Airdrie-Cochrane
Airdrie-Cochrane is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 87 districts mandated to return a single member (MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting. It was contested for the first time in the 2019 Alberta election.
 Alberta electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Airdrie-Cochrane within the Calgary Metropolitan Region (2017 boundaries). | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
| MLA |
United Conservative | ||
| District created | 2017 | ||
| First contested | 2019 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016)[1] | 51,170 | ||
| Area (km²) | 754 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 67.9 | ||
| Census division(s) | 6 | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Airdrie, Cochrane | ||
Geography
The district is located northwest of Calgary, containing the City of Cochrane, the part of Airdrie west of 8 St SW and south of 1 Ave NW, and the rural area lying between the two communities. It borders Calgary's northern edge between the Bow River and Highway 2.
History
| Members for Airdrie-Cochrane | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Airdrie 2012-2019 and Banff-Cochrane 1979-2019 | ||||
| 30th | 2019– | Peter Guthrie | United Conservative | |
The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended abolishing Airdrie, Banff-Cochrane and Chestermere-Rocky View, completely reorganizing the ridings surrounding Calgary to reflect the rapid growth in the area,[2] and creating Airdrie-Cochrane from parts of each.
Electoral results
| Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wildrose | 7,044 | 36.54% | ||
| Progressive Conservative | 6,006 | 31.15% | ||
| New Democratic | 5,703 | 29.58% | ||
| Others | 527 | 2.73% | ||
| 2019 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| United Conservative | Peter Guthrie | 18,777 | 66.0% | |||||
| New Democratic | Steven Durrell | 7,183 | 25.2% | |||||
| Alberta Party | Vern Raincock | 1,818 | 6.4% | |||||
| Independence | Danielle Cameron | 345 | 1.2% | |||||
| Freedom Conservative | Matthew Morrisey | 331 | 1.2% | |||||
| Total valid votes | 28,454 | |||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 162 | |||||||
| Eligible voters | 38,568 | |||||||
| Turnout | 74.0% | |||||||
References
- Statistics Canada: 2016
- "Final Report" (PDF). Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission. 2017-10-01. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-01-24.