Calgary-Falconridge is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district will be 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.
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![]() Calgary-Falconridge within the City of Calgary (2017 boundaries) | |||
Provincial electoral district | |||
Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta | ||
MLA |
United Conservative | ||
District created | 2017 | ||
First contested | 2019 | ||
Last contested | 2019 | ||
Demographics | |||
Population (2016)[1] | 52,688 | ||
Area (km²) | 15.1 | ||
Pop. density (per km²) | 3,489.3 |
The district is located in northeastern Calgary, containing the neighbourhoods of Whitehorn, Temple, Castleridge, Falconridge, Coral Springs, and the eastern part of Taradale.
Members for Calgary-Falconridge | ||||
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Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
See Calgary-Cross 1993-2019, Calgary-McCall 1971-2019, and Calgary-Greenway 2012–2019 | ||||
30th | 2019– | Devinder Toor | United Conservative |
The district was created in 2017 when the Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended reorganizing the districts in northeast Calgary, abolishing Calgary-Greenway and shifting the other ridings eastward. Calgary-Falconridge took the neighbourhoods of Whitehorn and Temple from Calgary-East, Castleridge and Falconridge from Calgary-McCall, and Coral Springs and part of Taradale from Calgary-Greenway. This resulted in a district 13% above the average population, but the Commission justified this by pointing out that there were no plans to build new housing stock in this area.[2]
Redistributed results, 2015 Alberta general election | ||||
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Party | Votes | % | ||
New Democratic | 4,574 | 34.39 | ||
Progressive Conservative | 4,334 | 32.58 | ||
Wildrose | 2,761 | 20.76 | ||
Liberal | 1,217[lower-alpha 1] | 9.15 | ||
Others | 416[lower-alpha 2] | 3.13 |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
United Conservative | Devinder Toor | 6,756 | 45.6% | |||||
New Democratic | Parmeet Singh Boparai | 6,660 | 44.9% | |||||
Alberta Party | Jasbir Dhari | 850 | 5.7% | |||||
Liberal | Deepak Sharma | 561 | 3.8% | |||||
Total valid votes | 14,827 | |||||||
Rejected, spoiled and declined | 143 | |||||||
Registered electors | 29,898 | |||||||
Turnout | 49.9% |
Current Alberta provincial electoral districts | |
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Edmonton |
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Calgary |
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