Calgary-Hawkwood
Defunct provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada
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Calgary-Hawkwood was a provincial electoral district in Calgary, 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.
 Alberta electoral district | |
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2010 boundaries | |
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
| District created | 2010 |
| District abolished | 2019 |
| First contested | 2012 |
| Last contested | 2015 |
History
The Calgary-Hawkwood electoral district was created in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution. It was created from parts of Calgary-Bow, Calgary-Foothills, Calgary-North West and a small portion of Calgary-Varsity.[1]
The Calgary-Hawkwood electoral district was dissolved in the 2017 electoral boundary re-distribution into Calgary-Edgemont ahead of the 2019 Alberta general election.[2]
Boundary history
| 15 Calgary-Hawkwood 2010 boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Bordering districts | |||
| North | East | West | South |
| Calgary-Foothills | Calgary-Varsity | Calgary-North West | Calgary-Bow |
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| Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act | |||
Electoral history
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Hawkwood | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Calgary-Bow and Calgary-Foothills 1971–2012, and Calgary-North West 1986–2012 | ||||
| 28th | 2012–2015 | Jason Luan | PC | |
| 29th | 2015–2019 | Michael Connolly | NDP | |
| See Calgary-Edgemont 2019– | ||||
The antecedent electoral districts that comprise Calgary-Hawkwood have been returning mainly Progressive Conservative and the occasional Liberal candidates to office since the 1970s. Varsity has returned a Liberal candidate since 2004 and North West returned a Liberal candidate from 1989 to 1997.
Legislative election results
2012
| 2012 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jason Luan | 9,097 | 47.10% | – | ||||
| Wildrose | David Yager | 7,030 | 36.40% | – | ||||
| Liberal | Maria Davis | 1,632 | 8.45% | – | ||||
| New Democratic | Collin Anderson | 911 | 4.72% | – | ||||
| Alberta Party | Kevin Woron | 242 | 1.25% | – | ||||
| Evergreen | Janet Keeping | 199 | 1.03% | – | ||||
| Social Credit | Len Skowronski | 103 | 0.53% | – | ||||
| Independent | Ed Torrance | 99 | 0.51% | – | ||||
| Total | 19,313 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 138 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 33,663 | 57.78% | – | |||||
| Progressive Conservative pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Source: "15 - Calgary-Hawkwood Official Results 2012 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
2015
| 2015 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Michael Connolly | 7,443 | 36.35% | 31.63% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jason Luan | 6,378 | 31.15% | -15.95% | ||||
| Wildrose | Jae Shim | 4,448 | 21.72% | -14.68% | ||||
| Alberta Party | Beth Barberree | 925 | 4.52% | 3.26% | ||||
| Liberal | Harbaksh Singh Sekhon | 736 | 3.59% | -4.86% | ||||
| Green | Polly Knowlton Cockett | 455 | 2.22% | 1.19% | ||||
| Social Credit | Len Skowronski | 90 | 0.44% | -0.09% | ||||
| Total | 20,475 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 68 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 33,523 | 61.28% | 3.50% | |||||
| New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative | Swing | -2.75% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "15 - Calgary-Hawkwood 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 | Jason Luan | 186 | 43.36% | |
| Wildrose | David Yager | 129 | 30.00% | |
| Liberal | Maria Davis | 53 | 12.44% | |
| Alberta Party | Kevin Woron | 16 | 3.72% | |
| New Democratic | Collin Anderson | 15 | 3.49% | |
| Independent | Ed Torrance | 9 | 2.09% | |
| Social Credit | Len Skowronski | 3 | 0.70% | |
| Total | 430 | 100% | ||