Cardston-Siksika

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Cardston-Siksika
Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta electoral district
Cardston-Siksika 2017.svg
Cardston-Siksika within Alberta (2017 boundaries).
Provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA
 
 
 
Joseph Schow
United Conservative
District created2017
First contested 2019
Last contested 2023
Demographics
Population (2016) [1] 42,655
Area (km²)15,773
Pop. density (per km²)2.7
Census division(s) 2, 3, 5

Cardston-Siksika is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district was one of 87 districts mandated to return a single member (MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting. It was contested for the first time in the 2019 Alberta election.

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Geography

The district is located in southern Alberta, stretching from Namaka (east of Calgary) to the border with Montana. It contains all of Vulcan County, the northern portions of Lethbridge County and MD of Taber which includes Vauxhall and Hays, and all of Cardston County, as well as the Treaty 7 reserves of the Kainai and Siksika nations.

History

Members for Cardston-Siksika
AssemblyYearsMemberParty
See Little Bow 1913–2019 and Cardston-
Taber-Warner
1997–2019
30th 2019–2023 Joseph Schow United Conservative
31st 2023

The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended reducing the number of districts in southern Alberta due to relatively slow population growth. [2] The creation of "Cardston/Siksika", was the final boundary change for the new riding. The first suggestion of the Boundary Commission was the "Taber/Vulcan" riding which extended from north of Vulcan to the Canada/U.S border, east to the Alberta/Saskatchewan border, north to Medicine Hat and west to the Bow River. Little Bow MLA Dave Schneider presented at all Boundary Commission meetings that Taber/Vulcan was much too large. The final review resulted in a change of the boundaries of the proposed riding to the present "Cardston/Siksika" riding.

Electoral results

2023

2023 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Conservative Joseph Schow 10,55074.12+0.57
New Democratic Colleen Quintal2,52717.75+1.75
Independent Angela Tabak8716.12
Alberta Independence Terry Wolsey2511.76
Solidarity Movement Pär Wantenaar350.25
Total14,23499.55
Rejected and declined640.45
Turnout14,29855.10
Eligible voters25,951
United Conservative hold Swing -0.59
Source(s)

2019

2019 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Conservative Joseph Schow 11,98073.551.01
New Democratic Kirby Smith2,60616.00-7.49
Independent Ian A. Donovan 7274.46
Alberta Party Casey Douglass5893.62
Freedom Conservative Jerry Gautreau2141.31
Liberal Cathleen McFarland1731.06
Total16,289
Rejected, spoiled and declined23628
Eligible electors / turnout25,05065.15%
United Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s)
Source: "54 - Cardston-Siksika, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved May 21, 2020.
Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2019). 2019 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Volume II (PDF) (Report). Vol. 2. Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 232–236. ISBN   978-1-988620-12-1 . Retrieved April 7, 2021.

2015

Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta election
Wildrose 5,44039.55
Progressive Conservative 4,53832.99
New Democratic 3,23123.49
Others5453.96

See also

References

  1. Statistics Canada: 2016
  2. "Final Report" (PDF). Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission. October 1, 2017. p. 42. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 24, 2018.
  3. "54 - Cardston-Siksika". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved June 9, 2023.