Heather Sweet (politician)

Heather Sweet
Sweet in 2015

MLA for Edmonton-Manning
Incumbent
Assumed office May 5, 2015
Preceded by	Peter Sandhu
Personal details
Born	1981/1982 (age 34–35)
Political party	Alberta New Democratic Party
Residence	Edmonton, Alberta
Occupation	Social worker

Heather Dawn Sweet (born 1981 or 1982) is a Canadian politician who serves as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, representing the riding of Edmonton-Manning. She was elected in the 2015 Alberta election as a member of the New Democratic Party, and she was elected with 71.5% of the popular vote.^[1]

Prior to being elected, Sweet was a registered social worker active with the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees.^[2]

Electoral history

Alberta general election, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Heather Sweet	12,376	71.5%
	Progressive Conservative	Gurcharan Garcha	2,599	15.00%
	Wildrose	Ian Crawford	1,475	8.5%
	Liberal	Adam Mounzer	776	4.5%
Total			17,318
	New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+46.5%

Current members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

New Democratic	Notley S. Anderson Babcock Bilous Carlier Carson Ceci Connolly Coolahan Cortes-Vargas Dach Dang Drever Eggen Feehan Fitzpatrick Ganley Goehring Gray Hinkley Hoffman Horne Jabbour Jansen Kazim Kleinsteuber Larivee Littlewood Loyola Luff Malkinson Mason McCuaig-Boyd McKitrick McLean McPherson Miller Miranda Nielsen Payne Phillips Piquette Renaud Rosendahl Sabir Schmidt Schreiner Shepherd Sigurdson Sucha Sweet Turner Wanner Westhead Woollard

Wildrose	Jean Aheer W. Anderson Barnes Cooper Cyr Fildebrandt Hanson Hunter Loewen MacIntyre Nixon Orr Panda Pitt Schneider Smith Stier Strankman Taylor van Dijken Yao

Progressive Conservative	McIver Drysdale Ellis Fraser Gill Gotfried Rodney Starke

Liberal	Swann

Alberta Party	Clark

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