Lethbridge (electoral district)

Lethbridge

Alberta electoral district
Lethbridge in relation to the other Alberta federal electoral districts
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Jim Hillyer Conservative
District created	1987
First contested	1988
Last contested	2011
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2006)	113,531
Electors (2011)	89,136
Area (km²)	11,176
Pop. density (per km²)	10.2
Census divisions	Division No. 2, Division No. 3
Census subdivisions	Lethbridge, Lethbridge County, Coaldale, Cardston County, Warner County No. 5, Cardston, Raymond, Magrath

For other meanings of Lethbridge, see Lethbridge (disambiguation).

Lethbridge (formerly known as Lethbridge—Foothills) is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1917. It represents the counties of Lethbridge, Warner and Cardston.

History

This riding was originally created in 1914 from parts of Macleod riding.

In 1977, it was re-named "Lethbridge—Foothills".

In 1987, Lethbridge—Foothills was abolished and replaced by a new "Lethbridge" riding. The new riding was created from parts of Lethbridge—Foothills, Macleod and Medicine Hat ridings.

Members of Parliament

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
13th	1917–1921		William Ashbury Buchanan	Unionist
14th	1921–1925		Lincoln Henry Jelliff	Progressive
15th	1925–1926
16th	1926–1930			United Farmers
17th	1930–1935		John Smith Stewart	Conservative
18th	1935–1940		John Horne Blackmore	Social Credit
19th	1940–1945
20th	1945–1949
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1962		Deane Gundlock	Progressive Conservative
25th	1962–1963
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968
28th	1968–1972
29th	1972–1974		Kenneth Earl Hurlburt	Progressive Conservative
30th	1974–1979
31st	1979–1980		Blaine Thacker	Progressive Conservative
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988
34th	1988–1993
35th	1993–1997		Raymond Speaker	Reform
36th	1997–2000		Rick Casson	Reform
	2000			Canadian Alliance
37th	2000–2003
	2003–2004			Conservative
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–present		Jim Hillyer	Conservative

Current Member of Parliament

Its Member of Parliament is Jim Hillyer. He was first elected in 2011. He is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada.

Election results

Lethbridge, 1988 - present

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Jim Hillyer	27,173	56.51	-10.45	-
	New Democrat	Mark Sandilands	13,097	27.24	+13.02	-
	Liberal	Michael Cormican	4,030	8.38	-0.92	-
	Green	Cailin Bartlett	2,095	4.36	-2.86	-
	Christian Heritage	Geoffrey Capp	1,716	3.57	+1.26	-
Total valid votes/Expense limit			48,086	100.00
Total rejected ballots			307	0.63	+0.34
Turnout			48,393	54.20	+1
Eligible voters			89,280

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Rick Casson	31,714	66.96	-0.34	$78,789
	New Democrat	Mark Sandilands	6,733	14.22	+0.52	$18,476
	Liberal	Michael Cormican	4,404	9.30	-1.95	$21,463
	Green	Amanda Swagar	3,420	7.22	+3.68
	Christian Heritage	Geoffrey Capp	1,094	2.31	-0.49	$13,529
Total valid votes/Expense limit			47,365	100.00		$94,223
Total rejected ballots			138	0.29	+0.04
Turnout			47,503	53	-9

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Rick Casson	35,061	67.30	+4.68
	New Democrat	Melanee Thomas	7,135	13.70	+3.98
	Liberal	Michael Cormican	5,859	11.25	-10.31
	Green	Andrea Sheridan	1,846	3.54	+0.89
	Christian Heritage	Marc Slingerland	1,458	2.80	+0.53
	Independent	Howard Forsyth	735	1.41	N/A
Total valid votes			52,094	100.00
Total rejected ballots			132	0.25	+0.03
Turnout			52,226	63.7	+4.0

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Rick Casson	29,765	62.62	-12.22	$68,346
	Liberal	Ken Nicol	10,250	21.56	+4.62	$34,339
	New Democrat	Melanee Thomas	4,623	9.72	+3.97	$10,460
	Green	Erin Marie Matthews	1,262	2.65		$32
	Christian Heritage	Ken Vanden Broek	1,079	2.27	+0.78	$16,322
	Marijuana	Dustin Sobie	553	1.16
Total valid votes			47,532	100.00
Total rejected ballots			135	0.28	-0.07
Turnout			47,667	61.74	-0.19

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

Canadian federal election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Canadian Alliance	Rick Casson	30,380	66.02	+10.49	$61,765
	Liberal	Vaughan Hartigan	7,797	16.94	-2.24	$10,339
	Progressive Conservative	Kimberly Denise Budd	4,062	8.82	-9.26	$3,506
	New Democrat	Garth Hardy	2,648	5.75	+0.38	$6,135
	Green	Don C. Ferguson	864	1.87		$1,324
	Canadian Action	Dan Lamden	264	0.57	-0.22	$739
Total valid votes			46,015	100.00
Total rejected ballots			163	0.35	+0.16
Turnout			46,178	61.93	+2.26

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

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Reform	Rick Casson	22,828	55.53	+2.97	$63,487
	Liberal	John McGee	7,887	19.18	-6.29	$47,656
	Progressive Conservative	Greg Weadick	7,436	18.08	+2.86	$40,649
	New Democrat	Victor Lough	2,211	5.37	+2.56	$3,877
	Christian Heritage	Nellie Slingerland	418	1.01		$1,944
	Canadian Action	J-C Lessard	326	0.79		$9,690
Total valid votes			41,106	100.00
Total rejected ballots			79	0.19
Turnout			41,185	59.67

Canadian federal election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Reform	Ray Speaker	24,565	52.56	+45.76
	Liberal	John William McGee	11,905	25.47	+6.89
	Progressive Conservative	Dean Lien	7,113	15.22	-43.19
	National	Carson Tannant	1,592	3.41
	New Democrat	Doug Petherbridge	1,313	2.81	-6.99
	Natural Law	Cliff Kinzel	247	0.53
Total valid votes			46,735	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Blaine Thacker	26,750	58.41	-8.97
	Liberal	Robert Grbavac	8,513	18.59	+7.15
	New Democrat	Don Ferguson	4,489	9.80	-4.88
	Reform	Phil Connolly	3,116	6.80
	Christian Heritage	Charles Cavilla	2,932	6.40
Total valid votes			45,800	100.00

Lethbridge—Foothills, 1979 - 1988

Canadian federal election, 1984
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Blaine Thacker	31,316	67.38	-1.22
	New Democrat	Connie Credico	6,822	14.68	+4.69
	Liberal	Shaun Ward	5,315	11.44	-5.85
	Not affiliated	Steven V. Pinchak	2,145	4.61
	Social Credit	Rod W. Start	456	0.98	-1.61
	Confederation of Regions	Cyril Baranosky	426	0.92
Total valid votes			46,480	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1980
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Blaine Thacker	27,307	68.60	-1.30
	Liberal	Shaun G. Ward	6,882	17.29	-0.37
	New Democrat	Dave Porteous	3,974	9.98	+1.04
	Social Credit	D. Willard Paxman	1,031	2.59	-0.49
	Not affiliated	Peter Jones	482	1.21
	Communist	David Wallis	132	0.33	-0.09
Total valid votes			39,808	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Blaine Thacker	29,069	69.89	+6.37
	Liberal	Jim Gladstone	7,345	17.66	-4.15
	New Democrat	Roger Rickwood	3,720	8.94	-1.32
	Social Credit	Wagner Saende	1,282	3.08	-1.32
	Communist	David Wallis	174	0.42
Total valid votes			41,590	100.00

Lethbridge, 1917 - 1979

Canadian federal election, 1974
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Kenneth Earl Hurlburt	20,602	63.52	+5.72
	Liberal	Sven Ericksen	7,075	21.81	-1.50
	New Democrat	Bessie Annand	3,329	10.26	-1.82
	Social Credit	Vern Young	1,428	4.40	-2.40
Total valid votes			32,434	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1972
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Kenneth Earl Hurlburt	18,845	57.80	+12.85
	Liberal	Andy Russell	7,601	23.31	-7.63
	New Democrat	Hal Hoffman	3,941	12.09	+2.86
	Social Credit	Keith L. Hancock	2,219	6.81	-8.08
Total valid votes			32,606	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1968
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Deane Gundlock	11,901	44.95	+3.92
	Liberal	John I. Boras	8,193	30.94	+11.21
	Social Credit	Ernest R. Patterson	3,941	14.88	-17.59
	New Democrat	George Edward Orchard	2,442	9.22	+2.46
Total valid votes			26,477	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1965
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Deane Gundlock	10,147	41.02	-2.28
	Social Credit	Wallace C. Strom	8,032	32.47	-2.51
	Liberal	Frank Sherring	4,882	19.74	+3.57
	New Democrat	Frances Joyce Grantham	1,673	6.76	+1.95
Total valid votes			24,734	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1963
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Deane Gundlock	11,475	43.30	-0.77
	Social Credit	Steve Kapcsos	9,271	34.98	+0.49
	Liberal	Martin Hoyt	4,284	16.17	+1.90
	New Democrat	Peter Uganecz	1,277	4.82	-2.35
	Independent	John Arthur Spencer	193	0.73
Total valid votes			26,500	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1962
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Deane Gundlock	11,105	44.07	-14.26
	Social Credit	Steve Kapcsos	8,693	34.50	6.25
	Liberal	Mark Reed Stringam	3,595	14.27	+2.42
	New Democrat	Milo Douglas	1,806	7.17
Total valid votes			25,199	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1958
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Deane Gundlock	13,364	58.33	+43.55
	Social Credit	John Horne Blackmore	6,471	28.25	-24.77
	Liberal	Clarence G. Yanosik	2,714	11.85	-20.36
	Ind. Social Credit	Ervin D. Olsen	361	1.58
Total valid votes			22,910	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1957
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	John Horne Blackmore	10,910	53.02	-3.61
	Liberal	Asael E. Palmer	6,627	32.20	-0.80
	Progressive Conservative	John Arthur Spencer	3,041	14.78	+4.41
Total valid votes			20,578	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1953
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	John Horne Blackmore	9,737	56.62	+9.64
	Liberal	Ernest Roderick McFarland	5,676	33.01	+2.53
	Progressive Conservative	James Erle Carr	1,783	10.37	-2.65
Total valid votes			17,196	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1949
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	John Horne Blackmore	8,880	46.98	+3.46
	Liberal	Louis Sherman Turcotte	5,760	30.47	+7.54
	Progressive Conservative	John Arthur Jardine	2,460	13.02	-4.90
	Co-operative Commonwealth	William Wesley Scott	1,801	9.53	-3.47
Total valid votes			18,901	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1945
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	John Horne Blackmore	7,250	43.52	+2.49
	Liberal	Louis Sherman Turcotte	3,820	22.93	-12.79
	Progressive Conservative	Philip Baker	2,985	17.92	-5.33
	Co-operative Commonwealth	William Wesley Scott	2,165	13.00
	Labour-Progressive	William Henry Childress	439	2.64
Total valid votes			16,659	100.00

Note: Progressive Conservative vote is compared to "National Government" vote in 1940 election. Social Credit vote is compared to New Democracy vote in 1940 election.

Canadian federal election, 1940
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democracy	John Horne Blackmore	6,362	41.03	-9.97
	Liberal	Lynden Eldon Fairbairn	5,538	35.72	+19.21
	National Government	John Smith Stewart	3,605	23.25	-0.15
Total valid votes			15,505	100.00

Note: "National Government" vote is compared to Conservative vote in 1935 election. New Democracy vote is compared to Social Credit vote in 1935 election.

Canadian federal election, 1935
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	John Horne Blackmore	6,516	51.00
	Conservative	John Smith Stewart	2,990	23.40	-15.43
	Liberal	Lynden Eldon Fairbairn	2,109	16.51	-13.67
	Co-operative Commonwealth	John Albert Johansen	737	5.77
	Reconstruction	A. Gladstone Virtue	425	3.33
Total valid votes			12,777	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1930
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Smith Stewart	4,863	38.84	-1.23
	Progressive	Thomas Owen King	3,880	30.99	-28.95
	Liberal	Arthur George Baalim	3,779	30.18
Total valid votes			12,522	100.00

Note: Progressive vote is compared to UFA vote in 1926 election.

Canadian federal election, 1926
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Farmers	Lincoln Henry Jelliff	5,138	59.93	+6.24
	Conservative	Andrew Bryden Hogg	3,435	40.07	-6.24
Total valid votes			8,573	100.00

Note: UFA vote is compared to Progressive vote in 1925 election.

Canadian federal election, 1925
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Lincoln Henry Jelliff	5,399	53.69	+4.45
	Conservative	John Smith Stewart	4,656	46.31	+33.12
Total valid votes			10,055	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1921
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Lincoln Henry Jelliff	4,961	49.25
	Labour	Martin Francis Finn	3,170	31.47
	Conservative	William Sargent Ball	1,328	13.18	-55.05
	Liberal	James Edward Lovering	615	6.10
Total valid votes			10,074	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1917
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Government	William Ashbury Buchanan	5,302	68.24
Opposition-Labour	"L". Lambert Pack	31.76 }}
Total valid votes			7,770	100.00

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Alberta federal electoral districts
• Past Canadian electoral districts

External links

• Library of Parliament Riding Profile (1914-1977)
• Library of Parliament Riding Profile (1977-1987)
• Library of Parliament Riding Profile (1987-present)
• Expenditures - 2008
• Expenditures - 2004
• Expenditures - 2000
• Expenditures - 1997
• Elections Canada
• Website of the Parliament of Canada