Calgary-Hawkwood

Calgary-Hawkwood

Alberta electoral district
2010 boundaries
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
District created	2010
District abolished	2019
First contested	2012
Last contested	2015

Calgary-Hawkwood 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 2012 to 2019.

History

The Calgary-Hawkwood electoral district was created in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution. It was created from parts of Calgary-Bow, Calgary-Foothills, Calgary-North West and a small portion of Calgary-Varsity. ^[1]

The Calgary-Hawkwood electoral district was dissolved in the 2017 electoral boundary re-distribution into Calgary-Edgemont ahead of the 2019 Alberta general election. ^[2]

Boundary history

15 Calgary-Hawkwood 2010 boundaries
Bordering districts
North	East	West	South
Calgary-Foothills	Calgary-Varsity	Calgary-North West	Calgary-Bow
Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act

Electoral history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Hawkwood
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
See Calgary-Bow and Calgary-Foothills 1971–2012, and Calgary-North West 1986–2012
28th	2012–2015		Jason Luan	PC
29th	2015–2019		Michael Connolly	NDP
See Calgary-Edgemont 2019–

The antecedent electoral districts that comprise Calgary-Hawkwood have been returning mainly Progressive Conservative and the occasional Liberal candidates to office since the 1970s. Varsity has returned a Liberal candidate since 2004 and North West returned a Liberal candidate from 1989 to 1997.

Legislative election results

2012

Results by polling division, 2012

v t e 2012 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Jason Luan	9,097	47.10%	–
	Wildrose	David Yager	7,030	36.40%	–
	Liberal	Maria Davis	1,632	8.45%	–
	New Democratic	Collin Anderson	911	4.72%	–
	Alberta Party	Kevin Woron	242	1.25%	–
	Evergreen	Janet Keeping	199	1.03%	–
	Social Credit	Len Skowronski	103	0.53%	–
	Independent	Ed Torrance	99	0.51%	–
Total			19,313	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			138	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			33,663	57.78%	–
	Progressive Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s) Source: "15 - Calgary-Hawkwood Official Results 2012 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2015

Results by polling division, 2015

v t e 2015 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Michael Connolly	7,443	36.35%	31.63%
	Progressive Conservative	Jason Luan	6,378	31.15%	-15.95%
	Wildrose	Jae Shim	4,448	21.72%	-14.68%
	Alberta Party	Beth Barberree	925	4.52%	3.26%
	Liberal	Harbaksh Singh Sekhon	736	3.59%	-4.86%
	Green	Polly Knowlton Cockett	455	2.22%	1.19%
	Social Credit	Len Skowronski	90	0.44%	-0.09%
Total			20,475	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			68	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			33,523	61.28%	3.50%
	New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		-2.75%
Source(s) Source: "15 - Calgary-Hawkwood Official Results 2015 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved May 21, 2020.

Student vote results

2012

2012 Alberta student vote results
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Jason Luan	186	43.36%
	Wildrose	David Yager	129	30.00%
	Liberal	Maria Davis	53	12.44%
	Alberta Party	Kevin Woron	16	3.72%
	New Democratic	Collin Anderson	15	3.49%
	Independent	Ed Torrance	9	2.09%
	Social Credit	Len Skowronski	3	0.70%
Total			430	100%

See also

• List of Alberta provincial electoral districts
• Canadian provincial electoral districts

References

1. 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). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ISBN   978-0-9865367-1-7 . Retrieved May 29, 2020.
2. Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (October 2017). Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ISBN   978-1-988620-04-6 . Retrieved May 29, 2020.

External links

• Elections Alberta
• The Legislative Assembly of Alberta