Calgary-Falconridge

Calgary-Falconridge

Alberta electoral district
Calgary-Falconridge within the City of Calgary (2017 boundaries)
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA	Parmeet Singh Boparai New Democratic
District created	2017
First contested	2019
Last contested	2023
Demographics
Population (2016) [1]	52,688
Area (km²)	15.1
Pop. density (per km²)	3,489.3

Calgary-Falconridge is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district will be 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. It was contested for the first time in the 2019 Alberta election.

Geography

The district is located in northeastern Calgary, containing the neighbourhoods of Whitehorn, Temple, Castleridge, Falconridge, Coral Springs, and the eastern part of Taradale.

History

Members for Calgary-Falconridge
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
See Calgary-Cross 1993-2019, Calgary-McCall 1971-2019, and Calgary-Greenway 2012–2019
30th	2019–2023		Devinder Toor	United Conservative
31st	2023–		Parmeet Singh Boparai	New Democrat

The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended reorganizing the districts in northeast Calgary, abolishing Calgary-Greenway and shifting the other ridings eastward. Calgary-Falconridge took the neighbourhoods of Whitehorn and Temple from Calgary-East, Castleridge and Falconridge from Calgary-McCall, and Coral Springs and part of Taradale from Calgary-Greenway. This resulted in a district 13% above the average population, but the Commission justified this by pointing out that there were no plans to build new housing stock in this area. ^[2]

Electoral results

2023

v t e 2023 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Parmeet Singh Boparai	7,786	56.39	+11.45
	United Conservative	Devinder Toor	5,476	39.66	-5.89
	Independent	Kyle Kennedy	252	1.83	–
	Green	Ahmed Hassan	203	1.47	–
	Solidarity Movement	Evan Wilson	91	0.66	–
Total			13,808	99.22	–
Rejected and declined			109	0.78
Turnout			13,917	48.53
Eligible electors			28,680
	New Democratic gain from United Conservative		Swing		+8.67
Source(s) Source: Elections Alberta [3]

2019

v t e 2019 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	United Conservative	Devinder Toor	6,753	45.55	-7.41	$49,521
	New Democratic	Parmeet Singh Boparai	6,662	44.94	+10.77	$40,165
	Alberta Party	Jasbir Dhari	849	5.73	–	$12,992
	Liberal	Deepak Sharma	561	3.78	-5.31	$4,146
Total			14,825	99.07	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			139	0.93
Turnout			14,964	51.87
Eligible voters			28,849
	United Conservative notional hold		Swing		-9.09
Source(s) Source: Elections Alberta [4] [5] [6] Note: Expenses is the sum of "Election Expenses", "Other Expenses" and "Transfers Issued". The Elections Act limits "Election Expenses" to $50,000.

2015

Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta general election
Party		Votes	%
	New Democratic	4,615	34.16
	Progressive Conservative	4,374	32.38
	Wildrose	2,780	20.58
	Liberal	1,229 [lower-alpha 1]	9.10
	Green	84 [lower-alpha 2]	0.62
	Independent	339 [lower-alpha 3]	2.51
Source(s) Source: Ridingbuilder

1. There was no Liberal candidate in Calgary-Greenway.
2. The Greens only ran a candidate in Calgary-Cross
3. Includes candidates in Calgary-East and Calgary Cross

References

1. Statistics Canada: 2016
2. Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (October 2017). "Final Report" (PDF). p. 21. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 24, 2018. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
3. "10 - Calgary-Falconridge". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved June 8, 2023.
4. "10 - Calgary-Falconridge, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved May 21, 2020.
5. Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2019). 2019 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Volume II (PDF) (Report). Vol. 2. Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 39–42. ISBN   978-1-988620-12-1 . Retrieved April 7, 2021.
6. Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2019). 2019 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Volume III Election Finances (PDF) (Report). Vol. 3. Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 68–82. ISBN   978-1-988620-13-8. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 15, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2021.