Ricardo Miranda

The Honourable Ricardo Miranda
Miranda in May 2015

MLA for Calgary-Cross Minister of Culture and Tourism
Incumbent
Assumed office May 5, 2015
Preceded by	Yvonne Fritz
Personal details
Born	1976/1977 (age 38–39) Managua, Nicaragua
Political party	Alberta New Democratic Party
Residence	Calgary, Alberta
Alma mater	University of Calgary
Occupation	Researcher

Ricardo Miranda (born 1976) is a Canadian politician who was elected in the Alberta general election, 2015 to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the electoral district of Calgary-Cross.^[1] On February 2, 2016, Mr. Miranda was appointed Minister of Culture and Tourism.^[2]

He currently serves as chair of the Standing Committee on Alberta’s Economic Future and as a member of the Select Special Ethics and Accountability Committee. Previously he served as a member of the Standing Committee on the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund.

He was one of the first three openly LGBT politicians elected to the provincial legislature, alongside caucus colleagues Michael Connolly and Estefania Cortes-Vargas.^[3]

Miranda graduated from Father Lacombe High School in Calgary, and went on to complete a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Calgary. Miranda previously sat as a board member of the Parkland Institute, an Edmonton-based public policy think tank.^[4]

Electoral history

2015 general election

Alberta general election, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Ricardo Miranda	4,602	36.1%
	Progressive Conservative	Rick Hanson	4,502	35.4%
	Wildrose	Moiz Mahmood	2,062	16.2%
	Liberal	Manjot Gill	1,191	9.4%
	Green	Peter Meic	234	1.8%
	Independent	Katherine Le Rougetel	143	1.1%
Total valid votes

References

Current members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

New Democrat	Notley S. Anderson Babcock Bilous Carlier Carson Ceci Connolly Coolahan Cortes-Vargas Dach Dang Drever Eggen Feehan Fitzpatrick Ganley Goehring Gray Hinkley Hoffman Horne Jabbour Kazim Kleinsteuber Larivee Littlewood Loyola Luff Malkinson Mason McCuaig-Boyd McKitrick McLean McPherson Miller Miranda Nielsen Payne Phillips Piquette Renaud Rosendahl Sabir Schmidt Schreiner Shepherd Sigurdson Sucha Sweet Turner Wanner Westhead Woollard

Wildrose	Jean Aheer W. Anderson Barnes Cooper Cyr Fildebrandt Hanson Hunter Loewen MacIntyre Nixon Orr Panda Pitt Schneider Smith Stier Strankman Taylor van Dijken Yao

Progressive Conservative	McIver Drysdale Ellis Fraser Gotfried Jansen Rodney Starke

Liberal	Swann

Alberta Party	Clark

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