Calgary-North Explained

Calgary-North
Province:Alberta
Prov-Rep:Muhammad Yaseen
Prov-Rep-Party:UCP
Prov-Status:active
Prov-Created:1957
Prov-Abolished:1971
Prov-Created2:2017
Prov-Election-First:1959, 2019
Prov-Election-Last:1967, 2023
Demo-Pop:39120
Demo-Census-Date:2016
Demo-Area:21.2

Calgary-North (previously styled Calgary North) is a single member electoral district in Calgary, Alberta. The electoral district existed from 1959 to 1971, and was re-established for the 2019 Alberta general election.

Boundary history

1959 Redistribution

The Alberta government decided to return to using the first past the post system of voting from Single Transferable Vote for the 1959 general election. The province redistributed the Calgary and Edmonton super riding's and standardized the voting system across the province.

Calgary North was one of the six electoral districts created that year in Calgary. The others were Calgary Bowness, Calgary Centre, Calgary West, Calgary Glenmore, Calgary North East, and Calgary South East.

The riding was abolished in 1971, split up between Calgary-McKnight, Calgary-North Hill and Calgary-Mountain View.

2017 redistribution

The riding was re-created (with the current hyphenated name) from Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill and Calgary-Northern Hills. It will be contested in the next Alberta general election.

Representation history

Members of the Legislative Assembly
for Calgary-North[3]
AssemblyYearsMemberParty
See Calgary 1921-1959
14th1959–1963Rose WilkinsonSocial Credit
15th1963–1967Robert Simpson
16th1967–1971
See Calgary-McKnight, Calgary-North Hill
and Calgary-Mountain View after 1971
See Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill and Calgary-
Northern Hills
before 2019
30th2019–2023Muhammad YaseenUnited Conservative
31st2023
The first election held in 1959 was contested by two incumbents from the Calgary electoral district facing each other, Rose Wilkinson and Grant MacEwan, plus former MLA Aylmer Liesemer who had been defeated in the 1955 Alberta general election. Wilkinson would win and serve her final term representing the district.

The second election held in 1963 would see Social Credit keep the seat under MLA Robert Simpson. He would win a second term in 1967 and hold the district until it was abolished in 1971.

Election results

2010s

2015 Alberta general election redistributed results

1950s and 60s

External links

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Statutes of the Province of Alberta. 41. 184. Government of Alberta. 1957.
  2. Book: Statutes of the Province of Alberta. 43. 226. Government of Alberta. 1961.
  3. Web site: Members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta 1905-2006 . Legislative Assembly of Alberta . 2009-05-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070930024650/http://www.assembly.ab.ca/legislaturecentennial/pdf/membersBooklet.pdf . September 30, 2007 .