Alberta’s redraw of provincial ridings moved from committee rooms to the Assembly floor on Monday 2 November 2026. The Legislative Assembly Office’s committee page records that the Select Special Committee on Electoral Boundaries provided the Report of the Independent Advisory Panel to the Assembly that day (SP 637/2025-2026) and that the committee’s own final report went up as SP 639/2025-26. The committee’s mandate is now concluded.

What the panel was told to do

Government Motion 37 (21 April 2026) created the committee and directed an independent advisory panel—chaired by a person of judicial or similar stature, with two nominees from each of the government and opposition—to propose 91 electoral divisions on an expedited basis and without a new round of public hearings. The prior bipartisan commission’s March 2026 map (89 seats) had removed two rural ridings; the addendum to that majority report had floated a path back to 91.

What the majority proposes (from the panel report)

  • Restored rural divisions: Lac Ste. Anne and Rocky Mountain House–Sundre, with knock-on changes along the Highway 2 corridor and in communities such as Spruce Grove and Fort McMurray–Lac La Biche.
  • Edmonton / Leduc: restore a Leduc–Beaumont division and create Edmonton–Nisku, with related south-of-river adjustments.
  • Calgary fringe: majority changes tying Bearspaw / Springbank communities into Calgary-area divisions; the panel declined a wholesale northeast-Calgary remap.
  • South: reconfigured Lethbridge-area divisions and a proposed Banff–Canmore–Diamond Valley division in place of Banff–Kananaskis.

Chapter 13 of the panel report is a minority opinion of two members. The chair’s executive summary says too much time was spent on mandate and constitutional disputes and characterises the minority’s stance as claiming the majority maps are unconstitutional and partisan—claims the chair rejects while saying all proposals deserve legislative consideration on the merits.

Citizen impact

Nothing on the tabled PDFs redraws your polling place for a vote held today. The next scheduled provincial general election remains 18 October 2027 under existing law unless the Legislature changes it. Boundaries for that election will follow whatever map MLAs enact after debate; the NDP has said publicly it will litigate. Watch for the government bill amending the Electoral Divisions Act and any court filing.