Airdrie-East
Airdrie-East is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 87 districts mandated to return a single member (MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting. It was contested for the first time in the 2019 Alberta election.
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|---|---|---|---|
 Airdrie-East within the Calgary Metropolitan Region (2017 boundaries). | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
United Conservative | ||
| District created | 2017 | ||
| First contested | 2019 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016)[1] | 49,978 | ||
| Area (km²) | 714 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 70 | ||
| Census divisions | 6 | ||
| Census subdivisions | Airdrie, Rocky View, Wheatland | ||
Geography
The district is located northeast of Calgary, containing most of Airdrie, except the area west of 8 St SW and south of 1 Ave NW. It stretches west past Keoma to RR253.
History
| Members for Airdrie-East | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Airdrie and Chestermere-Rocky View 2012-2019 | ||||
| 30th | 2019– | Angela Pitt | United Conservative | |
The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended abolishing Airdrie and Chestermere-Rocky View, completely reorganizing the ridings surrounding Calgary to reflect the rapid growth in the area.[2]
Electoral results
2010s
| Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta general election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wildrose | 7,044 | 36.54% | ||
| Progressive Conservative | 6,006 | 31.15% | ||
| New Democratic | 5,703 | 29.58% | ||
| Others | 527 | 2.73% | ||
| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Angela Pitt | 16,764 | 67.3% | +2.4% | ||||
| New Democratic | Roxie Baez Zamora | 4,960 | 19.9% | -9.9% | ||||
| Alberta Party | Alex Luterbach | 2,371 | 9.5% | +5.2% | ||||
| Freedom Conservative | Rick Northey | 482 | 1.9% | |||||
| Independence | Jeff Olson | 213 | 0.9% | |||||
| Independent | Richard Absalom D. Herdman | 112 | 0.4% | |||||
| Total valid votes | 24,902 | |||||||
| Rejected, spoiled, and declined | 207 | |||||||
| Registered electors | 35,729 | |||||||
| Turnout | 70.2% | |||||||
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References
- Statistics Canada: 2016
- "Final Report" (PDF). Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission. 2017-10-01. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-01-24.
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