Calgary-Falconridge

Calgary-Falconridge
Alberta electoral district
Calgary-Falconridge within the City of Calgary (2017 boundaries)
Provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA
 
 		 
TBD
District created 2017
First contested 2019
Demographics
Population (2016)[1] 52,688
Area (km²) 15.1
Pop. density (per km²) 3,489.3

Calgary-Falconridge 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 northeastern Calgary, containing the neighbourhoods of Whitehorn, Temple, Castleridge, Falconridge, Coral Springs, and the eastern part of Taradale.

History

Members for Calgary-Falconridge
Assembly Years Member Party
See Calgary-Cross 1993-2019, Calgary-McCall 1971-2019,
and Calgary-Greenway 2012–2019
30th 2019– To be determined

The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended reorganizing the districts in northeast Calgary, abolishing Calgary-Greenway and shifting the other ridings eastward. Calgary-Falconridge took the neighbourhoods of Whitehorn and Temple from Calgary-East, Castleridge and Falconridge from Calgary-McCall, and Coral Springs and part of Taradale from Calgary-Greenway. This resulted in a district 13% above the average population, but the Commission justified this by pointing out that there were no plans to build new housing stock in this area.[2]

Electoral results

Redistributed results, Alberta general election, 2015
Party Votes %
New Democratic4,57434.39
Progressive Conservative4,33432.58
Wildrose2,76120.76
Liberal1,217[lower-alpha 1]9.15
Others416[lower-alpha 2]3.13
  1. ↑ There was no Liberal candidate in Calgary-Greenway.
  2. ↑ Includes independent candidates in Calgary-East and Calgary Cross, and a Green candidate in Calgary-Cross.
Alberta general election, 2019
Party Candidate Votes%±%
LiberalDeepak Sharma
Total valid votes
Rejected, spoiled and declined
Registered electors
Turnout

References

  1. ↑ Statistics Canada: 2016
  2. ↑ Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (Oct 2017). "Final Report" (PDF). p. 21. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.