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 was contested for the first time in the 2019 Alberta election.
 Alberta electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Calgary-Falconridge within the City of Calgary (2017 boundaries) | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
New Democratic | ||
| District created | 2017 | ||
| First contested | 2019 | ||
| Last contested | 2023 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016)[1] | 52,688 | ||
| Area (km²) | 15.1 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 3,489.3 | ||
Geography
editThe district is located in northeastern Calgary, containing the neighbourhoods of Whitehorn, Temple, Castleridge, Falconridge, Coral Springs, and the eastern part of Taradale.
History
edit| Members for Calgary-Falconridge | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Calgary-Cross 1993-2019, Calgary-McCall 1971-2019, and Calgary-Greenway 2012–2019 | ||||
| 30th | 2019–2023 | Devinder Toor | United Conservative | |
| 31st | 2023– | Parmeet Singh Boparai | New Democrat | |
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
edit2023
edit| 2023 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Parmeet Singh Boparai | 7,786 | 56.39 | +11.45 | ||||
| United Conservative | Devinder Toor | 5,476 | 39.66 | -5.89 | ||||
| Independent | Kyle Kennedy | 252 | 1.83 | – | ||||
| Green | Ahmed Hassan | 203 | 1.47 | – | ||||
| Solidarity Movement | Evan Wilson | 91 | 0.66 | – | ||||
| Total | 13,808 | 99.22 | – | |||||
| Rejected and declined | 109 | 0.78 | ||||||
| Turnout | 13,917 | 48.53 | ||||||
| Eligible electors | 28,680 | |||||||
| New Democratic gain from United Conservative | Swing | +8.67 | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: Elections Alberta[3] | ||||||||
2019
edit| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| United Conservative | Devinder Toor | 6,753 | 45.55 | -7.41 | $49,521 | |||
| New Democratic | Parmeet Singh Boparai | 6,662 | 44.94 | +10.77 | $40,165 | |||
| Alberta Party | Jasbir Dhari | 849 | 5.73 | – | $12,992 | |||
| Liberal | Deepak Sharma | 561 | 3.78 | -5.31 | $4,146 | |||
| Total | 14,825 | 99.07 | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 139 | 0.93 | ||||||
| Turnout | 14,964 | 51.87 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 28,849 | |||||||
| United Conservative notional hold | Swing | -9.09 | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: Elections Alberta[4][5][6] Note: Expenses is the sum of "Election Expenses", "Other Expenses" and "Transfers Issued". The Elections Act limits "Election Expenses" to $50,000. | ||||||||
2015
edit| Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta general election | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | % | ||||
| New Democratic | 4,615 | 34.16 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | 4,374 | 32.38 | ||||
| Wildrose | 2,780 | 20.58 | ||||
| Liberal | 1,229[a] | 9.10 | ||||
| Green | 84[b] | 0.62 | ||||
| Independent | 339[c] | 2.51 | ||||
Source(s)
Source: Ridingbuilder | ||||||
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.
- ^ "10 - Calgary-Falconridge". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved June 8, 2023.
- ^ "10 - Calgary-Falconridge, 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. 39–42. ISBN 978-1-988620-12-1. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
- ^ Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2019). 2019 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Volume III Election Finances (PDF) (Report). Vol. 3. Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 68–82. ISBN 978-1-988620-13-8. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 15, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2021.