Calgary-Northern Hills
Provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada
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Calgary-Northern Hills was 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. It was dissolved in the 2017 boundary redistribution.
 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 electoral district was created in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution. It was created from Calgary-Mackay which was split to make this district while the rest was merged with Calgary-Nose Hill to make Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill. The district was dissolved into Calgary-North and Calgary-North East by the 2017 Electoral Boundaries Commission.
Boundary history
| 23 Calgary-Northern Hills 2010 boundaries | |||
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| Bordering districts | |||
| North | East | West | South |
| Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill | Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill | Calgary-Foothills | Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill |
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| Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act. | |||
| Note: | |||
Electoral history
| Calgary-Northern Hills | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| Riding created from Calgary-Mackay | ||||
| 28th | 2012–2015 | Teresa Woo-Paw | Progressive Conservative | |
| 29th | 2015–2019 | Jamie Kleinsteuber | New Democratic | |
| Riding dissolved into Calgary-North and Calgary-North East | ||||
The predecessor district Calgary-Mackay returned Progressive Conservative candidates. The current incumbent is Jamie Kleinsteuber who was first elected in 2015 in the riding of Calgary-MacKay.
Legislative election results
2012
| 2012 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Teresa Woo-Paw | 6,144 | 49.02% | |||||
| Wildrose | Prasad Panda | 4,637 | 37.00% | |||||
| Liberal | Kirstin Morrell | 1,058 | 8.44% | |||||
| New Democratic | Stephanie Westlund | 694 | 5.54% | |||||
2015
| 2015 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| New Democratic | Jamie Kleinsteuber | 6,641 | 38.2 | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Teresa Woo-Paw | 5,343 | 30.7 | |||||
| Wildrose | Prasad Panda | 4,392 | 25.3 | |||||
| Liberal | Harry Lin | 1,000 | 5.8 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 17,376 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 160 | |||||||
| Turnout | 17,536 | 46.1 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 38,004 | |||||||
| Source: Elections Alberta[1] | ||||||||
Student vote results
2012
| 2012 Alberta student vote results | ||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Progressive Conservative | Teresa Woo-Paw | % | ||
| Wildrose | Prasad Panda | |||
| Liberal | Kirstin Morrell | % | ||
| NDP | Stephanie Westlund | % | ||
| Social Credit | % | |||
| Total | 100% | |||