Wild Rose (electoral district)

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Wild Rose
Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta electoral district
Alberta federal ridings (rural) - Wild Rose.svg
Wild Rose in relation to other Alberta ridings
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature House of Commons
District created1986
District abolished2013
First contested 1988
Last contested 2011
District webpage profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011) [1] 138,617
Electors (2011)90,193
Area (km²) [2] 28,054.46
Census division(s) Division No. 6, Division No. 9, Division No. 15
Census subdivision(s) Calgary, Rocky View County, Airdrie, Cochrane, Mountain View County, Canmore, Clearwater County, Olds, Banff, Didsbury

Wild Rose was a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 2015. It had been considered a safe seat for the Conservative Party of Canada.

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Geography

The district was located in the southwest part of Alberta, stretching from the British Columbia border to the outer northern suburbs of Calgary. Within the large riding were: the City of Airdrie, the towns of Olds, Didsbury, Cochrane, Canmore, Sundre, and Banff, the Municipal District of Bighorn No. 8, Mountain View County, Improvement District No. 9, and parts of Clearwater County and Rocky View County. The Stoney First Nation was also located within the riding. The riding was bounded by British Columbia to the west, Calgary to the southeast and Red Deer to the northeast.

History

The electoral district was created in 1986 from Bow River, Red Deer and Macleod ridings.

In 2003, about 30% of this district was transferred to Crowfoot riding and about 4% of Red Deer riding was transferred to this district.

Since its creation Wild Rose was one of the safest ridings in the country for the Conservative Party and its predecessors, which had won every election since 1993 by lopsided margins. Neither the Liberals nor the New Democrats had ever secured more than 15 percent of the vote in Wild Rose. In the 2006 election, the Green Party finished a distant second with 10.84 percent of the popular vote, which was among the highest percentages received for the Green Party in that election. The Green Party candidate, Lisa Fox, was again the second-place finisher in the October 2008 election, finishing ahead of the Liberal, New Democratic and Libertarian candidates with 6,389 votes, but far behind the winner Richards, who won 72.9 percent of all votes cast (36,869 votes total). [3] In 2011 Richards defeated all of his opponents combined by a nearly three-to-one margin.

The riding was abolished in 2015. Most of the riding became Banff—Airdrie. A smaller part was transferred to Red Deer—Mountain View while a small portion went to Yellowhead.

List of Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:

ParliamentYearsMemberParty
Riding created from Bow River, Red Deer and Macleod
34th  1988–1993   Louise Feltham Progressive Conservative
35th  1993–1997   Myron Thompson Reform
36th  1997–2000
 2000–2000   Alliance
37th  2000–2003
 2003–2004   Conservative
38th  2004–2006
39th  2006–2008
40th  2008–2011 Blake Richards
41st  2011–2015
Riding dissolved into Yellowhead, Banff—Airdrie, Red Deer—Mountain View,
Calgary Rocky Ridge, Calgary Skyview and Calgary Nose Hill

Election results

2011 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
Conservative Blake Richards 43,66974.7+1.8$49,673
New Democratic Jeff Horvath6,59511.3+3.1$3,784
Green Michael MacDonald4,0717.0-5.6$5,270
Liberal John Reilly 3,9086.7+1.0$43,616
Christian Heritage Randy VandenBroek1810.3
Total valid votes/Expense limit58,424 100.0
Total rejected ballots128 0.2 0.0
Turnout 58,55261.7 +6
Eligible voters 94,970
2008 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
Conservative Blake Richards 36,86972.9+0.4$50,972
Green Lisa Fox6,39012.6+1.8$14,559
New Democratic Jeff Horvath4,1698.2+0.9$5,001
Liberal Jenn Turcott2,8905.7-4.0$6,555
Libertarian Krista Zoobkoff2460.5
Total valid votes/Expense limit 50,564100.0$101,401
Total rejected ballots1070.2 0.0
Turnout50,67156-9
2006 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
Conservative Myron Thompson 39,48772.2+1.6$52,003
Green Sean Maw5,92910.8+2.6$8,652
Liberal Judy Stewart5,3319.7-2.9$8,736
New Democratic Shannon Nelles3,9727.3-1.2$2,057
Total valid votes54,715100.0
Total rejected ballots1270.20.0
Turnout54,84266.7+5.2
2004 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
Conservative Myron Thompson 33,33770.6-12.7$41,324
Liberal Judy Stewart5,97112.6+1.6$22,911
New Democratic Jeff Horvath4,0098.5+4.4$4,672
Green Chris Foote3,9048.3$696
Total valid votes47,221100.0
Total rejected ballots1010.2-0.1
Turnout47,32261.51-1.0
2000 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
Alliance Myron Thompson 40,19370.4+6.6$38,078
Progressive Conservative Truper McBride7,37012.9-6.1$17,837
Liberal Bryan Mahoney6,33411.1-1.0$8,304
New Democratic Anne Wilson2,3204.1%+0.5$2,552
Independent Garnet T. Hammer9081.6$72
Total valid votes57,125100.0
Total rejected ballots1750.3
Turnout57,30062.5+2.0
1997 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
Reform Myron Thompson 28,56963.8+0.4$43,013
Progressive Conservative Bert Dyck8,50619.0+3.6$34,928
Liberal Bryan Mahoney5,42812.1-2.0$9,259
New Democratic Anne Wilson1,5943.6+1.3$2,614
Green Vanessa Violini6921.5+0.6$275
Total valid votes44,789100.0
Total rejected ballots880.2
Turnout44,87760.5
1993 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Reform Myron Thompson 30,82063.4+30.0
Progressive Conservative Louise Feltham 7,50215.4-32.8
Liberal Roy Shellnutt6,86114.1+4.0
New Democratic Anne Wilson1,0952.3-5.5
National Stuart Hughes8071.7
Independent Michael Leslie5811.2
Green Scott Chisholm Lamont4570.9
Independent Dave Strang2670.5
Natural Law Dale Doram2010.4
Total valid votes48,591100.0
1988 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Progressive Conservative Louise Feltham 20,05448.2
Reform Dal Brown13,89533.4
Liberal Cathy Richards4,20910.1
New Democratic Robin Slater3,2097.7
Confederation of Regions Dennis S. Combs2090.5
Total valid votes41,576100.0

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