Edmonton-Calder

Edmonton-Calder is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. A district with this name has existed twice, with the first incarnation existing from 1971 to 1993 and the second from 1996 to present.

History

The first Edmonton-Calder electoral district was created in the 1971 boundary redistribution from the electoral districts of Edmonton North West and Edmonton North. It was abolished in 1993 to create parts Edmonton-Mayfield and Edmonton-Roper.

Calder was re-created in the same general area out of Mayfield and Roper in the 1996 boundary redistribution. In 2010 the boundaries were significantly redrawn. The northern boundaries were pushed from 137 Avenue to the Edmonton city limits between 127 Street and 184 Street into land that used to be part of Edmonton-Castle Downs. The south boundary which used to run along Stony Plain Road was pushed north to Yellowhead Trail ceding land to Edmonton-Meadowlark and Edmonton-Glenora.

Boundary history

26 Edmonton-Calder 2003 Boundaries^[1]
Bordering Districts
North	East	West	South
Edmonton-Castle Downs, St. Albert	Edmonton-Decore, Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood	Spruce Grove-Sturgeon-St. Albert	Edmonton-Centre, Edmonton-Glenora, Edmonton-Meadowlark
riding map goes here
Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act.
Starting at the intersection of the west Edmonton city boundary with the south shore of Big Lake; then 1. northeast along the city boundary to the intersection with 137 Avenue; 2. east along 137 Avenue to 113A Street (Castle Downs Road); 3. north along 113A Street to 153 Avenue; 4. east along 153 Avenue to 97 Street; 5. south along 97 Street to 111 Avenue; 6. west along 111 Avenue to 121 Street; 7. north along 121 Street and its northerly extension to 118 Avenue; 8. west along 118 Avenue to the northbound lanes of 170 Street; 9. south along the northbound lanes of 170 Street to Stony Plain Road; 10. west along Stony Plain Road to the west Edmonton city boundary; 11. north along the west city boundary to the starting point.
Note:

29 Edmonton-Calder 2010 Boundaries
Bordering Districts
North	East	West	South
Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater, Edmonton-Castle Downs and St. Albert	Edmonton-Decore and Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood	Spruce Grove-St. Albert	Edmonton-Centre, Edmonton-Glenora and Edmonton-Meadowlark

Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act.

Note:

Electoral history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Edmonton-Calder
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
See Edmonton North West 1959-1971 and Edmonton North 1959-1971
17th	1971-1975		Tom Chambers	Progressive Conservative
18th	1975-1979
19th	1979-1982
20th	1982-1986
21st	1986-1989		Christie Mjolsness	NDP
22nd	1989-1993		Christie Mjolsness	NDP
See Edmonton-Mayfield 1993-1997 and Edmonton-Roper 1993-1997
24th	1997-2001		Lance White	Liberal
25th	2001-2004		Brent Rathgeber	Progressive Conservative
26th	2004-2008		David Eggen	NDP
27th	2008-2012		Doug Elniski	Progressive Conservative
28th	2012–present		David Eggen	NDP

The electoral district has existed twice since it was first created in 1971. The election held that year saw a hotly contested race between Social Credit incumbent Edgar Gerhart who had been MLA for the old electoral district of Edmonton Northwest and Progressive Conservative candidate Tom Chambers. On election night Chambers defeated Gerhart with just over 50% of the popular vote. His party went on to form its first government that election .

Chambers won his second term in 1975 with a landslide majority of almost 75% of the popular vote. He would be appointed to a cabinet portfolio in the government of Peter Lougheed in 1979. Chambers was re-elected twice more in 1979 and 1982 with shrinking majorities. He retired from office at dissolution in 1986.

The 1986 election was won by NDP candidate Christie Mjolsness. She had previously ran against Chambers in the 1982 election and increased the percentage of her popular vote and won on the collapse of the Progressive Conservative vote despite losing raw popular vote. She was re-elected in 1989 in a hotly contested battle with Liberal candidate Lance White.

The riding was abolished in 1993 and redistricted to make Edmonton-Mayfield and Edmonton-Roper. Mjolsness would run for re-election in Roper and be defeated while White would run in Mayfield and be elected defeating incumbent Alex McEachern.

Calder would be re-created out of the two ridings in the 1996 boundary redistribution. White and McEachern would face each other for the second time with White coming out the victor. White would win just over 40% of the popular vote while McEachern finished in third place.

The riding would change hands in 2001 in a very closely contested election as Progressive Conservative candidate Brent Rathgeber defeated White with just over 40% of the popular vote. The NDP would return to office in the next election as NDP candidate David Eggen defeated Rathgeber by a razor thin margin with just over 36% of the popular vote.

The 2008 election would see Eggen defeated by Progressive Conservative candidate Doug Elniski who would almost 41% of the vote to Eggen winning just under 40%. Elinski announced his retirement and will not be running again in the 2012 election.

Legislature results 1971-1993

1971 general election

1971 Alberta general election results^[2]			Turnout 72.43%		Swing
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Progressive Conservative	Tom Chambers	5,931	52.23%	*
	Social Credit	Edgar Gerhart	3,653	32.17%	*
	NDP	Bill Glass	1,772	15.60%	*
Total			11,356	100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			48
15,774 Eligible Electors
	Progressive Conservative pickup new district				Swing N/A

1975 general election

1975 Alberta general election results^[3]			Turnout 50.20%		Swing
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Progressive Conservative	Tom Chambers	5,689	68.17%	15.94%
	NDP	Burke Barker	1,640	19.65%	4.05%	*
	Liberal	Jack Pickett	620	7.43%	*
	Independent	Keith Lawson	396	4.75%	*
Total			8,345	100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			26
16,675 Eligible Electors
	Progressive Conservative hold				Swing 10.00%

1979 general election

1979 Alberta general election results^[4]			Turnout 45.92%		Swing
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Progressive Conservative	Tom Chambers	5,205	58.47%	-9.70%
	NDP	Bill Kobluk	2,180	24.49%	4.84%	*
	Social Credit	Dan Service	982	11.03%	*
	Liberal	Richard Guthrie	535	6.01%	-1.42%	*
Total			8,902	100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			45
19,483 Eligible Electors
	Progressive Conservative hold				Swing -12.82%

1982 general election

1982 Alberta general election results^[5]			Turnout 58.68%		Swing
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Progressive Conservative	Tom Chambers	8,442	55.38%	-3.09%
	NDP	Christie Mjolsness	5,527	36.26%	11.77%	*
	Western Canada Concept	Walter Stack	1,274	8.36%	*
Total			15,243	100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			19
26,010 Eligible Electors
	Progressive Conservative hold				Swing -7.43%

1986 general election

1986 Alberta general election results^[6]			Turnout 45.58%		Swing
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	NDP	Christie Mjolsness	5,114	50.70%	14.44%
	Progressive Conservative	Tony Falcone	2,910	28.85%	-26.53%	*
	Liberal	Al Iafolla	1,925	19.09%	*
	Western Canada Concept	Dave Draginda	111	1.10%	-7.26%	*
	Communist	Martin Robbert	26	0.26%	*
Total			10,086	100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			11
22,153 Eligible Electors
	NDP pickup from Progressive Conservative				Swing 20.49%

1989 general election

1989 Alberta general election results^[7]			Turnout 55.05%		Swing
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	NDP	Christie Mjolsness	5,338	42.77%	-7.93%
	Liberal	Lance White	4,435	35.53%	16.44%	*
	Progressive Conservative	Aldo De Luca	2,709	21.70%	-7.15%	*
Total			12,482	100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			23
22,714 Eligible Electors
	NDP hold				Swing -12.19%

Legislature results 1997-present

1997 general election

1997 Alberta general election results^[8]			Turnout 53.52%		Swing
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Liberal	Lance White	4,802	40.31%	*
	Progressive Conservative	Lynn Faulder	3,860	32.41%	*
	NDP	Alex McEachern	3,250	27.28%	*
Total			11,912	100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			31
22,317 eligible electors
	Liberal pickup new district				Swing N/A

2001 general election

2001 Alberta general election results^[9]			Turnout 51.78%		Swing
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Progressive Conservative	Brent Rathgeber	5,128	41.99%	9.58%	*
	Liberal	Lance White	4,654	38.10%	-2.21%
	NDP	Christine Burdett	2,432	19.91%	-7.37%	*
Total			12,214	100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			42
23,671 eligible electors
	Progressive Conservative pickup from Liberal				Swing 5.90%

2004 general election

2004 Alberta general election results^[10]			Turnout 49.18%		Swing
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	NDP	David Eggen	4,067	36.01%	16.10%	*
	Progressive Conservative	Brent Rathgeber	3,730	33.02%	-8.97%
	Liberal	Brad Smith	2,985	26.43%	-11.67%	*
	Alberta Alliance	Vicki Kramer	513	4.54%	*
Total			11,295	100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			92
23,671 eligible electors
	NDP pickup from Progressive Conservative				Swing 12.54%

2008 general election

2008 Alberta general election results^[11]			Turnout 38.53%		Swing
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Progressive Conservative	Doug Elniski	4,557	40.86%	6.03%	*
	NDP	David Eggen	4,356	39.05%	3.04%
	Liberal	Jim Kane	1,839	16.49%	-9.94%	*
	Greens	Michael Brown	402	3.60%	*
Total			11,514	100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			59
30,033 eligible electors
	Progressive Conservative pickup from NDP				Swing 4.54%

2012 general election

2012 Alberta general election			Turnout %		Swing
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal	*
	NDP	David Eggen	5,729	38.41%
	Progressive Conservative	Bev Esslinger	5,183	34.75%		*
	Wildrose	Rich Neumann	2,787	18.69%
	Liberal	Alex V Bosse	970	6.50%		*
	Alberta Party	David Clark	194	1.30%		*
	Social Credit	Margaret Saunter	52	0.35%		*
Total			'*14925*	100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			'
Eligible Electors
					Swing %

Senate nominee results

2004 Senate nominee election district results

2004 Senate nominee election results: Edmonton-Calder^[12]					Turnout 49.21%
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	% Votes	% Ballots	Rank
	Progressive Conservative	Betty Unger	4,272	15.41%	46.54%	2
	Independent	Link Byfield	3,553	12.81%	38.71%	4
	Progressive Conservative	Bert Brown	3,126	11.28%	34.06%	1
	Progressive Conservative	Cliff Breitkreuz	2,867	10.34%	32.23%	3
	Independent	Tom Sindlinger	2,662	9.60%	29.00%	9
	Alberta Alliance	Michael Roth	2,608	9.41%	28.41%	7
	Alberta Alliance	Gary Horan	2,292	8.27%	24.97%	10
	Alberta Alliance	Vance Gough	2,283	8.24%	24.87%	8
	Progressive Conservative	David Usherwood	2,210	7.97%	24.08%	6
	Progressive Conservative	Jim Silye	1,847	6.67%	20.12%	5
Total Votes			27,720	100%
Total Ballots			9,179	3.02 Votes Per Ballot
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			2,215

Voters had the option of selecting 4 Candidates on the Ballot

2012 Senate nominee election district results

Student Vote results

2004 election

Participating Schools^[13]
Major General Griesbach School
Sir John Thompson Junior High School
St. Edmund School
Winterburn School

On November 19, 2004 a Student Vote was conducted at participating Alberta schools to parallel the 2004 Alberta general election results. The vote was designed to educate students and simulate the electoral process for persons who have not yet reached the legal majority. The vote was conducted in 80 of the 83 provincial electoral districts with students voting for actual election candidates. Schools with a large student body that reside in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district then where they were physically located.

2004 Alberta Student Vote results^[14]
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Brad Smith	241	40.30%
	NDP	David Eggen	170	28.43%
	Progressive Conservative	Brent Rathgeber	114	19.06%
	Alberta Alliance	Vicki Kramer	73	12.21%
Total			598	100%
Rejected, Spoiled and Declined			19

2012 election

2012 Alberta Student Vote results
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Bev Esslinger		%
	Wildrose	Don Martin		%
	Liberal	Alex V Bosse		%
	Alberta Party	David Clark		%
	NDP	David Eggen		%
Total			'	100%

References

↑ "E‑4.1". Statutes of the Province of Alberta. Government of Alberta. 2003. p. 16.
↑ "Edmonton-Calder Official Results 1971 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved March 1, 2010.
↑ "Edmonton-Calder Official Results 1975 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved March 1, 2010.
↑ "Edmonton-Calder Official Results 1979 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved March 1, 2010.
↑ "Edmonton-Calder Official Results 1982 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved March 1, 2010.
↑ "Edmonton-Calder Official Results 1986 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved March 1, 2010.
↑ "Edmonton-Calder Official Results 1989 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved March 1, 2010.
↑ "1997 General Election". Elections Alberta. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
↑ "2001 Statement of Official results Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview". Elections Alberta. Retrieved March 3, 2010.
↑ "Edmonton-Calder Statement of Official Results 2004 Alberta general election". Elections Alberta. Retrieved February 12, 2012.
↑ The Report on the March 3, 2008 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-seventh Legislative Assembly. Elections Alberta. July 28, 2008. pp. 272–275.
↑ "Senate Nominee Election 2004 Tabulation of Official Results". Elections Alberta. Retrieved February 28, 2010.
↑ "School by School results". Student Vote Canada. Retrieved 2008-04-18.
↑ "Riding by Riding Results - the Candidates". Student Vote Canada. Retrieved 2008-04-19.

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