Calgary Southwest

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Calgary Southwest
Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta electoral district
Calgary Southwest in relation to the other Calgary ridings
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature House of Commons
District created1987
District abolished2013
First contested 1988
Last contested 2011
Demographics
Population (2011) [1] 136,011
Electors (2011)93,707
Area (km²) [2] 76.70
Census division(s) Division No. 6
Census subdivision(s) Calgary

Calgary Southwest was a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 2015. The district was in the southwest part of the city of Calgary, south of Glenmore Trail and west of the Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railway line.

Contents

Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper represented the riding during his leadership.

History

The electoral district was created in 1987 from parts of the Bow River, Calgary West, Calgary East, Calgary South, and a small piece of Calgary Centre ridings.

The riding was abolished during the Canadian federal electoral redistribution, 2012, 80% into Calgary Heritage and 20% into Calgary Midnapore.

Historical boundaries

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:

ParliamentYearsMemberParty
Calgary Southwest
Riding created from Bow River, Calgary Centre, Calgary East,
Calgary West and Calgary South
34th  1988–1993   Bobbie Sparrow Progressive Conservative
35th  1993–1997   Preston Manning Reform
36th  1997–2000
 2000–2000   Alliance
37th  2000–2002
 2002–2003 Stephen Harper
 2003–2004   Conservative
38th  2004–2006
39th  2006–2008
40th  2008–2011
41st  2011–2015
Riding dissolved into Calgary Heritage and Calgary Midnapore

Members of Parliament

All three of the riding's MPs were prominent: Bobbie Sparrow served in the cabinet led by Kim Campbell, while Preston Manning was the leader of the Reform Party of Canada from 1987 and Leader of the Opposition from 1997 to 2000. Its final MP in the Southwest configuration was Prime Minister Stephen Harper, an economist and a lecturer outside politics. [3] He was elected to Calgary Southwest, shortly after becoming leader of the Canadian Alliance and thus leader of the Opposition, in a 2002 by-election occasioned by Manning's retirement. From 2003, Harper was the leader of the re-formed Conservative Party of Canada, and from 2006, prime minister; he ceased to be both after the 2015 Canadian federal election.

Election results

2011 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
Conservative Stephen Harper 42,99875.12+2.16$62,436
New Democratic Holly Heffernan6,82311.92+4.16$1,113
Liberal Marlene Lamontagne4,1217.20−2.11$14,171
Green Kelly Christie2,9915.23−3.75$4,879
Independent Larry R. Heather 3030.53+0.04$495
Total valid votes 57,23699.69
Total rejected ballots 177 0.31−0.00
Turnout 57,413 60.42+2.02
Eligible voters95,026
Conservative hold Swing -1.00
Note: Larry R. Heather's vote as an independent candidate is compared to his vote as a CHP candidate in 2008.
2008 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
Conservative Stephen Harper 38,54572.96+0.60$61,102
Liberal Marlene Lamontagne4,9189.31−2.10$14,071
Green Kelly Christie4,7438.98+1.30$1,250
New Democratic Holly Heffernan4,1027.76−0.30$1,719
Libertarian Dennis Young2650.48$398
Christian Heritage Larry R. Heather 2560.48−0.01$1,746
Total valid votes/expense limit52,832 99.69– $92,156
Total rejected ballots1640.31+0.10
Turnout52,99658.39-8.18
Eligible voters52,996
Conservative hold Swing +1.35
2006 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
Conservative Stephen Harper 41,54972.36+4.01$67,115
Liberal Michael Swanson6,55311.41-6.99$15,691
New Democratic Holly Heffernan4,6288.06+2.48$5,177
Green Kim Warnke4,4077.68+1.46$1,800
Christian Heritage Larry Heather 2790.49+0.04$1,370
Total valid votes57,41699.79– 
Total rejected ballots1200.21-0.08–
Turnout57,53666.57+2.08–
Eligible voters86,426
Conservative hold Swing +5.50
2004 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
Conservative Stephen Harper 35,29768.36-12.84$62,955
Liberal Avalon Roberts9,50118.40+3.49$55,529
Green Darcy Kraus3,2106.22$521
New Democratic Daria Fox2,8845.59+1.70$3,648
Marijuana Mark de Pelham5161.00– 
Christian Heritage Larry Heather 2290.44$1,630
Total valid votes51,63799.71– 
Total rejected ballots1490.29––
Turnout51,78664.49 –
Eligible voters80,296
Conservative notional hold Swing -8.16

Note: Change is compared to redistributed 2000 results. Conservative vote is compared to the combined Alliance and Progressive Conservative vote.

2000 federal election redistributed results [4]
PartyVote %
  Canadian Alliance 31,75664.96
  Progressive Conservative 7,93616.23
  Liberal 7,29014.91
  New Democratic 1,9013.89
Canadian federal by-election, May 13, 2002
Resignation of Preston Manning
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
Alliance Stephen Harper 13,20071.66+6.84$58,959.16
New Democratic Bill Phipps 3,81320.70+16.73$34,789.77
Green James S. Kohut6603.58$2,750.80
Independent Gordon Barrett4282.32$3,329.34
Christian Heritage Ron Gray3201.74$27,772.78
Total valid votes18,421 99.47
Total rejected ballots980.53+0.23
Turnout18,519 23.05-39.89
Electors on the lists80,360
Alliance hold Swing -4.94
2000 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
Alliance Preston Manning 34,52964.81+6.81$69,676
Progressive Conservative Paul Monaghan8,67916.29-1.61$8,592
Liberal Barry J. Rust7,95414.93-5.24$13,233
New Democratic Jennifer Stewart2,1133.97+1.22$720
Total valid votes53,27599.70– 
Total rejected ballots1580.30+0.07–
Turnout53,43362.93-3.84–
Eligible voters84,905
Alliance notional hold Swing +4.22

Note: Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997.

1997 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
Reform Preston Manning 27,91257.99-3.23$62,515
Liberal Paul Drager9,70620.17+3.86$61,666
Progressive Conservative Jan Brown 8,61717.90-0.69$34,551
New Democratic Mara Vogel1,3222.75+1.13$1,064
Green Sol Candel3100.64+0.20 
Natural Law Richard Shelford1750.36-0.00 
Christian Heritage Larry Heather 890.18–$176
Total valid votes48,13199.78– 
Total rejected ballots1070.22––
Turnout48,23866.78 –
Eligible voters72,239
Reform hold Swing -3.54
1993 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
Reform Preston Manning 41,63061.22+47.80$59,445
Progressive Conservative Bobbie Sparrow 12,64218.59-46.57$61,978
Liberal Bill Richards11,08716.30+4.77$60,511
New Democratic Catherine Rose1,0991.62-6.49$4,791
National Lea Russell9101.34$2,580
Green Sol Candel3010.44$6,216
Natural Law Ida Bugmann2490.37$0
Independent Miel S.R. Gabriel570.08$218
Communist Darrell Rankin 280.04$1,422
Total valid votes68,003100.00
Rejected ballots137
Turnout68,14070.81
Electors on lists96,213
Reform gain from Progressive Conservative Swing +47.19
Source:Thirty-fifth General Election, 1993: Official Voting Results, Published by the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada. Financial figures taken from official contributions and expenses provided by Elections Canada.
1988 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Progressive Conservative Bobbie Sparrow 40,39765.16
Reform Janet Jessop8,31613.41
Liberal Percy Baker7,14711.53
New Democratic Vera Vogel5,0248.10
Independent Larry R. Heather 6691.08
Rhinoceros Johnny Barretto3720.60
Confederation of Regions Bill Sinclair680.11
Total valid votes61,993100.00

See also

References

  1. ↑ Statistics Canada: 2012
  2. ↑ Statistics Canada: 2012
  3. ↑ "Prime Minister Stephen Harper - Prime Minister of Canada". Government of Canada. Archived from the original on 21 July 2015. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
  4. ↑ Election Prediction Project
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