Calgary municipal election, 2017

Calgary municipal election, 2017
Mayor and 14 councillors to Calgary City Council
	Results of the City Council election
Mayor before election; Naheed Nenshi ;	Elected Mayor; Naheed Nenshi ;

Last updated March 17, 2019

The 2017 Calgary municipal election was held on October 16, 2017 to elect a mayor, councillors to the city council, trustees to the Calgary Board of Education, and trustees to the Calgary Catholic School District. From 1968 until 2012, Alberta municipal elections had been held every three years.^[1]^[2] In 2012, however, the Alberta Legislative Assembly amended the Local Authorities Election Act to add a year to the cycle making terms four years.^[3]^[4] In addition, council members are now referred to as councillors, whereas they used the title "Alderman" prior to 2013. Advanced voting began on October 4 and ran through until October 11.^[5]

Calgary is a city in the Canadian province of Alberta. It is situated at the confluence of the Bow River and the Elbow River in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, about 80 km (50 mi) east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies. The city anchors the south end of what Statistics Canada defines as the "Calgary–Edmonton Corridor".

A Councillor is a member of a local government council.

The Calgary City Council is the legislative governing body that represents the citizens of Calgary. The council consists of 15 members: the chief elected official, titled the mayor, and 14 councillors. Naheed Nenshi was elected mayor in October 2010 as the city's 36th. Each of the 14 councillors represent one of the city's 14 wards.

Candidates

X = incumbent

Mayor

Candidate	Vote^[7]	%
Naheed Nenshi (X)	199,122	51.41
Bill Smith	169,367	43.73
Andre Chabot	11,945	3.08
Curtis Olson	1,776	0.46
David Lapp	1,288	0.33
Emile Gabriel	1,258	0.32
Larry Heather	845	0.22
Stan the Man Waciak	664	0.17
Brent Chisholm	576	0.15
Jason Achtymichuk	465	0.12

City council

Ward 1

Candidate	Vote	%
Ward Sutherland (X)	14,336	45.27
Coral Bliss Taylor	10,601	33.48
Chris Blatch	4,147	13.10
Cole Christensen	1,313	4.15
Cam Khan	1,270	4.01

Ward 2

Candidate	Vote	%
Joe Magliocca (X)	11,828	49.39
Jennifer Wyness	8,677	36.23
Chistopher Maitland	2,351	9.82
George Georgeou	1,091	4.56

Ward 3

Candidate	Vote	%
Jyoti Gondek	7,745	41.97
Ian McAnerin	4,867	26.37
Jun Lin	4,747	25.72
Connie Hamilton	1,096	5.94

Ward 4

Candidate	Vote	%
Sean Chu (X)	16,327	48.42
Greg Miller	13,965	41.41
Blair Berdusco	2,875	8.53
Srini Ganti	554	1.64

Ward 5

Candidate	Vote	%
George Chahal	6,608	40.61
Aryan Sadat	3,759	23.10
Preet Baidwan	2,332	14.33
Raj Nijjar	1,698	10.44
Tudor Dinca	1,528	9.39
Hirde Paul Jassal	346	2.13

Ward 6

Candidate	Vote	%
Jeff Davison	13,735	44.72
Esmahan Razavi	6,605	21.51
Sean Yost	2,507	8.16
Jeffrey Michael Brownridge	2,427	7.90
Alex Columbos	1,961	6.38
Grace Nelson	1,376	4.48
Sanjeev Kad	1,076	3.50
Steve Turner	1,026	3.34

Ward 7

Candidate	Vote	%
Druh Farrell (X)	9,753	41.03
Brent Alexander	8,916	37.51
Dean Brawn	2,882	12.12
Margot Aftergood	1,765	7.42
Marek Hejduk	456	1.92

Ward 8

Candidate	Vote	%
Evan Woolley (X)	15,838	58.28
Chris Davis	8,844	32.54
Karla Charest	1,839	6.77
Cater Thomson	657	2.42

Ward 9

Candidate	Vote	%
Gian-Carlo Carra (X)	9,760	45.31
Cheryl Link	8,065	37.44
Trevor Buckler	1,126	5.23
David Christopher Metclafe	991	4.60
Cesar Augusto Saavedra	589	2.73
Boss Madimba	526	2.44
Omar M'Keyo	483	2.24

Ward 10

Candidate	Vote	%
Ray Jones (X)	7,240	35.53
David Winkler	5,512	27.05
Salimah Kassam	2,126	10.43
Michelle Rae Robinson	1,258	6.17
Najeeb Butt	1,054	5.17
Gar Gar	864	4.24
Issa Mosa	693	3.40
Kamilla Prasad	619	3.04
Faith Greaves	568	2.79
Hermann Muller	367	1.80
Numan Elhussein	78	0.38

Ward 11

Candidate	Vote	%
Jeromy Farkas	13,169	38.39
Linda Johnson	7,588	22.12
Janet Eremenko	6,889	20.08
Robert Dickinson	4,446	12.96
Keith Simmons	2,214	6.45

Ward 12

Candidate	Vote	%
Shane A. Keating (X)	17,923	72.79
Teresa Hargreaves	2,844	11.55
Brad Cunningham	2,732	11.10
Mackenzie Quigley	1,123	4.56

Ward 13

Candidate	Vote	%
Diane Colley-Urquhart (X)	9,117	34.23
Mark Dyrholm	4,427	16.62
Art Johnston	3,747	14.07
Sherrisa Celis	2,959	11.11
Adam Boechler	2,909	10.92
Adam W. Frisch	2,732	10.26
Kay Adeniyi	745	2.80

Ward 14

Candidate	Vote	%
Peter Demong (X)	28,430	90.27
Kelash Kumar	3,064	9.73

Issues

Campaign finance transparency

According to a 2013 Calgary Herald article, campaign finance transparency had become a topic of interest with most candidates making their donor lists available before the election. One veteran candidate who raised $78,000 in contributions in the 2010 election preferred to file according to legal requirements by filing disclosure of donations with city hall at the end of the year.^[8] By late summer 2017, campaign finance transparency was an issue again with the establishment of a political action committee (PAC), a third-party organization that is not required to reveal the identity of its donors.^[9]^[10]^[11] PACS are commonly used in the United States to pool campaign contributions to target candidates.^[12] Hadyn Place, Director of Alberta Can't Wait—one of Alberta's "unite the right" movement organizations—explained to CBC journalists that Save Calgary is targeting incumbents Mayor Naheed Nenshi, and councillors Druh Farrell, Evan Woolley, Gian-Carlo Carra, Diane Colley-Urquhart because "We feel that there are good candidates running against those current city councillors and we don't like their voting records, and their priorities, we feel, are out of step with everyday Calgarians' priorities."^[9]

The Calgary Herald is a daily newspaper published in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Publication began in 1883 as The Calgary Herald, Mining and Ranche Advocate and General Advertiser. It is owned by the Postmedia Network.

In the United States and Canada, a political action committee (PAC) is a 527 organization that pools campaign contributions from members and donates those funds to campaigns for or against candidates, ballot initiatives, or legislation. The legal term PAC has been created in pursuit of campaign finance reform in the United States. This term is quite specific to all activities of campaign finance in the United States. Democracies of other countries use different terms for the units of campaign spending or spending on political competition. At the U.S. federal level, an organization becomes a PAC when it receives or spends more than $1,000 for the purpose of influencing a federal election, and registers with the Federal Election Commission, according to the Federal Election Campaign Act as amended by the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002. At the state level, an organization becomes a PAC according to the state's election laws.

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States or America, is a country composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions. At 3.8 million square miles, the United States is the world's third or fourth largest country by total area and is slightly smaller than the entire continent of Europe's 3.9 million square miles. With a population of over 327 million people, the U.S. is the third most populous country. The capital is Washington, D.C., and the largest city by population is New York City. Forty-eight states and the capital's federal district are contiguous in North America between Canada and Mexico. The State of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east and across the Bering Strait from Russia to the west. The State of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U.S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, stretching across nine official time zones. The extremely diverse geography, climate, and wildlife of the United States make it one of the world's 17 megadiverse countries.

CBC News likened Calgary's "relatively lawless" finance rules for municipal elections, to the "wild west."^[13] Municipal government election candidates can accept donations from corporations, unions and individuals and there is "no cap on how much candidates can spend".^[13] This contrasts with federal and provincial elections where candidates are not allowed to accept corporate and union donations. At the federal level, candidates face a hard cap on campaign spending based on the size of their riding, and the laws are strictly enforced.^[13] According to Alberta Municipal Affairs, the Alberta government of plans to add amendments to existing municipal elections laws, possibly in 2018. as early as next year.^[13] Jack Lucas, a professor of political science at the University of Calgary told CBC News that Alberta will "likely curb donation limits and put a cap on campaign spending."^[13] Lucas said, "Clearer disclosure rules for third-party advertising would make third-party campaigns like Save Calgary more transparent and less controversial."^[13]

University of Calgary public research university located in Calgary, Alberta

The University of Calgary is a public research university located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The University of Calgary started in 1944 as the Calgary branch of the University of Alberta, founded in 1908, prior to being instituted into a separate, autonomous university in 1966. It is composed of 14 faculties and over 85 research institutes and centres. The main campus is located in the northwest quadrant of the city near the Bow River and a smaller south campus is located in the city center.

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References

↑ "1968 Bill 23". Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Retrieved December 9, 2012.
↑ "28th Legislature, 1st Session (2012)". Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Retrieved December 9, 2012.
↑ "Election Accountability Amendment Act, 2012 - Section 105" (PDF). 2012 Bill 7, First Session, 28th Legislature. Legislative Assembly of Alberta. December 5, 2012. Retrieved December 9, 2012.
↑ "Election Accountability Amendment Act, 2012 - Section 105" (PDF). 2012 Bill 7, First Session, 28th Legislature. Legislative Assembly of Alberta. December 5, 2012. Retrieved December 9, 2012.
↑ "Vote early Advance vote: Oct. 4-11, 2017 (except Oct. 9)" (PDF). Calgary elections. nd. Retrieved October 7, 2017.
↑ "Nenshi re-elected as Calgary's mayor as all 10 incumbent councillors keep their seats". CBC News. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
↑ http://www.calgary.ca/election/Pages/results/Unofficial-Results.aspx
↑ Markusoff, Jason (May 24, 2013). "Council candidates embrace push to make donor lists public before vote". Calgary Herald. Retrieved September 2, 2013.
1 2 Fletcher, Robson; Anderson, Drew (August 28, 2017). "Save Calgary's campaign against city councillors raises questions about 3rd-party electoral laws: What's Save Calgary? It's not easy to find out, and some say that's a problem for democracy". CBC News. Retrieved August 31, 2017.
↑ "About". Save Calgary. nd. Retrieved August 31, 2017.
↑ Julie, Alyssa (August 29, 2017). "Mayor Nenshi, Druh Farrell tell Save Calgary group to 'stop hiding behind anonymity'". Global News. Retrieved August 31, 2017.
↑ Janda, Kenneth; Berry, Jeffrey M.; Goldman, Jerry (December 19, 2008). The Challenge of Democracy: American Government in a Global World (10 ed.). Boston: Cengage Learning. p. 309. ISBN 054720454X . Retrieved August 31, 2017.
1 2 3 4 5 6 Fletcher, Robson (October 5, 2017). "Calgary's 'wild west' of campaign finance law likely to change — after the election: Province plans to review relatively lax laws governing municipal elections sometime next year". CBC News. Calgary. Retrieved October 7, 2017.

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[1] "1968 Bill 23". Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Retrieved December 9, 2012.

[2] "28th Legislature, 1st Session (2012)". Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Retrieved December 9, 2012.

[3] "Election Accountability Amendment Act, 2012 - Section 105" (PDF). 2012 Bill 7, First Session, 28th Legislature. Legislative Assembly of Alberta. December 5, 2012. Retrieved December 9, 2012.

[4] "Election Accountability Amendment Act, 2012 - Section 105" (PDF). 2012 Bill 7, First Session, 28th Legislature. Legislative Assembly of Alberta. December 5, 2012. Retrieved December 9, 2012.

[5] "Vote early Advance vote: Oct. 4-11, 2017 (except Oct. 9)" (PDF). Calgary elections. nd. Retrieved October 7, 2017.

[6] "Nenshi re-elected as Calgary's mayor as all 10 incumbent councillors keep their seats". CBC News. Retrieved 2017-10-17.

[7] ttp://www.calgary.ca/election/Pages/results/Unofficial-Results.aspx

[Herald_Markusoff-8] Markusoff, Jason (May 24, 2013). "Council candidates embrace push to make donor lists public before vote". Calgary Herald. Retrieved September 2, 2013.

[CBC_3rdparty-9] 1 2 Fletcher, Robson; Anderson, Drew (August 28, 2017). "Save Calgary's campaign against city councillors raises questions about 3rd-party electoral laws: What's Save Calgary? It's not easy to find out, and some say that's a problem for democracy". CBC News. Retrieved August 31, 2017.

[savecalgary_www-10] "About". Save Calgary. nd. Retrieved August 31, 2017.

[Global_Alyssa-11] Julie, Alyssa (August 29, 2017). "Mayor Nenshi, Druh Farrell tell Save Calgary group to 'stop hiding behind anonymity'". Global News. Retrieved August 31, 2017.

[12] Janda, Kenneth; Berry, Jeffrey M.; Goldman, Jerry (December 19, 2008). The Challenge of Democracy: American Government in a Global World (10 ed.). Boston: Cengage Learning. p. 309. ISBN 054720454X . Retrieved August 31, 2017.

[CBC_Fletcher_2017-13] 1 2 3 4 5 6 Fletcher, Robson (October 5, 2017). "Calgary's 'wild west' of campaign finance law likely to change — after the election: Province plans to review relatively lax laws governing municipal elections sometime next year". CBC News. Calgary. Retrieved October 7, 2017.