Calgary-Edgemont Explained

Calgary-Edgemont
Province:	Alberta
Prov-Rep:	Julia Hayter
Prov-Rep-Party:	NDP
Prov-Status:	active
Prov-Created:	2017
Prov-Election-First:	2019
Prov-Election-Last:	2023
Demo-Pop:	50803
Demo-Census-Date:	2016
Demo-Pop-Ref:	^[1]
Demo-Area:	19.2

Calgary-Edgemont is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. 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. It was contested for the first time in the 2019 Alberta election.

Geography

The district is located in northwestern Calgary, containing the neighbourhoods of Dalhousie, Edgemont, Ranchlands, Hawkwood, and Hamptons.

History

Members for Calgary-Edgemont
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
See Calgary-Hawkwood 2012–2019
30th	2019–2023			Prasad Panda	UCP
31st	2023–present			Julia Hayter	NDP

The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended renaming Calgary-Hawkwood and shifting its boundaries eastward into Calgary-Foothills and Calgary-Varsity, losing the Silver Springs, Citadel and Arbour Lake neighbourhoods while gaining Dalhousie, Edgemont, and Hamptons. The riding is one of the more populous districts created in this redistribution, resulting from the Commission's decision not to divide any of its communities.^[2]

Electoral results

2015

Notes and References

1. [Statistics Canada]
2. Web site: Final Report. Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission. Oct 2017. 37. https://web.archive.org/web/20180124071255/http://abebc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/EBC%20Final%20Report%202017%20NoMaps.pdf#. 2018-01-24. dead. 2018-02-01.