Edmonton Strathcona encompasses the neighbourhoods of Allendale, Argyll, Avonmore, Belgravia, Bonnie Doon, Capilano, Cloverdale, Empire Park, Forest Heights, Fulton Place, Garneau, Gold Bar, Grandview Heights, Hazeldean, Holyrood, Idylwylde, Kenilworth, King Edward Park, Lansdowne, Lendrum Place, Malmo Plains, McKernan, Ottewell, Parkallen, Pleasantview, Queen Alexandra Park, Ritchie,
Riverdale, Strathcona, Strathearn, Terrace Heights, and Windsor Park. The riding contains the historic district of Old Strathcona, the
University of Alberta, the
University of Alberta Campus Saint-Jean and the
Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre. It borders on the federal ridings of
Edmonton Centre,
Edmonton Griesbach,
Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan,
Edmonton Southeast,
Edmonton Gateway and
Edmonton Riverbend. This district is bounded: • On the north by the
North Saskatchewan River (except for a jog that goes around the neighbourhood of Riverdale, which is north of the river). • On the west by the Whitemud Creek from the North Saskatchewan River to Whitemud Drive. • On the south by Whitemud Drive, from Whitemud Creek to the City Limits. • On the east by Edmonton's City Limits.
Political geography As evidenced by the 2008 and 2011 elections, this riding is heavily polarized between more urban
New Democratic Party (NDP) voters concentrated in the northwest of the riding and suburban Conservative voters concentrated in the south and east. The NDP picked up this seat in 2008 for the first time in its history, when Edmonton lawyer Linda Duncan defeated Tory incumbent Rahim Jaffer, thanks to a consolidation of non-Conservative votes. They have retained the riding since and it has established itself as clearly the most left-leaning riding in Alberta. Since the 2021 federal election, Edmonton-Strathcona has been the safest NDP seat in all of Canada. ==Demographics==