Calgary Shepard

Calgary Shepard is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2015.

Calgary Shepard

Alberta electoral district
Boundaries of Calgary Shepard as of the 2013 Representation Order
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Tom Kmiec Conservative
District created	2013
First contested	2015
Last contested	2019
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)[1]	110,296
Electors (2019)	111,936
Area (km²)[2]	186
Pop. density (per km²)	593
Census divisions	Division No. 6
Census subdivisions	Calgary

Calgary Shepard was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally defined in the 2013 representation order. It came into effect upon the call of the 42nd Canadian federal election, scheduled for October 2015.[3] It was created out of parts of the electoral districts of Calgary East and Calgary Southeast.[4]

Demographics

According to the Canada 2016 Census

• Languages: (2016) 77.7% English, 3.6% Tagalog, 2.3% Spanish, 1.6% French, 1.4% Vietnamese, 1.1% Mandarin, 0.9% Cantonese, 0.8% Panjabi, 0.8% Russian, 0.8% Arabic, 0.8% Polish, 0.6% German, 0.6% Urdu, 0.5% Romanian[5]

Members of Parliament

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

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Calgary Shepard Riding created from Calgary East and Calgary Southeast
42nd	2015–2019		Tom Kmiec	Conservative
43rd	2019–present

Election results

Graph of election results in Calgary Shepard (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

2019 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Tom Kmiec	58,614	75.0	+9.13
	Liberal	Del Arnold	8,644	11.1	-13.59
	New Democratic	David Brian Smith	6,828	8.7	+1.87
	Green	Evelyn Tanaka	2,345	3.0	+0.39
	People's	Kyle Scott	1,709	2.2	-
Total valid votes/Expense limit			78,140	100.0
Total rejected ballots			441
Turnout			78,581	70.2
Eligible voters			111,936
	Conservative hold		Swing		+11.36
Source: Elections Canada[6][7]

2015 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Tom Kmiec	43,706	65.87	–9.64	$153,176.93
	Liberal	Jerome James	16,379	24.69	+17.50	$7,037.44
	New Democratic	Dany Allard	4,532	6.83	–4.30	$10,097.24
	Green	Graham MacKenzie	1,734	2.61	–2.95	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			66,351	100.00		$241,369.87
Total rejected ballots			208	0.31	–
Turnout			66,559	68.78	–
Eligible voters			93,769
	Conservative hold		Swing		–13.57
Source: Elections Canada[8][9]

2011 federal election redistributed results[10]
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	29,904	75.52
	New Democratic	4,407	11.13
	Liberal	2,846	7.19
	Green	2,202	5.56
	Others	241	0.61

References

1. Statistics Canada: 2011
2. Statistics Canada: 2011
3. Timeline for the Redistribution of Federal Electoral Districts
4. Report – Alberta
5. https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/dt-td/Rp-eng.cfm?LANG=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GID=0&GK=0&GRP=1&PID=109979&PRID=10&PTYPE=109445&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=888&Temporal=2016,2017&THEME=118&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=
6. "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
7. "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved November 7, 2019.
8. "October 19, 2015 Election Results — Calgary Shepard (Validated results)". Elections Canada. 21 October 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
9. Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
10. Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections