Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill

Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill 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 2012 to 2019.

Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill

Alberta electoral district
2010 boundaries
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
District created	2010
District abolished	2019
First contested	2012
Last contested	2015

History

The electoral district was created in the 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution. It was created when Calgary-Mackay and Calgary-Nose Hill were merged along with a large chunk of Calgary-McCall.^[1]

The Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill electoral district was dissolved in the 2017 electoral boundary re-distribution into Calgary-Beddington and Calgary-North electoral districts ahead of the 2019 Alberta general election.^[2]

Boundary history

19 Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill 2010 boundaries
Bordering districts
North	East	West	South
Chestermere-Rocky View	Calgary-McCall	Calgary-Foothills and Calgary-Northern Hills	Calgary-Cross, Calgary-Klein and Calgary-Varsity
Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2010, Electoral Divisions Act

Electoral history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
See Calgary-Mackay 2004–2012 Calgary-McCall 1971–2012 Calgary-Nose Hill 2004–2012
28th	2012–2015		Neil Brown	Progressive Conservative
29th	2015–2017		Karen McPherson	New Democratic
	2017			Independent
	2017–2019			Alberta Party
See Calgary-Beddington and Calgary-North 2019–

The antecedent electoral districts that comprise Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill generally returned Progressive Conservative candidates for many years. Progressive Conservative MLA Neil Brown was the first elected member for the electoral district in 2012. Neil Brown would be defeated by New Democratic MLA Karen McPherson in 2015. McPherson would leave the NDP caucus in 2017 and join the Alberta Party a week later.^[3]

Legislative election results

2012

v t e 2012 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Neil Brown	6,604	46.47%	–
	Wildrose	Roy M. Alexander	5,455	38.39%	–
	Liberal	Don Thompson	1,105	7.78%	–
	New Democratic	Anne Wilson	840	5.91%	–
	Alberta Party	Jason Webster	207	1.46%	–
Total			14,211	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			69	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			29,193	48.92%	–
	Progressive Conservative pickup new district.
Source(s) Source: "19 - Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill Official Results 2012 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2015

v t e 2015 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Karen McPherson	6,177	36.86%	30.94%
	Wildrose	Kathy Macdonald	4,914	29.32%	-9.07%
	Progressive Conservative	Neil Brown	4,585	27.36%	-19.11%
	Liberal	Prab Lashar	768	4.58%	-3.19%
	Green	Sandy Kevin Aberdeen	316	1.89%	–
Total			16,760	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			91	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			34,487	48.86%	-0.05%
	New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		-0.27%
Source(s) Source: "19 - Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill Official Results 2015 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

Student vote results

2012

2012 Alberta student vote results
Affiliation		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Neil Brown		%
	Wildrose	Roy Alexander
	Liberal	Don Thompson		%
	Alberta Party	Jason Webster
	NDP	Anne Wilson		%
	Social Credit			%
Total				100%

See also

• List of Alberta provincial electoral districts
• Canadian provincial electoral districts