 Alberta electoral district | |
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 2010 boundaries | |
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
| District created | 2010 |
| District abolished | 2019 |
| First contested | 2012 |
| Last contested | 2015 |
Chestermere-Rocky View was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first-past-the-post method of voting from 2012 to 2019.
Chestermere-Rocky View was created from large portions of the old electoral district of Airdrie-Chestermere and Foothills-Rocky View in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution. [1] The district surrounds the western, northern and eastern boundaries of the city of Calgary.
The electoral district was abolished in the 2017 electoral district re-distribution prior to the 2019 Alberta general election. The area east of Calgary (which contains a majority of Chestermere-Rocky View's population) will be transferred to Chestermere-Strathmore, the areas north of Highway 564 and east of Highway 2 will be transferred to Airdrie-East, the areas west of Highway 2 and north of the Bow River to Airdrie-Cochrane, and the areas west of Calgary (including the Tsuu T'ina Reserve) to Banff-Kananaskis. [2]
| 56 Chestermere-Rocky View 2010 boundaries | ||||
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| Bordering districts | ||||
| North | East | Middle | West | South |
| Airdrie and Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills | Strathmore-Brooks | Calgary-Bow, Calgary-Elbow, Calgary-Foothills, Calgary-Fort, Calgary-Glenmore, Calgary-Greenway, Calgary-Lougheed, Calgary-McCall, Calgary-McKay-Nose Hill, Calgary-North West, Calgary-South East and Calgary-West | Banff-Cochrane | Livingstone-Macleod, Highwood and Little Bow |
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| Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act | ||||
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Chestermere-Rocky View | ||||
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| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Airdrie-Chestermere and Foothills- Rocky View 2004-2012 | ||||
| 28th | 2012–2014 | Bruce McAllister | Wildrose | |
| 2014–2015 | PC | |||
| 29th | 2015–2017 | Leela Aheer | Wildrose | |
| 2017-2019 | UCP | |||
| See Airdrie-Cochrane, Airdrie-East, Banff-Kananaskis and Chestermere-Strathmore 2019- | ||||
The electoral district's antecedents had elected Progressive Conservative (PC) candidates with solid majorities. However, in 2012, Chestermere-Rocky View was picked up by the Wildrose Party with one of the best results in the province for that party.
MLA Bruce McAllister subsequently crossed the floor to the PCs during the premiership of Jim Prentice with most of the Wildrose caucus. [3] Although he was one of the few former Wildrose MLAs to win the PC nomination in his riding for the 2015 election, he was defeated by Wildrose candidate Leela Aheer by a slim margin.
Aheer then crossed the floor to the United Conservative Party (UCP) when the PCs and Wildrose decided to merge. She was named deputy leader of the UCP by leader Jason Kenney in late 2017. [4] As the riding was set to be abolished in 2019, Aheer has indicated her intent to run in Chestermere-Strathmore.
In its short existence, Chestermere-Rocky View therefore elected Wildrose MLAs twice, but neither served their full term with the party.
| 2012 Alberta general election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Wildrose | Bruce McAllister | 10,165 | 58.36% | – | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Ted Morton | 6,154 | 35.33% | – | ||||
| Liberal | Sian Ramsden | 564 | 3.24% | – | ||||
| New Democratic | Nathan Salmon | 536 | 3.08% | – | ||||
| Total | 17,419 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled, and declined | 59 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 31,652 | 55.22% | – | |||||
| Wildrose pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s) Source: "54 - Chestermere-Rocky View Official Results 2012 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
| 2015 Alberta general election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Wildrose | Leela Aheer | 7,676 | 37.04% | -21.32% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Bruce McAllister | 7,454 | 35.97% | 0.64% | ||||
| New Democratic | William James Pelech | 3,706 | 17.88% | 14.80% | ||||
| Independent | Jamie Lall | 1,093 | 5.27% | – | ||||
| Green | Coral Bliss Taylor | 405 | 1.95% | – | ||||
| Independent | Matt Grant | 391 | 1.89% | – | ||||
| Total | 20,725 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 91 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 34,928 | 59.60% | 4.38% | |||||
| Wildrose hold | Swing | -10.98% | ||||||
Source(s) Source: "54 - Chestermere-Rocky View Official Results 2015 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
| 2012 Alberta student vote results [5] | ||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Progressive Conservative | Ted Morton | 258 | 29.22% | |
| Wildrose | Bruce McAllister | 454 | 51.42% | |
| Liberal | Siân Ramsden | 126 | 14.27% | |
| New Democratic | Nathan Salmon | 45 | 5.10% | |
| Total | 883 | 100% | ||
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