Calgary-Nose Creek

Calgary-Nose Creek

Alberta electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
District created	1993
District abolished	2004
First contested	1993
Last contested	2001

Calgary-Nose Creek was a provincial electoral district in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting from 1993 to 2004.

History

The Calgary-Nose Creek electoral district was created during the 1993 electoral boundary re-distribution from the Calgary-McKnight electoral district.

The Calgary-Nose Creek electoral district would be dissolved in the 2003 Alberta boundary re-distribution and would be re-distributed into the Calgary-Mackay and Calgary-Nose Hill electoral districts.

The riding was named for the Nose Creek that winds its way through the northern part of Calgary.

Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs)

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Nose Creek
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
See Calgary-McKnight electoral district from 1971-1993
20th	1993–1997		Gary Mar	Progressive Conservative
22nd	1997–2001
23rd	2001–2004
See Calgary-Mackay electoral district from 2004-2012 and Calgary-Nose Hill electoral district from 2004-2012

Election results

1993 general election

1993 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Gary Mar	6,974	53.66%	–
	Liberal	Yolande Gagnon	5,057	38.91%	–
	New Democratic	Albert Sole	789	6.07%	–
	Natural Law	Ray Harris	176	1.35%	–
Total			12,996	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			33	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			22,672	57.47%	–
	Progressive Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s) Source: "Calgary-Nose Creek Official Results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1997 general election

1997 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Gary Mar	7,815	64.48%	10.82%
	Liberal	Peter Willott	2,894	23.88%	-15.03%
	Social Credit	Greg Greene	715	5.90%	–
	New Democratic	Doral Johnson	696	5.74%	-0.33%
Total			12,120	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			28	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			26,461	45.91%	-11.56%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		12.93%
Source(s) Source: "Calgary-Nose Creek Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2001 general election

2001 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Gary Mar	11,997	74.81%	10.33%
	Liberal	Peter Willott	3,263	20.35%	-3.53%
	New Democratic	Eileen Nesbitt	776	4.84%	-0.90%
Total			16,036	–	–
Rejected, spoiled, and declined			51	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			33,778	47.63%	1.72%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		6.93%
Source(s) Source: "Calgary-Nose Creek Official Results 2001 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

See also

• List of Alberta provincial electoral districts

Further reading

• Office of the Chief Electoral Officer; Legislative Assembly Office (2006). A Century of Democracy: Elections of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1905-2005. The Centennial Series. Edmonton, AB: Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ISBN 0-9689217-8-7. Retrieved May 25, 2020.

External links

• Elections Alberta
• The Legislative Assembly of Alberta