Calgary-Acadia
Calgary-Acadia is a provincial electoral district in the city of 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.
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|---|---|---|---|
 Calgary-Acadia within the City of Calgary, 2017 boundaries | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
United Conservative | ||
| District created | 2010 | ||
| First contested | 2012 | ||
History
The electoral district was created in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution. It was created primarily from the old electoral district of Calgary-Egmont and a portion of Calgary-Glenmore. Egmont also had some other areas redistributed to Glenmore and Calgary-Fort
Boundary history
| 03 Calgary-Acadia 2010 Boundaries[1] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Bordering Districts | |||
| North | East | West | South |
| Calgary-Buffalo | Calgary-Fort and Calgary-Hays | Calgary-Elbow, Calgary-Glenmore and Calgary-Lougheed | Calgary-Fish Creek |
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| Note: Boundary descriptions were not used in the 2010 redistribution | |||
Representation history
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Acadia | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Calgary-Egmont 1971-2012 | ||||
| 28th | 2012–2015 | Jonathan Denis | Progressive Conservative | |
| 29th | 2015–2019 | Brandy Payne | New Democratic | |
| 30th | 2019–present | Tyler Shandro | United Conservative | |
The current incumbent is Tyler Shandro.
Elections
2019 general election
| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Tyler Shandro | 12,615 | 54.3% | -6.1 | ||||
| New Democratic | Kate Andrews | 8,049 | 34.6% | -0.1 | ||||
| Alberta Party | Lana Bentley | 1,728 | 7.4% | New | ||||
| Liberal | Lorissa Good | 350 | 1.5% | -3.3 | ||||
| Independence | Patrick Reilly | 245 | 1.1% | New | ||||
| Green | Amanda Bishop | 243 | 1.0% | New | ||||
| Total valid votes | 23,230 | |||||||
| Rejected, spoiled, and declined | 180 | |||||||
| Registered electors | 36,542 | |||||||
| Turnout | 23,410 | 63.9% | +9.3 | |||||
| United Conservative gain from New Democratic | Swing | -3.1 | ||||||
Source(s)
"2019 Provincial General Election Results". Elections Alberta. Retrieved 2019-05-06. | ||||||||
2015 general election
| 2015 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| New Democratic | Brandy Payne | 5,506 | 34.7 | |||||
| Wildrose | Linda Carlson | 4,985 | 31.4 | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jonathan Denis | 4,602 | 29.0 | |||||
| Liberal | Nicholas Borovsky | 765 | 4.8 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 15,858 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 123 | |||||||
| Turnout | 15,981 | 54.6 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 29,264 | |||||||
| Source: Elections Alberta[2] | ||||||||
2012 general election
| 2012 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jonathan Denis | 6,863 | 45.78 | |||||
| Wildrose | Richard Jones | 6,308 | 42.08 | |||||
| Liberal | Nicole Hankel | 940 | 6.27 | |||||
| New Democratic | Nick Lepora | 677 | 4.52 | |||||
| Evergreen | Antoni Grochowski | 202 | 1.35 | |||||
Senate nominee results
2012 Senate nominee election district results
Student vote results
2012 election
| 2012 Alberta Student Vote results | ||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Progressive Conservative | Jonathan Denis | 341 | 33.46% | |
| Wildrose | Richard Jones | 319 | 31.31% | |
| Liberal | Nicole Hankel | 171 | 16.78% | |
| New Democratic | Nick Lepora | 98 | 9.62% | |
| Evergreen | Antoni Grochowski | 90 | 8.83% | |
| Total | 1,019 | 100% | ||
References
- "Bill 28 Electoral Divisions Act" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. 2010.
- "2015 Provincial General Election Results". Elections Alberta. Archived from the original on 2017-07-30. Retrieved 2017-07-30.
External links
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