Calgary-Acadia
 Alberta electoral district | |||
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 2010 boundaries | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
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| District created | 2010 | ||
| First contested | 2012 | ||
Calgary-Acadia is a provincial electoral district in the city of 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.
History
The electoral district was created in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution. It was created primarily from the old electoral district of Calgary-Egmont and a portion of Calgary-Glenmore. Egmont also had some other areas redistributed to Glenmore and Calgary-Fort
Boundary history
| 03 Calgary-Acadia 2010 Boundaries[1] | |||
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| Bordering Districts | |||
| North | East | West | South |
| Calgary-Buffalo | Calgary-Fort and Calgary-Hays | Calgary-Elbow, Calgary-Glenmore and Calgary-Lougheed | Calgary-Fish Creek |
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| Note: Boundary descriptions were not used in the 2010 redistribution | |||
Representation history
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Acadia | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Calgary-Egmont 1971-2012 | ||||
| 28th | 2012–2015 | Jonathan Denis | Progressive Conservative | |
| 29th | 2015–present | Brandy Payne | New Democratic | |
The current incumbent is Brandy Payne.
Elections
2015 general election
| Alberta general election, 2015 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Brandy Payne | 5,503 | 34.71 | +30.20 | $240 | |||
| Wildrose | Linda Carlson | 4,981 | 31.42 | -10.66 | $26,028 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Jonathan Denis | 4,604 | 29.04 | -16.74 | $79,171 | |||
| Liberal | Nicholas Borovsky | 764 | 4.82 | -1.45 | $nil | |||
| Total valid votes | 15,852 | |||||||
| New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative | Swing | +23.47 | ||||||
2012 general election
| Alberta general election, 2012 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jonathan Denis | 6,863 | 45.78 | |||||
| Wildrose | Richard Jones | 6,308 | 42.08 | |||||
| Liberal | Nicole Hankel | 940 | 6.27 | |||||
| New Democratic | Nick Lepora | 677 | 4.52 | |||||
| Evergreen | Antoni Grochowski | 202 | 1.35 | |||||
Student vote results
2012 election
| 2012 Alberta Student Vote results | ||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Progressive Conservative | Jonathan Denis | 341 | 33.46% | |
| Wildrose | Richard Jones | 319 | 31.31% | |
| Liberal | Nicole Hankel | 171 | 16.78% | |
| New Democratic | Nick Lepora | 98 | 9.62% | |
| Evergreen | Antoni Grochowski | 90 | 8.83% | |
| Total | 1,019 | 100% | ||
References
- ↑ "Bill 28 Electoral Divisions Act" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. 2010.
External links
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