Calgary-Beddington
Calgary-Beddington is a provincial electoral district in the city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The district is 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. The seat has been held by Josephine Pon of the United Conservative Party since the 2019 Alberta election.
 Alberta electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Calgary-Beddington within the City of Calgary (2017 boundaries) | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
United Conservative | ||
| District created | 2017 | ||
| First contested | 2019 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016)[1] | 50,220 | ||
| Area (km²) | 27.6 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 1,819.6 | ||
Geography
The district is located in northern Calgary, containing the neighbourhoods of Huntington Hills, Beddington Heights, Sandstone Valley, Country Hills, MacEwan, and Hidden Valley. The riding also includes Nose Hill Park, which lies to the south and west of the residential areas.
History
| Members for Calgary-Beddington | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill 2012–2019 | ||||
| 30th | 2019–present | Josephine Pon | United Conservative | |
The Calgary-Beddington electoral district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended renaming Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill and changing its shape, removing its northern area but adding neighbourhoods from Calgary-Foothills and Calgary-Northern Hills. The Commission chose the name Beddington for this district because it "would most readily identify its location to residents in Calgary." The boundaries of the new electoral district in 2017 would have a population of 50,220, 7% above the provincial average of 46,803.[2]
In the 2019 Alberta general election, United Conservative Party candidate Josephine Pon would defeat NDP candidate Amanda Chapman by 3,807 votes. Pon gained the nomination for the Calgary-Beddington electoral district after Randy Kerr was removed by the UCP for failure to be "forthcoming" during the Alberta Election Commissioner's investigation into the Jeff Callaway leadership campaign for the UCP.[3] On April 30, 2019, Premier Jason Kenney would appoint Pon to Cabinet as the Minister of Seniors and Housing.[4]
Electoral results
| Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta general election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | % | ||
| New Democratic | 6,967 | 36.74% | ||
| Progressive Conservative | 5,494 | 28.97% | ||
| Wildrose | 5,277 | 27.83% | ||
| Liberal | 863 | 4.55% | ||
| Others | 362 | 1.91% | ||
| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Josephine Pon | 11,625 | 53.11% | -3.69% | ||||
| New Democratic | Amanda Chapman | 7,818 | 35.71% | -1.03% | ||||
| Alberta Party | Carol-Lynn Darch | 1,799 | 8.22% | – | ||||
| Liberal | Chandan Tadavalkar | 370 | 1.69% | -2.86% | ||||
| Alberta Independence | Tom Grbich | 161 | 0.74% | – | ||||
| Independent | Alexander Dea | 117 | 0.53% | – | ||||
| Total | 21,890 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, Spoiled and Declined | 103 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | 34,845 | 63.12% | – | |||||
| United Conservative pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Source: "02 - Calgary-Beddington, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
References
- Statistics Canada: 2016
- Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (October 2017). "Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ISBN 978-1-988620-04-6. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- Rieger, Sarah (March 6, 2019). "UCP removes Calgary-Beddington candidate for not being 'forthright' about campaign contribution". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Calgary, AB. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
- "Josephine Pon biography". www.alberta.ca. Retrieved 2019-10-27.