Calgary Queens Park
Defunct provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada
Alberta electoral district | |
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Defunct provincial electoral district | |
Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
District created | 1963 |
District abolished | 1971 |
First contested | 1963 |
Last contested | 1967 |
Calgary Queens Park was a provincial electoral district in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting from 1963 to 1971.[1]
History
The riding was created from a slice of Calgary Bowness during the 1963 election. The riding disappeared when it was merged with Calgary North to create Calgary-McKnight during the 1971 election.
The riding was a thin strip that ran north from Downtown to the north end city limits, and on the west side of Centre Street.
Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs)
Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary Queens Park | ||||
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Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
See Calgary Bowness electoral district from 1959-1963 | ||||
15th | 1963–1967 | Lee Leavitt | Social Credit | |
16th | 1967–1971 | |||
See Calgary-McKnight electoral district from 1971-1993 |
Election results
1963
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Social Credit | Lee Leavitt | 4,363 | 49.25% | – | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Duncan L. McKillop | 1,597 | 18.03% | – | ||||
Independent | Roy Farran | 1,469 | 16.58% | – | ||||
Liberal | John Donnachie | 794 | 8.96% | – | ||||
New Democratic | Ben S. Greenfield | 509 | 5.75% | – | ||||
Independent Social Credit | Conrad Pfeifer | 126 | 1.42% | – | ||||
Total | 8,858 | – | – | |||||
Rejected, spoiled and declined | 196 | – | – | |||||
Eligible electors / turnout | 16,569 | 54.64% | – | |||||
Social Credit pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s) Source: "Calgary-Queen's park Official Results 1963 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. |
1967
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Social Credit | Lee Leavitt | 4,943 | 41.96% | -7.29% | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Eric C. Musgreave | 3,915 | 33.23% | 15.21% | ||||
Liberal | Darryl Raymaker | 1,702 | 14.45% | 5.48% | ||||
New Democratic | Lisa Baldwin | 1,220 | 10.36% | 4.61% | ||||
Total | 11,780 | – | – | |||||
Rejected, spoiled and declined | N/A | – | – | |||||
Eligible electors / turnout | 17,843 | 66.02% | 11.38% | |||||
Social Credit hold | Swing | -11.25% | ||||||
Source(s) Source: "Calgary-Queen's park Official Results 1967 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. |
See also
References
- ^ "Election results for Calgary Queens Park". abheritage.ca. Wayback Machine: Heritage Community Foundation. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
Further reading
- Office of the Chief Electoral Officer; Legislative Assembly Office (2006). A Century of Democracy: Elections of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1905-2005. The Centennial Series. Edmonton, AB: Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ISBN 0-9689217-8-7. Retrieved May 25, 2020.
External links
- Elections Alberta
- The Legislative Assembly of Alberta
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