Airdrie (electoral district)
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 Alberta electoral district | |
|---|---|
 2010 boundaries | |
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
| District created | 2010 |
| District abolished | 2019 |
| First contested | 2012 |
| Last contested | 2015 |
Airdrie 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 2012 to 2019.
Boundary history
The electoral district was created in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution primarily from the abolished Airdrie-Chestermere electoral district, with a small portion west of the city of Airdrie from the abolished Foothills-Rocky View electoral district.[1]
The Airdrie electoral district was dissolved in the 2017 electoral boundary re-distribution, and portions of the district would form the newly created Airdrie-Cochrane and Airdrie-East electoral districts.[2]
| 47 Airdrie 2010 boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Bordering districts | |||
| North | East | West | South |
| Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills | Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills | Banff-Cochrane | Chestermere-Rocky View |
| Riding map goes here |  |
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| Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act | |||
Electoral history
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Airdrie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Airdrie-Chestermere and Foothills-Rocky View 2004-2012 | ||||
| 28th | 2012–2014 | Rob Anderson | Wildrose | |
| 2014–2015 | PC | |||
| 29th | 2015–2017 | Angela Pitt | Wildrose | |
| 2017–2019 | UCP | |||
| See Airdrie-Cochrane and Airdrie-East 2019- | ||||
The electoral district was created in 2010. Incumbent Airdrie-Chestermere MLA Rob Anderson, who had been elected as a PC in 2008 but crossed the floor to Wildrose, was elected in Airdrie under the Wildrose banner in 2012. However, he subsequently crossed the floor back to the PCs.[3]
Wildrose would re-gain the seat in 2015, sending Angela Pitt to the Legislative Assembly. Amongst the candidates Pitt defeated was PC candidate and Mayor of Airdrie Peter Brown.[4] She would also cross the floor, joining the new United Conservative Party when the PCs and Wildrose decided to merge in 2017.
The riding was abolished when the 29th Legislature expired. Therefore, Airdrie has twice elected Wildrose MLAs, but neither served their full term with the party.
Legislative election results
2012
| 2012 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Wildrose | Rob Anderson | 9,568 | 58.16% | – | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Kelly Hegg | 5,376 | 32.68% | – | ||||
| New Democratic | Bryan Young | 685 | 4.16% | – | ||||
| Liberal | Joel M. Steacy | 525 | 3.19% | – | ||||
| Independent | Jeff Willerton | 297 | 1.81% | – | ||||
| Total | 16,451 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 79 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 31,258 | 52.88% | – | |||||
| Wildrose pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Sources: "Airdrie Official Results 2012 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. The Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the 2012 Provincial General Election for the Twenty-eighth Legislative Assembly (PDF). Elections Alberta. April 27, 2012. pp. 276–280. | ||||||||
2015
| 2015 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Wildrose | Angela Pitt | 7,499 | 35.08% | -23.08% | ||||
| New Democratic | Chris Noble | 6,388 | 29.88% | 25.72% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Peter Brown | 6,181 | 28.91% | -3.77% | ||||
| Alberta Party | Jeremy Klug | 912 | 4.27% | – | ||||
| Independent | Jeff Willerton | 399 | 1.87% | 0.06% | ||||
| Total | 21,379 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled, and declined | 103 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 40,045 | 53.64% | 0.76% | |||||
| Wildrose hold | Swing | -10.14% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Airdrie Official Results 2015 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
Student vote results
2012
| 2012 Alberta student vote results | ||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Progressive Conservative | Kelly Hegg | % | ||
| Wildrose | Rob Anderson | |||
| Liberal | % | |||
| New Democratic | Bryan Young | % | ||
| Total | 100% | |||