Calgary Shepard Explained

Province:	Alberta
Fed-Status:	active
Fed-District-Number:	48011
Fed-Created:	2013
Fed-Election-First:	2015
Fed-Election-Last:	2021
Fed-Rep:	Tom Kmiec
Fed-Rep-Party:	Conservative
Demo-Pop-Ref:	^[1]
Demo-Area-Ref:	^[2]
Demo-Census-Date:	2011
Demo-Pop:	110296
Demo-Electors:	111,936
Demo-Electors-Date:	2019
Demo-Area:	186
Demo-Cd:	Division No. 6
Demo-Csd:	Calgary

Calgary Shepard is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2015.

Calgary Shepard was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally defined in the 2013 representation order. It came into effect upon the call of the 42nd Canadian federal election, scheduled for October 2015. It was created out of parts of the electoral districts of Calgary East and Calgary Southeast. The riding's name refers to Shepard, Alberta.

Demographics

According to the 2016 Canadian census

• Languages: (2016) 77.7% English, 3.6% Tagalog, 2.3% Spanish, 1.6% French, 1.4% Vietnamese, 1.1% Mandarin, 0.9% Cantonese, 0.8% Panjabi, 0.8% Russian, 0.8% Arabic, 0.8% Polish, 0.6% German, 0.6% Urdu, 0.5% Romanian^[3]

Panethnic
group! colspan="2"

2021^[4]	2016^[5]		2011^[6]
European	107,835		105,145		84,770
Southeast Asian	16,700		12,405		8,360
South Asian	9,080		6,520		3,370
East Asian	6,415		5,415		2,880
Indigenous	6,270		5,210		3,635
African	6,100		4,415		2,270
Latin American	4,830		3,245		1,830
Middle Eastern	3,160		2,250		1,220
Other/Multiracial	2,560		2,070		1,295
Total responses	162,965		146,680		109,630
Total population	163,447		147,520		110,364

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:

Election results

2023 representation order

2021 federal election redistributed results^[7]
Party		Vote	%
			30,941	61.20
			8,105	16.03
			7,039	13.92
			2,897	5.73
			857	1.70
		Others	716	1.40

2013 representation order

2011 federal election redistributed results^[8]
Party		Vote	%
			29,904	75.52
			4,407	11.13
			2,846	7.19
			2,202	5.56
		Others	241	0.61

See also

• List of Canadian electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada

Notes and References

1. [#2011fed|Statistics Canada]
2. [#2011fed|Statistics Canada]
3. Web site: Mother Tongue (269), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Age (15A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories and Federal Electoral Districts (2013 Representation Order), 2016 Census - 100% Data. August 2, 2017.
4. Web site: Government of Canada . Statistics Canada . 2022-10-26 . Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population . 2023-03-26 . www12.statcan.gc.ca.
5. Web site: Government of Canada . Statistics Canada . 2021-10-27 . Census Profile, 2016 Census . 2023-03-26 . www12.statcan.gc.ca.
6. Web site: Government of Canada . Statistics Canada . 2015-11-27 . NHS Profile . 2023-03-26 . www12.statcan.gc.ca.
7. Web site: Transposition of Votes from the 44th General Election to the 2023 Representation Orders. 9 April 2024. Elections Canada.
8. http://www.punditsguide.ca/riding.php?riding=2106 Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections