Calgary-Nose Hill (provincial electoral district)

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Calgary-Nose Hill
Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta electoral district
Calgary Provincial Riding - Calgary Nose Hill.svg
2004 boundaries
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of Alberta
District created2004
District abolished2012
First contested 2004
Last contested 2008

Calgary-Nose 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 2004 to 2012. [1]

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Calgary-Nose Hill history

The Calgary-Nose Hill electoral district was created in the 2003 electoral boundary re-distribution from portions of Calgary-Foothills, Calgary-North Hill and Calgary-Nose Creek electoral districts. [2] The riding was named after Nose Hill Park in Calgary.

The Calgary-Nose Hill electoral district would be dissolved in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution and would be re-distributed into the Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill electoral district. [3]

Boundary history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Nose Hill [5]
AssemblyYearsMemberParty
See Calgary-Foothills, 1971–2004, Calgary-North Hill 1971-2004
and Calgary-Nose Creek 1993-2004
26th 2004–2008 Neil Brown Progressive Conservative
27th 2008–2012
See Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill electoral district from 2012-2019

Electoral history

The electoral district was created from parts of three different riding's in the 2004 boundary redistribution. The first election held in 2004 saw Progressive Conservative candidate Neil Brown pickup the district with under half of the popular vote. He defeated a field of four other candidates.

Brown stood for re-election against four other candidates in the 2008 general election. He was returned to power with a slight increase in his popular vote but still won under 50%.

Legislative election results

2004

2004 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Neil Brown 4,37247.01%
Liberal Len Borowski2,60728.03%
Alberta Alliance Bill McGregor1,00910.85%
Greens John Johnson5836.27%
New Democratic Dirk Huysman5495.90%
Social Credit Raymond (Chick) Hurst1801.94%
Total9,300
Rejected, spoiled and declined46
Eligible electors / turnout23,57239.65%
Progressive Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Nose Hill Statement of Official Results 2004 Alberta general election" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Retrieved June 15, 2020.

2008

2008 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Neil Brown 4,58649.24%2.23%
Liberal Len Borowski2,76129.65%1.61%
Wildrose Alliance John A. Murdoch95410.24%-0.61%
Green Nick Burman6246.70%0.43%
New Democratic Tristan Ridley3884.17%-1.74%
Total9,313
Rejected, spoiled and declined27
Eligible electors / turnout26,38735.40%-4.25%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 0.31%
Source(s)

Senate nominee election results

2004

2004 Senate nominee election results: Calgary-Nose Hill [6] Turnout 39.74%
AffiliationCandidateVotes% votes% ballotsRank
  Progressive Conservative Bert Brown 4,14417.47%51.88%1
 Progressive Conservative Jim Silye 3,13813.23%39.29%5
 Progressive Conservative Betty Unger 2,94112.40%36.82%2
 Independent Link Byfield 2,39010.08%29.92%4
 Progressive Conservative Cliff Breitkreuz 2,1519.07%26.93%3
 Progressive ConservativeDavid Usherwood2,0138.49%25.20%6
Alberta Alliance Vance Gough1,8417.76%23.05%8
 Independent Tom Sindlinger 1,7617.43%22.05%9
Alberta Alliance Michael Roth1,7127.22%21.44%7
Alberta Alliance Gary Horan1,6246.85%20.33%10
Total votes23,715100%
Total ballots7,9872.97 votes per ballot
Rejected, spoiled and declined1,381

Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot.

2004 student vote results

Participating schools [7]
John G. Diefenbaker High School
Sir John A Macdonald Junior High School
St. Hubert 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 had 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 who resided in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district than where they were physically located.

2004 Alberta student vote results [8]
AffiliationCandidateVotes%
  Progressive Conservative Neil Brown 13327.65%
  Liberal Len Borowski10722.25%
  NDP Dick Huysman9219.13%
Green John Johnson6613.72%
Alberta Alliance Bill McGregor6012.47%
  Social Credit Raymond Hurst234.78%
Total481100%
Rejected, spoiled and declined4

See also

References

  1. "Election results for Calgary-Nose Hill". abheritage.ca. Wayback Machine: Heritage Community Foundation. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
  2. Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (February 2003). "Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta". Edmonton, Alta.: Legislative Assembly of Alberta . Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  3. 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). Edmonton, Alta.: Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ISBN   978-0-9865367-1-7. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 3, 2020. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  4. Electoral Divisions Act , S.A. 2003, c. E-4.1
  5. "Members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta 1905-2006" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 26, 2010. Retrieved February 27, 2010.
  6. "Senate Nominee Election 2004 Tabulation of Official Results" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 4, 2009. Retrieved March 1, 2010.
  7. "School by School results". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 5, 2007. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
  8. "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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