Airdrie-Cochrane
Airdrie-Cochrane within the Calgary Metropolitan Region (2017 boundaries). | |||
Provincial electoral district | |||
Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
MLA |
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District created | 2017 | ||
First contested | 2019 | ||
Demographics | |||
Population (2016)[1] | 51,170 | ||
Area (km²) | 754 | ||
Pop. density (per km²) | 67.9 | ||
Census divisions | 6 |
Airdrie-Cochrane is a future provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district will be 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 will be contested for the first time in the 2019 Alberta election.
Geography
The district is located north-west of Calgary, containing the City of Cochrane, the part of Airdrie west of 8 St SW and south of 1 Ave NW, and the rural area lying between the two communities. It borders Calgary's northern edge between the Bow River and Highway 2.
History
Members for Airdrie-Cochrane | ||||
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Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
See Airdrie 2012-2019 and Banff-Cochrane 1979-2019 | ||||
30th | 2019– | To be determined |
The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended abolishing Airdrie, Banff-Cochrane and Chestermere-Rocky View, completely reorganizing the ridings surrounding Calgary to reflect the rapid growth in the area,[2] and creating Airdrie-Cochrane from parts of each.
Electoral results
Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta election | ||||
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Wildrose | 7,044 | 36.54% | ||
Progressive Conservative | 6,006 | 31.15% | ||
New Democratic | 5,703 | 29.58% | ||
Others | 527 | 2.73% |
References
- ↑ Statistics Canada: 2016
- ↑ "Final Report" (PDF). Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission. 2017-10-01. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-01-24.