Calgary-Acadia
 Alberta electoral district | |||
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 2010 boundaries | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
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| District created | 2010 | ||
| First contested | 2012 | ||
Calgary-Acadia is a provincial electoral district in the city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The district was created in the 2010 boundary redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post voting system.
History
The electoral district was created in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution. It was created primarily from the old electoral district of Calgary-Egmont and a portion of Calgary-Glenmore. Egmont also had some other areas redistributed to Glenmore and Calgary-Fort
Boundary history
| 03 Calgary-Acadia 2010 Boundaries[1] | |||
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| Bordering Districts | |||
| North | East | West | South |
| Calgary-Buffalo | Calgary-Fort and Calgary-Hays | Calgary-Elbow, Calgary-Glenmore and Calgary-Lougheed | Calgary-Fish Creek |
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| Note: Boundary descriptions were not used in the 2010 redistribution | |||
Representation history
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Acadia | ||||
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| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Calgary-Egmont 1971-2012 | ||||
| 28th | 2012–2015 | Jonathan Denis | Progressive Conservative | |
| 29th | 2015–present | Brandy Payne | New Democratic | |
This area of Calgary that Calgary-Acadia currently bounds has been returning Progressive Conservative candidates to the Alberta Legislature since 1971 with large majorities. The current incumbent who was elected to her first term is Brandy Payne, who defeated the incumbent, Jonathan Denis in the 2015 general election.
Elections
2015 general election
| Alberta general election, 2015 | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Brandy Payne | 5,503 | 34.71 | +30.20 | $240 | |||
| Wildrose | Linda Carlson | 4,981 | 31.42 | -10.66 | $26,028 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Jonathan Denis | 4,604 | 29.04 | -16.74 | $79,171 | |||
| Liberal | Nicholas Borovsky | 764 | 4.82 | -1.45 | $nil | |||
| Total valid votes | 15,852 | |||||||
| New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative | Swing | +23.47 | ||||||
2012 general election
| Alberta general election, 2012 | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jonathan Denis | 6,863 | 45.78 | |||||
| Wildrose | Richard Jones | 6,308 | 42.08 | |||||
| Liberal | Nicole Hankel | 940 | 6.27 | |||||
| New Democratic | Nick Lepora | 677 | 4.52 | |||||
| Evergreen | Antoni Grochowski | 202 | 1.35 | |||||
Student vote results
2012 election
| 2012 Alberta Student Vote results | ||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Progressive Conservative | Jonathan Denis | 341 | 33.46% | |
| Wildrose | Richard Jones | 319 | 31.31% | |
| Liberal | Nicole Hankel | 171 | 16.78% | |
| New Democratic | Nick Lepora | 98 | 9.62% | |
| Evergreen | Antoni Grochowski | 90 | 8.83% | |
| Total | 1,019 | 100% | ||
References
- ↑ "Bill 28 Electoral Divisions Act" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. 2010.