Calgary-Klein
Calgary-Klein is a provincial electoral district in 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. The riding is named after former premier Ralph Klein.
 Alberta electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Calgary-Klein within the City of Calgary, 2017 boundaries | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
United Conservative | ||
| District created | 2010 | ||
| First contested | 2012 | ||
| Last contested | 2019 | ||
History
The electoral district was created in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution. It was created mainly from Calgary-North Hill and a portion of Calgary-Nose Hill.
Boundary history
| 17 Calgary-Klein 2010 Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Bordering Districts | |||
| North | west | West | east |
| Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill | Calgary-Cross | Calgary-Varsity | Calgary-East and Calgary-Mountain View |
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| Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act. | |||
| Note: | |||
Electoral history
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Klein | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Calgary-North Hill 1971-2012, Calgary-Nose Hill 2004-2012 | ||||
| 28th | 2012–2015 | Kyle Fawcett | Progressive Conservative | |
| 29th | 2015–2019 | Craig Coolahan | New Democratic | |
| 30th | 2019–present | Jeremy Nixon | United Conservative | |
Prior to the election of New Democrat candidate Craig Coolahan in 2015, the antecedent electoral districts that comprise Calgary-Klein elected Progressive Conservative candidates since the 1970s.
Legislature results
2019 general election
| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Jeremy Nixon | 10,473 | ||||||
| New Democratic | Craig Coolahan | 8,776 | ||||||
| Alberta Party | Kara Levis | 1,842 | ||||||
| Liberal | Michael J. Macdonald | 396 | ||||||
| Green | Janine St. Jean | 294 | ||||||
| Independence | CW Alexander | 214 | ||||||
| Total valid votes | ||||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | ||||||||
| Registered electors | ||||||||
| Turnout | ||||||||
2015 general election
| 2015 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| New Democratic | Craig Coolahan | 8,098 | 44.3 | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Kyle Fawcett | 4,878 | 26.7 | |||||
| Wildrose | Jeremy Nixon | 4,206 | 23.0 | |||||
| Liberal | David Gamble | 1,104 | 6.0 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 18,286 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 260 | |||||||
| Turnout | 18,546 | 53.4 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 34,702 | |||||||
| Source: Elections Alberta[1] | ||||||||
2012 general election
| 2012 Alberta general election
results[2] |
Turnout % | Swing | |||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | Party | Personal | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Kyle Fawcett | 6,852 | 41.21% | +2.89% | |||
| Wildrose | Jeremy Nixon | 5,755 | 34.61% | +25.87% | |||
| Liberal | Christopher Tahn | 1,980 | 11.91% | -20.08% | |||
| New Democratic | Marc Power | 1,687 | 10.15% | -2.21% | |||
| Evergreen | Roger Gagné | 354 | 2.13% | -4.42% | * | ||
| Total | |||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | |||||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | % | ||||||
Senate nominee results
References
- "2015 Provincial General Election Results". Elections Alberta. Archived from the original on 2017-07-30. Retrieved 2017-07-30.
- 2012 Alberta general election
External links
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