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
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1987
District abolished	2013
First contested	1988
Last contested	2011
Demographics
Population (2011)	136,011
Electors (2011)	93,707
Area (km²)	76.70
Census division(s)	Division No. 6
Census subdivision(s)	Calgary

Calgary Southwest was a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 2015. The district was in the southwest part of the City of Calgary, south of Glenmore Trail, and west of the Canadian Pacific railway.

The seat was held by former Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

History

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

The riding was abolished during the Canadian federal electoral redistribution, 2012, 80% into Calgary Heritage and 20% into Calgary Midnapore.

Members of Parliament

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

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Calgary Southwest Riding created from Bow River, Calgary East, Calgary West and Calgary South
34th	1988–1993		Bobbie Sparrow	Progressive Conservative
35th	1993–1997		Preston Manning	Reform
36th	1997–2000
	2000–2000			Alliance
37th	2000–2002
	2002–2003		Stephen Harper
	2003–2004			Conservative
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
Riding dissolved into Calgary Heritage and Calgary Midnapore

Members of Parliament

All three of the riding's MPs were prominent, Bobbie Sparrow served in the Kim Campbell cabinet, while Preston Manning was the leader of the Reform Party of Canada, its final MP in this configuration was Prime Minister Stephen Harper, an economist and a lecturer. He was first elected in 2002 and is the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.

Election results

2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Stephen Harper	42,998	75.12	+2.16	$62,436
	New Democratic	Holly Heffernan	6,823	11.92	+4.16	$1,113
	Liberal	Marlene Lamontagne	4,121	7.20	−2.11	$14,171
	Green	Kelly Christie	2,991	5.23	−3.75	$4,879
	Independent	Larry R. Heather	303	0.53	+0.04	$495
Total valid votes			57,236	99.69
Total rejected ballots			177	0.31	−0.00
Turnout			57,413	60.42	+2.02
Eligible voters			95,026
	Conservative hold		Swing		-1.00
Note: Larry R. Heather's vote as an independent candidate is compared to his vote as a CHP candidate in 2008.

2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Stephen Harper	38,545	72.96	+0.60	$61,102
	Liberal	Marlene Lamontagne	4,918	9.31	−2.10	$14,071
	Green	Kelly Christie	4,743	8.98	+1.30	$1,250
	New Democratic	Holly Heffernan	4,102	7.76	−0.30	$1,719
	Libertarian	Dennis Young	265	0.48		$398
	Christian Heritage	Larry R. Heather	256	0.48	−0.01	$1,746
Total valid votes/expense limit			52,832	99.69	–	$92,156
Total rejected ballots			164	0.31	+0.10
Turnout			52,996	58.39	-8.18
Eligible voters			52,996
	Conservative hold		Swing		+1.35

2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Stephen Harper	41,549	71.96	+3.61	$67,115
	Liberal	Michael Swanson	6,573	11.38	-7.01	$15,691
	New Democratic	Holly Heffernan	4,628	8.02	+1.81	$5,177
	Green	Kim Warnke	4,407	7.63	+2.05	$1,800
	Christian Heritage	Larry Heather	579	1.00	+0.56	$1,370
Total valid votes			57,736	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots					–	–
Turnout						–

2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Stephen Harper	35,297	68.35	-3.31	$62,955
	Liberal	Avalon Roberts	9,501	18.39	–	$55,529
	Green	Darcy Kraus	3,210	6.21	+2.63	$521
	New Democratic	Daria Fox	2,884	5.58	-15.12	$3,648
	Marijuana	Mark de Pelham	516	0.99	–
	Christian Heritage	Larry Heather	229	0.44	-1.30	$1,630
Total valid votes			51,637	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots			149	0.29	–	–
Turnout			51,786	64.49		–

Note: Conservative vote is compared to the Alliance vote in 2002.

Canadian federal by-election, May 13, 2002 Resignation of Preston Manning
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Alliance	Stephen Harper	13,200	71.66	+6.84	$58,959.16
	New Democratic	Bill Phipps	3,813	20.70	+16.73	$34,789.77
	Green	James S. Kohut	660	3.58		$2,750.80
	Independent	Gordon Barrett	428	2.32		$3,329.34
	Christian Heritage	Ron Gray	320	1.74		$27,772.78
Total valid votes			18,421	99.47
Total rejected ballots			98	0.53	+0.23
Turnout			18,519	23.05	-39.89
Electors on the lists			80,360
	Alliance hold		Swing		-4.94

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Alliance	Preston Manning	34,529	64.81	+6.82	$69,676
	Progressive Conservative	Paul Monaghan	8,679	16.29	-1.61	$8,592
	Liberal	Barry J. Rust	7,954	14.93	-5.23	$13,233
	New Democratic	Jennifer Stewart	2,113	3.96	+1.22	$720
Total valid votes			53,275	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots			158	0.30	–	–
Turnout			53,433	62.93	-3.85	–

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

1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Reform	Preston Manning	27,912	57.99	-3.09	$62,515
	Liberal	Paul Drager	9,706	20.16	+3.87	$61,666
	Progressive Conservative	Jan Brown	8,617	17.90	-0.83	$34,551
	New Democratic	Mara Vogel	1,322	2.74	+1.13	$1,064
	Green	Sol Candel	310	0.64	+0.18
	Natural Law	Richard Shelford	175	0.36	-0.00
	Christian Heritage	Larry Heather	89	0.18	–	$176
Total valid votes			48,131	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots			107	0.22	–	–
Turnout			48,238	66.78		–

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Reform	Preston Manning	41,630	61.22	+47.80	$59,445
	Progressive Conservative	Bobbie Sparrow	12,642	18.59	-46.57	$61,978
	Liberal	Bill Richards	11,087	16.30	+4.77	$60,511
	New Democratic	Catherine Rose	1,099	1.62	-6.49	$4,791
	National	Lea Russell	910	1.34		$2,580
	Green	Sol Candel	301	0.44		$6,216
	Natural Law	Ida Bugmann	249	0.37		$0
	Independent	Miel S.R. Gabriel	57	0.08		$218
	Communist	Darrell Rankin	28	0.04		$1,422
Total valid votes			68,003	100.00
Rejected ballots			137
Turnout			68,140	70.81
Electors on lists			96,213
	Reform gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+47.19
Source:Thirty-fifth General Election, 1993: Official Voting Results, Published by the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada. Financial figures taken from official contributions and expenses provided by Elections Canada.

1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Bobbie Sparrow	40,397	65.16
	Reform	Janet Jessop	8,316	13.41
	Liberal	Percy Baker	7,147	11.53
	New Democratic	Vera Vogel	5,024	8.10
	Independent	Larry R. Heather	669	1.08
	Rhinoceros	Johnny Barretto	372	0.60
	Confederation of Regions	Bill Sinclair	68	0.11
Total valid votes			61,993	100.00

See also

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

References

• "Calgary Southwest (Code 48008) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada. Retrieved 2011-03-06.

External links

• Riding history for Calgary Southwest from the Library of Parliament
• Expenditures - 2008
• Expenditures - 2004
• Expenditures - 2000
• Expenditures - 1997
• Elections Canada
• Website of the Parliament of Canada