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Calgary-Montrose

Calgary Montrose 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 1986 to 2012.

History

This urban district located in central east Calgary was created in the 1986 boundary re-distribution from Calgary-McCall. The district elected Progressive Conservative candidates for its entire history.

The district has seen its share of controversial elections in recent years. The last representative was Manmeet Bhullar, who won his first term in office in a controversial race over Independent Ron Leech in the 2008 general election. The previous representative was Hung Pham, who served from 1993 to 2004.

The Calgary-Montrose electoral district would be dissolved in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution and would be re-distributed into the Calgary-East, Calgary-Greenway and Calgary-Cross electoral districts.

Boundary history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Montrose
Assembly Years Member Party
See: Calgary-McCall 1971-1986
21st 1986–1989 Rick Orman Progressive Conservative
22nd 1989–1993
23rd 1993–1997 Hung Pham
24th 1997–2001
25th 2001–2004
26th 2004–2008
27th 2008–2012 Manmeet Bhullar

Electoral history

The electoral district was created in the 1986 boundary redistribution. The first election held that year saw Progressive Conservative candidate Rick Orman win a comfortable majority to pick up the seat for his party. He was easily re-elected in the 1989 general election with a larger majority. Orman retired from the legislature at dissolution in 1993.

The 1993 election saw Progressive Conservative candidate Hung Pham win a sizable majority to hold the seat for his party. He was re-elected three more times winning in the 1997, 2001 and 2004 general elections. He retired from the legislature in 2008 after a bitter fall out with the Progressive Conservatives.

The 2008 election saw Progressive Conservative candidate Manmeet Bhullar win a hotly contested race over Independent Ron Leech. The pair had been in a disputed nomination race before the general election with the PC constituency association choosing Leech and the party hand-choosing Bhullar as the representative. Leech would petition the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench to overturn the results of the election with allegations that Bhullar and his supporters spurring ineligible voters to cast ballots, interfering with and influencing ballots cast, and violating the secrecy of the voting process.

Legislative election results

1986

1986 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Rick Orman 4,395 59.73%
New Democratic Frank Gereau 2,035 27.66%
Liberal Roly Thomas 710 9.65%
Representative Adrian C. Janssens 218 2.96%
Total 7,358
Rejected, spoiled and declined 12
Eligible electors / turnout 19,816 37.19%
Progressive Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Montrose Official Results 1986 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1989

1989 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Rick Orman 5,044 54.62% -5.11%
New Democratic Frank Gereau 2,585 27.99% 0.34%
Liberal Jamil Farhat 1,605 17.38% 7.73%
Total 9,234
Rejected, spoiled and declined 23
Eligible electors / turnout 21,545 42.97% 5.77%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -2.72%
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Montrose Official Results 1989 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1993

1993 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Hung Pham 4,866 48.14% -6.49%
Liberal Keong Yap 2,592 25.64% 8.26%
New Democratic Jean Munn 1,970 19.49% -8.51%
Independent Blaine Desjardine 613 6.06%
Natural Law Chris Delucé 68 0.67%
Total 10,109
Rejected, spoiled and declined 27
Eligible electors / turnout 20,569 49.28% 6.31%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -2.07%
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Montrose Official Results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1997

1997 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Hung Pham 4,556 58.70% 10.56%
Liberal Diane Danielson 2,576 33.19% 7.55%
Social Credit Christopher Dick 536 6.91%
Natural Law Neeraj Varma 94 1.21% 0.54%
Total 7,762
Rejected, spoiled and declined 18
Eligible electors / turnout 19,703 39.49% -9.79%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 1.51%
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Montrose Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2001

2001 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Hung Pham 6,329 70.60% 11.90%
Liberal Art Danielson 2,093 23.35% -9.84%
New Democratic Robert Scobel 543 6.06%
Total 8,965
Rejected, spoiled, and declined 31
Eligible electors / turnout 21,633 41.58% 2.10%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 10.87%
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Montrose Official Results 2001 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2004

2004 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Hung Pham 3,323 51.30% -19.30%
Liberal Arthur Danielson 1,691 26.10% 2.76%
Alberta Alliance Cyril Collingwood 689 10.64%
New Democratic Jason Nishiyama 420 6.48% 0.43%
Greens Kevin Colton 355 5.48%
Total 6,478
Rejected, spoiled and declined 31
Eligible electors / turnout 22,001 29.59% -12.00%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -11.03%
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Montrose Official Results 2004 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2008

2008 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Manmeet Bhullar 2,627 34.45% -16.84%
Independent Ron Leech 2,010 26.36%
Liberal Michael Embaie 1,396 18.31% -7.80%
Wildrose Alliance Said Abdulbaki 818 10.73% 0.09%
New Democratic Al Brown 512 6.71% 0.23%
Green Fred Clemens 262 3.44% 2.04%
Total 7,625
Rejected, spoiled and declined 55
Eligible electors / turnout 25,175 30.51% 0.92%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -8.55%

Senate nominee election results

2004

2004 Senate nominee election results: Calgary-Montrose Turnout 29.39%
Affiliation Candidate Votes % votes % ballots Rank
  Progressive Conservative Bert Brown 2,587 15.71% 50.55% 1
  Progressive Conservative Betty Unger 2,198 13.35% 42.95% 2
  Progressive Conservative Jim Silye 2,032 12.34% 39.70% 5
  Progressive Conservative David Usherwood 1,712 10.40% 33.45% 6
  Progressive Conservative Cliff Breitkreuz 1,529 9.29% 29.88% 3
  Independent Link Byfield 1,435 8.72% 28.04% 4
Alberta Alliance Vance Gough 1,306 7.93% 25.52% 8
Alberta Alliance Michael Roth 1,280 7.77% 25.01% 7
Alberta Alliance Gary Horan 1,233 7.49% 24.09% 10
  Independent Tom Sindlinger 1,153 7.00% 22.53% 9
Total votes 16,465 100%
Total ballots 5,118 3.22 votes per ballot
Rejected, spoiled and declined 1,349

Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot

2004 student vote results

Participating schools
St. Martha School

On November 19, 2004, a student vote was conducted at participating Alberta schools to parallel the 2004 Alberta general election results. The vote was designed to educate students and simulate the electoral process for persons who have not yet reached the legal majority. The vote was conducted in 80 of the 83 provincial electoral districts with students voting for actual election candidates. Schools with a large student body that reside in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district then where they were physically located.

2004 Alberta student vote results
Affiliation Candidate Votes %
  Progressive Conservative Hung Pham 7 35.00%
Green Kevin Colton 6 30.00%
  Liberal Arthur Danielson 5 25.00%
Alberta Alliance Cyril Collingwood 1 5.00%
  NDP Jason Nishiyama 1 5.00%
Total 20 100%
Rejected, spoiled and declined 0

See also

References

  1. ^ Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (June 2010). "Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ISBN 978-0-9865367-1-7. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  2. ^ Electoral Divisions Act, S.A. 2003, c. E-4.1
  3. ^ "Members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta 1905-2006" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 30, 2007. Retrieved February 27, 2010.
  4. ^ D'Aliesio, Renata (July 26, 2008). "MLA's election opposed". Calgary Herald. Calgary Herald. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
  5. ^ "Senate Nominee Election 2004 Tabulation of Official Results" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 4, 2009. Retrieved February 27, 2009.
  6. ^ "School by School results". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 5, 2007. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
  7. ^ "Riding by Riding Results - the Candidates". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on February 13, 2012. Retrieved April 19, 2008.

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