Macleod (federal electoral district)

This article is about the Alberta electoral district. For the Northwest Territories electoral district, see Macleod (N.W.T. electoral district).

Macleod

Alberta electoral district
Macleod in relation to the other Alberta federal electoral districts
District created	1987
District abolished	2012
First contested	1988
Last contested	2014 by-election
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)	123,778
Electors (2011)	81,141
Area (km²)	28,303.15
Census division(s)	Division No. 3, Division No. 6, Division No. 15
Census subdivision(s)	Arrowwood, Bighorn No. 8, Black Diamond, Blood 148, Calgary, Cardston County, Carmangay, Champion, Claresholm, Cochrane, Cowley, Crowsnest Pass, Eden Valley 216, Foothills No. 31, Fort Macleod, Glenwood, Granum, High River, Hill Spring, Kananaskis, Lomond, Longview, Milo, Nanton, Okotoks, Piikani 147, Pincher Creek, Pincher Creek No. 9, Ranchland No. 66, Rocky View County, Siksika 146, Stavely, Stoney 142, 143, 144, Tsuu T'ina Nation 145 (Sarcee 145), Turner Valley, Vulcan, Vulcan County, Willow Creek No. 26

Macleod was a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1908 to 1968 and from 1988 to 2015. It was a mostly rural riding in southwest Alberta, however it extended as far north as the outer suburbs of Calgary. It covered the Municipal District of Foothills No. 31, Municipal District of Willow Creek No. 26, Municipal District of Pincher Creek No. 9, Municipal District of Ranchland No. 66, Vulcan County, the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass, and Kananaskis Improvement District. It also included the towns of Okotoks, Cochrane, and High River.

Demographics

According to the Canada 2011 Census

Ethnic groups: 84.1% White, 12.1% Aboriginal
Languages: 87.7% English, 3.6% German, 1.4% French, ~1.8% Blackfoot (Blackfoot counted as "Other language" on the Census; this number derived from "other language" speakers on Blackfoot reserves)
Religions: 67.4% Christian (22.7% Catholic, 12.2% United Church, 6.0% Anglican, 2.9% Lutheran, 1.8% Pentecostal, 1.6% Baptist, 1.4% Presbyterian, 18.8% Other Christian), 1.9% Traditional Aboriginal spirituality, 28.9% No religion
Median income (2010): $33,338

History

This riding was originally created in 1907 from parts of District of Alberta and Calgary ridings.

It was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed into Rocky Mountain, Palliser Crowfoot, Lethbridge and Medicine Hat ridings.

It was re-created in 1987 from Bow River, Lethbridge—Foothills, Medicine Hat and Wild Rose ridings.

Due to the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution the riding will be abolished prior to the next election. Most of the riding will be transferred to the new riding of Foothills. Small parts will also be transferred to Bow River, Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner, Banff—Airdrie, Calgary Midnapore and Calgary Signal Hill.

Members of Parliament

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

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Macleod Riding created from Calgary and Alberta provisional district
11th	1908–1911		John Herron	Liberal–Conservative
12th	1911–1917		David Warnock	Liberal
13th	1917–1921		Hugh Murray Shaw	Government (Unionist)
14th	1921–1925		George Gibson Coote	Progressive
15th	1925–1926
16th	1926–1930			United Farmers
17th	1930–1935
18th	1935–1940		Ernest George Hansell	Social Credit
19th	1940–1945
20th	1945–1949
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1962		Lawrence Kindt	Progressive Conservative
25th	1962–1963
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968
Riding dissolved into Rocky Mountain, Palliser, Crowfoot, Lethbridge and Medicine Hat
Riding re-created from Bow River, Lethbridge—Foothills, Medicine Hat and Wild Rose
34th	1988–1993		Ken Hughes	Progressive Conservative
35th	1993–1997		Grant Hill	Reform
36th	1997–2000
	2000–2000			Alliance
37th	2000–2003
	2003–2004			Progressive Conservative
	2004–2004			Conservative
38th	2004–2006		Ted Menzies	Conservative
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2013
	2014–2015		John Barlow	Conservative
Riding dissolved into Foothills, Bow River, Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner, Banff—Airdrie, Calgary Signal Hill and Calgary Midnapore

Current Member of Parliament

The seat is currently held by John Barlow, a Conservative and a former newspaper editor, who was elected in a by-election on June 30, 2014 following the resignation of Ted Menzies on November 6, 2013.

Election results

1988–2015

Canadian federal by-election, June 30, 2014
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Barlow	12,616	69.16	−8.33
	Liberal	Dustin Fuller	3,092	16.95	+13.27
	Green	Larry Ashmore	991	5.43	+0.81
	Christian Heritage	David J. Reimer	774	4.24	+3.75
	New Democratic	Aileen Burke	770	4.22	−6.11
Total valid votes/expense limit			18,243	100.0	–
Total rejected ballots			81	0.44	–
Turnout			18,324	19.92	−41.60
Eligible voters			92,007
	Conservative hold		Swing		−10.80
By-election due to the resignation of Ted Menzies.
Source: Elections Canada

2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Ted Menzies	40,007	77.48	+0.12	$51,784
	New Democratic	Janine Giles	5,335	10.33	+3.65	$4,665
	Green	Attila Nagy	2,389	4.63	-4.48	$2,587
	Liberal	Nicole Hankel	1,898	3.68	-2.24
	Progressive Canadian	Brad Carrigan	1,754	3.40
	Christian Heritage	Marc Slingerland	252	0.49	-0.43
Total valid votes/Expense limit			51,635	100.00
Total rejected ballots			157	0.30	+0.10
Turnout			51,792	61.52	+5.13
Eligible voters			84,182	–	–
	Conservative hold		Swing		-1.76

2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Ted Menzies	35,328	77.36	+1.91	$47,418
	Green	Jared McCollum	4,161	9.11	+2.93	$3,884
	New Democratic	Stan Knowlton	3,053	6.69	+0.16	$4,003
	Liberal	Isabel Paynter	2,703	5.92	-3.31	$7,424
	Christian Heritage	Marc Slingerland	422	0.92	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			45,667	100.00	$96,193
Total rejected ballots			91	0.20	-0.07
Turnout			45,758	56.39	-3.64

2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Ted Menzies	32,232	74.76	-9.12	$45,277
	Liberal	Chris Shade	5,214	12.09	+2.68
	Green	Laurel Denise Fadeeff	2,865	6.64	–	$1,011
	New Democratic	Joyce Thomas	2,802	6.49	-0.21	$1,368
Total valid votes			43,113	100.00
Total rejected ballots			111	0.26	0.00
Turnout			43,224	60.03	-2.74

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

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Alliance	Grant Hill	30,783	70.05	+2.03	$47,809
	Progressive Conservative	Cyril R. Abbott	6,079	13.83	-1.76	$9,380
	Liberal	Marlene LaMontagne	4,137	9.41	+5.36	$5,561
	New Democratic	Dwayne Good Striker	2,945	6.70	+5.99	$524
Total valid votes			43,944	100.00
Total rejected ballots			116	0.26	+0.11
Turnout			44,060	62.77	+6.20

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

1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Reform	Grant Hill	24,225	68.02	+4.62	$40,614
	Progressive Conservative	Tim Anderson	5,555	15.59	-1.77	$32,047
	Liberal	Christopher Paton-Gay	4,137	11.61	-4.62	$41,335
	New Democratic	Stanley Carl Knowlton	1,444	4.05	+2.15	$2,140
	Natural Law	Diane Shapka	253	0.71	+0.18
Total valid votes			35,614	100.00
Total rejected ballots			53	0.15
Turnout			35,667	56.57

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Reform	Grant Hill	23,803	63.40	+32.19
	Progressive Conservative	Ken Hughes	6,517	17.36	-33.16
	Liberal	Roy Whitney	6,095	16.23	+6.79
	New Democratic	Susanne Abildgaard	714	1.90	-6.67
	Green	Warren Smith	214	0.57
	Natural Law	Gloria Hansen	200	0.53
Total valid votes			37,543	100.00

1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Ken Hughes	16,989	50.52
	Reform	Ken Copithorne	10,498	31.22
	Liberal	Ernie Patterson	3,175	9.44
	New Democratic	Gary Taje	2,884	8.58	0.25
	Commonwealth of Canada	F.B. Tex Hover	84
Total valid votes			33,630	100.00

1908–1968

1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Lawrence Kindt	8,706	44.32	-1.00
	Social Credit	Ernie Patterson	6,487	33.03	-3.08
	Liberal	Bill Matheson	3,142	16.00	+2.72
	New Democratic	Sam Brown	1,307	6.65	+1.36
Total valid votes			19,642	100.00

1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Lawrence Kindt	9,785	45.32	-0.52
	Social Credit	Ernie Patterson	7,795	36.11	+2.84
	Liberal	Robert Bostrom	2,866	13.28	-1.68
	New Democratic	John P. Griffin	1,143	5.29	-0.65
Total valid votes			21,589	100.00

1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Lawrence Kindt	9,605	45.84	-13.19
	Social Credit	Ernie Patterson	6,970	33.26	+5.40
	Liberal	James A. Coutts	3,133	14.95	+5.50
	New Democratic	John P. Griffin	1,245	5.94	+2.29
Total valid votes			20,953	100.00

Note: NDP vote is compared to CCF vote in 1958 election.

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Lawrence Kindt	11,911	59.03	+32.69
	Social Credit	Ernest George Hansell	5,623	27.87	-15.80
	Liberal	James Derrick	1,907	9.45	-15.34
	Co-operative Commonwealth	John Purrier Griffin	736	3.65	-1.55
Total valid votes			20,177	100.00

1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Ernest George Hansell	8,411	43.67	-4.71
	Progressive Conservative	Lawrence Kindt	5,073	26.34	+6.14
	Liberal	Gordon Lloyd Burton	4,774	24.79	+0.84
	Co-operative Commonwealth	John Purrier Griffin	1,001	5.20	+1.18
Total valid votes			19,259	100.00

1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Ernest George Hansell	8,685	48.39	+3.30
	Liberal	John Joseph McIntyre	4,298	23.95	-0.79
	Progressive Conservative	Warren Cecil Cooper	3,625	20.20	+0.04
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Leslie Norman Howard	721	4.02	-6.00
	Labor–Progressive	Anthony Patera	620	3.45
Total valid votes			17,949	100.00

1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Ernest George Hansell	7,411	45.08	+7.93
	Liberal	Alfred Gladstone Lewis	4,066	24.74	+9.39
	Progressive Conservative	Stanley Wyatt	3,314	20.16	-2.83
	Co-operative Commonwealth	John Purrier Griffin	1,647	10.02	-5.03
Total valid votes			16,438	100.00

1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Ernest George Hansell	6,342	37.16	-2.69
	Progressive Conservative	Stanley Wyatt	3,924	22.99	+4.80
	Liberal	Alfred Gladstone Lewis	2,620	15.35	-13.56
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Otto Edward Wobick	2,569	15.05	+2.00
	Labor–Progressive	William Austin Arland	1,613	9.45
Total valid votes			17,068	100.00

Note: Progressive Conservative vote is compared to "National Government" vote in 1940 election.

1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Ernest George Hansell	6,655	39.84	-8.74
	Liberal	Francis Olestes McKenna	4,829	28.91	+16.74
	National Government	Grier Rider Davis	3,039	18.19	+3.68
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Ruth House McBride	2,180	13.05	-11.68
Total valid votes			16,703	100.00

Note: "National Government" vote is compared to Conservative vote in 1935 election.'

1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Ernest George Hansell	7,028	48.58
	Co-operative Commonwealth	George Gibson Coote	3,577	24.73
	Conservative	John Walter Matthewson	2,100	14.52	-32.44
	Liberal	Frank Olestes McKenna	1,761	12.17
Total valid votes			14,466	100.00

Note: George Gibson Coote's CCF vote is compared to his UFA vote in 1930 election.

1930 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Farmers of Alberta	George Gibson Coote	6,897	53.05	-13.33
	Conservative	Joseph Duncan Matheson	6,105	46.95	+13.33
Total valid votes			13,002	100.00

1926 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Farmers of Alberta	George Gibson Coote	6,840	66.38	+21.94
	Conservative	John Herron	3,465	33.62	-4.49
Total valid votes			10,305	100.00

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

1925 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	George Gibson Coote	4,943	44.44	-15.33
	Conservative	John Herron	4,239	38.11	+20.76
	Liberal	Thomas Milnes	1,941	17.45	+8.40
Total valid votes			11,123	100.00

1921 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	George Gibson Coote	6,086	59.77
	Conservative	Hugh Murray Shaw	1,767	17.35	-41.67
	Labour	James Fairhurst	1,407	13.82
	Liberal	Joseph E. Gillis	922	9.06	-20.99
Total valid votes			10,182	100.00

Note: Conservative vote is compared to Unionist vote in 1917 election.

1917 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Government (Unionist)	Hugh Murray Shaw	5,128	59.02	+20.65
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	Donald Randolph McIvor	2,610	30.04	-19.40
	Nonpartisan League	Stephen Thorne Marshall	950	10.93
Total valid votes			8,688	100.00

Note: Unionist vote is compared to Liberal-Conservative vote in 1911 election.

1911 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	David Warnock	3,660	49.44	+7.09
	Liberal–Conservative	John Herron	2,841	38.38	-8.67
	Independent	Edmund Fulcher	902	12.18
Total valid votes			7,403	100.00

1908 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal–Conservative	John Herron	2,935	47.04
	Liberal	Allan Ban MacDonald	2,642	42.35
	Independent	John Harrington	662	10.61
Total valid votes			6,239	100.00

See also

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

References

• "Macleod (federal electoral district) (Code 48020) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada. Retrieved 2011-03-06.
• Library of Parliament Riding Profile (1907–1966)
• Library of Parliament Riding Profile (1987–present)
• Expenditures – 2008
• Expenditures – 2004
• Expenditures – 2000
• Expenditures – 1997

External links

• Elections Canada
• Website of the Parliament of Canada