Scott Sinclair (politician)
Scott Sinclair | |
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| Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Lesser Slave Lake | |
| Assumed office May 29, 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Pat Rehn |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 12, 1984 Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada |
| Party | United Conservative (until March 2025, since May 2026) |
Other political affiliations | Independent (from March 2025 to May 2026) Alberta Party (2025) |
Scott Sinclair (born September 12, 1984)[1] is a Canadian politician and former hockey player who has served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (MLA) for the riding of Lesser Slave Lake since 2023. He is a member of the United Conservative Party (UCP).
Life and career
Sinclair is the son of Gordon and Val Sinclair.[2][3] He played junior hockey in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) and Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL) with the Estevan Bruins, Lloydminster Blazers and Yorkton Terriers, winning a league championship in the 2004–05 season with Yorkton.[4] He works in the auto glass business.[2]
He is Non-status First Nations, and one of three Indigenous MLAs elected in the 2023 election.[5][6] Following his election, he became Parliamentary Secretary for Indigenous Policing.[7] He was the UCP's only Indigenous candidate in the 2023 election.[8]
On March 7, 2025, Sinclair was removed from the UCP caucus over comments made criticizing that year's budget.[9]
In July 2025, along with Peter Guthrie, Sinclair announced plans to form a new political party in the name of the Progressive Conservatives.[10] Later that month, it was announced that Sinclair and Guthrie would be joining the Alberta Party and rebranding it as the Progressive Conservative Party.[11][12] However, he never ended up joining the newly-formed Progressive Tory Party of Alberta. In early May 2026, Sinclair returned to the UCP caucus.
Electoral history
2023 general election
| 2023 Alberta general election: Lesser Slave Lake | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Scott Sinclair | 5,171 | 65.04 | +7.35 | ||||
| New Democratic | Danielle Larivee | 2,636 | 33.15 | -2.95 | ||||
| Solidarity Movement | Bert Seatter | 144 | 1.81 | – | ||||
| Total | 7,951 | 99.36 | – | |||||
| Rejected and declined | 51 | 0.64 | ||||||
| Turnout | 8,002 | 49.03 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 16,322 | |||||||
| United Conservative hold | Swing | +5.15 | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: Elections Alberta[13] | ||||||||
2023 UCP Lesser Slave Lake nomination contest
February 25–26, 2023[14]
| Candidate | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| Scott Sinclair | 230 | 42.0 | 235 | 45.7 | 246 | 50.5 | ||
| Martine Carifelle | 231 | 42.2 | 231 | 44.9 | 241 | 49.5 | ||
| Jerrad Cunningham | 47 | 8.6 | 48 | 9.3 | Eliminated | |||
| Silas Yellowknee | 40 | 7.3 | Eliminated | |||||
| Total | 548 | 100.00 | 514 | 100.00 | 487 | 100.00 | ||
References
- ↑
- 1 2 "Sinclair declares intention to seek UCP nomination -". July 3, 2022.
- ↑ "UCP's Sinclair wins Lesser Slave Lake -". May 30, 2023.
- ↑ "Scott Sinclair – the United Conservative Party". Archived from the original on 2023-05-31.
- ↑ "Beyond Local: Fewer Indigenous candidates in Alberta election but higher chance of victory for some". TownAndCountryToday.com. May 12, 2023.
- ↑ "3 First Nations MLAs emerge victorious in Alberta - APTN News".
- ↑ "Sinclair Talks About Being MLA, and Parliamentary Secretary Role". River Country. 2023-09-05. Retrieved 2025-02-12.
- ↑ "Alberta Election 2023: Number of diverse, women MLAs on the rise in Alberta legislature". edmontonjournal. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
- ↑ "Rural Alberta MLA booted from UCP caucus for refusing to support budget | Globalnews.ca". globalnews.ca. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
- ↑ "Independent Alberta MLAs revive PC name to create new political party". Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2025-07-02.
- ↑ Black, Matthew (23 July 2025). "Former United Conservative MLAs seek to join, rebrand Alberta Party as Progressive Conservative Party". Edmonton Journal. Postmedia Network. Retrieved 24 July 2025.
- ↑ Markusoff, Jason (23 July 2025). "Ex-UCP MLAs to join, rebrand Alberta Party instead of rebooting Progressive Conservatives from scratch". CBC News. Retrieved 24 July 2025.
- ↑ "70 - Lesser Slave Lake". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
- ↑ "Lesser Slave Lake" (PDF). United Conservative Party. Retrieved 14 March 2024.