Calgary-South East
 Alberta electoral district | |||
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 2010 boundaries | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
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| District created | 1957 | ||
| District abolished | 1963 | ||
| District re-created | 2010 | ||
| First contested | 1959 | ||
| Last contested | 2015 | ||
Calgary-South East provincial electoral district in Calgary, Alberta created in 2010. An electoral district under the similar name of Calgary South East also existed from 1959 to 1963. Both districts were mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
The current electoral district was created from a portion of Airdrie-Chestermere, Calgary-Hays and Calgary-Shaw. It contains the neighbourhoods of Auburn Bay, Chaparral, Copperfield, Cranston, Mahogany, New Brighton and Silverado.
History
The first provincial electoral district to use the name Calgary South East was created in the 1959 redistribution that saw the provincial ridings of Calgary and Edmonton broken up. This marked the transition to standardize elections back to the First Past the Post across the province. From 1926 to 1959 Calgary and Edmonton, elected members with Single Transferable Vote in super districts while rest of the province used single member riding's using an Alternate voting method with a 50% margin.
The district was quickly abolished in the 1963 boundary redistribution when it became part of the Calgary South electoral district.
A new electoral district was created in deep South East Calgary in the 2010 boundary redistribution. The roots of the new district can be traced back to the old South East district through various changes to the electoral boundaries that have taken place since. The district was created primarily from Calgary-Hays and Calgary-Shaw and its boundaries were expanded into areas of the old Airdrie-Chestermere and Highwood electoral districts where the city of Calgary boundaries had expanded.
Boundary history
| 25 Calgary-South East 2010 Boundaries | |||
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| Bordering Districts | |||
| North | East | West | South |
| Calgary-Fort, Calgary-Hays and Calgary-Shaw | Chestermere-Rocky View | Calgary-Lougheed and Highwood | Highwood |
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| Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act. | |||
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| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-South East[1] | ||||
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| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Calgary 1921-1959 | ||||
| 14th | 1959-1963 | Arthur Dixon | Social Credit | |
| See Calgary South 1963-1971 | ||||
| See Calgary-Hays 2004-2012 and Calgary-Shaw 1986-2012 | ||||
| 28th | 2012–2015 | Rick Fraser | Progressive Conservative | |
| 29th | 2015–present | |||
Electoral history
The first incarnation of Calgary South East saw Social Credit MLA Art Dixon win his third term in office with a landslide majority. He defeated two city of Calgary alderman to keep his seat in the Assembly. Dixon won the new district of Calgary South after South East was abolished in 1963.
Recently the area that comprises the new Calgary-South East has returned Progressive Conservative candidates with large majorities and has done so since the 1970s. The incumbent for Calgary-Hays during the 2010 boundary shift was Art Johnston. He tried to run for renomination but was defeated by Progressive Conservative candidate Rick Fraser and won't stand for re-election.
Legislature results 1959-1963
1959 general election
| 1959 Alberta general election results[2] | Turnout 48.92% | Swing | ||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | Party | Personal | |
| Social Credit | Arthur J. Dixon | 5,643 | 67.11% | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Ernest Starr | 1,537 | 18.28% | |||
| Liberal | Peter Petrasuk | 792 | 9.42% | * | ||
| Cooperative Commonwealth | George Ellinson | 437 | 5.19% | * | ||
| Total | 8,409 | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 53 | |||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | 17,299 | % | ||||
| Social Credit gain | Swing | N/A | ||||
Legislature results 2012-present
2012 general election
| Alberta general election, 2012 | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Rick Fraser | 7,162 | 48.57% | |||||
| Wildrose | Bill Jarvis | 6,355 | 43.09% | |||||
| Liberal | Brad Carroll | 756 | 5.13% | |||||
| New Democratic | Marta Warszynski | 474 | 3.21% | |||||
2015 general election
| Alberta general election, 2015 | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Rick Fraser | 7,663 | 32.5% | |||||
| New Democratic | Mirical Macdonald | 7,360 | 31.2% | |||||
| Wildrose | Brandon Lunty | 6,888 | 29.2% | |||||
| Liberal | G. Gill | 1,298 | 5.5% | |||||
| Green | Jordan Mac Isaac | 387 | 1.6% | |||||
Student vote results
2012 election
| 2012 Alberta Student Vote results | ||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Progressive Conservative | Rick Fraser | % | ||
| Wildrose | Bill Jarvis | |||
| Liberal | % | |||
| NDP | % | |||
| Total | ' | 100% | ||
References
- ↑ "Members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta 1905-2006" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 30, 2007. Retrieved February 27, 2010.
- ↑ "Calgary South East results 1959 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved January 29, 2012.