Calgary-Acadia
 Alberta electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Calgary-Acadia within the City of Calgary, 2017 boundaries | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
New Democratic | ||
| District created | 2010 | ||
| First contested | 2012 | ||
Calgary-Acadia is a provincial electoral district in the city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The district was created in the 2010 boundary redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post voting system.
History
The electoral district was created in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution. It was created primarily from the old electoral district of Calgary-Egmont and a portion of Calgary-Glenmore. Egmont also had some other areas redistributed to Glenmore and Calgary-Fort
Boundary history
| 03 Calgary-Acadia 2010 Boundaries[1] | |||
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| Bordering Districts | |||
| North | East | West | South |
| Calgary-Buffalo | Calgary-Fort and Calgary-Hays | Calgary-Elbow, Calgary-Glenmore and Calgary-Lougheed | Calgary-Fish Creek |
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| Note: Boundary descriptions were not used in the 2010 redistribution | |||
Representation history
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Acadia | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Calgary-Egmont 1971-2012 | ||||
| 28th | 2012–2015 | Jonathan Denis | Progressive Conservative | |
| 29th | 2015–present | Brandy Payne | New Democratic | |
The current incumbent is Brandy Payne.
Elections
2019 general election
| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| United Conservative | Tyler Shandro | 12,615 | 54.30 | -3.45 | $117,646 | |||
| New Democratic | Kate Andrews | 8,049 | 34.65 | -1.04 | $37,925 | |||
| Alberta Party | Lana Bentley | 1,728 | 7.44 | +5.69 | $8,020 | |||
| Liberal | Lorissa Good | 350 | 1.51 | -3.19 | $500 | |||
| Alberta Independence | Patrick Reilly | 245 | 1.05 | – | $8,243 | |||
| Green | Amanda Bishop | 243 | 1.05 | – | $500 | |||
| Total | 23,230 | 99.23 | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 180 | 0.77 | ||||||
| Turnout | 23,410 | 67.60 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 34,632 | |||||||
| United Conservative notional hold | Swing | -1.21 | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: Elections Alberta[2][3][4] Note: Expenses is the sum of "Election Expenses", "Other Expenses" and "Transfers Issued". The Elections Act limits "Election Expenses" to $50,000. | ||||||||
2015 general election
| 2015 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Brandy Payne | 5,506 | 34.72% | 30.20% | ||||
| Wildrose | Linda Carlson | 4,985 | 31.44% | -10.65% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jonathan Denis | 4,602 | 29.02% | -16.76% | ||||
| Liberal | Nicholas Borovsky | 765 | 4.82% | -1.45% | ||||
| Total | 15,858 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 113 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 29,264 | 54.58% | -2.06% | |||||
| New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative | Swing | -0.21% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "03 - Calgary-Acadia, 2015 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
2012 general election
| 2012 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jonathan Denis | 6,863 | 45.78 | |||||
| Wildrose | Richard Jones | 6,308 | 42.08 | |||||
| Liberal | Nicole Hankel | 940 | 6.27 | |||||
| New Democratic | Nick Lepora | 677 | 4.52 | |||||
| Evergreen | Antoni Grochowski | 202 | 1.35 | |||||
Senate nominee results
2012 Senate nominee election district results
Student vote results
2012 election
| 2012 Alberta Student Vote results | ||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Progressive Conservative | Jonathan Denis | 341 | 33.46% | |
| Wildrose | Richard Jones | 319 | 31.31% | |
| Liberal | Nicole Hankel | 171 | 16.78% | |
| New Democratic | Nick Lepora | 98 | 9.62% | |
| Evergreen | Antoni Grochowski | 90 | 8.83% | |
| Total | 1,019 | 100% | ||
References
- ^ "Bill 28 Electoral Divisions Act" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. 2010.
- ^ "01 - Calgary-Acadia, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
- ^ Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2019). 2019 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Volume II (PDF) (Report). Vol. 2. Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 3–6. ISBN 978-1-988620-12-1. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
- ^ Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2019). 2019 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Volume III Election Finances (PDF) (Report). Vol. 3. Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 68–82. ISBN 978-1-988620-13-8. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 15, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2021.