Bonnyville-Cold Lake was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting from 1997 to 2019. Geography Bonnyville-Cold Lake is primarily rural electoral district is found in northeastern Alberta along the Saskatchewan border. The riding was coterminous with the Municipal District of Bonnyville No. 87, and also contains the following municipalities: The City of Cold Lake (including CFB Cold Lake) The Town of Bonnyville The Village of Glendon The summer villages of Bonnyville Beach and Pelican Narrows The Kehewin First Nation, the Cold Lake First Nations (in three reserves), and the Frog Lake First Nation (in two reserves: Unipouheos and Puskiakiwenin) The Elizabeth and Fishing Lake Métis Settlements in the southeast of the riding (not pictured on map). The district bordered Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills to the North, West and Southwest, and Vermilion-Lloydminster to the Southeast. History The district was created in the 1997 Boundary redistribution from the electoral district of Bonnyville, retaining the same boundaries as the old district. The riding had been held from its creation until 2015 by the Progressive Conservatives, although the Liberals held the antecedent riding from 1993 to 1997. The 2003 electoral boundary re-distribution saw the riding lose some uninhabited territory in its north, part of the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range, to Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills. This gave Bonnyville-Cold Lake the same boundaries as the Municipal District. In the 2010 electoral boundary re-distribution the riding remained unchanged with no boundary alterations from the 2003 boundaries. The Bonnyville-Cold Lake electoral district was dissolved in the 2017 electoral boundary re-distribution, and would be renamed Bonnyville-Cold Lake-St. Paul electoral district for the 2019 Alberta general election. Boundary history Representation history In the district's first election in 1997, Progressive Conservative candidate Dennis Ducharme defeated incumbent Liberal MLA Leo Vasseur by a wide margin to pick up the newly-renamed district for his party. Ducharme was re-elected with landslides in 2001 with over 70% of the vote and in 2004 with almost 65% of the vote. He was appointed to the cabinet briefly in 2006 under the government of Ralph Klein. He retired in 2008. The second representative of the district was Genia Leskiw. She won her first election with a landslide of over 75% of the popular vote, and held the riding from Wildrose challenger Roy Doonanco