Calgary-Peigan 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 was contested for the first time in the 2019 Alberta election.
 Alberta electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Calgary-Peigan within the City of Calgary (2017 boundaries) | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
United Conservative | ||
| District created | 2017 | ||
| First contested | 2019 | ||
| Last contested | 2023 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016)[1] | 45,810 | ||
| Area (km²) | 110.1 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 416.1 | ||
Geography
editThe district is located in eastern Calgary, containing the western part of Dover, the neighbourhoods of Ogden, Riverbend, Quarry Park, Douglasdale and Douglasglen, the northern part of McKenzie Lake, and the former hamlet of Shepard. It is bounded on the west by the Bow River and stretches to the eastern edge of Calgary, also including the sprawling industrial subdivisions around the CPR lands and Ralph Klein Park. It is named for Peigan Trail SE, which forms part of its northern boundary.
History
edit| Members for Calgary-Peigan | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Calgary-Fort 1997–2019 and Calgary-Hays 2004–2019 | ||||
| 30th | 2019–2023 | Tanya Fir | United Conservative | |
| 31st | 2023– | |||
The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended abolishing Calgary-Fort and shifting the boundaries of Calgary-Hays southward. Calgary-Peigan was formed from most of Calgary-Fort, the northern neighbourhoods of Calgary-Hays, and a small part of Calgary-Acadia (the neighbourhood of Riverbend). As Fort Calgary was moved to the district of Calgary-Buffalo, the name Calgary-Fort could no longer be used.[2]
Electoral results
edit| Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | % | ||
| New Democratic | 6,538 | 35.57 | ||
| Progressive Conservative | 5,820 | 31.66 | ||
| Wildrose | 5,041 | 27.43 | ||
| Liberal | 680 | 1.64 | ||
| Others | 302[a] | 3.13 | ||
- ^ Includes an Alberta Party candidate in Calgary-Fort and Green and Social Credit candidates in Calgary-Hays.
| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Tanya Fir | 13,353 | 59.83% | 0.74% | ||||
| New Democratic | Joe Pimlott | 6,527 | 29.25% | -6.32% | ||||
| Alberta Party | Ronald Reinhold | 1,534 | 6.87% | – | ||||
| Liberal | Jaro Giesbrecht | 425 | 1.90% | 0.26% | ||||
| Freedom Conservative | Sheyne Espey | 299 | 1.34% | – | ||||
| Alberta Independence | Will Hatch | 180 | 0.81% | – | ||||
| Total | 22,318 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 165 | 50 | 2 | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 33,899 | 66.33% | – | |||||
| United Conservative pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Source: "22 - Calgary-Peigan, 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. 84–87. ISBN 978-1-988620-12-1. Retrieved April 7, 2021. | ||||||||
| 2023 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Tanya Fir | 11,892 | 55.02 | -4.81 | ||||
| New Democratic | Denis Ram | 9,095 | 42.08 | +12.84 | ||||
| Green | Shaun Pulsifer | 626 | 2.90 | – | ||||
| Total | 21,613 | 99.36 | – | |||||
| Rejected and declined | 139 | 0.64 | ||||||
| Turnout | 21,752 | 62.27 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 34,932 | |||||||
| United Conservative hold | Swing | -8.82 | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: Elections Alberta[3] | ||||||||
References
edit- ^ Statistics Canada: 2016
- ^ Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (October 2017). "Final Report" (PDF). p. 21. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 24, 2018. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
- ^ "22 - Calgary-Peigan". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved June 8, 2023.