Calgary-Egmont

Calgary-Egmont

Alberta electoral district
2004 boundaries
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
District created	1971
District abolished	2012
First contested	1971
Last contested	2008

Calgary-Egmont was a provincial electoral district in Alberta. The district was one of 83 current districts mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting.

The district covering southeast Calgary was created in 1971 boundary distribution out of most of the Calgary South and Calgary Glenmore districts. The riding covered the neighborhoods of Riverbend, Acadia, Fairview, Willowpark, Mapleridge and Ramsay, Kingsland and Manchester. The riding included a large swath of industrial land including the Highfield Industrial area.

The district was a stronghold for electing Progressive Conservative candidates since its creation in 1971. There were four representatives in the district.

The district was named after Frederick George Moore Perceval, 11th Earl of Egmont who lived in the Calgary area until he died in 2001. His family had at one time 600 acres of ranch land in south Calgary.

History

Boundary history

7 Calgary-Egmont 2003 Boundaries
Bordering Districts
North	East	West	South
Calgary-Fort	Calgary-Fort, Calgary-Hays	Calgary-Buffalo, Calgary-Elbow, Calgary-Glenmore	Calgary-Fish Creek
riding map goes here		map in relation to other districts in Alberta goes here
Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act.
Starting at the intersection of the left bank of the Elbow River with the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) line; then 1. southeast along the CPR line to the right bank of the Bow River; 2. in a generally southerly direction along the right bank of the Bow River to Glenmore Trail SE; 3. southeast along Glenmore Trail SE to Barlow Trail SE; 4. south along Barlow Trail SE to the north boundary of Sec. 16, Twp. 23, Rge. 29 W4; 5. west along the north boundary of the section and the north boundary of Sec. 13, Twp. 23, Rge. 1 W5 to the right bank of the Bow River; 6. west along the north boundary of Sec. 13, Twp. 23, Rge. 1 W5 to the right bank of the Bow River; 7. south along the Bow River to Deerfoot Trail SE; 8. west along Deerfoot Trail SE to Anderson Road SE; 9. west along Anderson Road SE and Anderson Road SW to the Light Rail Transit (LRT) line; 10. north along the LRT Line to Heritage Drive SW; 11. west along Heritage Drive SW to Elbow Drive SW; 12. north along Elbow Drive SW to Glenmore Trail SW; 13. east along Glenmore Trail SW to Macleod Trail S; 14. north along Macleod Trail S to the left bank of the Elbow River; 15. southeast and northeast along the left bank of the Elbow River to the starting point.
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Representation history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Egmont
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
See Calgary Glenmore 1959-1971 and Calgary South 1963-1971
17th	1971–1975		Merv Leitch	Progressive Conservative
18th	1975–1979
19th	1979–1982
20th	1982–1986		David Carter
21st	1986–1989
22nd	1989–1993
23rd	1993–1997		Denis Herard
24th	1997–2001
25th	2001–2004
26th	2004–2008
27th	2008–2012		Jonathan Denis

The electoral district was created in the 1971 boundary redistribution. The first election held that year saw a hotly contested battle between Progressive Conservative candidate Merv Leitch and Social Credit candidate Pat O'Byrne. Leitch edged out O'Byrne to pick up the new district for his party.

Premier Peter Lougheed appointed Leitch to his first cabinet shortly after the election. He ran for a second term in the 1975 general election and won with a super majority of over 75%. He was re-elected to his third and final term in the 1979 general election. Leitch retired his seat in the legislature and from cabinet at dissolution in 1982.

The second representative of the district was Calgary-Millican MLA David Carter who switched districts in the 1982 general election. Carter won the district handily taking over 75% of the vote. He won his second term in the district and third term in the assembly in the 1986 general election. Carter was elected Speaker of the House afterwords. He won re-election the 1989 general election with a reduced majority and retired from the assembly at dissolution in 1993.

Progressive Conservative candidate Denis Herard became the districts third representative when he won in 1993. He faced a strong challenge from Liberal candidate Dick Nichols who polled the strongest non Progressive Conservative vote since 1971. Herard was re-elected three more times winning in 1997, 2001 and 2004. He was appointed to the cabinet briefly in 2006 and retired from office in 2008.

The last representative was Jonathan Dennis who won the district for the first time in the 2008 general election after facing a hotly contested and controversial nomination battle against Craig Chandler.

Election results

1971 general election

1971 Alberta general election results

Turnout 72.32%

Swing

Affiliation

Candidate

Votes

%

Party

Personal

Progressive Conservative

Merv Leitch

6,791

50.85%

*

Social Credit

Pat O'Byrne

5,503

41.21%

*

NDP

Ron Stuart

1,060

7.94%

*

Total

13,354

100%

Rejected, Spoiled and Declined

89

18,589 Eligible Electors

Progressive Conservative pickup new district

Swing N/A

1975 general election

1975 Alberta general election results

Turnout 55.92%

Swing

Affiliation

Candidate

Votes

%

Party

Personal

Progressive Conservative

Merv Leitch

10,867

75.82%

24.97%

Liberal

Jack Haggarty

1,634

11.40%

*

Social Credit

Lloyd Downey

1,119

7.81%

-33.40%

*

NDP

Maureen McCutcheon

712

4.97%

-2.97%

*

Total

14,332

100%

Rejected, Spoiled and Declined

24

25,674 Eligible Electors

Progressive Conservative hold

Swing 18.19%

1979 general election

1979 Alberta general election results			Turnout 54.08%		Swing
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal	Progressive Conservative	Merv Leitch	8,083	73.45%	-2.37%		Social Credit	Albert Downton	1,245	11.31%	3.50%	*	NDP	Muriel McCreary	844	7.67%	2.70%	*	Liberal	Marta Coldham	833	7.57%	-3.83%	*
Total			11,005	100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			22
20,392 Eligible Electors							Progressive Conservative hold				Swing -2.94%

1982 general election

1982 Alberta general election results

Turnout 64.26%

Swing

Affiliation

Candidate

Votes

%

Party

Personal

Progressive Conservative

David Carter

10,331

78.34%

4.89%

*

Western Canada Concept

Richard Langen

1,174

8.90%

*

NDP

Leroy Thompson

1,128

8.56%

0.89%

*

Liberal

Bernie Tanner

396

3.00%

-4.57%

*

Alberta Reform Movement

Victor Lenko

158

1.20%

*

Total

13,187

100%

Rejected, Spoiled and Declined

28

20,565 Eligible Electors

Progressive Conservative hold

Swing 6.90%

1986 general election

1986 Alberta general election results

Turnout 41.43%

Swing

Affiliation

Candidate

Votes

%

Party

Personal

Progressive Conservative

David Carter

5,781

67.04%

-11.30%

NDP

Tom Chesterman

1,740

20.18%

11.62%

*

Liberal

Bernie Tanner

1,102

12.78%

9.78%

Total

8,623

100%

Rejected, Spoiled and Declined

18

20,857 Eligible Electors

Progressive Conservative hold

Swing -11.46%

1989 general election

1989 Alberta general election results

Turnout 49.14%

Swing

Affiliation

Candidate

Votes

%

Party

Personal

Progressive Conservative

David Carter

5,272

52.49%

-14.55%

Liberal

Clive Mallory

2,907

28.95%

16.17%

*

NDP

Vinay Dey

1,864

18.56%

-1.62%

*

Total

10,043

100%

Rejected, Spoiled and Declined

28

20,494 Eligible Electors

Progressive Conservative hold

Swing -15.36%

1993 general election

1993 Alberta general election results

Turnout 59.63%

Swing

Affiliation

Candidate

Votes

%

Party

Personal

Progressive Conservative

Denis Herard

9,846

58.12%

5.63%

*

Liberal

Dick Nichols

5,332

31.48%

2.53%

*

NDP

Ken Sahil

1,063

6.27%

-12.29%

*

Alliance

Les Kaluzny

543

3.21%

Natural Law

Linda Fritz

156

0.92%

*

Total

16,940

100%

Rejected, Spoiled and Declined

53

28,498 Eligible Electors

Progressive Conservative hold

Swing 4.08%

1997 general election

1997 Alberta general election results

Turnout 50.79%

Swing

Affiliation

Candidate

Votes

%

Party

Personal

Progressive Conservative

Denis Herard

8,842

64.69%

6.57%

Liberal

Pam York

3,336

24.41%

-7.07%

*

Social Credit

Douglas Cooper

836

6.12%

*

NDP

Larry Kowalchuk

654

4.78%

-1.49%

*

Total

13,668

100%

Rejected, Spoiled and Declined

45

27,001 Eligible Electors

Progressive Conservative hold

Swing 6.82%

2001 general election

2001 Alberta general election results

Turnout 52.20%

Swing

Affiliation

Candidate

Votes

%

Party

Personal

Progressive Conservative

Denis Herard

10,338

74.28%

9.59%

Liberal

Wayne Lenhardt

2,613

18.78%

-5.63%

*

NDP

Shawn Christie

567

4.07%

-0.71%

*

Independent

Bradley Lang

399

2.87%

*

Total

13,917

100%

Rejected, Spoiled and Declined

47

26,749 Eligible Electors

Progressive Conservative hold

Swing 7.61%

2004 general election

2004 Alberta general election results			Turnout 41.27%		Swing
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal	Progressive Conservative	Denis Herard	5,686	50.81%	-23.47%		Liberal	Michael Queenan	2,371	21.19%	2.41%	*
	Alberta Alliance	David Crutcher	1,658	14.82%	*
	Green	George Read	875	7.82%	*		NDP	Christopher Dovey	599	5.36%	1.29%	*
Total			11,189
Rejected, spoiled and declined			64
Eligible electors / Turnout			27,265	%	Progressive Conservative hold				Swing -12.94%

2004 Senate nominee election district results

2004 Senate nominee election results: Calgary-Egmont					Turnout 41.25%
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	% Votes	% Ballots	Rank	Progressive Conservative	Bert Brown	5,245	17.69%	54.95%	1	Progressive Conservative	Jim Silye	4,351	14.68%	45.58%	5	Progressive Conservative	Betty Unger	3,996	13.48%	41.87%	2	Progressive Conservative	David Usherwood	2,868	9.68%	30.05%	6	Independent	Link Byfield	2,789	9.41%	29.22%	4	Progressive Conservative	Cliff Breitkreuz	2,650	8.94%	27.76%	3
	Alberta Alliance	Vance Gough	2,036	6.87%	21.33%	8
	Alberta Alliance	Michael Roth	1,959	6.61%	20.52%	7	Independent	Tom Sindlinger	1,933	6.52%	20.25%	9	Alberta Alliance	Gary Horan	1,816	6.12%	19.03%	10
Total Votes			29,643	100%
Total Ballots			9,545	3.11 Votes Per Ballot
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			1,703
27,265 Eligible Electors

Voters had the option of selecting 4 Candidates on the Ballot

2008 general election

2008 Alberta general election results			Turnout 36.76%		Swing
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal	Progressive Conservative	Jonathan Denis	5,415	43.61%	-7.20%	*	Liberal	Cathie Williams	3,289	26.49%	5.30%	*	Independent	Craig Chandler	2,008	16.17%	*		Wildrose Alliance	Barry Chase	676	5.44%	-9.38%	*
	Green	Mark McGillvray	582	4.69%	-3.13%	*	NDP	Jason Nishiyama	447	3.60%	-1.76%	*
Total			12,417	100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			69
33,970 Eligible Electors							Progressive Conservative hold				Swing -6.25%

Alberta Student Vote 2004

Participating Schools
Andrew Davison School
David Thompson Middle School
Fairview Junior High
Green Learning Academy
Willow Park School/ Milton Williams Creative Arts

On November 19, 2004 a Student Vote was conducted at participating Alberta schools to parallel the 2004 Alberta general election results. The vote was designed to educate students and simulate the electoral process for persons who have not yet reached the legal majority. The vote was conducted in 80 of the 83 provincial electoral districts with students voting for actual election candidates. Schools with a large student body that reside in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district then where they were physically located.

2004 Alberta Student Vote results
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%	Progressive Conservative	Denis Herard	165	30.17%
	Green	George Read	149	27.24%	Liberal	Michael Queenan	118	21.57%
	New Democratic	Christopher Dovey	73	13.35%	Alberta Alliance	David Crutcher	42	7.67%
Total			547	100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			28

External links

• Electoral Divisions Act 2003
• Demographics for Calgary-Egmont
• Riding Map for Calgary-Egmont
• Website of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta