Calgary-North Hill

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Calgary-North Hill
Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta electoral district
Calgary Provincial Riding - Calgary North Hill.svg
2004 boundaries
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of Alberta
District created1971
District abolished2012
First contested 1971
Last contested 2008

Calgary-North Hill 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 1971 to 2012. [1]

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History

The Calgary-North Hill electoral district was created in the 1971 boundary redistribution out of Calgary Bowness and a small sliver on the south end of Calgary Queens Park and Calgary North. The riding covered central portion of north Calgary.

Since 1971, the district returned Progressive Conservative candidates. Some elections saw some very competitive races with other party candidates coming close to winning.

Boundary history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-North Hill [3]
AssemblyYearsMemberParty
See: Calgary Bowness 1959-1971, Calgary Queens Park 1963-1971
and Calgary North 1959-1971
17th 1971–1975 Roy Farran Progressive Conservative
18th 1975–1979
19th 1979–1982 Ed Oman
20th 1982–1986
21st 1986–1989 Fred Stewart
22nd 1989–1993
23rd 1993–1997 Richard Magnus
24th 1997–2001
25th 2001–2004
26th 2004–2008
27th 2008–2012 Kyle Fawcett

Electoral history

The electoral district was created in the 1971 boundary re-distribution. The first election held in the district that year saw a hotly contested race with former Calgary Alderman Roy Farran running as a candidate for the Progressive Conservatives against incumbent Social Credit MLA Robert Simpson and future NDP MLA Barry Pashak. Farran won the race by 61 votes over Simpson to pick up the district for his party.

Premier Peter Lougheed appointed Farran to his cabinet in 1973. He ran for a second term in office in the 1975 general election with ministerial advantage against Simpson for the second time. This time Farran would defeat him in a landslide. Farran would remain in cabinet until he retired at dissolution in 1979.

The 1979 general election saw Progressive Conservative candidate Ed Oman hold the seat with a landslide. He was re-elected to a second term in 1982 winning the biggest popular vote of any candidate in the history of the district. Oman retired at dissolution in 1986.

Progressive Conservative candidate Fred Stewart became the third representative of the district winning election for the first time in the 1986 election. He was re-elected to a second term in the 1989 general election facing a strong challenge from both the Liberal and NDP candidates. He retired at from provincial politics at the end of his second term in 1993.

Richard Magnus became the fourth representative for the district in the 1993 general election. He faced a strong challenge from Liberal candidate Tom Dixon but still won a comfortable plurality to hold the district for his party. Magnus was re-elected three more times in 1997, 2001 and 2004 before retiring from office in the 2008 general election.

The last representative was Progressive Conservative MLA Kyle Fawcett who was elected for the first time in the 2008 general election in a hotly contested race over Liberal candidate Pat Murray.

Legislative election results

1971

1971 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Roy Farran 4,96143.81%
Social Credit Robert A. Simpson 4,90043.27%
New Democratic Barry Pashak 1,34111.84%
Independent Carl L. Riech1211.07%
Total11,323
Rejected, spoiled and declined104
Eligible electors / turnout16,08071.06%
Progressive Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-North Hill Official Results 1971 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1975

1975 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Roy Farran 6,67362.94%19.13%
Social Credit Robert A. Simpson 2,56224.17%-19.11%
New Democratic Joan Ryan7236.82%-5.02%
Liberal Dorothy Groves5845.51%
Communist Stephen Whitefield600.57%
Total10,602
Rejected, spoiled and declinedN/A
Eligible electors / turnout15,35769.04%-2.03%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 19.12%
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-North Hill Official Results 1975 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1979

1979 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Ed Oman 6,76064.82%1.88%
Social Credit Dennis Shupe1,79917.25%-6.92%
New Democratic Agnes Middleton1,05210.09%3.27%
Liberal Dorothy Groves7477.16%1.65%
Independent John J. Jasienczyk710.68%
Total10,429
Rejected, spoiled and declinedN/A
Eligible electors / turnout18,98354.94%-14.10%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 4.40%
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-North Hill Official Results 1979 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1982

1982 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Ed Oman 9,16872.82%8.00%
New Democratic Agnes Middleton1,75313.92%3.84%
Western Canada Concept Gordon Kennard9687.69%
Liberal Dorothy Groves7015.57%-1.59%
Total12,590
Rejected, spoiled and declined55
Eligible electors / turnout19,96563.34%8.40%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 5.66%
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-North Hill Official Results 1982 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1986

1986 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Fred Stewart 5,54554.44%-18.38%
New Democratic Noel Jantzie2,94028.87%14.94%
Liberal Pauline Kay1,18911.67%6.11%
Representative Tom Gorman5115.02%
Total10,185
Rejected, spoiled and declined34
Eligible electors / turnout23,27443.91%-19.43%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -16.66%
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-North Hill Official Results 1986 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1989

1989 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Fred Stewart 4,91844.73%-9.72%
Liberal Pauline Kay3,03027.56%15.88%
New Democratic Emily Drzymala2,72024.74%-4.13%
Independent John Jasienczyk3282.98%
Total10,996
Rejected, spoiled and declined33
Eligible electors / turnout22,93348.09%4.18%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -4.20%
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-North Hill Official Results 1989 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1993

1993 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Richard Magnus 6,75650.02%5.29%
Liberal Tom Dixon4,26231.55%4.00%
New Democratic Wendy Charlton1,93514.33%-10.41%
Independent Michael O'Malley3942.92%-0.07%
Natural Law Joyce Gregson1601.18%
Total13,507
Rejected, spoiled and declined40
Eligible electors / turnout24,14356.11%8.02%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 0.65%
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-North Hill Official Results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1997

1997 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Richard Magnus 6,37958.74%8.73%
Liberal John Schmale3,29730.36%-1.19%
New Democratic Jason Ness1,18310.89%-3.43%
Total10,859
Rejected, spoiled and declined71
Eligible electors / turnout22,52448.53%-7.59%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 4.96%
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-North Hill Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2001

2001 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Richard Magnus 7,03463.75%5.00%
Liberal Darryl G. Hawkins2,52922.92%-7.44%
New Democratic Christine McGregor1,0679.67%-1.22%
Greens Darcy Kraus4043.66%
Total11,034
Rejected, spoiled, and declined26
Eligible electors / turnout22,63048.87%0.35%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 6.22%
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-North Hill Official Results 2001 Alberta general election" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Retrieved March 27, 2010.

2004

2004 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Richard Magnus 4,36943.21%-20.54%
Liberal Pat Murray3,21231.76%8.84%
Greens Susan Stratton1,26112.47%8.81%
New Democratic Aileen L. Machell6436.36%-3.31%
Alberta Alliance Brent Best6276.20%
Total10,112
Rejected, spoiled and declined59
Eligible electors / turnout22,98744.25%-4.63%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -14.69%
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-North Hill Statement of Official Results 2004 Alberta general election" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
"2004 Alberta general election". Elections Alberta . Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2008

2008 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Kyle Fawcett 4,28138.32%-4.88%
Liberal Pat Murray3,57331.98%0.22%
New Democratic John Chan1,38112.36%6.00%
Wildrose Alliance Jane Morgan9768.74%
Green Kevin Maloney7326.55%-5.92%
Social Credit Jim Wright2282.04%
Total11,171
Rejected, spoiled and declined37
Eligible electors / turnout27,21941.18%-3.07%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -2.55%

Senate nominee election results

2004

2004 Senate nominee election results: Calgary-North Hill [4] Turnout 44.31%
AffiliationCandidateVotes% votes% ballotsRank
  Progressive Conservative Bert Brown 3,89016.36%48.52%1
 Progressive Conservative Jim Silye 3,46314.57%43.19%5
 Progressive Conservative Betty Unger 3,00412.64%37.47%2
 Independent Link Byfield 2,79611.76%34.87%4
 Independent Tom Sindlinger 2,2859.61%28.50%9
 Progressive ConservativeDavid Usherwood2,0348.56%25.37%6
 Progressive Conservative Cliff Breitkreuz 1,8707.87%23.32%3
Alberta Alliance Vance Gough1,6056.75%20.02%8
Alberta Alliance Michael Roth1,5066.33%18.78%7
Alberta Alliance Gary Horan1,3215.55%16.48%10
Total votes23,774100%
Total ballots8,0182.97 votes per ballot
Rejected, spoiled and declined2,168

Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot

2004 student vote results

Participating schools [5]
James Fowler High School
King George-Traditional Learning Centre
Rosemont Elementary
Saint Francis High School
Truth Academy

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' [6]
AffiliationCandidateVotes%
  Progressive Conservative Richard Magnus 16035.48%
Green Susan Stratton9721.51%
  Liberal Pat Murray8619.07%
Alberta Alliance Brent Best6013.30%
  NDP Aileen Machell4810.64%
Total451100%
Rejected, spoiled and declined6

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References

  1. "Election results for Calgary-North Hill". abheritage.ca. Wayback Machine: Heritage Community Foundation. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
  2. "E‑4.1". Statutes of the Province of Alberta. Government of Alberta. 2003. p. 13.
  3. "Members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta 1905-2006" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 30, 2007. Retrieved February 27, 2010.
  4. "Senate Nominee Election 2004 Tabulation of Official Results" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 4, 2009. Retrieved February 28, 2010.
  5. "School by School results". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 5, 2007. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
  6. "Riding by Riding Results - the Candidates". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 6, 2007. Retrieved April 19, 2008.

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