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The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended renaming [[Calgary-Hawkwood]] and shifting its boundaries eastward into [[Calgary-Foothills]] and [[Calgary-Varsity]], losing the [[Silver Springs, Calgary|Silver Springs]], [[Citadel, Calgary|Citadel]] and [[Arbour Lake, Calgary|Arbour Lake]] neighbourhoods while gaining [[Dalhousie, Calgary|Dalhousie]], [[Edgemont, Calgary|Edgemont]], and [[Hamptons, Calgary|Hamptons]]. The riding is one of the more populous districts created in this redistribution, resulting from the Commission's decision not to divide any of its communities.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://abebc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/EBC%20Final%20Report%202017%20NoMaps.pdf|title=Final Report|last=Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission|date=Oct 2017|page=37|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124071255/http://abebc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/EBC%20Final%20Report%202017%20NoMaps.pdf#|archive-date=2018-01-24|url-status=dead|access-date=2018-02-01}}</ref> |
The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended renaming [[Calgary-Hawkwood]] and shifting its boundaries eastward into [[Calgary-Foothills]] and [[Calgary-Varsity]], losing the [[Silver Springs, Calgary|Silver Springs]], [[Citadel, Calgary|Citadel]] and [[Arbour Lake, Calgary|Arbour Lake]] neighbourhoods while gaining [[Dalhousie, Calgary|Dalhousie]], [[Edgemont, Calgary|Edgemont]], and [[Hamptons, Calgary|Hamptons]]. The riding is one of the more populous districts created in this redistribution, resulting from the Commission's decision not to divide any of its communities.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://abebc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/EBC%20Final%20Report%202017%20NoMaps.pdf|title=Final Report|last=Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission|date=Oct 2017|page=37|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124071255/http://abebc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/EBC%20Final%20Report%202017%20NoMaps.pdf#|archive-date=2018-01-24|url-status=dead|access-date=2018-02-01}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 04:31, 24 November 2021
 Alberta electoral district | |||
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 Calgary-Edgemont within the City of Calgary (2017 boundaries) | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
United Conservative | ||
| District created | 2017 | ||
| First contested | 2019 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016)[1] | 50,803 | ||
| Area (km²) | 19.2 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 2,646 | ||
Calgary-Edgemont is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 87 districts mandated to return a single member (MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting. It was contested for the first time in the 2019 Alberta election.
Geography
The district is located in northwestern Calgary, containing the neighbourhoods of Dalhousie, Edgemont, Ranchlands, Hawkwood, and Hamptons.
History
| Members for Calgary-Edgemont | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Calgary-Hawkwood 2012–2019 | ||||
| 30th | 2019– | Prasad Panda | UCP | |
The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended renaming Calgary-Hawkwood and shifting its boundaries eastward into Calgary-Foothills and Calgary-Varsity, losing the Silver Springs, Citadel and Arbour Lake neighbourhoods while gaining Dalhousie, Edgemont, and Hamptons. The riding is one of the more populous districts created in this redistribution, resulting from the Commission's decision not to divide any of its communities.[2]
Electoral results
| Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | % | ||
| Progressive Conservative | 7,992 | 38.24 | ||
| New Democratic | 7,012 | 33.56 | ||
| Wildrose | 3,706 | 17.73 | ||
| Liberal | 1,329 | 6.36 | ||
| Others | 857 | 4.10 | ||
2019 general election
| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| United Conservative | Prasad Panda | 13,308 | 52.84 | -3.19 | $60,021 | |||
| New Democratic | Julia Hayter | 8,570 | 34.03 | +0.53 | $40,725 | |||
| Alberta Party | Joanne Gui | 2,740 | 10.88 | +9.12 | $39,339 | |||
| Liberal | Graeme Maitland | 305 | 1.21 | -5.15 | $500 | |||
| Green | Carl Svoboda | 155 | 0.62 | -1.57 | $500 | |||
| Alberta Independence | Tomasz Kochanowicz | 106 | 0.42 | - | $852 | |||
| Total | 25,184 | 98.83 | - | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 299 | 1.17 | ||||||
| Turnout | 25,483 | 70.11 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 36,346 | |||||||
| United Conservative notional hold | Swing | -1.86 | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: Elections Alberta[3][4][5] Note: Expenses is the sum of "Election Expenses", "Other Expenses" and "Transfers Issued". The Elections Act limits "Election Expenses" to $50,000. | ||||||||
References
- ^ Statistics Canada: 2016
- ^ Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (October 2017). "Final Report" (PDF). p. 37. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 24, 2018. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
- ^ "08 - Calgary-Edgemont, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
- ^ Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2019). 2019 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Volume II (PDF) (Report). Vol. 2. Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 31–34. ISBN 978-1-988620-12-1. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
- ^ Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2019). 2019 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Volume III Election Finances (PDF) (Report). Vol. 3. Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 68–82. ISBN 978-1-988620-13-8. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 15, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2021.