Calgary-Nose_Hill_(provincial_electoral_district)
Calgary-Nose Hill (provincial electoral district)
Defunct provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada
Calgary-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 2004 to 2012.[1]
 Alberta electoral district | |
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2004 boundaries | |
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
| District created | 2004 |
| District abolished | 2012 |
| First contested | 2004 |
| Last contested | 2008 |
The Calgary-Nose Hill electoral district was created in the 2003 electoral boundary re-distribution from portions of Calgary-Foothills, Calgary-North Hill and Calgary-Nose Creek electoral districts.[2] The riding was named after Nose Hill Park in Calgary.
The Calgary-Nose Hill electoral district would be dissolved in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution and would be re-distributed into the Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill electoral district.[3]
Boundary history
| 21 Calgary-Nose Hill 2003 boundaries[4] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Bordering districts | |||
| North | East | West | South |
| Calgary-Mackay | Calgary-McCall | Calgary-Foothills | Calgary-North Hill, Calgary-Varsity |
| riding map goes here | map in relation to other districts in Alberta goes here | ||
| Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act | |||
| Starting at the intersection of Shaganappi Trail NW with the westerly extension of Utility Right of Way (UR/W) 9011734 (lying along the north boundary of Nose Hill Park); then 1. southeast along UR/W 9011734 to MacEwan Park View NW; 2. east along MacEwan Park View NW to MacEwan Glen Drive NW; 3. east along MacEwan Glen Drive NW and Berkshire Boulevard NW to Beddington Trail NW; 4. southeast along Beddington Trail NW and Beddington Trail NE to Deerfoot Trail NE; 5. south along Deerfoot Trail NE to McKnight Boulevard NE; 6. west along McKnight Boulevard NE, McKnight Boulevard NW and 48 Avenue NW to North Haven Drive NW; 7. north and northwest along North Haven Drive to 14 Street NW; 8. south along 14 Street NW to John Laurie Boulevard NW; 9. northwest along John Laurie Boulevard NW to Shaganappi Trail NW; 10. north along Shaganappi Trail NW to the starting point. | |||
| Note: | |||
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Nose Hill[5] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Calgary-Foothills, 1971–2004, Calgary-North Hill 1971-2004 and Calgary-Nose Creek 1993-2004 | ||||
| 26th | 2004–2008 | Neil Brown | Progressive Conservative | |
| 27th | 2008–2012 | |||
| See Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill electoral district from 2012-2019 | ||||
Electoral history
The electoral district was created from parts of three different riding's in the 2004 boundary redistribution. The first election held in 2004 saw Progressive Conservative candidate Neil Brown pickup the district with under half of the popular vote. He defeated a field of four other candidates.
Brown stood for re-election against four other candidates in the 2008 general election. He was returned to power with a slight increase in his popular vote but still won under 50%.
2004
| 2004 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Neil Brown | 4,372 | 47.01% | – | ||||
| Liberal | Len Borowski | 2,607 | 28.03% | – | ||||
| Alberta Alliance | Bill McGregor | 1,009 | 10.85% | – | ||||
| Greens | John Johnson | 583 | 6.27% | – | ||||
| New Democratic | Dirk Huysman | 549 | 5.90% | – | ||||
| Social Credit | Raymond (Chick) Hurst | 180 | 1.94% | – | ||||
| Total | 9,300 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 46 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 23,572 | 39.65% | – | |||||
| Progressive Conservative pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Source:"Calgary-Nose Hill Statement of Official Results 2004 Alberta general election" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Retrieved June 15, 2020. | ||||||||
2008
| 2008 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Neil Brown | 4,586 | 49.24% | 2.23% | ||||
| Liberal | Len Borowski | 2,761 | 29.65% | 1.61% | ||||
| Wildrose Alliance | John A. Murdoch | 954 | 10.24% | -0.61% | ||||
| Green | Nick Burman | 624 | 6.70% | 0.43% | ||||
| New Democratic | Tristan Ridley | 388 | 4.17% | -1.74% | ||||
| Total | 9,313 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 27 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 26,387 | 35.40% | -4.25% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | 0.31% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: The Report on the March 3, 2008 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-seventh Legislative Assembly (PDF). Elections Alberta. July 28, 2008. pp. 252–255. Retrieved June 15, 2020. | ||||||||
2004
| 2004 Senate nominee election results: Calgary-Nose Hill[6] | Turnout 39.74% | |||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % votes | % ballots | Rank | |
| Progressive Conservative | Bert Brown | 4,144 | 17.47% | 51.88% | 1 | |
| Progressive Conservative | Jim Silye | 3,138 | 13.23% | 39.29% | 5 | |
| Progressive Conservative | Betty Unger | 2,941 | 12.40% | 36.82% | 2 | |
| Independent | Link Byfield | 2,390 | 10.08% | 29.92% | 4 | |
| Progressive Conservative | Cliff Breitkreuz | 2,151 | 9.07% | 26.93% | 3 | |
| Progressive Conservative | David Usherwood | 2,013 | 8.49% | 25.20% | 6 | |
| Alberta Alliance | Vance Gough | 1,841 | 7.76% | 23.05% | 8 | |
| Independent | Tom Sindlinger | 1,761 | 7.43% | 22.05% | 9 | |
| Alberta Alliance | Michael Roth | 1,712 | 7.22% | 21.44% | 7 | |
| Alberta Alliance | Gary Horan | 1,624 | 6.85% | 20.33% | 10 | |
| Total votes | 23,715 | 100% | ||||
| Total ballots | 7,987 | 2.97 votes per ballot | ||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 1,381 | |||||
Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot.
| Participating schools[7] |
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| John G. Diefenbaker High School |
| Sir John A Macdonald Junior High School |
| St. Hubert School |
On November 19, 2004, a student vote was conducted at participating Alberta schools to parallel the 2004 Alberta general election results. The vote was designed to educate students and simulate the electoral process for persons who had not yet reached the legal majority. The vote was conducted in 80 of the 83 provincial electoral districts, with students voting for actual election candidates. Schools with a large student body who resided in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district than where they were physically located.
| 2004 Alberta student vote results[8] | ||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Progressive Conservative | Neil Brown | 133 | 27.65% | |
| Liberal | Len Borowski | 107 | 22.25% | |
| NDP | Dick Huysman | 92 | 19.13% | |
| Green | John Johnson | 66 | 13.72% | |
| Alberta Alliance | Bill McGregor | 60 | 12.47% | |
| Social Credit | Raymond Hurst | 23 | 4.78% | |
| Total | 481 | 100% | ||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 4 | |||
- "Election results for Calgary-Nose Hill". abheritage.ca. Wayback Machine: Heritage Community Foundation. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
- Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (February 2003). "Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta". Edmonton, Alta.: Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- 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). Edmonton, Alta.: Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ISBN 978-0-9865367-1-7. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- Electoral Divisions Act, S.A. 2003, c. E-4.1
- "Members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta 1905-2006" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 26, 2010. Retrieved February 27, 2010.
- "Senate Nominee Election 2004 Tabulation of Official Results" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 4, 2009. Retrieved March 1, 2010.
- "School by School results". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 5, 2007. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- "Riding by Riding Results - the Candidates". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 6, 2007. Retrieved April 19, 2008.
- Office of the Chief Electoral Officer; Legislative Assembly Office (2006). A Century of Democracy: Elections of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1905-2005. The Centennial Series. Edmonton, AB: Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ISBN 0-9689217-8-7. Retrieved May 25, 2020.