Lizette Tejada | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Calgary-Klein | |
| Assumed office May 29, 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Jeremy Nixon |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | NDP |
| Alma mater | Toronto Metropolitan University University of Calgary |
Lizette Tejada is a Canadian politician from the Alberta New Democratic Party. She has been Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Calgary-Klein since the 2023 Alberta general election. [1]
Tejada was born in Edmonton,Alberta to parents who came to Canada from El Salvador in the 1970s. [2]
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Prior to being elected, Tejada worked as a political staffer for Calgary-Mountain View MLA Kathleen Ganley.
Tejada won the hotly-contested race to receive the ANDP's nomination in Calgary-Klein; which featured four other potential candidates.
In the 2023 Alberta general election, Tejada defeated incumbent MLA Jeremy Nixon, a cabinet member in Danielle Smith's UCP government.
| 2023 Alberta general election : Calgary-Klein | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Lizette Tejada | 10,564 | 50.87 | +10.97 | ||||
| United Conservative | Jeremy Nixon | 9,697 | 46.69 | -0.92 | ||||
| Green | Kenneth Drysdale | 353 | 1.70 | +0.36 | ||||
| Solidarity Movement | Rob Oswin | 153 | 0.74 | – | ||||
| Total | 20,767 | 99.17 | – | |||||
| Rejected and declined | 173 | 0.83 | ||||||
| Turnout | 20,940 | 59.23 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 35,352 | |||||||
| New Democratic gain from United Conservative | Swing | +5.95 | ||||||
Source(s) Source: Elections Alberta [3] | ||||||||
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