Calgary-Currie

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Calgary-Currie
Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta electoral district
Calgary-Currie 2017.svg
Calgary-Currie within the City of Calgary, 2017 boundaries
Provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA
 
 
 
Janet Eremenko
New Democratic
District created1971
First contested 1971
Last contested 2023

Calgary-Currie is a provincial electoral district in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It was created in 1971 and is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting.

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The district is currently represented by Janet Eremenko, a member of the Alberta New Democratic Party (NDP) who was elected in the 2023 Alberta general election.

History

The Calgary-Currie electoral district was created in the 1971 boundary redistribution from parts of Calgary Glenmore and Calgary West.

The 2010 boundary redistribution saw the riding significantly changed. The Electoral Boundary Commission originally tried to abolish the riding but several complaints were submitted to the Commission. Instead the riding was completely redrawn with the north boundary pushed up to the Bow River from 17 Avenue SW into land that was part of Calgary-Bow and Calgary-Buffalo. The east boundary which had gone as far as 1 Street SE was moved west to 14 Street SW losing land to Buffalo and Calgary-Elbow. The south boundary was significantly revised with Elbow causing the riding to gain and lose land with that constituency in a few different places and finally the west boundary was straightened out to run along Sarcee Trail causing the riding to gain land from Calgary-West.

Boundary history

Electoral history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Currie [3]
AssemblyYearsMemberParty
See Calgary Glenmore 1959-1971 and Calgary West 1959-1971
17th 1971-1975 Fred Peacock Progressive Conservative
18th 1975-1979
19th 1979-1982 Dennis Anderson
20th 1982-1986
21st 1986-1989
22nd 1989-1993 Jocelyn Burgener
23rd 1993-1997
24th 1997-2001
25th 2001-2004 Jon Lord
26th 2004-2008 Dave Taylor Liberal
27th 2008-2010
2010-2011Independent
2011-2012 Alberta Party
28th 2012–2015 Christine Cusanelli Progressive Conservative
29th 2015–2019 Brian Malkinson New Democratic
30th 2019-2023 Nicholas Milliken United Conservative
31st 2023 Janet Eremenko New Democratic

The Calgary-Currie electoral district was created in the boundary redistribution of 1971. The electoral district was named after the former Currie Army Barracks which used to exist in Southwest Calgary. The district replaced large portions of Calgary West and Calgary Glenmore.

The first general election in 1971 saw Progressive Conservative candidate Fred Peacock win a tight race over incumbent Social Credit member Frederick Colborne who had previously represented Calgary Centre. His old electoral district was abolished and he decided to run in Currie instead of Calgary-Buffalo.

During his first term Peacock served as a cabinet minister in the Lougheed government. He was re-elected for a second term in 1975 before he retired from provincial politics in 1979.

The second MLA to represent the district was Dennis Anderson. He won a large majority in the 1979 election. He was re-elected in 1982 with the highest popular vote in the districts history. He was also easily re-elected in 1986 and again in 1989 before retiring in 1993.

The third MLA was Progressive Conservative candidate Jocelyn Burgener who won a hotly contested election in 1993 against Mark Waters son of Senator Stan Waters and leader of the Alberta Political Alliance. She was re-elected in 1997 before retiring in 2001.

Former Calgary Alderman Jon Lord became the fourth representative for the district. He was elected with a large majority in the 2001 election. Lord ran for a second term but was defeated by Liberal candidate Dave Taylor, who was a talk radio host in Calgary prior to running for office.

Taylor was re-elected to his second term in 2008. After the election he ran for leadership of the Liberal party but was defeated by David Swann. He left the Liberal caucus on April 11, 2010 to sit as an independent. On January 24, 2011, Taylor joined the Alberta Party.

Legislative election results

2023

2023 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic Janet Eremenko 12,26154.81+11.94
United Conservative Nicholas Milliken 9,18141.04-2.66
Alberta Party Jason Avramenko4091.83-9.19
Green Lane Robson2220.99
Liberal Leila Keith2160.97-1.19
Solidarity Movement Dawid Pawlowski830.37
Total22,37299.12
Rejected and declined1980.88
Turnout22,57062.39
Eligible electors36,178
New Democratic gain from United Conservative Swing +7.30
Source(s)

2019

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Results by Polling Division
2019 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
United Conservative Nicholas Milliken 9,96043.70-0.09$74,793
New Democratic Brian Malkinson 9,76942.86+3.60$60,594
Alberta Party Lindsay Luhnau2,51211.02+3.47$14,604
Liberal Joshua Codd4912.15-5.27$8,132
  Pro-Life Lucas C. Hernandez
60
0.26
+0.25
$500
Total22,79298.77
Rejected, spoiled and declined2841.23
Turnout23,07666.20
Eligible voters34,857
United Conservative notional hold Swing -1.84
Source(s)
Source: Elections Alberta [5] [6] [7]
Note: Expenses is the sum of "Election Expenses", "Other Expenses" and "Transfers Issued". The Elections Act limits "Election Expenses" to $50,000.

2015

2015 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic Brian Malkinson 7,38739.82%34.37%
Progressive Conservative Christine Cusanelli 4,57724.67%-20.29%
Wildrose Terry Devries3,76920.31%-8.57%
Liberal Shelley Wark-Martyn 1,4417.77%-8.32%
Alberta Party Tony Norman1,0065.42%2.17%
Green Nelson Berlin3732.01%0.65%
Total18,553
Rejected, spoiled and declined82487
Eligible electors / turnout37,34249.92%-4.56%
New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative Swing -0.47%
Source(s)
Source: "07 - Calgary-Currie, 2015 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved May 21, 2020.
2015 Alberta general election redistributed results
PartyVotes%
New Democratic 7,10439.27
Progressive Conservative 4,34224.00
Wildrose 3,58019.79
Alberta Party 1,3677.56
Liberal 1,3447.43
Green 3521.95
Social Credit 30.02
Source(s)
Source: Ridingbuilder

2012

2012 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Christine Cusanelli 7,39444.96%7.69%
Wildrose Corrie Adolph4,75028.89%23.40%
Liberal Norval Horner2,64616.09%-29.47%
New Democratic Robert Scobel8965.45%1.10%
Alberta Party Norm Kelly5343.25%
Evergreen Dean N. Halstead2241.36%-5.64%
Total16,444
Rejected, spoiled and declined127
Eligible electors / turnout30,41554.48%15.92%
Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal Swing 3.90%
Source(s)
Source: "07 - Calgary-Currie, 2012 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2008

2008 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Dave Taylor 5,56445.56%0.05%
Progressive Conservative Arthur Kent 4,55237.27%-2.52%
Green Graham Mackenzie8967.34%0.01%
Wildrose Kenneth J.P. Mazeroll6705.49%2.34%
New Democratic Marc Power5314.35%0.13%
Total12,213
Rejected, spoiled and declined6392
Eligible electors / turnout31,84238.56%-6.74%
Liberal hold Swing 1.28%
Source(s)
Source: "05 - Calgary-Currie, 2008 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2004

2004 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Dave Taylor 5,04645.51%21.57%
Progressive Conservative Jon Lord 4,41239.79%-22.36%
Green Kim Warnke8137.33%
New Democratic Robert Scobel4684.22%-5.78%
Alberta Alliance Ken Mazeroll3483.14%
Total11,087
Rejected, spoiled and declined58
Eligible electors / turnout24,60345.30%-2.97%
Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative Swing -16.24%

2001

2001 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Jon Lord 6,92262.15%8.14%
Liberal Pat Murray2,66723.95%-9.05%
New Democratic Garth Mundle1,11410.00%3.54%
Independent J. Bruce Miller4343.90%
Total11,137
Rejected, spoiled and declined72
Eligible electors / turnout23,22048.27%-0.95%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 8.59%
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Currie Official Results 2001 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1997

1997 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Jocelyn Burgener 5,95254.02%6.15%
Liberal Mairi Matheson3,63633.00%-0.37%
New Democratic Liz Blackwood7126.46%-3.73%
Social Credit Jeff Townsend6105.54%
Natural Law Richard Shelford1090.99%
Total11,019
Rejected, spoiled and declined39
Eligible electors / turnout22,46449.23%-8.48%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 3.26%
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Currie Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1993

1993 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Jocelyn Burgener 6,69947.87%-1.75%
Liberal Mairi Matheson4,67033.37%-0.23%
New Democratic Ilona Boyce1,42610.19%-6.60%
Alberta Alliance Mark Waters1,2008.57%
Total13,995
Rejected, spoiled and declined44
Eligible electors / turnout24,32757.71%5.97%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -0.76%
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Currie Official Results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1989

1989 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Dennis L. Anderson 5,07249.62%-9.99%
Liberal Mairi Matheson3,43433.59%13.57%
New Democratic Bruce McGuigan1,71616.79%-1.19%
Total10,222
Rejected, spoiled and declined34
Eligible electors / turnout19,82451.74%4.68%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -11.78%
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Currie Official Results 1989 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1986

1986 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Dennis L. Anderson 5,48359.61%-16.05%
Liberal Rork Hilford1,84220.03%14.68%
New Democratic Glenn Miller1,65417.98%6.93%
Independent Peter Grizans2192.38%
Total9,198
Rejected, spoiled and declined14
Eligible electors / turnout19,57847.05%-17.81%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -12.51%
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Currie Official Results 1986 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1982

1982 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Dennis L. Anderson 9,70175.66%15.99%
New Democratic Glenn Miller1,41711.05%2.02%
Western Canada Concept Darwin M. Sorenson1,0187.94%
Liberal Rork Hilford6865.35%-1.49%
Total12,822
Rejected, spoiled and declined25
Eligible electors / turnout19,80564.87%5.01%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 14.70%
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Currie Official Results 1982 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1979

1979 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Dennis L. Anderson 6,88559.67%-13.38%
Social Credit Charles S. Dunkley2,82224.46%13.15%
New Democratic Glenn Miller1,0429.03%0.45%
Liberal Jerry Arshinoff7896.84%-0.22%
Total11,538
Rejected, spoiled and declined20
Eligible electors / turnout19,30959.86%2.71%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -13.27%
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Currie Official Results 1979 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1975

1975 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Fred H. Peacock 6,06873.06%24.06%
Social Credit Edwin Ens93911.31%-32.32%
New Democratic Hiram Coulter7138.58%1.21%
Liberal Ron Chahal5867.06%
Total8,306
Rejected, spoiled and declined23
Eligible electors / turnout14,57457.15%-17.28%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 28.19%
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Currie Official Results 1975 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1971

1971 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Fred H. Peacock 5,25549.00%
Social Credit Frederick C. Colborne 4,67943.63%
New Democratic Margaret I. Jackson7917.38%
Total10,725
Rejected, spoiled and declined48
Eligible electors / turnout14,47574.42%
Progressive Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Currie Official Results 1971 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

Senate nominee election results

2004

2004 Senate nominee election results: Calgary-Currie [8] Turnout 45.35%
AffiliationCandidateVotes% votes% ballotsRank
Progressive Conservative Bert Brown 3,81315.73%45.50%1
Progressive Conservative Jim Silye 3,62814.97%43.29%5
Progressive Conservative Betty Unger 3,15913.03%37.70%2
 Independent Link Byfield 3,06112.63%36.53%4
 Independent Tom Sindlinger 2,65310.95%31.66%9
Progressive Conservative David Usherwood2,1618.92%25.79%6
Progressive Conservative Cliff Breitkreuz 1,9608.09%23.39%3
Alberta Alliance Vance Gough1,4205.86%16.95%8
Alberta Alliance Michael Roth1,2805.28%15.28%7
Alberta Alliance Gary Horan1,1054.54%13.19%10
Total votes24,240100%
Total ballots8,3802.89 votes per ballot
Rejected, spoiled and declined2,778
24,603 eligible electors

Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot

2012

Student vote results

2004

Participating schools [9]
Alternative High School
Crescent Heights High School
Dr. Oakley School
St. Marys High School
Western Canada High School
Westmount Charter 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 have 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 then where they were physically located.

2004 Alberta student vote results [10]
AffiliationCandidateVotes%
  Liberal Dave Taylor 26632.96%
Progressive Conservative Jon Lord 20325.16%
Green Kim Warnke17321.44%
New Democratic Robert Scobel10913.51%
Alberta Alliance Ken Mazeroll566.93%
Total807100%
Rejected, spoiled and declined37

2012

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