Calgary-Montrose
Calgary-Montrose
Defunct provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada
Calgary Montrose 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 1986 to 2012.
 Alberta electoral district | |
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2004 boundaries | |
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
| District created | 1986 |
| District abolished | 2012 |
| First contested | 1986 |
| Last contested | 2008 |
This urban district located in central east Calgary was created in the 1986 boundary re-distribution from Calgary-McCall. The district elected Progressive Conservative candidates for its entire history.
The district has seen its share of controversial elections in recent years. The last representative was Manmeet Bhullar, who won his first term in office in a controversial race over Independent Ron Leech in the 2008 general election. The previous representative was Hung Pham, who served from 1993 to 2004.
The Calgary-Montrose electoral district would be dissolved in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution and would be re-distributed into the Calgary-East, Calgary-Greenway and Calgary-Cross electoral districts.[1]
Boundary history
| 17 Calgary-Montrose 2003 boundaries[2] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Bordering districts | |||
| North | East | West | South |
| Calgary-McCall | Airdrie-Chestermere | Calgary-East | Calgary-Fort |
| riding map goes here | map in relation to other districts in Alberta goes here | ||
| Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act. | |||
| Starting at the intersection of 68 Street NE with 32 Avenue NE; then 1. east along 32 Avenue NE to the west boundary of Block 10, Plan 8411285 (Monterey Park Estates); 2. generally south, east and north along the block boundary to 32 Avenue NE; 3. east along 32 Avenue NE and its easterly extension to the east Calgary city boundary; 4. south along the east city boundary to 17 Avenue SE; 5. west along 17 Avenue SE to 52 Street SE; 6. north along 52 Street SE to 16 Avenue NE; 7. east along 16 Avenue NE to 68 Street NE; 8. north along 68 Street NE to the starting point. | |||
| Note: | |||
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Montrose[3] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See: Calgary-McCall 1971-1986 | ||||
| 21st | 1986–1989 | Rick Orman | Progressive Conservative | |
| 22nd | 1989–1993 | |||
| 23rd | 1993–1997 | Hung Pham | ||
| 24th | 1997–2001 | |||
| 25th | 2001–2004 | |||
| 26th | 2004–2008 | |||
| 27th | 2008–2012 | Manmeet Bhullar | ||
Electoral history
The electoral district was created in the 1986 boundary redistribution. The first election held that year saw Progressive Conservative candidate Rick Orman win a comfortable majority to pick up the seat for his party. He was easily re-elected in the 1989 general election with a larger majority. Orman retired from the legislature at dissolution in 1993.
The 1993 election saw Progressive Conservative candidate Hung Pham win a sizable majority to hold the seat for his party. He was re-elected three more times winning in the 1997, 2001 and 2004 general elections. He retired from the legislature in 2008 after a bitter fall out with the Progressive Conservatives.
The 2008 election saw Progressive Conservative candidate Manmeet Bhullar win a hotly contested race over Independent Ron Leech. The pair had been in a disputed nomination race before the general election with the PC constituency association choosing Leech and the party hand-choosing Bhullar as the representative. Leech would petition the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench to overturn the results of the election with allegations that Bhullar and his supporters spurring ineligible voters to cast ballots, interfering with and influencing ballots cast, and violating the secrecy of the voting process.[4]
1986
| 1986 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Rick Orman | 4,395 | 59.73% | – | ||||
| New Democratic | Frank Gereau | 2,035 | 27.66% | – | ||||
| Liberal | Roly Thomas | 710 | 9.65% | – | ||||
| Representative | Adrian C. Janssens | 218 | 2.96% | – | ||||
| Total | 7,358 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 12 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 19,816 | 37.19% | – | |||||
| Progressive Conservative pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Montrose Official Results 1986 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
1989
| 1989 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Rick Orman | 5,044 | 54.62% | -5.11% | ||||
| New Democratic | Frank Gereau | 2,585 | 27.99% | 0.34% | ||||
| Liberal | Jamil Farhat | 1,605 | 17.38% | 7.73% | ||||
| Total | 9,234 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 23 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 21,545 | 42.97% | 5.77% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | -2.72% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Montrose Official Results 1989 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
1993
| 1993 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Hung Pham | 4,866 | 48.14% | -6.49% | ||||
| Liberal | Keong Yap | 2,592 | 25.64% | 8.26% | ||||
| New Democratic | Jean Munn | 1,970 | 19.49% | -8.51% | ||||
| Independent | Blaine Desjardine | 613 | 6.06% | – | ||||
| Natural Law | Chris Delucé | 68 | 0.67% | – | ||||
| Total | 10,109 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 27 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 20,569 | 49.28% | 6.31% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | -2.07% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Montrose Official Results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
1997
| 1997 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Hung Pham | 4,556 | 58.70% | 10.56% | ||||
| Liberal | Diane Danielson | 2,576 | 33.19% | 7.55% | ||||
| Social Credit | Christopher Dick | 536 | 6.91% | – | ||||
| Natural Law | Neeraj Varma | 94 | 1.21% | 0.54% | ||||
| Total | 7,762 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 18 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 19,703 | 39.49% | -9.79% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | 1.51% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Montrose Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
2001
| 2001 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Hung Pham | 6,329 | 70.60% | 11.90% | ||||
| Liberal | Art Danielson | 2,093 | 23.35% | -9.84% | ||||
| New Democratic | Robert Scobel | 543 | 6.06% | – | ||||
| Total | 8,965 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled, and declined | 31 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 21,633 | 41.58% | 2.10% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | 10.87% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Montrose Official Results 2001 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
2004
| 2004 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Hung Pham | 3,323 | 51.30% | -19.30% | ||||
| Liberal | Arthur Danielson | 1,691 | 26.10% | 2.76% | ||||
| Alberta Alliance | Cyril Collingwood | 689 | 10.64% | – | ||||
| New Democratic | Jason Nishiyama | 420 | 6.48% | 0.43% | ||||
| Greens | Kevin Colton | 355 | 5.48% | – | ||||
| Total | 6,478 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 31 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 22,001 | 29.59% | -12.00% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | -11.03% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Calgary-Montrose Official Results 2004 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
2008
| 2008 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Manmeet Bhullar | 2,627 | 34.45% | -16.84% | ||||
| Independent | Ron Leech | 2,010 | 26.36% | – | ||||
| Liberal | Michael Embaie | 1,396 | 18.31% | -7.80% | ||||
| Wildrose Alliance | Said Abdulbaki | 818 | 10.73% | 0.09% | ||||
| New Democratic | Al Brown | 512 | 6.71% | 0.23% | ||||
| Green | Fred Clemens | 262 | 3.44% | 2.04% | ||||
| Total | 7,625 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 55 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible electors / turnout | 25,175 | 30.51% | 0.92% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | -8.55% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: The Report on the March 3, 2008 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-seventh Legislative Assembly (PDF). Elections Alberta. July 28, 2008. pp. 234–237. | ||||||||
2004
| 2004 Senate nominee election results: Calgary-Montrose[5] | Turnout 29.39% | |||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % votes | % ballots | Rank | |
| Progressive Conservative | Bert Brown | 2,587 | 15.71% | 50.55% | 1 | |
| Progressive Conservative | Betty Unger | 2,198 | 13.35% | 42.95% | 2 | |
| Progressive Conservative | Jim Silye | 2,032 | 12.34% | 39.70% | 5 | |
| Progressive Conservative | David Usherwood | 1,712 | 10.40% | 33.45% | 6 | |
| Progressive Conservative | Cliff Breitkreuz | 1,529 | 9.29% | 29.88% | 3 | |
| Independent | Link Byfield | 1,435 | 8.72% | 28.04% | 4 | |
| Alberta Alliance | Vance Gough | 1,306 | 7.93% | 25.52% | 8 | |
| Alberta Alliance | Michael Roth | 1,280 | 7.77% | 25.01% | 7 | |
| Alberta Alliance | Gary Horan | 1,233 | 7.49% | 24.09% | 10 | |
| Independent | Tom Sindlinger | 1,153 | 7.00% | 22.53% | 9 | |
| Total votes | 16,465 | 100% | ||||
| Total ballots | 5,118 | 3.22 votes per ballot | ||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 1,349 | |||||
Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot
On November 19, 2004, a student vote was conducted at participating Alberta schools to parallel the 2004 Alberta general election results. The vote was designed to educate students and simulate the electoral process for persons who have not yet reached the legal majority. The vote was conducted in 80 of the 83 provincial electoral districts with students voting for actual election candidates. Schools with a large student body that reside in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district then where they were physically located.
| 2004 Alberta student vote results[7] | ||||
| Affiliation | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Progressive Conservative | Hung Pham | 7 | 35.00% | |
| Green | Kevin Colton | 6 | 30.00% | |
| Liberal | Arthur Danielson | 5 | 25.00% | |
| Alberta Alliance | Cyril Collingwood | 1 | 5.00% | |
| NDP | Jason Nishiyama | 1 | 5.00% | |
| Total | 20 | 100% | ||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 0 | |||
- Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (June 2010). "Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ISBN 978-0-9865367-1-7. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- Electoral Divisions Act, S.A. 2003, c. E-4.1
- "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.
- D'Aliesio, Renata (July 26, 2008). "MLA's election opposed". Calgary Herald. Calgary Herald. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
- "Senate Nominee Election 2004 Tabulation of Official Results" (PDF). Elections Alberta. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 4, 2009. Retrieved February 27, 2009.
- "School by School results". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on October 5, 2007. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- "Riding by Riding Results - the Candidates". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on February 13, 2012. Retrieved April 19, 2008.
- 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.