Chestermere-Rocky View

Chestermere-Rocky View
Alberta electoral district
2010 boundaries
Provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA
 
 		 
Leela Aheer
United Conservative
District created 2010
First contested 2012
Last contested 2015

Chestermere-Rocky View is a provincial electoral district in 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.

Boundary history

It was created from large portions of the old electoral district of Airdrie-Chestermere and Foothills-Rocky View.[1] The district surrounds the western, northern and eastern boundaries of the city of Calgary.

The riding will be abolished when the 29th Alberta Legislative Assembly expires, and will be divided into four ridings. The area east of Calgary (which contains a majority of Chestermere-Rocky View's population) will be transferred to Chestermere-Strathmore, the areas north of Highway 564 and east of Highway 2 will be transferred to Airdrie-East, the areas west of Highway 2 and north of the Bow River to Airdrie-Cochrane, and the areas west of Calgary (including the Tsuu T'ina Reserve) to Banff-Kananaskis.

Members of the Legislative Assembly for
Chestermere-Rocky View
Assembly Years Member Party
See Airdrie-Chestermere and Foothills-
Rocky View 2004-2012
28th 2012–2014 Bruce McAllister Wildrose
2014–2015 PC
29th 2015–2017 Leela Aheer Wildrose
2017-2019 UCP
See Airdrie-Cochrane, Airdrie-East, Banff-Kananaskis
and Chestermere-Strathmore 2019-

Representation history

The electoral district's antecedents had elected Progressive Conservative (PC) candidates with solid majorities. However, in 2012, Chestermere-Rocky View was picked up by the Wildrose Party with one of the best results in the province for that party.

MLA Bruce McAllister subsequently crossed the floor to the PCs during the premiership of Jim Prentice with most of the Wildrose caucus. Although he was one of the few former Wildrose MLAs to win the PC nomination in his riding for the 2015 election, he was defeated by Wildrose candidate Leela Aheer by a slim margin.

Aheer then crossed the floor to the United Conservative Party (UCP) when the PCs and Wildrose decided to merge. She was named deputy leader of the UCP by leader Jason Kenney in late 2017. As the riding will be abolished in 2019, Aheer has indicated her intent to run in Chestermere-Strathmore.

In its short existence, Chestermere-Rocky View therefore elected Wildrose MLAs twice, but neither served their full term with the party.

Legislature results

2012 general election

Alberta general election, 2012
Party Candidate Votes%
WildroseBruce McAllister10,37458.5%
Progressive ConservativeTed Morton6,23735.2%
LiberalSiân Ramsden5843.3%
New DemocraticNathan Salmon5423.1%
Total Valid Votes 17,737
Wildrose pickup new district.
Source: [2]

2015 general election

Alberta general election, 2015
Party Candidate Votes%±%
WildroseLeela Aheer7,67937.0%-21.5%
Progressive ConservativeBruce McAllister7,45736.0%+0.8%
New DemocraticWilliam Pelech3,70417.9%+14.8%
IndependentJamie Lall1,0965.3%
GreenCoral Bliss Taylor4152.0%
IndependentMatt Grant3841.9%
Total Valid Votes 20,735
Wildrose gain from Progressive Conservative Swing -10.4%

Senate nominee results

Student vote results

2012 election

2012 Alberta Student Vote results
Affiliation Candidate Votes %
Progressive ConservativeTed Morton25829.22%
WildroseBruce McAllister45451.42%
  Liberal Siân Ramsden 126 14.27%
  NDP Nathan Salmon 45 5.10%
Total 883 100%

[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta" (PDF). Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission. June 2010. p. 19. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 27, 2011. Retrieved January 14, 2012.
  2. ↑ "Unofficial Poll Results - 54 CHESTERMERE-ROCKY VIEW - 77 Polls Reporting Out of 77". Elections Alberta. April 24, 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-05-04.
  3. ↑ http://www.studentvote.ca/ab2012/results/?id=53
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