 Albertaelectoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Calgary-South East within theCity of Calgary, 2017 boundaries | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
United Conservative | ||
| District created | 1957 | ||
| District abolished | 1963 | ||
| District re-created | 2010 | ||
| First contested | 1959, 2012 | ||
| Last contested | 1959, 2023 | ||
Calgary-South East (previously styledCalgary South East) is a provincial electoral district inCalgary,Alberta. It has existed twice, first from 1959 to 1963, and then re-created in 2010. The district is mandated to return a single member to theLegislative Assembly of Alberta.
The current electoral district was created from a portion ofAirdrie-Chestermere,Calgary-Hays andCalgary-Shaw. It contains the neighbourhoods of Auburn Bay, Cranston, Mahogany & Seton.
The first provincial electoral district to use the name Calgary South East was created in the 1959 redistribution that saw the provincial ridings ofCalgary andEdmonton broken up. This marked the transition to standardize elections back to theFirst Past the Post across the province. From 1926 to 1959 Calgary and Edmonton, elected members withSingle Transferable Vote in super districts while rest of the province used single member riding's using an Alternate voting method with a 50% margin.
The district was quickly abolished in the 1963 boundary redistribution when it became part of theCalgary South electoral district.
A new electoral district was created in southeast Calgary in the 2010 boundary redistribution. The roots of the new district can be traced back to the old South East district through various changes to the electoral boundaries that have taken place since. The district was created primarily fromCalgary-Hays andCalgary-Shaw and its boundaries were expanded into areas of the oldAirdrie-Chestermere andHighwood electoral districts where the city ofCalgary boundaries had expanded.
| 25 Calgary-South East 2010 boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Bordering districts | |||
| North | East | West | South |
| Calgary-Fort,Calgary-Hays andCalgary-Shaw | Chestermere-Rocky View | Calgary-Lougheed andHighwood | Highwood |
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| Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act. | |||
| Note: | |||
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-South East[1] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| SeeCalgary 1921-1959 | ||||
| 14th | 1959-1963 | Arthur Dixon | Social Credit | |
| SeeCalgary South 1963-1971 | ||||
| SeeCalgary-Hays 2004-2012 andCalgary-Shaw 1986-2012 | ||||
| 28th | 2012–2015 | Rick Fraser | Progressive Conservative | |
| 29th | 2015–2017 | |||
| 2017 | United Conservative | |||
| 2017-2018 | Independent | |||
| 2018-2019 | Alberta Party | |||
| 30th | 2019–2023 | Matt Jones | United Conservative | |
| 31st | 2023–present | |||
The first incarnation of Calgary South East saw Social Credit MLA Art Dixon win his third term in office with a landslide majority. He defeated two city of Calgary alderman to keep his seat in the Assembly. Dixon won the new district of Calgary South after South East was abolished in 1963.
Recently the area that comprises the new Calgary-South East has returned Progressive Conservative candidates with large majorities and has done so since the 1970s. The incumbent for Calgary-Hays during the 2010 boundary shift wasArt Johnston. He tried to run for renomination but was defeated by Progressive Conservative candidate Rick Fraser and won't stand for re-election.
Shortly after the Progressive Conservatives merged withWildrose in 2017, Fraser announced he would sit as an independent. In January 2018 he announced he would run for the leadership of theAlberta Party, but has yet to inform the Speaker whether he intends to join the party caucus.
| 1959 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Social Credit | Arthur J. Dixon | 5,643 | 67.11% | – | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Ernest Henry Starr | 1,537 | 18.28% | – | ||||
| Liberal | Peter Petrasuk | 792 | 9.42% | – | ||||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | George E. Ellinson | 437 | 5.20% | – | ||||
| Total | 8,409 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 53 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / Turnout | 17,299 | 48.92% | – | |||||
| Social Creditpickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s) Source:"Calgary-South East Official Results 1959 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. RetrievedMay 21, 2020. | ||||||||
| 2012 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Rick Fraser | 7,161 | 48.53% | – | ||||
| Wildrose | Bill Jarvis | 6,357 | 43.08% | – | ||||
| Liberal | Brad Carroll | 755 | 5.12% | – | ||||
| New Democratic | Marta Warszynski | 483 | 3.27% | – | ||||
| Total | 14,756 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 37 | 38 | 4 | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 30,914 | 47.87% | – | |||||
| Progressive Conservativepickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s) Source:"25 - Calgary-South East, 2012 Alberta general election".officialresults.elections.ab.ca.Elections Alberta. RetrievedMay 21, 2020. | ||||||||
| 2015 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Rick Fraser | 7,663 | 32.48% | -16.05% | ||||
| New Democratic | Mirical MacDonald | 7,358 | 31.19% | 27.92% | ||||
| Wildrose | Brandon Lunty | 6,892 | 29.21% | -13.87% | ||||
| Liberal | Gladwin Gill | 1,304 | 5.53% | 0.41% | ||||
| Green | Jordan Mac Isaac | 374 | 1.59% | – | ||||
| Total | 23,591 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 103 | 52 | 15 | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 46,871 | 50.58% | 2.72% | |||||
| Progressive Conservativehold | Swing | -2.08% | ||||||
Source(s) Source:"25 - Calgary-South East, 2015 Alberta general election".officialresults.elections.ab.ca.Elections Alberta. RetrievedMay 21, 2020. | ||||||||
| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Matt Jones | 12,860 | 61.21% | -0.48% | ||||
| New Democratic | Heather Eddy | 3,983 | 18.96% | -12.23% | ||||
| Alberta Party | Rick Fraser | 3,810 | 18.13% | – | ||||
| Liberal | Leila Keith | 224 | 1.07% | -4.46% | ||||
| Alberta Independence | Richard Fontaine | 134 | 0.64% | – | ||||
| Total | 21,011 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 47 | 66 | 5 | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 29,578 | 71.21% | 20.63% | |||||
| United Conservativegain fromAlberta Party | Swing | 20.48% | ||||||
Source(s) Source:"24 - Calgary-South East, 2019 Alberta general election".officialresults.elections.ab.ca.Elections Alberta. RetrievedMay 21, 2020. UCP change is based on combination of Progressive Conservative and Wildrose results from the 2015 Alberta general election. | ||||||||
| 2023 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Matt Jones | 14,087 | 58.82 | -2.39 | ||||
| New Democratic | Justin Huseby | 9,442 | 39.42 | +20.47 | ||||
| Green | Catriona Wright | 318 | 1.33 | – | ||||
| Solidarity Movement | Heinrich Friesen | 104 | 0.43 | – | ||||
| Total | 23,951 | 99.39 | – | |||||
| Rejected and declined | 146 | 0.61 | ||||||
| Turnout | 24,097 | 62.81 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 38,368 | |||||||
| United Conservativehold | Swing | -11.43 | ||||||
Source(s) Source:Elections Alberta[2] | ||||||||
| 2012 Alberta student vote results | ||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Progressive Conservative | Rick Fraser | % | ||
| Wildrose | Bill Jarvis | |||
| Liberal | % | |||
| NDP | % | |||
| Total | 100% | |||