Cardston-Taber-Warner

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Cardston-Taber-Warner
Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta electoral district
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2010 boundaries
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of Alberta
District created1996
District abolished2017
First contested 1997
Last contested 2015

Cardston-Taber-Warner 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 1996 and 2019.

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The district was created in the 1996 boundary redistribution when Cardston-Chief Mountain and Taber-Warner were merged. The district comprises most of southern southwest Alberta on the United States-Canada border. It is mostly rural and contains a wide range of topography from Mountains to farmlands, including Waterton Lakes National Park and the Blood Reserve. Cardston-Taber-Warner and its antecedents have a long history that dates back to the old Cardston riding in the Northwest Territories.

The district has been held by right of center parties since it was created in 1997, and has held the distinction of being one rural riding not continuously held by the Progressive Conservatives in Alberta before many were lost in the 2012 Alberta general election. The Progressive Conservatives elected Ron Hirath and then Broyce Jacobs and the Alberta Alliance captured the district in 2004 holding it for a term before Broyce Jacobs won it back in 2008. The Wildrose Party won the district when Gary Bikman won it in the 2012 Alberta general election, and regained the seat in the 2015 Alberta general election, months after Bikman crossed to the PC Party.

History

The electoral district was created in the 1996 boundary re-distribution from the old ridings of Cardston-Chief Mountain and Taber-Warner.

The 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution saw only one minor change made to the riding when the Blood Reserve was transferred to the district from Livingstone-Macleod. [1]

The Cardston-Taber-Warner electoral district was dissolved in the 2017 electoral boundary re-distribution, and portions of the district would form the newly created Cardston-Siksika and Taber-Warner electoral districts. [2]

Boundary history

Electoral history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Cardston-Taber-Warner [4]
AssemblyYearsMemberParty
See Cardston-Chief Mountain 1993-1997
and Taber-Warner 1963-1997
24th 1997–2001 Ron Hierath Progressive Conservative
25th 2001–2004 Broyce Jacobs
26th 2004–2008 Paul Hinman Alberta Alliance
2008 Wildrose Alliance
27th 2008–2012Broyce JacobsProgressive Conservative
28th 2012–2014 Gary Bikman Wildrose
2014–2015 Progressive Conservative
29th 2015–2017 Grant Hunter Wildrose
2017-2019 United Conservative
See Cardston-Siksika and Taber-Warner 2019-

Cardston-Taber-Warner was contested six times in general elections, each time changing its MLA. The first election held in 1997 saw Taber-Warner incumbent Ron Hierath run for his second term in office in the district. He ran against three other candidates taking 60% of the vote to pick up the new district for the Progressive Conservatives.

Hierath retired at dissolution in 2001. He was replaced by Progressive Conservative candidate Broyce Jacobs who the district easily over Alberta First Party leader John Reil who made a strong second place showing in the field of four candidates.

Jacobs stood for a second term in office in the 2004 general election but was defeated in a hotly contested race by Alberta Alliance candidate Paul Hinman. The Senate nominee election results also favored the Alberta Alliance well with the three Alliance candidates finishing in the top four spots.

Hinman became leader of the Alberta Alliance in 2005. He would lead his party to a merger with the unregistered Wildrose Party headed by party President Link Byfield on January 19, 2008. However Hinman would be defeated by Jacobs in the 2008 election held just weeks after his party merger.

Jacobs would be forced into retirement in the run up to the 2012 election after he lost his party nomination meeting to Pat Shimbashi. The general election saw the Wildrose party reclaim the district with candidate Gary Bikman defeating Shimbashi by a wide margin to earn his first term in office. Bikman subsequently crossed the floor to the PCs in 2014. [5]

Wildrose re-gained the riding in 2015, with Grant Hunter becoming its last MLA. He also crossed the floor, joining the United Conservative Party when the PCs and Wildrose decided to merge in 2017. [6]

Legislative election results

1997

1997 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Ron Hierath 5,15759.18%
Social Credit Ken Rose1,56817.99%
Liberal James Jackson1,47116.88%
New Democratic Suzanne Sirias5185.94%
Total8,714
Rejected, spoiled and declined18
Eligible electors / turnout17,74149.22%
Progressive Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s)
Source: "Cardston-Taber-Warner Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2001

2001 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Broyce Jacobs 5,25653.63%−5.55%
Alberta First John Reil 2,55726.09%
Liberal Ron Hancock1,74717.83%0.95%
New Democratic Suzanne Sirias2402.45%−3.50%
Total9,800
Rejected, spoiled and declined21
Eligible electors / turnout18,470 53.17%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing −15.82%
Source(s)
Source: "Cardston-Taber-Warner Official Results 2001 Alberta general election" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Retrieved March 9, 2020.

2004

2004 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Alberta Alliance Paul Hinman 3,88543.98%
Progressive Conservative Broyce Jacobs 3,75642.52%-11.12%
Liberal Paula Shimp7838.86%-8.96%
Greens Lindsay Ferguson2252.55%
New Democratic Luann Bannister1852.09%-0.35%
Total8,834
Rejected, spoiled and declined47
Eligible electors / turnout19,03046.67%-6.44%
Alberta Alliance gain from Progressive Conservative Swing -13.04%

2008

2008 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Broyce Jacobs 4,37446.02%3.50%
Wildrose Alliance Paul Hinman 4,32545.50%2.98%
Liberal Ron Hancock4364.59%-4.28%
New Democratic Suzanne Sirias1902.00%-0.10%
Green William Turner1801.89%-0.66%
Total9,505
Rejected, spoiled and declined14
Eligible electors / turnout19,90547.82%1.15%
Progressive Conservative gain from Alberta Alliance Swing -0.47%

2012

2012 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Wildrose Gary Bikman 6,11654.57%9.07%
Progressive Conservative Patrick Shimbashi4,26938.09%-7.93%
New Democratic Aaron Haugen4824.30%2.30%
Liberal Helen McMenamin3413.04%-1.54%
Total11,208
Rejected, spoiled and declined54
Eligible electors / turnout24,84545.33%-2.49%
Wildrose gain from Progressive Conservative Swing 7.98%
Source(s)
Source: "53 - Cardston-Taber-Warner Official Results 2012 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2015

2015 Alberta general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Wildrose Grant Hunter 5,12641.79%-12.78%
Progressive Conservative Brian Brewin4,35635.51%-2.58%
New Democratic Aaron Haugen2,40719.62%15.32%
Alberta Party Delbert Bodnarek3783.08%
Total12,267
Rejected, spoiled and declined18
Eligible electors / turnout23,91851.36%6.03%
Wildrose hold Swing -5.10%
Source(s)
Source: "53 - Cardston-Taber-Warner Official Results 2015 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta . Retrieved May 21, 2020.

Senate nominee election results

2004

2004 Alberta Senate nominee election results: Cardston-Taber-Warner [7] Turnout 46.43%
AffiliationCandidateVotes% votes% ballotsRank
Alberta Alliance Vance Gough3,67215.58%46.75%8
Progressive Conservative Bert Brown 3,07613.05%39.16%1
Alberta Alliance Michael Roth2,96112.56%37.70%7
Alberta Alliance Gary Horan2,77511.77%35.33%10
Progressive Conservative Betty Unger 2,40710.21%30.64%2
 Independent Link Byfield 2,2639.60%28.81%4
Progressive Conservative Cliff Breitkreuz 1,7327.35%22.05%3
Progressive Conservative David Usherwood1,6497.00%20.99%6
Progressive Conservative Jim Silye 1,6396.95%20.87%5
 Independent Tom Sindlinger 1,3955.93%17.76%9
Total votes23,569100%
Total ballots7,8553.00 votes per ballot
Rejected, spoiled and declined980

Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot

2012

Student vote results

2004

Participating schools [8]
Glenwood School
Magrath Junior Senior High School
Raymond Jr. High School
St. Marys School
Taber Christian School
Tween Valley Christian School
W.R. Myers High 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 [9]
AffiliationCandidateVotes%
Alberta Alliance Paul Hinman 38238.90%
Progressive Conservative Broyce Jacobs 36737.37%
Green Lindsay Ferguson10310.49%
New Democratic Luann Bannister737.43%
Liberal Paula Shimp575.81%
Total982100%
Rejected, spoiled and declined46

2012

2012 Alberta student vote results
AffiliationCandidateVotes%
Progressive Conservative Pat Shimbashi4270%
Wildrose Gary Bikman6111%
Liberal Helen McNenamin341%
New Democratic Aaron Haugen482%
Social Credit %
Total100%

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