official results.

What kind of place Edmonton Centre is

Population
115,1552021 census
Area
46km²
Density
2,531people per km²
Electors
87,067on the 2025 lists
Distinctions · ranked against all 343 ridings
  • 3rd-most candidates on the ballot in Canada: 10 candidates stood · 3rd of 3433rd
    3rd-most candidates on the ballot in Canada
    10 candidates stood · 3rd of 343
  • 3rd-smallest by area in Alberta: 46 km² · 3rd of 37 in Alberta · 60th of 343 in Canada3rd
    3rd-smallest by area in Alberta
    46 km² · 3rd of 37 in Alberta · 60th of 343 in Canada
  • Changed hands in 2025: One of 58 of 343 ridings where the winning party changed from the transposed 2021 result (4 of 37 in Alberta)58
    Changed hands in 2025
    One of 58 of 343 ridings where the winning party changed from the transposed 2021 result (4 of 37 in Alberta)
  • Share of households that own their home is 39.5% — about 55 percent of the median riding's 71.4%.
    highestlowest20th lowest of 343
  • Median total household income is $66,500 — about 79 percent of the median riding's $84,000.
    highestlowest44th lowest of 343
  • Median age is 38.0 — a little lower than the median riding's 41.6.
    highestlowest66th lowest of 343
  • Share who are immigrants is 26.9% — about 1.6 times the median riding's 17.3%.
    highestlowest119th highest of 343
  • Share aged 25-64 with a bachelor's degree or higher is 35.8% — about 1.3 times the median riding's 28.2%.
    highestlowest125th highest of 343
  • Share with French as a mother tongue is 1.8% — a little higher than the median riding's 1.6%.
    highestlowest146th highest of 343

2021 Census on the 2023 boundaries; each rule places this riding among all 343. Density is the census population over the riding's area.

IDid this riding change?

Yes. 79% of the 2025 electors in today's Edmonton Centre lived in the old Edmonton Centre; by area, 19% of the riding came from other ridings.

Share of today's electorsFormer riding
79.3%Edmonton Centre 80.7% of the area · 79% of it kept
10.4%Edmonton Griesbach 9.9% of the area · 10% of it kept
10.3%Edmonton West 9.2% of the area · 4% of it kept
0.0%St. Albert—Edmonton 0.1% of the area · under 0.1% of it kept
How this is measured. Electors: the share of the current riding's 2025 ordinary-list electors who lived in each former riding, each 2025 polling division placed in the 2013 riding a point inside it falls in. Area: the share of the current riding's area that came from each former riding, by intersecting the 2013 and 2023 boundary files, and how much of the former riding that part was. Area is land, not population. Elections Canada counts 48 of 343 ridings as entirely unchanged.

IIThe 2025 result

CandidatePartyVotes%2021±
Eleanor OlszewskiLiberal24,13844.3%31.0%+13.3
Sayid AhmedConservative20,62637.9%32.4%+5.5
Trisha EstabrooksNew Democratic8,44015.5%30.2%−14.7
7 further candidates, each under 1% of the vote
John RossPeople's4680.9%
David John BohonosOther1580.3%
Gregory BellIndependent1550.3%
Mike DutcherIndependent1370.3%
Naomi RankinOther1330.2%
Ronald S. Billingsley Jr.Independent1060.2%
Merryn Edwards de la OOther670.1%
The 2021 column is Elections Canada's official transposition of the 2021 result onto these 2023 boundaries. ± is the change in each party's share. It is not "swing": with four or more competitive parties there is no single pair to swing between.

IIIHow close was it, really

Third place vs. the margin
8,440 votes
New Democratic took more than the 3,512-vote margin. True in 100 of 343 ridings in 2025.
Election-day polls won by others
65 of 157
5 polls ended in an exact tie.
Fig. 2 — Each square is one election-day poll: ■ won by the Liberals (87) · ■ won by another party (65) · ▨ tied (5).
Flip the seatHypothetical

It would have taken 1,757 voters switching from Liberal to Conservative — 3.2% of the 54,428 valid votes, 3.2 points — to change the result. No ballot was cast this way; this only moves votes between the top two.

Liberal24,138
Conservative20,626
Still Liberal by 3,512 votes. Actual margin: 3,512.

IVElection day versus advance

Only 58.3% of this riding's votes were cast at election-day polls. The rest were advance or special ballots.

On election day the Liberals took 41.9%, the Conservatives 39.7% and the New Democrats 15.7%; in advance and special ballots, 47.8%, 35.4% and 15.2%, in that order.

Share of the valid votes by party, election-day polls against advance and special ballots, Edmonton Centre, April 28, 2025

Share of the valid votes by party, election-day polls against advance and special ballots, Edmonton Centre, April 28, 2025On election day the Liberals took 41.9%, the Conservatives 39.7% and the New Democrats 15.7%; in advance and special ballots, 47.8%, 35.4% and 15.2%, in that order.Election dayAdvance and special± pts, the gapLiberal41.9%47.8%+5.9 ptsConservative39.7%35.4%−4.3 ptsNew Democratic15.7%15.2%−0.5 pts050%100%
Share of the valid votes by party, election-day polls against advance and special ballots, Edmonton Centre, April 28, 2025On election day the Liberals took 41.9%, the Conservatives 39.7% and the New Democrats 15.7%; in advance and special ballots, 47.8%, 35.4% and 15.2%, in that order.Election dayAdvance and special± pts, the gapLiberal41.9%47.8%+5.9 ptsConservative39.7%35.4%−4.3 ptsNew Democratic15.7%15.2%−0.5 pts050%100%
Shares of the valid votes cast at election-day polls, and of those cast at advance polls, at mobile polls and by special ballot; the gap is the second less the first, in points. Source: Elections Canada, poll-by-poll results, the 2025 general election.
The figures
PartyElection dayAdvance and specialGap
Liberal41.9%47.8%+5.9
Conservative39.7%35.4%−4.3
New Democratic15.7%15.2%−0.5
An association, not a cause. Voters who cast ballots before election day differed from those who turned out on the day. It does not say why. There is no poll-level turnout figure on this page: the elector count on a polling division includes people who voted in advance and were counted elsewhere.

VWhere it is

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Fig. 3 — Edmonton Centre and its 4 neighbouring ridings.

Sources and citation

"Edmonton Centre — federal riding profile and 2025 results." The Political Record. https://politicalrecord.ca/riding/edmonton-centre/ Accessed 2026-11-10.

Results and transposition: Elections Canada. Boundaries: Elections Canada / Statistics Canada, Open Government Licence – Canada. Census: Statistics Canada 2021 Census. Member: House of Commons.

Figures reconcile to the certified national total of 19,641,663 votes. The member is as the House of Commons listed them on 2026-11-01. Page built 2026-11-10.