Calgary Fort
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Calgary Fort is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada.
The Electoral District is named after historical Fort Calgary. The district lies in the Central SE of the city.
The first election in Calgary Fort was in 1997, it was created out of Calgary East. The Riding covers some of the cities older blue collar neighborhoods including Forest Lawn, Dover, Inglewood, Lynwood Ridge, Ogden, Erinwoods and the Foothills Industrial Park. The riding is largely broken with three distinct residential sections surrounded by industrial areas.
The riding has suffered from a number of environmental problems in recent years caused by heavy industry. Soil contamination from the old oil refinary in Lynwood Ridge has created a ghost town of houses in limbo. Canadian Pacific Railway has also been to blame for heavy soil contamination affecting residents along the tracks in Ogden by a chemical known as Trichloroethylene used as a track degreaser. In 2001 the Hub Oil refinery just east of Erin Woods exploded raining contamination on the neighborhood. The riding also has a quarantined site where the Inglewood Refinery used to be for soil contamination problems.
The riding has been a Progressive Conservative strong hold since it's creation in 1997 and only held by Wayne Cao, however support dipped in the last election. The Liberals have managed to finish second in every election, but have lost significant votes in the last two. No candidate has run more then once to oppose the incumbent.
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[edit] Boundaries
As defined in the Electoral Divisions Act 2003
East Border
The east part of the riding follows the city limits north from Glenmore Trail to 17th Ave S.E.
Airdrie-Chestermere borders to the east.
North Border
The North border runs from the city limits along 17th Ave SE until 52th St SE when it travels north to 8th Ave SE. At 36th Street the border goes south, until it reaches 26th ave. It travels west along 26th ave until it reaches the Bow River.
Calgary Montrose , Calgary East and Calgary Mountain View border to the north.
West Border
The Western border goes south where the Elbow River meets the Bow River Moves and then turns south east, moving along the train tracks until they intersect with the Bow River the border moves south along the right bank until Glenmore Trail and turns east.
Calgary Buffalo and Calgary Egmont border to the west.
South Border
The south border follows Glenmore Trail east from the Bow River all the way to the city limits and turns north.
Calgary Hays borders to the south.
Note:
- Boundary description condensed from description in the act.
[edit] Demographics
Total Population
41,392
51.8% Male
48.2% Female
32.5% Married
30.7% Single never married
Population by Age
- 0-4 2,890 7.0
- 5-19 8,385 20.3
- 20-24 3,065 7.4
- 25-44 15,135 36.7
- 45-64 8,520 20.7
- 65-74 2,055 5.0
- 75+ 1,195 2.9
Registered Voters
23,017
Source Alberta Government
[edit] Riding Associations
4 Associations Registered with Elections Alberta
- Alberta Alliance, President Travis Chase
- Liberal, President Andy Balser
- NDP, President ??
- Progressive Conservative, President Robert Gray
[edit] Election Results 1997 - present
| 2004 Results | 2001 Results | 1997 Results | ||||||||||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % |
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| Progressive Conservative | Wayne Cao | 4,136 | 53.41% | Progressive Conservative | Wayne Cao | 6,740 | 68.38% | Progressive Conservative | Wayne Cao | 4,410 | 48.82% | |||
| Liberal | Gerry Hart | 1,784 | 23.04% | Liberal | Brian Huskins | 2,004 | 20.39% | Liberal | Shirley-Anne Reuben | 2,817 | 31.18% | |||
| Alberta Alliance | Travis Chase | 589 | 7.61% | N.D.P. | Vinay Dey | 501 | 5.10% | Social Credit | Bren Blanchet | 916 | 10.14% | |||
| N.D.P. | Elizabeth Thomas | 583 | 7.53% | Social Credit | Raymond Hurst | 160 | 1.61% | N.D.P. | Ken Sahil | 891 | 9.86% | |||
| Green | Tyler Charkie | 440 | 5.68% | Green | Michael Alvarez-Toye | 121 | 1.27% | |||||||
| Separation | Leo Ollenberger | 212 | 2.73% | Independent | Metro Demchynski | 102 | 1.04% | |||||||
| Independent | Brian Slater | 100 | 1.02% | |||||||||||
| Alberta First | Wyatt McIntyre | 99 | 1.01% | |||||||||||
[edit] 2004 Senator in waiting district results
| 2004 Senator in Waiting Results: Calgary Fort | |||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | Rank |
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| Progressive Conservative | Bert Brown | 3,573 | 17% | 2 | |
| Progressive Conservative | Betty Unger | 2,769 | 13% | 1 | |
| Progressive Conservative | Jim Silye | 2,645 | 12% | 5 | |
| Progressive Conservative | Cliff Breitkreuz | 2,280 | 11% | 3 | |
| Progressive Conservative | David Usherwood | 2,035 | 10% | 6 | |
| Independent | Link Byfield | 1,877 | 9% | 4 | |
| Independent | Tom Sindlinger | 1,538 | 7% | 9 | |
| Alberta Alliance | Vance Gough | 1,509 | 7% | 8 | |
| Alberta Alliance | Michael Roth | 1,498 | 7% | 7 | |
| Alberta Alliance | Gary Horan | 1,467 | 7% | 10 | |
Voters had the option of selecting 4 Candidates on the Ballot
[edit] Alberta Student Vote 2004
On November 19th 2004 a Student Vote was conducted at participating Alberta schools of all types, to parallel the 2004 Election results and to educate students about the electoral process. The vote was conducted in 80 of the 83 ridings.
[edit] Participating schools in Calgary Fort
- Ian Bazalgette Jr. High School
- Sherwood School
[edit] Student Vote 2004 Results
| 2004 Student Vote Results | ||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % |
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| Progressive Conservative | Wayne Cao | 53 | 38.1% | |
| Green | Tyler Charkie | 40 | 28.8% | |
| Liberal | Gerry Hart | 25 | 18.0% | |
| Alberta Alliance | Travis Chase | 8 | 5.8% | |
| Separation | Leo Ollenberger | 7 | 5.0% | |
| N.D.P. | Elizabeth Thomas | 6 | 4.3% | |
[edit] External links
- Electoral Divisions Act 2003
- Riding Map for Calgary Fort
- Government of Alberta Demographics Calgary Fort
- Website of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
- Student Vote Alberta
- Millican-Ogden still living with contamination FFWD Weekly January 25, 2005
- Calgary Fort Alberta Alliance Constituency Association
