Battle River—Crowfoot
Battle River—Crowfoot is a federal electoral district in Alberta.
![]() | |||
---|---|---|---|
![]() Battle River–Crowfoot in relation to other Alberta federal electoral districts as of the 2013 Representation Order. | |||
Federal electoral district | |||
Legislature | House of Commons | ||
MP |
Conservative | ||
District created | 2013 | ||
First contested | 2015 | ||
Last contested | 2019 | ||
District webpage | profile, map | ||
Demographics | |||
Population (2016)[1] | 110,223 | ||
Electors (2019) | 81,123 | ||
Area (km²)[2] | 51,977.75 | ||
Pop. density (per km²) | 2.1 | ||
Census division(s) | Division No. 5, Division No. 7, Division No. 10, Division No. 11 | ||
Census subdivision(s) | Beaver, Camrose, Camrose County, Drumheller, Kneehill, Leduc, Stettler, Stettler No. 6, Wainwright, Wainwright No. 61 |
Battle River—Crowfoot 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 Crowfoot and Vegreville—Wainwright.[4]
Even by the standards of rural Alberta, Battle River—Crowfoot is a strongly conservative riding. The riding and its predecessors have been represented by centre-right MPs for all but two years since 1935, and the major right-wing party of the day has usually won here in massive landslides. Since the 1990s, the major right-wing party of the day has won by some of the largest margins ever recorded in Canadian politics, with other parties lucky to get 30 percent of the vote between them. Its first member, Kevin Sorenson, was first elected for Crowfoot in 2000 with 70 percent of the vote–the only time that he garnered less than 80 percent of the vote. The current MP, Damien Kurek, won in 2019 with more than 85% of the vote.
Members of Parliament
This riding has elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:
Parliament | Years | Member | Party | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Battle River—Crowfoot Riding created from Crowfoot and Vegreville—Wainwright |
||||
42nd | 2015–2019 | Kevin Sorenson | Conservative | |
43rd | 2019–present | Damien Kurek | Conservative |
Election results
2019 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
Conservative | Damien Kurek | 53,309 | 85.5 | +4.59 | $61,063.42 | |||
New Democratic | Natasha Fryzuk | 3,185 | 5.1 | -1.44 | $0.00 | |||
Liberal | Dianne Clarke | 2,557 | 4.1 | -5.26 | none listed | |||
Green | Geordie Nelson | 1,689 | 2.7 | -0.48 | $2,467.23 | |||
People's | David A. Michaud | 1,620 | 2.6 | - | none listed | |||
Total valid votes/Expense limit | 62,360 | 100.0 | ||||||
Total rejected ballots | 352 | |||||||
Turnout | 62,712 | 77.3 | ||||||
Eligible voters | 81,123 | |||||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.02 | ||||||
Source: Elections Canada[5][6][7] |
2015 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
Conservative | Kevin Sorenson | 47,552 | 80.91 | –2.18 | $39,101.55 | |||
Liberal | Andy Kowalski | 5,505 | 9.37 | +7.21 | $1,133.54 | |||
New Democratic | Katherine Swampy | 3,844 | 6.54 | –3.30 | $9,738.25 | |||
Green | Gary Kelly | 1,868 | 3.18 | –0.72 | $419.14 | |||
Total valid votes/Expense limit | 58,769 | 100.00 | $264,066.87 | |||||
Total rejected ballots | 160 | 0.27 | – | |||||
Turnout | 58,929 | 73.02 | – | |||||
Eligible voters | 80,698 | |||||||
Conservative notional hold | Swing | –4.69 | ||||||
This riding was created from parts of Crowfoot and Vegreville—Wainwright, both of which elected Conservative candidates in the 2011 election. Kevin Sorenson was the incumbent from Crowfoot. Changes are based on redistributed results. | ||||||||
Source: Elections Canada[8][9] |
2011 federal election redistributed results[10] | |||
---|---|---|---|
Party | Vote | % | |
Conservative | 39,645 | 83.09 | |
New Democratic | 4,694 | 9.84 | |
Green | 1,859 | 3.90 | |
Liberal | 1,028 | 2.15 | |
Others | 487 | 1.02 |
Towns/Villages/Cities in Battle River—Crowfoot
- Alliance
- Amisk
- Bashaw
- Bawlf
- Big Valley
- Bittern Lake
- Botha
- Camrose
- Castor
- Cereal
- Chauvin
- Consort
- Coronation
- Czar
- Daysland
- Delia
- Drumheller
- Edberg
- Edgerton
- Empress
- Ferintosh
- Forestburg
- Gadsby
- Galahad
- Halkirk
- Hanna
- Hardisty
- Hay Lakes
- Heisler
- Holden
- Hughenden
- Irma
- Killam
- Lougheed
- Morrin
- Munson
- New Norway
- Oyen
- Provost
- Rosalind
- Round Hill
- Rumsey
- Ryley
- Sedgewick
- Stettler
- Strome
- Three Hills
- Tofield
- Trochu
- Veteran
- Viking
- Wainwright
- Youngstown
References
- Statistics Canada: 2017
- Statistics Canada: 2017
- Timeline for the Redistribution of Federal Electoral Districts
- Report – Alberta
- "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
- "Candidate Campaign Returns". Elections Canada. Retrieved September 7, 2020.
- "October 19, 2015 Election Results — Battle River—Crowfoot (Validated results)". Elections Canada. 23 October 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
- Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates Archived 2015-08-15 at the Wayback Machine
- Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections