Calgary-Hawkwood
2010 boundaries | |||
Provincial electoral district | |||
Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
MLA |
New Democratic | ||
District created | 2010 | ||
First contested | 2012 | ||
Last contested | 2015 |
Calgary-Hawkwood is a provincial electoral district in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The district was created in the 2010 boundary redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post voting system.
History
The electoral district was created in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution. It was created from parts of Calgary-Bow, Calgary-Foothills, Calgary-North West and a small portion of Calgary-Varsity
Boundary history
15 Calgary-Hawkwood 2010 Boundaries | |||
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Bordering Districts | |||
North | East | West | South |
Calgary-Foothills | Calgary-Varsity | Calgary-North West | Calgary-Bow |
Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act. | |||
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Electoral history
Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Hawkwood | ||||
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Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
See Calgary-Bow and Calgary-Foothills 1971–2012, and Calgary-North West 1986–2012 | ||||
28th | 2012–2015 | Jason Luan | PC | |
29th | 2015–2019 | Michael Connolly | NDP | |
See Calgary-Edgemont 2019– |
The antecedent electoral districts that comprise Calgary-Hawkwood have been returning mainly Progressive Conservative and the occasional Liberal candidates to office since the 1970s. Varsity has returned a Liberal candidate since 2004 and North West returned a Liberal candidate from 1989 to 1997.
Legislature results
2012 general election
Alberta general election, 2012 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
Progressive Conservative | Jason Luan | 9,097 | 47.10 | |||||
Wildrose | David Yager | 7,030 | 36.40 | |||||
Liberal | Maria Davis | 1,632 | 8.45 | |||||
New Democratic | Collin Anderson | 911 | 4.72 | |||||
Alberta Party | Kevin Woron | 242 | 1.25 | |||||
Evergreen | Janet Keeping | 199 | 1.03 | |||||
Social Credit | Len Skowronski | 103 | 0.53 | |||||
Independent | Ed Torrance | 99 | 0.51 |
2015 general election
Alberta general election, 2015 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
New Democratic | Michael Connolly | 7,443 | 36.4 | |||||
Progressive Conservative | Jason Luan | 6,378 | 31.2 | |||||
Wildrose | Jae Shim | 4,448 | 21.7 | |||||
Alberta Party | Beth Barberree | 925 | 4.5 | |||||
Liberal | Harbaksh Singh Sekhon | 736 | 3.6 | |||||
Green | Polly Knowlton Cockett | 455 | 2.2 | |||||
Social Credit | Len Skowronski | 90 | 0.4 | |||||
Total valid votes | 20,475 | 100.0 | ||||||
Rejected, spoiled and declined | 114 | |||||||
Turnout | 20,589 | 61.4 | ||||||
Eligible voters | 33,523 | |||||||
Source: Elections Alberta[1] |
Senate nominee results
Student vote results
2012 election
2012 Alberta Student Vote results | ||||
Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | |
Progressive Conservative | Jason Luan | 186 | 43.36% | |
Wildrose | David Yager | 129 | 30.00% | |
Liberal | Maria Davis | 53 | 12.44% | |
Alberta Party | Kevin Woron | 16 | 3.72% | |
NDP | Collin Anderson | 15 | 3.49% | |
Independent | Ed Torrance | 9 | 2.09% | |
Social Credit | Len Skowronski | 3 | 0.70% | |
Total | 430 | 100% |
References
- ↑ "2015 Provincial General Election Results". Elections Alberta. Archived from the original on 2017-07-30. Retrieved 2017-07-30.