Airdrie-East
Airdrie-East 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-East 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] | 49,978 | ||
| Area (km²) | 714 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 70 | ||
| Census division(s) | 6 | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Airdrie, Rocky View, Wheatland | ||
Geography
The district is located northeast of Calgary, containing most of Airdrie, except the area west of 8 St SW and south of 1 Ave NW. It stretches west past Keoma to RR253.
History
| Members for Airdrie-East | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Airdrie and Chestermere-Rocky View 2012-2019 | ||||
| 30th | 2019– | Angela Pitt | United Conservative | |
The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended abolishing Airdrie and Chestermere-Rocky View, completely reorganizing the ridings surrounding Calgary to reflect the rapid growth in the area.[2]
Electoral results
2010s
| Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta general 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 | Angela Pitt | 16,764 | 67.3% | +2.4% | ||||
| New Democratic | Roxie Baez Zamora | 4,960 | 19.9% | -9.9% | ||||
| Alberta Party | Alex Luterbach | 2,371 | 9.5% | +5.2% | ||||
| Freedom Conservative | Rick Northey | 482 | 1.9% | |||||
| Independence | Jeff Olson | 213 | 0.9% | |||||
| Independent | Richard Absalom D. Herdman | 112 | 0.4% | |||||
| Total valid votes | 24,902 | |||||||
| Rejected, spoiled, and declined | 207 | |||||||
| Registered electors | 35,729 | |||||||
| Turnout | 70.2% | |||||||
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.
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