Calgary-Beddington
Calgary-Beddington is a provincial electoral district in the city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 87 districts mandated to return a single member (MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting. The seat has been held by Josephine Pon of the United Conservative Party since the 2019 Alberta election.
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|---|---|---|---|
 Calgary-Beddington within the City of Calgary (2017 boundaries) | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
United Conservative | ||
| District created | 2017 | ||
| First contested | 2019 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016)[1] | 50,220 | ||
| Area (km²) | 27.6 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 1,819.6 | ||
Geography
The district is located in northern Calgary, containing the neighbourhoods of Huntington Hills, Beddington Heights, Sandstone Valley, Country Hills, MacEwan, and Hidden Valley. The riding also includes Nose Hill Park, which lies to the south and west of the residential areas.
History
| Members for Calgary-Beddington | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill 2012–2019 | ||||
| 30th | 2019–present | Josephine Pon | United Conservative | |
The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended renaming Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill and changing its shape, removing its northern area but adding neighbourhoods from Calgary-Foothills and Calgary-Northern Hills. The Commission chose the name Beddington for this district because it "would most readily identify its location to residents in Calgary."[2]
Electoral results
| Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta general election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | % | ||
| New Democratic | 6,967 | 36.74% | ||
| Progressive Conservative | 5,494 | 28.97% | ||
| Wildrose | 5,277 | 27.83% | ||
| Liberal | 863 | 4.55% | ||
| Others | 362 | 1.91% | ||
| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Josephine Pon | 11,625 | 53.1 | -3.7 | ||||
| New Democratic | Amanda Chapman | 7,818 | 35.7 | -1.04 | ||||
| Alberta Party | Carol-Lynn Darch | 1,799 | 8.2 | New | ||||
| Liberal | Chandan Tadavalkar | 370 | 1.7 | -2.85 | ||||
| Independence | Tom Grbich | 163 | 0.7 | New | ||||
| Independent | Alexander Gea | 117 | 0.5 | — | ||||
| Total valid votes | 21,890 | |||||||
| Rejected, spoiled, and declined | 103 | |||||||
| Registered electors | 35,648 | |||||||
| Turnout | 21,993 | 61.6% | ||||||
| United Conservative gain | Swing | |||||||
Source(s)
"2019 Provincial General Election Results". Elections Alberta. Retrieved 2019-04-30. | ||||||||
References
- Statistics Canada: 2016
- Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (Oct 2017). "Final Report" (PDF). p. 35. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-01-24. Retrieved 2018-02-01.