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Calgary-Cross
Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta electoral district
Calgary-Cross 2017.svg
Calgary-Cross within the City of Calgary, 2017 boundaries
Provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA
 
 
 
Mickey Amery
United Conservative
District created1993
First contested 1993
Last contested 2023

Calgary-Cross is a current provincial electoral district in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Created in 1993, the district is one of 87 districts mandated to return a single member (MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting.

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The district was created in the 1993 boundary redistribution from Calgary-McCall and Calgary-Montrose, and present boundaries covers the neighbourhoods of Pineridge, Rundle, Marlborough,Marlborough Park and Monterey Park in northeast Calgary. [1]

History

The electoral district was created in the 1993 boundary re-distribution from the electoral districts of Calgary-McCall and Calgary-Montrose. The district is named after Alfred Ernest Cross (a member of Calgary's Big Four) who entered politics in 1898, and was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for East Calgary prior to the formation of Alberta. [2]

The 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution saw all land east of 68 Street NE distributed to the new Calgary-Greenway electoral district. The west boundary was moved to Deerfoot Trail claiming land that used to be in McCall, Calgary-East and Calgary-North Hill. When created in 2010, the Calgary-Acadia electoral district would have a population of 46,102, which was 12.77 above the provincial average of 40,880. [3]

The 2017 electoral boundary re-distribution saw Calgary-Cross gain the remainder of the Marlborough community from Calgary-East while moving the Abbeydale community to Calgary-East. The boundaries as adjusted would give the electoral district a population of 50,634 in 2017, 8% above the provincial average of 46,803. [4]

Boundary history

Representation history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Cross [7]
AssemblyYearsMemberParty
See Calgary-McCall 1971-1993 and Calgary-Montrose 1986-1993
23rd 1993-1997 Yvonne Fritz Progressive Conservative
24th 1997-2001
25th 2001-2004
26th 2004-2008
27th 2008–2012
28th 2012–2015
29th 2015–2019 Ricardo Miranda New Democratic
30th 2019–2023 Mickey Amery United Conservative
31st 2023–present

Calgary-Cross was created from the electoral districts of Calgary-McCall and Calgary-Montrose in the 1993 boundary redistribution. Currently, the constituency is represented by Ricardo Miranda. The first representative was Progressive Conservative member Yvonne Fritz. Prior to representing Montrose she served as an Alderman for the city of Calgary representing the Ward 5 electoral district.

The 1993 election saw Fritz win with a large majority of votes. She sought a second term in 1997 and while her popularity declined she still won very easily over Liberal Keith Jones.

Jones and Fritz would face each other again in the 2001 general election. She would go on to win the district with the largest majority of her career while Jones saw his popular vote collapse. Fritz would win a fourth term in the 2004 general election, seeing almost half her vote disappear.

Fritz became a cabinet minister for the first time in 2004. She won re-election again in 2008.

Legislative election results

1993

1993 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Yvonne Fritz 6,44959.73%
Liberal Keith Hart 3,57633.12%
New Democratic Vinay Dey6866.35%
Natural Law Neeraj Varma860.80%
Total10,797
Rejected, spoiled and declined31
Eligible electors / turnout21,34650.73%
Progressive Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Cross Official Results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1997

1997 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Yvonne Fritz 5,96467.11%7.38%
Liberal Keith Jones2,45627.64%-5.48%
Social Credit Maurizio Terrigno4675.25%
Total8,887
Rejected, spoiled and declined30
Eligible electors / turnout21,81140.88%-9.84%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 6.43%
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Cross Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2001

2001 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Yvonne Fritz 6,81674.96%7.85%
Liberal Keith Jones1,83620.19%-7.44%
New Democratic Ramiro Mora4414.85%
Total9,093
Rejected, spoiled and declined85
Eligible electors / turnout21,92041.87%0.99%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 7.65%
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Cross Official Results 2001 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2004

2004 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Yvonne Fritz 3,77057.71%-17.25%
Liberal Raleigh Dehaney1,45322.24%2.05%
Alberta Alliance Gordon Huth6469.89%
New Democratic Jeanie Keebler3936.02%1.17%
Green Ryan Richardson2714.15%
Total6,533
Rejected, spoiled and declined49
Eligible electors / turnout21,99329.93%-11.94%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -9.65%
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Cross Statement of Official Results 2004 Alberta general election" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Retrieved March 9, 2020.

2008

2008 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Yvonne Fritz 4,00456.82%-0.89%
Liberal Ron I. Reinhold1,56722.24%0.00%
Wildrose Alliance Gordon Huth6058.59%-1.30%
New Democratic Shelina N. Hassanali4766.75%0.74%
Green Susan Stratton3955.61%1.46%
Total7,047
Rejected, spoiled and declined34
Eligible electors / turnout25,60927.65%-2.28%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -0.44%
Source(s)
Source: "04 - Calgary-Cross, 2008 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2012

2012 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Yvonne Fritz 5,35744.65%-12.17%
Wildrose Happy Mann4,55737.98%29.40%
Liberal Narita Sherman1,22010.17%-12.07%
New Democratic Reinaldo Contreras6045.03%-1.72%
Evergreen Susan Stratton2602.17%-3.42%
Total11,998
Rejected, spoiled and declined116
Eligible electors / turnout27,68043.76%16.11%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -13.96%
Source(s)
Source: "06 - Calgary-Cross, 2012 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2015

2015 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic Ricardo Miranda 4,60236.13%31.10%
Progressive Conservative Rick Hanson4,50135.34%-9.31%
Wildrose Moiz Mahmood2,06016.17%-21.81%
Liberal Manjot Singh Gill1,1949.38%-0.79%
Green Peter Meic2361.85%0.32%
Independent Katherine Le Rougetel †1431.12%
Total12,736
Rejected, spoiled and declined98
Eligible electors / turnout31,53540.70%-3.07%
New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative Swing -2.94%
Source(s)
Source: "06 - Calgary-Cross, 2015 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved May 21, 2020.
†Le Rougetel was a candidate of the unregistered Communist League. See Ryan Rumbolt, "Communist League candidate Katherine LeRougetel enters mayoral race", Calgary Herald, 5 March 2017, accessed 8 March 2017.
2015 Alberta general election redistributed results
PartyVotes%
Progressive Conservative 5,25636.78
New Democratic 5,10335.71
Wildrose 2,90220.31
Liberal 7835.48
Green 1300.91
Others1160.81
Source(s)
Source: Ridingbuilder

2019

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Results by Polling Division
2019 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
United Conservative Mickey Amery 8,90754.26-2.82†$39,209
New Democratic Ricardo Miranda 6,13537.38+1.67$54,925
Alberta Party Braham Luddu9625.86$6,936
Liberal Naser Kukhun4102.50-2.98$4,299
Total16,41499.27
Rejected, spoiled and declined1210.73
Turnout16,53553.61
Eligible voters 30,844
United Conservative notional hold Swing -2.25
Source(s)
Source: Elections Alberta [8] [9] [10]
Note: Expenses is the sum of "Election Expenses", "Other Expenses" and "Transfers Issued". The Elections Act limits "Election Expenses" to $50,000.
†Comparison for UCP is to the combined Wildrose & PC redistributed vote in 2015

2023

2023 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Conservative Mickey Amery 7,53350.19-4.07
New Democratic Gurinder Singh Gill7,01946.77+9.39
Green Aman Sandhu2541.69
Solidarity Movement Kathryn Lapp2021.35
Total15,00899.14
Rejected and declined1300.86
Turnout15,13849.81
Eligible voters30,393
United Conservative hold Swing -6.73
Source(s)

Senate nominee election results

2004

2004 Senate nominee election results: Calgary-Cross [12] Turnout 29.62%
AffiliationCandidateVotes% votes% ballotsRank
Progressive Conservative Bert Brown 3,08816.47%52.86%1
Progressive Conservative Betty Unger 2,53013.50%43.30%2
Progressive Conservative Jim Silye 2,37912.69%40.72%5
Progressive Conservative David Usherwood1,8349.78%31.39%6
Progressive Conservative Cliff Breitkreuz 1,8269.74%31.26%3
 Independent Link Byfield 1,6498.80%28.23%4
Alberta Alliance Vance Gough1,4277.61%24.43%8
Alberta Alliance Michael Roth1,4057.49%24.05%7
Alberta Alliance Gary Horan1,3347.12%22.84%10
 Independent Tom Sindlinger 1,2766.80%21.84%9
Total votes18,748100%
Total ballots5,8423.21 votes per ballot
Rejected, spoiled and declined673
21,993 eligible electors

Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot

2012

Student vote results

2004

Participating schools [13]
Lester B. Pearson High School
Pineridge Community 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 have 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 that reside in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district then where they were physically located.

2004 Alberta student vote results [14]
AffiliationCandidateVotes%
  Liberal Raleigh Dehaney33133.95%
Progressive Conservative Yvonne Fritz 27227.90%
New Democratic Jeanie Keebler23824.41%
Green Ryan Richardson818.31%
Alberta Alliance Gordon Huth535.43%
Total975100%
Rejected, spoiled and declined59

2012

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