Calgary-South East

Calgary-South East (previously styled Calgary South East) is a provincial electoral district in Calgary, Alberta. It has existed twice, first from 1959 to 1963, and then re-created in 2010. The district is mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.

Calgary-South East

Alberta electoral district
Calgary-South East within the City of Calgary, 2017 boundaries
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA	Matt Jones United Conservative
District created	1957
District abolished	1963
District re-created	2010
First contested	1959
Last contested	2019

The current electoral district was created from a portion of Airdrie-Chestermere, Calgary-Hays and Calgary-Shaw. It contains the neighbourhoods of Auburn Bay, Cranston, Mahogany & Seton.

History

The first provincial electoral district to use the name Calgary South East was created in the 1959 redistribution that saw the provincial ridings of Calgary and Edmonton broken up. This marked the transition to standardize elections back to the First Past the Post across the province. From 1926 to 1959 Calgary and Edmonton, elected members with Single Transferable Vote in super districts while rest of the province used single member riding's using an Alternate voting method with a 50% margin.

The district was quickly abolished in the 1963 boundary redistribution when it became part of the Calgary South electoral district.

A new electoral district was created in southeast Calgary in the 2010 boundary redistribution. The roots of the new district can be traced back to the old South East district through various changes to the electoral boundaries that have taken place since. The district was created primarily from Calgary-Hays and Calgary-Shaw and its boundaries were expanded into areas of the old Airdrie-Chestermere and Highwood electoral districts where the city of Calgary boundaries had expanded.

Boundary history

25 Calgary-South East 2010 Boundaries
Bordering Districts
North	East	West	South
Calgary-Fort, Calgary-Hays and Calgary-Shaw	Chestermere-Rocky View	Calgary-Lougheed and Highwood	Highwood
Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act.
Note:

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-South East[1]
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
See Calgary 1921-1959
14th	1959-1963		Arthur Dixon	Social Credit
See Calgary South 1963-1971
See Calgary-Hays 2004-2012 and Calgary-Shaw 1986-2012
28th	2012–2015		Rick Fraser	Progressive Conservative
29th	2015–2017
	2017			United Conservative
	2017-2018			Independent
	2018-2019			Alberta Party
30th	2019–present		Matt Jones	United Conservative

Electoral history

The first incarnation of Calgary South East saw Social Credit MLA Art Dixon win his third term in office with a landslide majority. He defeated two city of Calgary alderman to keep his seat in the Assembly. Dixon won the new district of Calgary South after South East was abolished in 1963.

Recently the area that comprises the new Calgary-South East has returned Progressive Conservative candidates with large majorities and has done so since the 1970s. The incumbent for Calgary-Hays during the 2010 boundary shift was Art Johnston. He tried to run for renomination but was defeated by Progressive Conservative candidate Rick Fraser and won't stand for re-election.

Shortly after the Progressive Conservatives merged with Wildrose in 2017, Fraser announced he would sit as an independent. In January 2018 he announced he would run for the leadership of the Alberta Party, but has yet to inform the Speaker whether he intends to join the party caucus.

Legislature results 1959-1963

1959 general election

1959 Alberta general election results[2]			Turnout 48.92%		Swing
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Personal
	Social Credit	Arthur J. Dixon	5,643	67.11%
	Progressive Conservative	Ernest Starr	1,537	18.28%
	Liberal	Peter Petrasuk	792	9.42%	*
	Cooperative Commonwealth	George Ellinson	437	5.19%	*
Total			8,409
Rejected, spoiled and declined			53
Eligible electors / Turnout			17,299	%
	Social Credit gain		Swing		N/A

Legislature results 2012-present

2012 general election

2012 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Rick Fraser	7,162	48.57%
	Wildrose	Bill Jarvis	6,355	43.09%
	Liberal	Brad Carroll	756	5.13%
	New Democratic	Marta Warszynski	474	3.21%

2015 general election

2015 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Rick Fraser	7,663	32.5
	New Democratic	Mirical Macdonald	7,358	31.2
	Wildrose	Brandon Lunty	6,892	29.2
	Liberal	G. Gill	1,304	5.5
	Green	Jordan Mac Isaac	374	1.6
Total valid votes			23,591	100.0
Rejected, spoiled and declined			168
Turnout			23,759	50.7
Eligible voters			46,871
Source: Elections Alberta[3]

2019 general election

2019 Alberta general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Conservative	Matt Jones	12,860
	New Democratic	Heather Eddy	3,983
	Alberta Party	Rick Fraser	3,810
	Liberal	Leila Keith	224
	Independence	Richard Fontaine	134
Total valid votes
Rejected, spoiled, and declined
Registered electors
Turnout

Senate nominee results

Student vote results

2012 election

2012 Alberta Student Vote results
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Rick Fraser		%
	Wildrose	Bill Jarvis
	Liberal			%
	NDP			%
Total				100%

References

1. "Members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta 1905-2006" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 30, 2007. Retrieved February 27, 2010.
2. "Calgary South East results 1959 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
3. "2015 Provincial General Election Results". Elections Alberta. Archived from the original on 2017-08-01. Retrieved 2017-08-01.

External links

• The Legislative Assembly of Alberta