Edmonton-Calder

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Edmonton-Calder
Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta electoral district
EdmontonCalder in Edmonton.jpg
2010 boundaries
District created1971
District abolished1993
District re-created1996
District re-abolished2019
First contested 1971
Last contested 2015

Edmonton-Calder 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 1971 to 1993 and again from 1996 to 2019. [1]

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History

The first Edmonton-Calder electoral district was created in the 1971 boundary redistribution from the electoral districts of Edmonton North West and Edmonton North. It was abolished in 1993 to create parts Edmonton-Mayfield and Edmonton-Roper.

Calder was re-created in the same general area out of Mayfield and Roper in the 1996 boundary redistribution. The 2010 electoral boundary re-distribution lead to significant changes to the district, the northern boundaries were pushed from 137 Avenue to the Edmonton city limits between 127 Street and 184 Street into land that used to be part of Edmonton-Castle Downs. The south boundary which used to run along Stony Plain Road was pushed north to Yellowhead Trail ceding land to Edmonton-Meadowlark and Edmonton-Glenora. [2]

Edmonton-Calder was dissolved prior to the 2019 Alberta general election and re-distributed into Edmonton-City Centre, Edmonton-West Henday and Edmonton-North West electoral districts.

Boundary history

Electoral history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Edmonton-Calder
AssemblyYearsMemberParty
See Edmonton North West 1959–1971 and Edmonton North 1959–1971
17th 1971–1975 Tom Chambers Progressive Conservative
18th 1975–1979
19th 1979–1982
20th 1982–1986
21st 1986–1989 Christie Mjolsness NDP
22nd 1989–1993
See Edmonton-Mayfield 1993–1997 and Edmonton-Roper 1993–1997
24th 1997–2001 Lance White Liberal
25th 2001–2004 Brent Rathgeber Progressive Conservative
26th 2004–2008 David Eggen NDP
27th 2008–2012 Doug Elniski Progressive Conservative
28th 2012–2015David EggenNDP
29th 2015–2019
See Edmonton-City Centre, Edmonton-West Henday
and Edmonton-North West 2019–

The electoral district has existed twice since it was first created in 1971. The election held that year saw a hotly contested race between Social Credit incumbent Edgar Gerhart who had been MLA for the old electoral district of Edmonton Northwest and Progressive Conservative candidate Tom Chambers. On election night Chambers defeated Gerhart with just over 50% of the popular vote. His party went on to form its first government that election .

Chambers won his second term in 1975 with a landslide majority of almost 75% of the popular vote. He would be appointed to a cabinet portfolio in the government of Peter Lougheed in 1979. Chambers was re-elected twice more in 1979 and 1982 with shrinking majorities. He retired from office at dissolution in 1986.

The 1986 election was won by NDP candidate Christie Mjolsness. She had previously run against Chambers in the 1982 election and increased the percentage of her popular vote and won on the collapse of the Progressive Conservative vote despite losing raw popular vote. She was re-elected in 1989 in a hotly contested battle with Liberal candidate Lance White.

The riding was abolished in 1993 and redistricted to make Edmonton-Mayfield and Edmonton-Roper. Mjolsness would run for re-election in Roper and be defeated while White would run in Mayfield and be elected defeating incumbent Alex McEachern.

Calder would be re-created out of the two ridings in the 1996 boundary redistribution. White and McEachern would face each other for the second time with White coming out the victor. White would win just over 40% of the popular vote while McEachern finished in third place.

The riding would change hands in 2001 in a very closely contested election as Progressive Conservative candidate Brent Rathgeber defeated White with just over 40% of the popular vote. The NDP would return to office in the next election as NDP candidate David Eggen defeated Rathgeber by a close margin with just over 36% of the popular vote.

The 2008 election would see Eggen defeated by Progressive Conservative candidate Doug Elniski in another close race, with Elniski picking up 41% of the popular vote to Eggen's 40%. Elinski announced his retirement, and did not run again in the 2012 election. [4]

David Eggen was returned to office in the 2012 general election and in the 2015 general election. The 2012 election was another close race, with under 4% difference between Eggen and PC Bev Esslinger. During the 2015 election, Eggen was re-elected with over 70% of the popular vote, marking one of the best results for the provincial NDP in the province.

Legislative election results

1971

1971 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Tom Chambers 5,93152.23%
Social Credit Edgar Gerhart 3,65332.17%
New Democratic Bill Glass1,77215.60%
Total11,356
Rejected, spoiled and declined48
Eligible electors / turnout15,74472.43%
Progressive Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s)
Source: "Edmonton-Calder Official Results 1971 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1975

1975 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Tom Chambers 5,68968.17%15.94%
New Democratic Burke Barker1,64019.65%4.05%
Liberal Jack Pickett6207.43%
Independent Keith Lawson3964.75%
Total8,345
Rejected, spoiled and declined26
Eligible electors / turnout16,67550.20%-22.23%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 14.23%
Source(s)
Source: "Edmonton-Calder Official Results 1975 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1979

1979 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Tom Chambers 5,20558.47%-9.70%
New Democratic Bill Kobluk2,18024.49%4.84%
Social Credit Dan R. Service98211.03%
Liberal Richard Guthrie5356.01%-1.42%
Total8,902
Rejected, spoiled and declined45
Eligible electors / turnout19,48345.69%-4.51%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -7.27%
Source(s)
Source: "Edmonton-Calder Official Results 1979 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1982

1982 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Tom Chambers 8,44255.38%-3.09%
New Democratic Christie Mjolsness 5,52736.26%11.77%
Western Canada Concept Walter Stack1,2748.36%
Total15,243
Rejected, spoiled and declined19
Eligible electors / turnout26,01058.68%12.99%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -7.43%
Source(s)
Source: "Edmonton-Calder Official Results 1982 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1986

1986 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic Christie Mjolsness 5,11450.70%14.44%
Progressive Conservative Tony Falcone2,91028.85%-26.53%
Liberal Al Iafolla1,92519.09%
Western Canada Concept Dave Draginda1111.10%-7.26%
Communist Martin Robbert260.26%
Total10,086
Rejected, spoiled and declined11
Eligible electors / turnout22,15345.58%-13.10%
New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative Swing 1.36%
Source(s)
Source: "Edmonton-Calder Official Results 1986 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1989

1989 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic Christie Mjolsness 5,33842.77%-7.94%
Liberal Lance White 4,43535.53%16.45%
Progressive Conservative Aldo De Luca2,70921.70%-7.15%
Total12,482
Rejected, spoiled and declined23
Eligible electors / turnout22,71455.05%9.48%
New Democratic hold Swing -7.31%
Source(s)
Source: "Edmonton-Calder Official Results 1989 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1997

1997 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Lance White 4,80240.31%
Progressive Conservative Lynn Faulder3,86032.40%
New Democratic Alex McEachern 3,25027.28%
Total11,912
Rejected, spoiled and declined31
Eligible electors / turnout22,31753.52%
Liberal pickup new district.
Source(s)
Source: "Edmonton-Calder Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2001

2001 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Brent Rathgeber 5,12841.98%9.58%
Liberal Lance White 4,65438.10%-2.21%
New Democratic Christine Burdett2,43219.91%-7.37%
Total12,214
Rejected, spoiled, and declined24
Eligible electors / turnout23,67151.70%-1.81%
Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal Swing -2.01%
Source(s)
Source: "Edmonton-Calder Official Results 2001 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2004

2004 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic David Eggen 4,06736.01%16.10%
Progressive Conservative Brent Rathgeber 3,73033.02%-8.96%
Liberal Brad Smith2,98526.43%-11.68%
Alberta Alliance Vicki Kramer5134.54%
Total11,295
Rejected, spoiled and declined48
Eligible electors / turnout23,15348.99%-2.71%
New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative Swing -0.45%
Source(s)
Source: "Edmonton-Calder Official Results 2004 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2008

2008 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Doug Elniski 4,55740.86%7.83%
New Democratic David Eggen 4,35639.05%3.05%
Liberal Jim Kane1,83916.49%-9.94%
Green Michael Brown4023.60%
Total11,154
Rejected, spoiled and declined39
Eligible electors / turnout27,42040.82%-8.17%
Progressive Conservative gain from New Democratic Swing -0.59%

2012

2012 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic David Eggen 5,73138.42%-0.63%
Progressive Conservative Bev Esslinger5,17734.71%-6.15%
Wildrose Rich Neumann2,79018.71%
Liberal Alex Bosse9766.54%-9.94%
Alberta Party David Clark1891.27%
Social Credit Margaret Saunter520.35%
Total14,915
Rejected, spoiled and declined119
Eligible electors / turnout29,53550.90%10.08%
New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative Swing 0.96%

2015

2015 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic David Eggen 12,83770.72%32.30%
Progressive Conservative Thomas (Tom) Bradley3,22217.75%-16.96%
Wildrose Andrew Altimas1,5658.62%-10.08%
Liberal Amit (Sunny) Batra5272.90%-3.64%
Total18,151
Rejected, spoiled and declined42
Eligible electors / turnout36,26650.17%-0.74%
New Democratic hold Swing 24.63%

Senate nominee election results

2004

2004 Senate nominee election results: Edmonton-Calder [5] Turnout 49.21%
AffiliationCandidateVotes% votes% ballotsRank
Progressive Conservative Betty Unger 4,27215.41%46.54%2
 Independent Link Byfield 3,55312.81%38.71%4
Progressive Conservative Bert Brown 3,12611.28%34.06%1
Progressive Conservative Cliff Breitkreuz 2,86710.34%32.23%3
 Independent Tom Sindlinger 2,6629.60%29.00%9
Alberta Alliance Michael Roth2,6089.41%28.41%7
Alberta Alliance Gary Horan2,2928.27%24.97%10
Alberta Alliance Vance Gough2,2838.24%24.87%8
Progressive Conservative David Usherwood2,2107.97%24.08%6
Progressive Conservative Jim Silye 1,8476.67%20.12%5
Total votes27,720100%
Total ballots9,1793.02 votes per ballot
Rejected, spoiled and declined2,215

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

Student vote results

2004

Participating schools [6]
Major General Griesbach School
Sir John Thompson Junior High School
St. Edmund School
Winterburn 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 that reside 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 [7]
AffiliationCandidateVotes%
  Liberal Brad Smith24140.30%
  NDP David Eggen 17028.43%
Progressive Conservative Brent Rathgeber 11419.06%
Alberta Alliance Vicki Kramer7312.21%
Total598100%
Rejected, spoiled and declined19

2012

2012 Alberta student vote results
AffiliationCandidateVotes%
Progressive Conservative Bev Esslinger%
Wildrose Don Martin
  Liberal Alex V Bosse%
Alberta Party David Clark
  NDP David Eggen %
Total100%

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References

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  2. 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). Legislative Assembly of Alberta . Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  3. Electoral Divisions Act , S.A. 2003, c. E-4.1
  4. Parrish, Julia (January 18, 2012). "Edmonton-Calder MLA will not seek re-election". CTV Edmonton. CTV News. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  5. "Senate Nominee Election 2004 Tabulation of Official Results" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 4, 2009. Retrieved February 28, 2010.
  6. "School by School results". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 5, 2007. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
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