Calgary Southwest

Calgary Southwest
Alberta electoral district
	Calgary Centre East Centre; North Northeast Southeast Southwest West Nose; Hill
	Calgary Southwest in relation to the other Calgary ridings
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
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District created	1987
First contested	1988
Last contested	2011
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2006)	120,750
Electors (2011)	93,707
Area (km²)	80
Pop. density (per km²)	1,509.4
Census divisions	Division No. 6
Census subdivisions	Calgary

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Calgary Southwest is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1988. The district is in the southwest part of the City of Calgary, south of Glenmore Trail, and west of the Canadian Pacific railway.

[edit] History

The electoral district was created in 1987 from Bow River, Calgary East, and Calgary South ridings.

This riding has elected the following members of the Canadian House of Commons:

Parliament	Years		Party
34th	1988–1993	Bobbie Sparrow	Progressive Conservative
35th	1993–1997	Preston Manning	Reform
36th	1997–2000		Reform
36th	2000		Canadian Alliance
37th	2000–2002		Canadian Alliance
	2002–2003	Stephen Harper	Canadian Alliance
	2003–2004		Conservative
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–present

Its Member of Parliament is Prime Minister Stephen Harper, an economist and a lecturer. He was first elected in 1993 and is the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Stephen Harper	42,998	75.12	+2.22
	New Democrat	Holly Heffernan	6,823	11.92	+4.12
	Liberal	Marlene Lamontagne	4,121	7.20	-2.11
	Green	Kelly Christie	2,991	5.23	-3.72
	Independent	Larry R. Heather	303	0.53	+0.05
Total valid votes/Expense limit			57,236	100.00
Total rejected ballots			177	0.31
Turnout			57,413	60.95
Eligible voters			94,192

Note: Larry R. Heather's vote as an independent candidate is compared to his vote as a CHP candidate in 2008.

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Stephen Harper	38,545	72.90	+0.94	$61,102
	Liberal	Marlene Lamontagne	4,918	9.31	-2.07	$14,071
	Green	Kelly Christie	4,732	8.95	+1.32	$1,250
	New Democrat	Holly Heffernan	4,122	7.80	-0.22	$1,719
	Libertarian	Dennis Young	277	0.52	+0.52	$398
	Christian Heritage	Larry Heather	256	0.48	-0.52	$1,746
Total valid votes/Expense limit			52,850	100		$92,156
Total rejected ballots
Turnout

Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance vote in 2000.

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
By-election on 28 June 2002 On Mr. Manning's resignation, 31 January 2002
	Canadian Alliance	Stephen Harper	13,200	71.66	+6.85
	New Democrat	Bill Phipps	3,813	20.70	+16.74
	Green	James S. Kohut	660	3.58
	Independent	Gordon Barrett	428	2.32
	Christian Heritage	Ron Gray	320	1.74
Total valid votes			18,421	100.00

Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997.

Parliament of Canada
Preceded by LaSalle—Émard	Riding represented by the Prime Minister 2006-present	Succeeded by Incumbent