Calgary-Fort

Calgary-Fort
Alberta electoral district
2010 boundaries
Provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA
 
 		 
Joe Ceci
New Democratic
District created 1996
First contested 1997
Last contested 2015

Calgary-Fort is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada.

The Electoral District is named after historical Fort Calgary. The district lies in the Central SE of the city.

The first election in Calgary Fort was held in 1997, it was created out of Calgary East. The Riding covers some of the cities older blue collar neighbourhoods including Forest Lawn, Dover, Inglewood, Lynwood Ridge, Ogden, Erinwoods and the Foothills Industrial Park. The riding is largely broken with three distinct residential sections surrounded by industrial areas.

The riding has suffered from a number of environmental problems in recent years caused by heavy industry. Soil contamination from the old oil refinery in Lynwood Ridge has created a ghost town of houses in limbo. Canadian Pacific Railway has also been to blame for heavy soil contamination affecting residents along the tracks in Ogden by a chemical known as Trichloroethylene used as a track degreaser. In 1999 the Hub Oil refinery just east of Erin Woods exploded raining contamination on the neighbourhood. The riding also has a quarantined site where the Inglewood Refinery used to be for soil contamination problems.

The riding had been a Progressive Conservative stronghold and was held continuously by PC MLA Wayne Cao since its creation in 1997 until the 2015 election, when the riding was won by New Democrat Joe Ceci.

History

The electoral district was created in the 1996 boundary redistribution out of Calgary-East. The riding had significant changes in the 2010 boundary redistribution. It was expanded to meet the new boundaries of the city of Calgary and gained some rural portions that had belonged to Foothills-Rocky View. It also gained the neighborhoods of Ramsay that was previously in Calgary-Egmont and East Village which was in Calgary-Buffalo. The riding also expanded south into industrial land that was formerly part of Calgary-Hays.

Boundary history

Electoral history

Members of the Legislative Assembly
for Calgary-Fort[2]
Assembly Years Member Party
See Calgary-East 1993–1997
24th 1997–2001 Wayne Cao Progressive
Conservative
25th 2001–2004
26th 2004–2008
27th 2008–2012
28th 2012–2015
29th 2015–2019 Joe Ceci New Democratic
See Calgary-Peigan 2019–

The electoral district of Calgary-Fort was created in the boundary redistribution of 1997. The district covers central south east Calgary and was carved primarily from Calgary-East. Progressive Conservative Wayne Cao won the district in the first election held in 1997 with just under half the popular vote.

Cao would run for his second term in 2001 and win a landslide victory winning almost 69% of the popular vote over a crowded field of eight candidates. He was re-elected in 2004 with a significantly reduced margin of victory taking just over half the popular vote.

Cao stood for a fourth term in the 2008 election and for the first time since 1997 he won less than half of the popular vote in one of the lowest voter turnout races in the province.

Legislature results

Alberta general election, 1997
Party Candidate Votes%
Progressive ConservativeWayne Cao4,41048.82%
LiberalShirley-Anne Reuben2,81731.18%
Social CreditBren Blanchet91610.14%
New DemocraticKen Sahil8919.86%
Total 9,034
Rejected, spoiled and declined 53
Eligible electors / Turnout 21,947 41.40%
Source: "1997 General Election". Elections Alberta. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
Alberta general election, 2001
Party Candidate Votes%±%
Progressive ConservativeWayne Cao6,74068.38%19.56%
LiberalBrian Huskins2,00420.39%−10.79%
New DemocraticVinay Dey5015.10%−4.76%
Social CreditRaymond Hurst1601.61%−8.53%
GreenMichael Alvarez-Toye1211.27%
IndependentMetro Demchynski1021.04%
IndependentBrian Slater1001.02%
Alberta FirstWyatt McIntyre991.01%
Total 9,827
Rejected, spoiled and declined 56
Eligible electors / Turnout 22,882 43.19%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 15.18%
Source: "2001 Statement of Official results Calgary-Fort" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Retrieved March 3, 2010.
Alberta general election, 2004
Party Candidate Votes%±%
Progressive ConservativeWayne Cao4,13953.89%−14.49%
LiberalGerry Hart1,78623.25%2.86%
New DemocraticElizabeth Thomas5847.60%2.50%
Alberta AllianceTravis Chase5246.82%
GreenTyler Charkie4395.72%4.45%
SeparationLeo Ollenberger2112.72%1.71%1
Total 7,681
Rejected, spoiled and declined 95
Eligible electors / Turnout 23,271 33.42%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing −8.68%
Source: "Calgary-Fort Statement of Official Results 2004 Alberta general election" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Retrieved March 3, 2010.
  1. Results change compared to Alberta First Party in the 2001 general election.
Alberta general election, 2008
Party Candidate Votes%±%
Progressive ConservativeWayne Cao4,12349.81%−4.08%
LiberalCarole Oliver1,77021.39%−1.86
New DemocraticJulie Hrdlicka1,17814.23%6.63%
Wildrose AllianceTravis Chase7158.64%1.82%
GreenMark Taylor4915.93%0.21%
Total 8,277
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined 32
Eligible electors / Turnout 28,97428.68%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing −2.97%
Source: "Calgary-Fort Statement of Official Results 2008 Alberta general election" (PDF). Elections Alberta. pp. 210–212. Retrieved March 3, 2010.
Alberta general election, 2012
Party Candidate Votes%
Progressive ConservativeWayne Cao4,82940.77%
WildroseJeevan Mangat4,71939.84%
LiberalSaid Abdulbaki1,18510.01%
New DemocraticDon Monroe7996.75%
EvergreenJanice Dixon3122.63%
Alberta general election, 2015
Party Candidate Votes%
New DemocraticJoe Ceci7,02749.8
Progressive ConservativeAndy Nguyen3,20422.8
WildroseJeevan Mangat3,00321.3
LiberalSaid Abdulbaki4763.4
Alberta PartyVic Goosen4102.9
Total valid votes 14,120100.0
Rejected, spoiled and declined 159
Turnout 14,27944.1
Eligible voters 32,411
Source: Elections Alberta[3]

Senate nominee results

2004 Senate nominee election district results

2004 Senate nominee election results: Calgary-Fort[4] Turnout 33.21%
Affiliation Candidate Votes % Votes % Ballots Rank
Progressive ConservativeBert Brown3,58716.92%52.83%1
Progressive ConservativeBetty Unger2,79713.19%41.23%2
Progressive ConservativeJim Silye2,66512.57%39.28%5
Progressive ConservativeCliff Breitkreuz2,27410.73%33.52%3
Progressive ConservativeDavid Usherwood2,0289.57%29.89%6
  Independent Link Byfield 1,869 8.82% 27.55% 4
  Independent Tom Sindlinger 1,511 7.13% 22.27% 9
Alberta Alliance Vance Gough 1,509 7.12% 22.24% 8
Alberta Alliance Michael Roth 1,491 7.03% 21.98% 7
Alberta Alliance Gary Horan 1,470 6.92% 21.67% 10
Total Votes 21,201 100%
Total Ballots 6,784 3.13 Votes Per Ballot
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined 945
23,271 Eligible Electors

Voters had the option of selecting 4 Candidates on the Ballot

Student Vote results

2004 election

Participating Schools[5]
Ian Bazalgette Jr. High School
Sherwood School

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[6]
Affiliation Candidate Votes %
Progressive ConservativeWayne Cao5338.13%
Green Tyler Charkie 40 28.78%
  Liberal Gerry Hart 25 17.99%
Alberta AllianceTravis Chase85.75%
SeparationLeo Ollenberger75.04%
  NDP Elizabeth Thomas 6 4.31%
Total 139 100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined 0

2012 election

2012 Alberta Student Vote results
Affiliation Candidate Votes %
Progressive ConservativeJason Luan%
WildroseJeevan Mangat
  Liberal Said Abdulbaki %
New DemocraticDon Monroe%
Social Credit%
Total ' 100%

References

  1. ↑ "E‑4.1". Statutes of the Province of Alberta. Government of Alberta. 2003. pp. 10–11.
  2. ↑ "Members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta 1905-2006" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 30, 2007. Retrieved February 27, 2010.
  3. ↑ "2015 Provincial General Election Results". Elections Alberta. Archived from the original on 2017-07-30. Retrieved 2017-07-30.
  4. ↑ "Senate Nominee Election 2004 Tabulation of Official Results" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 4, 2009. Retrieved February 28, 2010.
  5. ↑ "School by School results". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 5, 2007. Retrieved 2008-04-18.
  6. ↑ "Riding by Riding Results - the Candidates". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 6, 2007. Retrieved 2008-04-19.

Coordinates: 51°00′00″N 113°58′01″W / 51.00°N 113.967°W / 51.00; -113.967

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