Calgary-Falconridge
Calgary-Falconridge is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district will be 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 will be contested for the first time in the 2019 Alberta election.
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|---|---|---|---|
 Calgary-Falconridge within the City of Calgary (2017 boundaries) | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
United Conservative | ||
| District created | 2017 | ||
| First contested | 2019 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016)[1] | 52,688 | ||
| Area (km²) | 15.1 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 3,489.3 | ||
Geography
The district is located in northeastern Calgary, containing the neighbourhoods of Whitehorn, Temple, Castleridge, Falconridge, Coral Springs, and the eastern part of Taradale.
History
| Members for Calgary-Falconridge | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Calgary-Cross 1993-2019, Calgary-McCall 1971-2019, and Calgary-Greenway 2012–2019 | ||||
| 30th | 2019– | Devinder Toor | United Conservative | |
The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended reorganizing the districts in northeast Calgary, abolishing Calgary-Greenway and shifting the other ridings eastward. Calgary-Falconridge took the neighbourhoods of Whitehorn and Temple from Calgary-East, Castleridge and Falconridge from Calgary-McCall, and Coral Springs and part of Taradale from Calgary-Greenway. This resulted in a district 13% above the average population, but the Commission justified this by pointing out that there were no plans to build new housing stock in this area.[2]
Electoral results
| Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta general election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | % | ||
| New Democratic | 4,574 | 34.39 | ||
| Progressive Conservative | 4,334 | 32.58 | ||
| Wildrose | 2,761 | 20.76 | ||
| Liberal | 1,217[lower-alpha 1] | 9.15 | ||
| Others | 416[lower-alpha 2] | 3.13 | ||
- There was no Liberal candidate in Calgary-Greenway.
- Includes independent candidates in Calgary-East and Calgary Cross, and a Green candidate in Calgary-Cross.
| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Devinder Toor | 6,756 | 45.6% | |||||
| New Democratic | Parmeet Singh Boparai | 6,660 | 44.9% | |||||
| Alberta Party | Jasbir Dhari | 850 | 5.7% | |||||
| Liberal | Deepak Sharma | 561 | 3.8% | |||||
| Total valid votes | 14,827 | |||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 143 | |||||||
| Registered electors | 29,898 | |||||||
| Turnout | 49.9% | |||||||
References
- Statistics Canada: 2016
- Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (Oct 2017). "Final Report" (PDF). p. 21. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-01-24. Retrieved 2018-02-01.