Calgary-Mackay-Nose_Hill
Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill
Defunct provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada
Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill was a provincial electoral district in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting from 2012 to 2019.
 Alberta electoral district | |
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2010 boundaries | |
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
| District created | 2010 |
| District abolished | 2019 |
| First contested | 2012 |
| Last contested | 2015 |
The electoral district was created in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution. It was created when Calgary-Mackay and Calgary-Nose Hill were merged along with a large chunk of Calgary-McCall.[1]
The Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill electoral district was dissolved in the 2017 electoral boundary re-distribution into Calgary-Beddington and Calgary-North electoral districts ahead of the 2019 Alberta general election.[2]
Boundary history
| 19 Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill 2010 boundaries | |||
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| Bordering districts | |||
| North | East | West | South |
| Chestermere-Rocky View | Calgary-McCall | Calgary-Foothills and Calgary-Northern Hills | Calgary-Cross, Calgary-Klein and Calgary-Varsity |
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| Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act | |||
Electoral history
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Calgary-Mackay 2004–2012 Calgary-McCall 1971–2012 Calgary-Nose Hill 2004–2012 | ||||
| 28th | 2012–2015 | Neil Brown | Progressive Conservative | |
| 29th | 2015–2017 | Karen McPherson | New Democratic | |
| 2017 | Independent | |||
| 2017–2019 | Alberta Party | |||
| See Calgary-Beddington and Calgary-North 2019– | ||||
The antecedent electoral districts that comprise Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill generally returned Progressive Conservative candidates for many years. Progressive Conservative MLA Neil Brown was the first elected member for the electoral district in 2012. Neil Brown would be defeated by New Democratic MLA Karen McPherson in 2015. McPherson would leave the NDP caucus in 2017 and join the Alberta Party a week later.[3]
2012
| 2012 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Neil Brown | 6,604 | 46.47% | – | ||||
| Wildrose | Roy M. Alexander | 5,455 | 38.39% | – | ||||
| Liberal | Don Thompson | 1,105 | 7.78% | – | ||||
| New Democratic | Anne Wilson | 840 | 5.91% | – | ||||
| Alberta Party | Jason Webster | 207 | 1.46% | – | ||||
| Total | 14,211 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 69 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 29,193 | 48.92% | – | |||||
| Progressive Conservative pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Source: "19 - Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill Official Results 2012 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
2015
| 2015 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Karen McPherson | 6,177 | 36.86% | 30.94% | ||||
| Wildrose | Kathy Macdonald | 4,914 | 29.32% | -9.07% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Neil Brown | 4,585 | 27.36% | -19.11% | ||||
| Liberal | Prab Lashar | 768 | 4.58% | -3.19% | ||||
| Green | Sandy Kevin Aberdeen | 316 | 1.89% | – | ||||
| Total | 16,760 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 91 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 34,487 | 48.86% | -0.05% | |||||
| New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative | Swing | -0.27% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "19 - Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill Official Results 2015 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
2012
2012
| 2012 Alberta student vote results | ||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Progressive Conservative | Neil Brown | % | ||
| Wildrose | Roy Alexander | |||
| Liberal | Don Thompson | % | ||
| Alberta Party | Jason Webster | |||
| NDP | Anne Wilson | % | ||
| Social Credit | % | |||
| Total | 100% | |||
- Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (June 2010). "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 978-0-9865367-1-7. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- 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.
- Graney, Emma (October 30, 2017). "MLA Karen McPherson joining the Alberta Party". Edmonton Journal. Edmonton Journal. Retrieved June 15, 2020.