Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner

Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner
Alberta electoral district
	Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner in relation to other Alberta federal electoral districts as of the 2013 Representation Order.
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
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District created	1907
First contested	1908
Last contested	2019
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)[1]	102,847
Electors (2019)	78,384
Area (km²)[1]	29,982
Pop. density (per km²)	3.4
Census subdivision(s)	Blood 148, Bow Island, Cardston, Cardston County, Coutts, Cypress County, Foremost, Forty Mile County No. 8, Improvement District No. 4, Magrath, Medicine Hat, Milk River, Raymond, Redcliff, Stirling, Warner, Warner No. 5

Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner (formerly Medicine Hat) is a federal electoral district in southern Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1908.

Following the 2012 federal electoral redistribution, the riding was renamed Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner.[2]

In 2006, 40.3% of the population of the Medicine Hat riding were of German ethnic origin, the highest such percentage in all of Canada.[3]

In the 42nd Canadian Parliament, the seat was represented by Jim Hillyer of the Conservative Party of Canada until his death on 23 March 2016. In the first by-election in the history of the Medicine Hat constituency held on 24 October 2016, Glen Motz of the Conservatives was elected. Motz was re-elected in 2019.

Geography

The constituency covers the City of Medicine Hat and surrounding areas in the southeast corner and southern border region of Alberta, including Cypress County, the County of Forty Mile No. 8, Warner No. 5 and the Town of Warner, and Cardston County and the Town of Cardston.

Demographics

According to the Canada 2011 Census[4][5]

Ethnic groups: 87.5% White, 8.9% Indigenous
Languages: 86.4% English, 7.4% German, 1.2% French, ~1.1% Blackfoot (Blackfoot/Kainai counted as "Other language" on the Census; this number derived from "other language" speakers on Blackfoot/Kainai First Nations)
Religions: 72.0% Christian (21.4% Catholic, 9.6% United Church, 6.1% Lutheran, 3.6% Anglican, 2.2% Pentecostal, 1.5% Baptist, 27.6% Other Christian), 1.2% Traditional Indigenous Spirituality, 25.6% None.
Median income: $29,534 (2010) Average income: $39,940 (2010)

History

Soon after the province of Alberta was admitted to Confederation in 1905, this electoral district was created – in 1907 – from Alberta (Provisional District) and Assiniboia West ridings.

During the 2012 electoral redistribution, "Medicine Hat" was largely succeeded by "Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner", losing territory to Bow River and Battle River—Crowfoot, and gaining territory from Lethbridge and Macleod.

Members of Parliament

Parliament	Years		Party
Medicine Hat Riding created from Alberta provisional district and Assiniboia West
11th	1908–1911	Charles Alexander Magrath	Conservative
12th	1911–1917	William Ashbury Buchanan	Liberal
13th	1917–1921	Arthur Sifton	Government (Unionist)
14th	1921–1925	Robert Gardiner	Progressive
15th	1925–1926	Frederick William Gershaw	Liberal
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935
18th	1935–1940	Archibald Hugh Mitchell	Social Credit
19th	1940–1945	Frederick William Gershaw	Liberal
20th	1945–1949	William Duncan Wylie	Social Credit
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958	Bud Olson
24th	1958–1962	Edwin Brunsden	Progressive Conservative
25th	1962–1963	Bud Olson	Social Credit
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1967
27th	1967–1968		Liberal
28th	1968–1972		Liberal
29th	1972–1974	Bert Hargrave	Progressive Conservative
30th	1974–1979
31st	1979–1980
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988	Bob Porter
34th	1988–1993	Bob Porter
35th	1993–1997	Monte Solberg	Reform
36th	1997–2000		Reform
36th	2000–2000		Alliance
37th	2000–2003		Alliance
37th	2003–2004		Conservative
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011	LaVar Payne
41st	2011–2015	LaVar Payne
Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner
42nd	2015–2016	Jim Hillyer	Conservative
42nd	2016–2019	Glen Motz
43rd	2019–present	Glen Motz

Election results

Graph of election results in Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner (Since 1988, minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)