Calgary-Klein
 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 | ||
| Last contested | 2015 | ||
Calgary-Klein is a provincial electoral district in 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. The riding is named after former premier Ralph Klein.
History
The electoral district was created in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution. It was created mainly from Calgary-North Hill and a portion of Calgary-Nose Hill.
Boundary history
| 17 Calgary-Klein 2010 Boundaries | |||
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| Bordering Districts | |||
| North | west | West | east |
| Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill | Calgary-Cross | Calgary-Varsity | Calgary-East and Calgary-Mountain View |
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| Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act. | |||
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Electoral history
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Klein | ||||
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| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Calgary-North Hill 1971-2012, Calgary-Nose Hill 2004-2012 | ||||
| 28th | 2012–2015 | Kyle Fawcett | Progressive Conservative | |
| 29th | 2015–present | Craig Coolahan | New Democratic | |
Prior to the election of New Democrat candidate Craig Coolahan in 2015, the antecedent electoral districts that comprise Calgary-Klein elected Progressive Conservative candidates since the 1970s.
Legislature results
2015 general election
| 2015 Alberta general election
results[1] |
Turnout % | Swing | ||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | Party | Personal | |
| New Democratic | Craig Coolahan | 8,098 | 40.29% | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Kyle Fawcett | 4,878 | 26.68% | |||
| Wildrose | Jeremy Nixon | 4,206 | 22.02% | |||
| Liberal | David Gamble | 1,104 | 6.04% | * | ||
| Total | ||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | ||||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | % | |||||
2012 general election
| 2012 Alberta general election
results[2] |
Turnout % | Swing | |||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | Party | Personal | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Kyle Fawcett | 6,852 | 41.21% | +2.89% | |||
| Wildrose | Jeremy Nixon | 5,755 | 34.61% | +25.87% | |||
| Liberal | Christopher Tahn | 1,980 | 11.91% | -20.08% | |||
| New Democratic | Marc Power | 1,687 | 10.15% | -2.21% | |||
| Evergreen | Roger Gagné | 354 | 2.13% | -4.42% | * | ||
| Total | |||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | |||||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | % | ||||||
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