Scott Sinclair (born September 12, 1984)[1] is a Canadian politician and former hockey player from Alberta. He has been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (MLA) for the riding of Lesser Slave Lake since 2023, having succeeded Pat Rehn in that year's election.
Sinclair is First Nation, and was the UCP’s only Indigenous candidate in the 2023 election.[2]
Having been elected as a United Conservative MLA, on March 7, 2025 Sinclair was removed from the UCP Caucus over comments made criticizing the budget.[3]
Biography
Sinclair is the son of Gordon and Val Sinclair.[4][5] He played major 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.[6] He works in the auto glass business.[4]
He is Non-status First Nations, and one of three Indigenous MLAs elected in the 2023 election.[7][8] Following his election, he became Parliamentary Secretary for Indigenous Policing.[9]
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[10] | ||||||||
2023 UCP Lesser Slave Lake nomination contest
February 25–26, 2023[11]
| 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
- ^ *Scott Sinclair career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database
- ^ "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.
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ "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.
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