Calgary-Cross

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Calgary-Cross
Alberta electoral district
Calgary-Cross 2017.svg
Calgary-Cross within the City of Calgary, 2017 boundaries
Provincial electoral district
LegislatureLegislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA
 
 		 
Mickey Amery
United Conservative
District created1993
First contested1993
Last contested2019

Calgary-Cross is a current provincial electoral district in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Created in 1993, the district is one of 87 districts mandated to return a single member (MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting.

The district was created in the 1993 boundary redistribution from Calgary-McCall and Calgary-Montrose, and present boundaries covers the neighbourhoods of Whitehorn, Temple, Pineridge and Rundle in northeast Calgary.

History[]

The electoral district was created in the 1993 boundary re-distribution from the electoral districts of Calgary-McCall and Calgary-Montrose. The district is named after Alfred Ernest Cross (a member of Calgary's Big Four) who entered politics in 1898, and was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for East Calgary prior to the formation of Alberta.[1]

The 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution saw all land east of 68 Street NE distributed to the new Calgary-Greenway electoral district. The west boundary was moved to Deerfoot Trail claiming land that used to be in McCall, Calgary-East and Calgary-North Hill. When created in 2010, the Calgary-Acadia electoral district would have a population of 46,102, which was 12.77 above the provincial average of 40,880.[2]

The 2017 electoral boundary re-distribution saw Calgary-Cross gain the remainder of the Marlborough community from Calgary-East while moving the Abbeydale community to Calgary-East. The boundaries as adjusted would give the electoral district a population of 50,634 in 2017, 8% above the provincial average of 46,803.[3]

Boundary history[]

Representation history[]

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Cross[6]
Assembly Years Member Party
See Calgary-McCall 1971-1993 and Calgary-Montrose 1986-1993
23rd 1993-1997 Yvonne Fritz Progressive Conservative
24th 1997-2001
25th 2001-2004
26th 2004-2008
27th 2008–2012
28th 2012–2015
29th 2015–2019 Ricardo Miranda New Democratic
30th 2019–present Mickey Amery United Conservative

Calgary-Cross was created from the electoral districts of Calgary-McCall and Calgary-Montrose in the 1993 boundary redistribution. Currently, the constituency is represented by Ricardo Miranda. The first representative was Progressive Conservative member Yvonne Fritz. Prior to representing Montrose she served as an Alderman for the city of Calgary representing the Ward 5 electoral district.

The 1993 election saw Fritz win with a large majority of votes. She sought a second term in 1997 and while her popularity declined she still won very easily over Liberal Keith Jones.

Jones and Fritz would face each other again in the 2001 general election. She would go on to win the district with the largest majority of her career while Jones saw his popular vote collapse. Fritz would win a fourth term in the 2004 general election, seeing almost half her vote disappear.

Fritz became a cabinet minister for the first time in 2004. She won re-election again in 2008.

Legislature results[]

1993 general election[]

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1993 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Yvonne Fritz 6,449 59.73% –
Liberal Keith Hart 3,576 33.12% –
New Democratic Vinay Dey 686 6.35% –
Natural Law Neeraj Varma 86 0.80% –
Total 10,797 – –
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined 31 – –
Eligible electors / Turnout 21,346 50.73% –
Progressive Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Cross Official Results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1997 general election[]

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1997 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Yvonne Fritz 5,964 67.11% 7.38%
Liberal Keith Jones 2,456 27.64% -5.48%
Social Credit Maurizio Terrigno 467 5.25% –
Total 8,887 – –
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined 30 – –
Eligible electors / Turnout 21,811 40.88% -9.84%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 6.43%
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Cross Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2001 general election[]

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2001 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Yvonne Fritz 6,816 74.96% 7.85%
Liberal Keith Jones 1,836 20.19% -7.44%
New Democratic Ramiro Mora 441 4.85% –
Total 9,093 – –
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined 85 – –
Eligible electors / Turnout 21,920 41.87% 0.99%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing 7.65%
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Cross Official Results 2001 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2004 general election[]

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2004 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Yvonne Fritz 3,770 57.71% -17.25%
Liberal Raleigh Dehaney 1,453 22.24% 2.05%
Alberta Alliance Gordon Huth 646 9.89% –
New Democratic Jeanie Keebler 393 6.02% 1.17%
Green Ryan Richardson 271 4.15% –
Total 6,533 – –
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined 49 – –
Eligible electors / Turnout 21,993 29.93% -11.94%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -9.65%
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Cross Statement of Official Results 2004 Alberta general election" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Retrieved March 9, 2020.

2008 general election[]

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2008 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Yvonne Fritz 4,004 56.82% -0.89%
Liberal Ron I. Reinhold 1,567 22.24% 0.00%
Wildrose Alliance Gordon Huth 605 8.59% -1.30%
New Democratic Shelina N. Hassanali 476 6.75% 0.74%
Green Susan Stratton 395 5.61% 1.46%
Total 7,047 – –
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined 34 – –
Eligible electors / Turnout 25,609 27.65% -2.28%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -0.44%
Source(s)
Source: "04 - Calgary-Cross, 2008 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2012 general election[]

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2012 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Yvonne Fritz 5,357 44.65% -12.17%
Wildrose Happy Mann 4,557 37.98% 29.40%
Liberal Narita Sherman 1,220 10.17% -12.07%
New Democratic Reinaldo Contreras 604 5.03% -1.72%
Evergreen Susan Stratton 260 2.17% -3.42%
Total 11,998 – –
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined 116 – –
Eligible electors / Turnout 27,680 43.76% 16.11%
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -13.96%
Source(s)
Source: "06 - Calgary-Cross, 2012 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2015 general election[]

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2015 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
New Democratic Ricardo Miranda 4,602 36.13% 31.10%
Progressive Conservative Rick Hanson 4,501 35.34% -9.31%
Wildrose Moiz Mahmood 2,060 16.17% -21.81%
Liberal Manjot Singh Gill 1,194 9.38% -0.79%
Green Peter Meic 236 1.85% 0.32%
Independent Katherine Le Rougetel † 143 1.12% –
Total 12,736 – –
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined 98 – –
Eligible electors / Turnout 31,535 40.70% -3.07%
New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative Swing -2.94%
Source(s)
Source: "06 - Calgary-Cross, 2015 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
†Le Rougetel was a candidate of the unregistered Communist League. See Ryan Rumbolt, "Communist League candidate Katherine LeRougetel enters mayoral race", Calgary Herald, 5 March 2017, accessed 8 March 2017.

2019 general election[]

Results by Polling Division
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2019 Alberta general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Conservative Mickey Amery 8,907 54.26% 2.75%†
New Democratic Ricardo Miranda 6,135 37.38% 1.24%
Alberta Party Braham Luddu 962 5.86% –
Liberal Naser Kukhun 410 2.50% -6.88%
Total 16,414 – –
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined 121 – –
Eligible electors / Turnout 30,844 53.61% 12.91%
United Conservative gain from New Democratic Swing 0.75%
Source(s)
Source: "05 - Calgary-Cross, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
†Comparison for UCP is to the combined Wildrose & PC vote in 2015

Senate nominee results[]

2004 Senate nominee election district results[]

2004 Senate nominee election results: Calgary-Cross[7] Turnout 29.62%
Affiliation Candidate Votes % Votes % Ballots Rank
Progressive Conservative Bert Brown 3,088 16.47% 52.86% 1
Progressive Conservative Betty Unger 2,530 13.50% 43.30% 2
Progressive Conservative Jim Silye 2,379 12.69% 40.72% 5
Progressive Conservative David Usherwood 1,834 9.78% 31.39% 6
Progressive Conservative Cliff Breitkreuz 1,826 9.74% 31.26% 3
  Independent Link Byfield 1,649 8.80% 28.23% 4
Alberta Alliance Vance Gough 1,427 7.61% 24.43% 8
Alberta Alliance Michael Roth 1,405 7.49% 24.05% 7
Alberta Alliance Gary Horan 1,334 7.12% 22.84% 10
  Independent Tom Sindlinger 1,276 6.80% 21.84% 9
Total Votes 18,748 100%
Total Ballots 5,842 3.21 Votes Per Ballot
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined 673
21,993 Eligible Electors

Voters had the option of selecting 4 Candidates on the Ballot

2012 Senate nominee election district results[]

Student Vote results[]

2004 election[]

Participating Schools[8]
Lester B. Pearson High School
Pineridge Community 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[9]
Affiliation Candidate Votes %
  Liberal Raleigh Dehaney 331 33.95%
Progressive Conservative Yvonne Fritz 272 27.90%
New Democratic Jeanie Keebler 238 24.41%
Green Ryan Richardson 81 8.31%
Alberta Alliance Gordon Huth 53 5.43%
Total 975 100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined 59

2012 election[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Brennan, Brian (2001). Alberta Originals: Stories of Albertans Who Made a Difference. Fifth House. pp. 2. ISBN 1-894004-76-0.
  2. ^ 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). Edmonton, Alta: Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ISBN 978-0-9865367-1-7. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  3. ^ Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (October 2017). "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 978-1-988620-04-6. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  4. ^ "E‑4.1". Statutes of the Province of Alberta. Government of Alberta. 2003. p. 7.
  5. ^ "Bill 28 Electoral Divisions Act" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. 2010.
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ "Senate Nominee Election 2004 Tabulation of Official Results" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 4, 2009. Retrieved February 28, 2010.
  8. ^ "School by School results". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on February 13, 2012. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
  9. ^ "Riding by Riding Results - the Candidates". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 6, 2007. Retrieved April 19, 2008.

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