| Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner | |
| Province: | Alberta |
| Fed-Status: | active |
| Fed-District-Number: | 48027 |
| Fed-Created: | 1907 |
| Fed-Election-First: | 1908 |
| Fed-Election-Last: | 2021 |
| Fed-Rep: | Glen Motz |
| Fed-Rep-Party: | Conservative |
| Fed-Rep-Party-Link: | Conservative Party of Canada |
| Demo-Pop-Ref: | [1] |
| Demo-Census-Date: | 2011 |
| Demo-Pop: | 102847 |
| Demo-Electors: | 78,384 |
| Demo-Electors-Date: | 2019 |
| Demo-Area: | 29982 |
| Demo-Csd: | Blood 148, Bow Island, Cardston, Cardston County, Coutts, Cypress County, Foremost, Forty Mile County No. 8, Improvement District No. 4, Magrath, Medicine Hat, Milk River, Raymond, Redcliff, Stirling, Warner, Warner No. 5 |
Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner (formerly Medicine Hat) is a federal electoral district in southern Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1908.
Following the 2012 federal electoral redistribution, the riding was renamed Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner.[2]
In 2016, 34.9% of the population of the Medicine Hat constituency were of German ethnic origin, one of the highest percentages in all of Canada.[3]
In the 42nd Canadian Parliament, the seat was represented by Jim Hillyer of the Conservative Party of Canada until his death on 23 March 2016. In the first by-election in the history of the Medicine Hat constituency held on 24 October 2016, Glen Motz of the Conservatives was elected. Motz has been the riding's representative to Ottawa since then.
The constituency covers the City of Medicine Hat and surrounding areas in the southeast corner and southern U.S. border region of Alberta, including Cypress County, the County of Forty Mile No. 8, Warner No. 5 and the Town of Warner, and Cardston County and the Town of Cardston.
| 2021[4] | 2016[5] | 2011[6] | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| European | 86,105 | 86,505 | 85,035 | ||||||||||||
| Indigenous | 9,420 | 9,220 | 8,670 | ||||||||||||
| Southeast Asian | 1,905 | 1,130 | 600 | ||||||||||||
| South Asian | 1,375 | 710 | 470 | ||||||||||||
| East Asian | 1,170 | 935 | 865 | ||||||||||||
| African | 1,050 | 985 | 780 | ||||||||||||
| Latin American | 610 | 740 | 490 | ||||||||||||
| Middle Eastern | 340 | 255 | 135 | ||||||||||||
| Other/multiracial | 310 | 330 | 175 | ||||||||||||
| Total responses | 102,265 | 100,825 | 97,225 | ||||||||||||
| Total population | 108,391 | 106,896 | 102,847 | ||||||||||||
According to the 2011 Canadian census[7] [8]
Languages: 86.4% English, 7.4% German, 1.2% French, ~1.1% Blackfoot (Blackfoot/Kainai counted as "Other language" on the Census; this number derived from "other language" speakers on Blackfoot/Kainai First Nations)
Religions: 72.0% Christian (21.4% Catholic, 9.6% United Church, 6.1% Lutheran, 3.6% Anglican, 2.2% Pentecostal, 1.5% Baptist, 27.6% Other Christian), 1.2% Traditional Indigenous Spirituality, 25.6% None.
Median income: $29,534 (2010)Average income: $39,940 (2010)
Soon after the province of Alberta was admitted to Confederation in 1905, this electoral district was created – in 1907 – from Alberta (Provisional District) and Assiniboia West ridings.
During the 2012 electoral redistribution, "Medicine Hat" was largely succeeded by "Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner", losing territory to Bow River and Battle River—Crowfoot, and gaining territory from Lethbridge and Macleod.[9]
| 2021 federal election redistributed results[10] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |||
| 31,629 | 65.80 | ||||
| 6,678 | 13.89 | ||||
| 4,478 | 9.32 | ||||
| 3,397 | 7.07 | ||||
| 663 | 1.38 | ||||
| Others | 1,226 | 2.55 | |||
| 2011 federal election redistributed results[11] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |||
| 25,659 | 68.70 | ||||
| 5,578 | 14.94 | ||||
| 4,165 | 11.15 | ||||
| 1,658 | 4.44 | ||||
| Others | 287 | 0.77 | |||
Note: Change based on redistributed results. Conservative vote is compared to the total of Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance vote in 2000.
| 2000 federal election redistributed results[12] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |||
| 30,749 | 74.39 | ||||
| 4,273 | 10.34 | ||||
| 4,186 | 10.13 | ||||
| 2,128 | 5.15 | ||||
| Independent | 1 | 0.00 | |||
Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997.
Note: Change based on redistributed results.
| 1993 federal election redistributed results[13] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |||
| 22,014 | 54.79 | ||||
| 8,409 | 20.93 | ||||
| 6,746 | 16.79 | ||||
| 1,776 | 4.42 | ||||
| Others | 1,232 | 3.07 | |||