Wild Rose (electoral district)

District created1986

District abolished2013

First contested1988

Wild Rose
Alberta electoral district
Wild Rose in relation to other Alberta ridings
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1986
District abolished	2013
First contested	1988
Last contested	2011
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)^[1]	138,617
Electors (2011)	90,193
Area (km²)^[2]	28,054.46
Census division(s)	Division No. 6, Division No. 9, Division No. 15
Census subdivision(s)	Calgary, Rocky View County, Airdrie, Cochrane, Mountain View County, Canmore, Clearwater County, Olds, Banff, Didsbury

Wild Rose was a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 2015.

The district was located in the southwest part of Alberta, stretching from the British Columbia border to the outer northern suburbs of Calgary. Within the large riding were: the City of Airdrie, the towns of Olds, Didsbury, Cochrane, Canmore, Sundre, and Banff, the Municipal District of Bighorn No. 8, Mountain View County, Improvement District No. 9, and parts of Clearwater County and Rocky View County. The Stoney First Nation was also located within the riding. The riding was bounded by British Columbia to the west, Calgary to the southeast and Red Deer to the northeast.

History

The electoral district was created in 1986 from Bow River, Red Deer and Macleod ridings. In the 2003 federal riding redistribution, about 30% of this district was transferred to Crowfoot riding, while about 4% of Red Deer riding was transferred to Wild Rose.

Since its creation, Wild Rose was one of the safest ridings in the country for the Conservative Party and its predecessors, which had won every election since 1993 by lopsided margins. Neither the Liberals nor the New Democrats had ever secured more than 15 percent of the vote in Wild Rose.

In the 2006 election, the Green Party finished a distant second with 10.84 percent of the popular vote, which was among the highest percentages received for the Green Party in that election. The Green Party candidate, Lisa Fox, was again the second-place finisher in the October 2008 election, finishing ahead of the Liberal, New Democratic and Libertarian candidates with 6,389 votes, but far behind the winner Richards, who won 72.9 percent of all votes cast (36,869 votes total).^[3] In 2011 Richards defeated all of his opponents combined by a nearly three-to-one margin.

The riding was abolished in 2015. Most of the riding became Banff—Airdrie. A smaller part was transferred to Red Deer—Mountain View while a small portion went to Yellowhead.

List of Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:

Parliament	Years		Party
Riding created from Bow River, Red Deer and Macleod
34th	1988–1993	Louise Feltham	Progressive Conservative
35th	1993–1997	Myron Thompson	Reform
36th	1997–2000		Reform
36th	2000–2000		Alliance
37th	2000–2003		Alliance
37th	2003–2004		Conservative
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011	Blake Richards
41st	2011–2015	Blake Richards
Riding dissolved into Yellowhead, Banff—Airdrie, Red Deer—Mountain View, Calgary Rocky Ridge, Calgary Skyview and Calgary Nose Hill

Election results

v t e 2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Blake Richards	43,669	74.75	+1.83	$50,758.04
	New Democratic	Jeff Horvath	6,595	11.29	+3.04	$4,013.97
	Green	Mike MacDonald	4,071	6.97	–5.67	$5,269.70
	Liberal	John Reilly	3,908	6.69	+0.97	$43,225.20
	Christian Heritage	Randy Vanden Broek	181	0.31	–	none listed
Total valid votes/expense limit			58,424	99.78	–	$108,607.98
Total rejected ballots			128	0.22	+0.01
Turnout			58,552	61.23	+5.05
Eligible voters			95,631
	Conservative hold		Swing		–
Source: Elections Canada^[4]^[5]

2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Blake Richards	36,869	72.92	+0.75	$47,931.16
	Green	Lisa Fox	6,390	12.64	+1.80	$14,362.07
	New Democratic	Jeff Horvath	4,169	8.25	+0.99	$5,000.62
	Liberal	Jenn Turcott	2,890	5.72	–4.03	$6,554.66
	Libertarian	Krista Zoobkoff	246	0.49	–	none listed
Total valid votes/expense limit			50,564	99.79	–	$101,401.29
Total rejected ballots			107	0.21	–0.02
Turnout			50,671	56.18	–10.51
Eligible voters			90,193
	Conservative hold		Swing		+1.27
Source: Elections Canada^[6]^[7]

2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Myron Thompson	39,487	72.17	+1.57	$49,582.87
	Green	Sean Maw	5,929	10.84	+2.57	$8,652.76
	Liberal	Judy Stewart	5,331	9.74	–2.90	$8,249.46
	New Democratic	Shannon Nelles	3,968	7.25	–1.24	$2,036.33
Total valid votes/expense limit			54,715	99.77	–	$90,129.54
Total rejected ballots			127	0.23	+0.02
Turnout			54,842	66.69	+5.19
Eligible voters			82,230
	Conservative hold		Swing		+2.24
Source: Elections Canada^[8]^[9]

2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Myron Thompson	33,337	70.60	–12.66	$41,324.92
	Liberal	Judy Stewart	5,971	12.65	+1.56	$22,692.12
	New Democratic	Jeff Horvath	4,009	8.49	+4.43	$5,296.46
	Green	Chris Foote	3,904	8.27	–	$696.47
Total valid votes/expense limit			47,221	99.79	–	$85,605.66
Total rejected ballots			101	0.21	–0.09
Turnout			47,322	61.51	–1.01
Eligible voters			76,939
	Conservative hold		Swing		–7.11
Source: Elections Canada^[10]^[11]

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Alliance	Myron Thompson	40,193	70.36	+6.57	$38,078
	Progressive Conservative	Truper McBride	7,370	12.90	–6.09	$17,837
	Liberal	Bryan E. Mahoney	6,334	11.09	–1.03	$8,304
	New Democratic	Anne Wilson	2,320	4.06	+0.50	$2,552
	Independent	Garnet T. Hammer	908	1.59	–	$72
Total valid votes			57,125	99.69
Total rejected ballots			175	0.31	+0.11
Turnout			57,300	62.52	+2.05
Eligible voters			91,655
	Alliance hold		Swing		+6.33
Source: Elections Canada^[12]^[13]

1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Reform	Myron Thompson	28,569	63.79	+0.04	$43,013
	Progressive Conservative	Bert Dyck	8,506	18.99	+3.48	$34,928
	Liberal	Bryan E. Mahoney	5,428	12.12	–2.08	$9,259
	New Democratic	Anne Wilson	1,594	3.56	+1.36	$2,614
	Green	Vanessa Violini	692	1.55	+0.61	$275
Total valid votes			44,789	99.80
Total rejected ballots			88	0.20	–0.06
Turnout			44,877	60.47	–5.70
Eligible voters			74,214
	Reform hold		Swing		+1.76
Source: Elections Canada^[14]^[15]

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Reform	Myron Thompson	30,986	63.75	+30.32
	Progressive Conservative	Louise Feltham	7,542	15.52	–32.72
	Liberal	Roy Shellnutt	6,902	14.20	+4.08
	New Democratic	Anne Wilson	1,067	2.20	–5.52
	National	Stuart Hughes	809	1.66	–
	Independent	Michael Leslie	562	1.16	–
	Green	Scott Chisholm Lamont	457	0.94	–
	Natural Law	Dale Doram	204	0.42	–
	Independent	Dave Strang	80	0.17	–
Total valid votes			48,609	99.74
Total rejected ballots			125	0.26	+0.08
Turnout			48,734	66.17	–11.67
Eligible voters			73,655
	Reform gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+31.52
Source: Elections Canada^[16]^[17]^[18]

1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Louise Feltham	20,054	48.24	–
	Reform	Dal Brown	13,895	33.42	–
	Liberal	Cathy Richards	4,209	10.12	–
	New Democratic	Robin Slater	3,209	7.72	–
	Confederation of Regions	Dennis S. Combs	209	0.50	–
Total valid votes			41,576	99.82
Total rejected ballots			74	0.18	–
Turnout			41,650	77.83	–
Eligible voters			53,511
	Progressive Conservative notional hold		Swing		–
Source: Elections Canada^[19]^[20]^[21]

Wild Rose (electoral district)

History

List of Members of Parliament

Election results

See also

References

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