Chestermere-Strathmore
Chestermere-Strathmore is a future 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, and won by Leela Aheer of the United Conservative Party.
 Alberta electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Chestermere-Strathmore within the Calgary Metropolitan Region (2017 boundaries). | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
United Conservative | ||
| District created | 2017 | ||
| First contested | 2019 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016)[1] | 48,203 | ||
| Area (km²) | 1,582 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 30.5 | ||
| Census division(s) | 5, 6 | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Chestermere, Rocky View, Strathmore, Wheatland | ||
Geography
The district is located east of Calgary, containing the City of Chestermere, the Town of Strathmore and sections of Rocky View County and Wheatland County. Its borders are formed by the City of Calgary to the west, the Bow River to the south, Highway 564 to the north, and RR242, RR 241 west of Namaka, and Siksika 146 to the east.
History
| Members for Chestermere-Strathmore | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Chestermere-Rocky View 2012-2019 and Strathmore-Brooks 1997-2019 | ||||
| 30th | 2019– | Leela Aheer | United Conservative | |
The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended abolishing Strathmore-Brooks and Chestermere-Rocky View, completely reorganizing the ridings surrounding Calgary to reflect the rapid growth in the area.[2]
Electoral results
2010s
| Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wildrose | 7,421 | 44.51% | ||
| Progressive Conservative | 4,568 | 27.40% | ||
| New Democratic | 3,042 | 18.24% | ||
| Others | 1,643 | 9.85% | ||
| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Leela Aheer | 15,612 | 68.5% | -3.41% | ||||
| New Democratic | Melissa Langmaid | 3,558 | 15.6% | -3.08% | ||||
| Freedom Conservative | Derek Fildebrandt | 1,683 | 7.4% | -- | ||||
| Alberta Party | Jason Avramenko | 1,460 | 6.4% | +4.3% | ||||
| Liberal | Sharon Howe | 238 | 1% | -0.2% | ||||
| Independence | Roger Dean Walker | |||||||
| Independent | Terry Nicholls | 112 | 0.5% | |||||
| Total valid votes | 22,799 | |||||||
| Rejected, spoiled, and declined | 173 | |||||||
| Registered electors | 35,595 | |||||||
| Turnout | 64.4% | |||||||
References
- Statistics Canada: 2016
- "Final Report" (PDF). Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission. 2017-10-01. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-01-24.