Banff-Kananaskis
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 Banff-Kananaskis within Alberta (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] | 46,824 | ||
| Area (km²) | 15,939 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 2.9 | ||
| Census divisions | 6, 15 | ||
| Census subdivisions | Banff, MD of Bighorn, Canmore, MD of Foothills, ID #9, Kananaskis ID, Rocky View, Stoney, Tsuu T'ina | ||
Banff-Kananaskis 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 in Alberta's Rocky Mountains and the adjacent foothills west of Calgary. Its largest communities are Banff and Canmore, and it contains the entirety of Banff National Park and Kananaskis Country, for which it is named. Stretching east to Calgary's border, some farming communities are also included, as well as the Treaty 7 communities of the Tsuu T'ina Nation and the Îyârhe Nakoda's Stoney Reserves.
History
| Members for Banff-Kananaskis | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Banff-Cochrane 1940-2019 | ||||
| 30th | 2019– | To be determined | ||
The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended moving the city of Cochrane to the new riding of Airdrie-Cochrane, requiring a new name for Banff-Cochrane. The district gained small areas to the south and west from Airdrie, Chestermere-Rocky View and Livingstone-Macleod, including the entirety of Kananaskis Country. The Commission also decided to join the Stoney Reserves and Tsuu T'ina Reserve into the same district for representation purposes.[2]
Electoral results
2010s
| Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Democratic | 6,485 | 38.99 | ||
| Progressive Conservative | 5,691 | 34.22 | ||
| Wildrose | 4,065 | 24.44 | ||
| Others | 390 | 2.35 | ||
| Alberta general election, 2019 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Cam Westhead[3] | |||||||
| United Conservative | ||||||||
| Total valid votes | ||||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | ||||||||
| Registered electors / turnout | ||||||||
References
- ↑ Statistics Canada: 2016
- ↑ "Final Report" (PDF). Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission. 2017-10-01. p. 30.
- ↑ "Alberta Election 2019 | daveberta.ca – Alberta Politics". daveberta.ca. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
