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Revision as of 06:37, 6 May 2015
 Alberta electoral district | |||
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 2010 boundaries | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
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| District created | 2010 | ||
| First contested | 2012 | ||
Calgary-Acadia is a provincial electoral district in the city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The district was created in the 2010 boundary redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post voting system.
History
The electoral district was created in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution. It was created primarily from the old electoral district of Calgary-Egmont and a portion of Calgary-Glenmore. Egmont also had some other areas redistributed to Glenmore and Calgary-Fort
Boundary history
| 03 Calgary-Acadia 2010 Boundaries[1] | |||
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| Bordering Districts | |||
| North | East | West | South |
| Calgary-Buffalo | Calgary-Fort and Calgary-Hays | Calgary-Elbow, Calgary-Glenmore and Calgary-Lougheed | Calgary-Fish Creek |
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| Note: Boundary descriptions were not used in the 2010 redistribution | |||
Representation history
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Acadia | ||||
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| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Calgary-Egmont 1971-2012 | ||||
| 28th | 2012–2015 | Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Alberta PC Association| | Jonathan Denis | Progressive Conservative |
| 29th | 2015–present | Template:Canadian politics/party colours/NDP| | Brandy Payne | New Democratic |
This area of Calgary that Calgary-Acadia currently bounds has been returning Progressive Conservative candidates to the Alberta Legislature since 1971 with large majorities. The current incumbent who was elected to his first term in Calgary-Egmont in the 2008 general election after a controversial race against Craig Chandler is Jonathan Denis. He currently holds a ministerial portfolio in the government of Alison Redford as Solicitor General and Minister of Public Security.
Elections
2012 general election
| 2012 Alberta general election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jonathan Denis | 6,847 | 45.71% | |||||
| Wildrose | Richard Jones | 6,312 | 42.14% | |||||
| Liberal | Nicole Hankel | 940 | 6.28% | |||||
| New Democratic | Nick Lepora | 676 | 4.51% | |||||
2015 general election
| 2015 Alberta general election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Brandy Payne | |||||||
| Wildrose | Linda Carlson | |||||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jonathan Denis | |||||||
| Liberal | Nicholas Borovsky | |||||||
| Total valid votes | ||||||||
Senate nominee results
2012 Senate nominee election district results
Student vote results
2012 election
| 2012 Alberta Student Vote results | ||||||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jonathan Denis | 341 | 33.46% | |||||
| Wildrose | Richard Jones | 319 | 31.31% | Liberal | Nicole Hankel | 171 | 16.78% | |
| New Democratic | Nick Lepora | 98 | 9.62% | |||||
| Evergreen | Antoni Grochowski | 90 | 8.83% | |||||
| Total | 1,019 | 100% | ||||||
References
- ^ "Bill 28 Electoral Divisions Act" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. 2010.