Calgary-North

Calgary-North
Alberta electoral district
Calgary-North within the city of Calgary (2017 boundaries).
Provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA
 
 		 
District created 1957
District abolished 1971
District re-created 2017
First contested 1959
Last contested 1967
Demographics
Population (2016) 39,120
Area (km²) 21.2
Pop. density (per km²) 1,845.3

Calgary-North (previously styled Calgary North) is a single member electoral district in Calgary, Alberta. The electoral district existed from 1959 to 1971, and has been re-established for the next general election.

Boundary history

1959 Redistribution

The Alberta government decided to return to using the first past the post system of voting from Single Transferable Vote for the 1959 general election. The province redistributed the Calgary and Edmonton super riding's and standardized the voting system across the province.

Calgary North was one of the six electoral districts created that year in Calgary. The others were Calgary Bowness, Calgary Centre, Calgary West, Calgary Glenmore, Calgary North East, and Calgary South East.[1]

The riding was abolished in 1971, split up between Calgary-McKnight, Calgary-North Hill and Calgary-Mountain View.

2017 redistribution

The riding was re-created (with the current hyphenated name) from Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill and Calgary-Northern Hills. It will be contested in the next Alberta general election.

Representation history

Members of the Legislative Assembly
for Calgary-North[3]
Assembly Years Member Party
See Calgary 1921-1959
14th 1959–1963 Rose Wilkinson Social Credit
15th 1963–1967 Robert Simpson
16th 1967–1971
See Calgary-McKnight, Calgary-North Hill
and Calgary-Mountain View after 1971
See Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill and Calgary-
Northern Hills before 2019
30th 2019– TBD

The first election held in 1959 was contested by two incumbents from the Calgary electoral district facing each other, Rose Wilkinson and Grant MacEwan, plus former MLA Aylmer Liesemer who had been defeated in the 1955 Alberta general election. Wilkinson would win and serve her final term representing the district.

The second election held in 1963 would see Social Credit keep the seat under MLA Robert Simpson. He would win a second term in 1967 and hold the district until it was abolished in 1971.

Election results

1950s and 60s

1959 Alberta general election results[4] Turnout 62.63% Swing
Affiliation Candidate Votes % Party Personal
  Social Credit Rose Wilkinson 6,655 51.82% *
  Progressive Conservative James Macdonald 3,385 26.36% *
  Liberal Grant MacEwan 2,429 18.91% *
     Co-operative Commonwealth Aylmer Liesemer 374 2.91% *
Total 12,843 100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined 34
20,562 Eligible Electors
Social Credit gain Swing N/A
1963 Alberta general election results[5] Turnout 52.49% Swing
Affiliation Candidate Votes % Party Personal
  Social Credit Robert Simpson 4,713 56.94% 5.12% *
  Progressive Conservative Larry Nugent 2,123 25.65% -0.71% *
  Liberal Robert Goss 794 9.59% -9.32% *
  NDP Steven Galan 647 7.82% 4.91%1 *
Total 8,277 100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined 18
15,804 Eligible Electors
Social Credit hold Swing 2.92%
  1. Party percent change compared to the Cooperative Commonwealth 1959 results.
1967 Alberta general election results[6] Turnout 62.44% Swing
Affiliation Candidate Votes % Party Personal
  Social Credit Robert Simpson 4,308 43.00% -13.94%
  Progressive Conservative Henry Beaumont 3,915 39.08% 13.43% *
  NDP Walter Siewert 1,157 11.55% 3.73% *
  Liberal Charles Loughridge 638 6.37% -3.22% *
Total 10,018 100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined 62
16,143 Eligible Electors
Social Credit hold Swing -13.69%

2010s

Alberta general election, 2015 redistributed results
New Democratic3,59737.70%
Progressive Conservative2,97231.15%
Wildrose2,39725.13%
Liberal5515.78%
Others230.24%
Alberta general election, 2019
Party Candidate Votes%±%
Alberta PartyMelanie Wen
Total valid votes
Rejected, spoiled, and declined
Registered electors
Turnout

References

  1. 1 2 "41". Statutes of the Province of Alberta. Government of Alberta. 1957. p. 184.
  2. ↑ "43". Statutes of the Province of Alberta. Government of Alberta. 1961. p. 226.
  3. ↑ "Members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta 1905-2006" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 30, 2007. Retrieved 2009-05-20.
  4. ↑ "Calgary North results 1959 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved April 8, 2010.
  5. ↑ "Calgary North results 1963 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
  6. ↑ "Calgary North results 1967 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved 2009-05-08.

Coordinates: 51°07′41″N 114°05′46″W / 51.128°N 114.096°W / 51.128; -114.096

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