Blake Richards

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2025 Canadian federal election: Airdrie—Cochrane

Blake Richards MP
Chief Opposition Whip
In office September 2, 2020 –February 5, 2022
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Blake Richards	50,252	71.22	+11.32
	Liberal	Sean Secord	16,714	23.69	+13.53
	New Democratic	Sarah Zagoda	2,591	3.67	−11.25
	Libertarian	David Sabine	623	0.88	N/A
	Christian Heritage	Christopher Bell	380	0.54	N/A
Total valid votes/expense limit			70,560	99.36
Total rejected ballots			457	0.64
Turnout			71,017	75.40
Eligible voters			94,181
	Conservative notional hold		Swing		−1.11
Source: Elections Canada [6] [7]
Note: number of eligible voters does not include voting day registrations.

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election : Banff—Airdrie
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Blake Richards	55,504	71.09	+7.71	$82,810.16
	Liberal	Gwyneth Midgley	8,425	10.79	-15.28	none listed
	New Democratic	Anne Wilson	8,185	10.48	+3.70	$7,710.51
	Green	Austin Mullins	3,315	4.25	+0.48	$824.70
	People's	Nadine Wellwood	2,651	3.40	New	none listed
Total valid votes/expense limit			78,080	100.0
Total rejected ballots			393
Turnout			78,473	73.1
Eligible voters			107,281
	Conservative hold		Swing		+7.05
Source: Elections Canada [8] [9] [10]

v t e 2015 Canadian federal election : Banff—Airdrie
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Blake Richards	42,228	63.37	–7.36	$86,619.91
	Liberal	Marlo Raynolds	17,380	26.08	+18.02	$72,801.97
	New Democratic	Joanne Boissonneault	4,521	6.78	–6.29	$17,953.20
	Green	Mike MacDonald	2,509	3.77	–3.98	$3,011.33
Total valid votes/expense limit			66,638	100.00		$243,369.66
Total rejected ballots			179	0.27	–
Turnout			66,817	73.25	–
Eligible voters			91,222
	Conservative hold		Swing		–12.69
This riding was created from parts of Wild Rose and Macleod, both of which elected Conservative candidates in the 2011 election. Blake Richards was the incumbent from Wild Rose. Changes are based on redistributed results.
Source: Elections Canada [11] [12]

v t e 2011 Canadian federal election : Wild Rose
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Blake Richards	43,669	74.7	+1.8	$49,673
	New Democratic	Jeff Horvath	6,595	11.3	+3.1	$3,784
	Green	Michael MacDonald	4,071	7.0	-5.6	$5,270
	Liberal	John Reilly	3,908	6.7	+1.0	$43,616
	Christian Heritage	Randy VandenBroek	181	0.3	–	–
Total valid votes/expense limit			58,424	100.0
Total rejected ballots			128	0.2	0.0
Turnout			58,552	61.7	+6.0
Eligible voters			94,970	–	–
	Conservative hold		Swing		+3.7

2008 Canadian federal election : Wild Rose
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Blake Richards	36,869	72.9	+0.4	$50,972
	Green	Lisa Fox	6,390	12.6	+1.8	$14,559
	New Democratic	Jeff Horvath	4,169	8.2	+0.9	$5,001
	Liberal	Jenn Turcott	2,890	5.7	-4.0	$6,555
	Libertarian	Krista Zoobkoff	246	0.5	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			50,564	100.0	$101,401
Total rejected ballots			107	0.2	0.0
Turnout			50,671	56	-9.0
	Conservative hold		Swing		+2.2

References

1. Snow, Stacie (March 14, 2012). "Airdrie-born bill becomes law". Airdrie City View. Archived from the original on April 21, 2019. Retrieved January 26, 2019.
2. Wilson, Sara (December 2, 2013). "Wild Rose MP Blake Richards brings drunk driving petition to House of Commons". Cochrane Eagle. Archived from the original on April 21, 2019. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
3. Harris, Kathleen (November 30, 2017). "Speaker gives Tory MP the boot from House for heckling". CBC News. Retrieved November 30, 2017.
4. https://discoverairdrie.com/articles/richards-stands-with-bereaved-parents-as-motion-110-is-passed
5. https://www.blakerichards.ca/home
6. "Voter information service". Elections Canada. Retrieved May 7, 2025.
7. "Election Night Results - Electoral Districts". Elections Canada. Retrieved May 7, 2025.
8. "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
9. "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
10. "Candidate Campaign Returns". Elections Canada. Retrieved September 7, 2020.
11. "October 19, 2015 Election Results — Banff—Airdrie (Validated results)". Elections Canada. October 21, 2015. Retrieved November 4, 2015.
12. Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates Archived 2015-08-15 at the Wayback Machine

External links

• Blake Richards
• Blake Richards – Parliament of Canada biography