Chris Warkentin

Chris Warkentin
MP
Chris Warkentin MP
Deputy Chief Opposition Whip ; Conservative Party Question Period Coordinator
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; September 13, 2022
Leader	Pierre Poilievre
Preceded by	Eric Duncan (As QP Coordinator) ; James Bezan (As Deputy Whip)
Official Opposition Critic for Agriculture
	In office; November 20, 2015 – September 14, 2016
Leader	Rona Ambrose
Preceded by	Malcolm Allen
Succeeded by	David Anderson
Member of Parliament; for Grande Prairie-Mackenzie; Peace River (2006-2015)
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; January 23, 2006
Preceded by	Charlie Penson
Chair of the Standing Committee on ; Aboriginal Affairs
	In office; 23 June 2011 – 18 February 2015
Minister	John Duncan ; Bernard Valcourt
Preceded by	Bruce Stanton
Succeeded by	Blake Richards
Personal details
Born	November 20, 1978 (age 45); Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Michelle Warkentin
Residence(s)	Grande Prairie, Alberta
Profession	construction executive

Chris Warkentin MP (born November 20, 1978) is a businessman and Conservative Member of Parliament from Alberta, Canada. He was first elected in 2006.

Personal life

Warkentin was born in Grande Prairie and raised on the family farm east of Grande Prairie, near the Hamlet of DeBolt in the MD of Greenview.^[1] He is an alumnus of the Peace River Bible Institute, and also studied business and marketing at Grande Prairie Regional College before going on to own and operate a custom home building company. He has served on the board of his local Conservative constituency association and was involved with the Reform Party of Canada and the Canadian Alliance.

Political career

Warkentin was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Conservative Party of Canada candidate in the riding of Peace River in the 2006 federal election, and was re-elected in that same riding in 2008 and 2011. Following the redistribution of seats before the 2015 federal election, he was re-elected and currently serves as the Member of Parliament for the new riding of Grande Prairie-Mackenzie. Warkentin has won every election he has contested with more than 56% of the vote, and a margin of more than 36 percentage points over the runner-up.

Warkentin served as the Chair of the Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Committee from 2011 to 2015. In February 2015, Warkentin was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada, Diane Finley. Following the defeat of the Conservative government in October 2015, Warkentin was appointed Official Opposition Critic for Agriculture. In September 2016, a shadow cabinet shuffle moved Warkentin to the role of Official Opposition Deputy House Leader.

Electoral record

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election: Grande Prairie—Mackenzie
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Chris Warkentin	36,361	68.4	-15.6	$41,519.91
	New Democratic	Jennifer Villebrun	6,462	12.2	+5.2	$841.79
	People's	Shawn McLean	5,411	10.2	+7.8	$15,893.10
	Liberal	Dan Campbell	2,397	4.5	-0.3	$0.00
	Maverick	Ambrose Ralph	2,195	4.1	—	$24,544.01
	Rhinoceros	Donovan Eckstrom	314	0.6	—	$0.00
Total valid votes/Expense limit			53,140	–	–	$140,613.53
Total rejected ballots			315	0.59	+0.08
Turnout			53,455	64.4	-8.0
Eligible voters			82,950
	Conservative hold		Swing		-10.4
Source: Elections Canada^[2]^[3]

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election: Grande Prairie—Mackenzie
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Chris Warkentin	51,198	84.0	+11.09	$39,732.27
	New Democratic	Erin Alyward	4,245	7.0	-1.14	$1,284.64
	Liberal	Kenneth Munro	2,910	4.8	-9.86	$1,675.64
	People's	Douglas Gordon Burchill	1,492	2.4	-	$4,216.22
	Green	Shelley Termuende	1,134	1.9	-1.24	$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			60,979	100.0
Total rejected ballots			314
Turnout			61,293	72.38
Eligible voters			84,688
	Conservative hold		Swing		+6.12
Source: Elections Canada^[4]^[5]

v t e 2015 Canadian federal election: Grande Prairie—Mackenzie
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Chris Warkentin	38,895	72.91	-3.21	$47,450.74
	Liberal	Reagan Johnston	7,819	14.66	+11.48	$7,280.10
	New Democratic	Saba Mossagizi	4,343	8.14	-7.26	$13,165.14
	Green	James David Friesen	1,673	3.14	-0.62	$2,768.22
	Libertarian	Dylan Thompson	613	1.15	–	$120.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			53,343	100.00		$269,305.37
Total rejected ballots			158	0.30	–
Turnout			53,501	66.45	–
Eligible voters			80,511
	Conservative hold		Swing		-7.34
Source: Elections Canada^[6]^[7]

v t e 2011 Canadian federal election: Peace River
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Chris Warkentin	36,334	75.76	+6.25	$103,279
	New Democratic	Jennifer Villebrun	7,740	16.14	+1.73	$23,470
	Green	Wayne John Kamieniecki	1,702	3.55	-3.14	$1,379
	Liberal	Corina Ganton	1,481	3.09	-4.68	$5,605
	Independent	Russ Toews	359	0.75	–	$204
	Rhinoceros	Donovan Eckstrom	345	0.72	–	$0
Total valid votes/expense limit			47,961	100.00
Total rejected ballots			128	0.27	-0.03
Turnout			48,089	49.70	+4.99
Eligible voters			96,759	–	–
	Conservative hold		Swing		3.99

v t e 2008 Canadian federal election: Peace River
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Chris Warkentin	29,550	69.51	+12.54	$48,906
	New Democratic	Adele Boucher Rymhs	6,124	14.41	+3.28	$19,142
	Liberal	Liliane Coutu-Maisonneuve	3,303	7.77	+5.51	$8,462
	Green	Jennifer Villebrun	2,843	6.69	+4.43	$1,612
	Canadian Action	Edwin Siggelkow	373	0.88	–	$4,711
	Libertarian	Mélanie Simard	316	0.74	–	$1,312
Total valid votes/expense limit			42,509	100.00	$118,949
Total rejected ballots			129	0.30	+0.07
Turnout			42,638	44.71	-10.0
	Conservative hold		Swing		+4.63

v t e 2006 Canadian federal election: Peace River
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Chris Warkentin	27,785	56.97	-8.15	$61,636
	Independent	Bill Given	9,882	20.26	–	$101,905
	New Democratic	Susan Thompson	5,427	11.13	+0.02	$20,836
	Liberal	Tanya Kappo	4,573	9.38	-9.58	$4,298
	Green	Zane Lewis	1,102	2.26	-2.53	$0
Total valid votes			48,769	100.00
Total rejected ballots			113	0.23	-0.06
Turnout			48,882	54.7	+1.0
	Conservative hold		Swing		-14.2