Calgary-Mountain View

Calgary-Mountain View is 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. The district was created in 1971 and is currently represented by Kathleen Ganley of the Alberta New Democratic Party.

Calgary-Mountain View

Alberta electoral district
Calgary-Mountain View within the City of Calgary, 2017 boundaries
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Alberta
MLA	Kathleen Ganley New Democratic
District created	1971
First contested	1971
Last contested	2023

History

The electoral district was created in the 1971 boundary redistribution from parts of Calgary North and Calgary East. Following the 2004 Alberta boundary re-distribution Calgary-Mountain View had a population of 39,586, which was 10.1 per cent above the provincial average of 35,951, which was the highest deviation for an electoral district in Calgary or Edmonton.^[1]

The 2010 Alberta boundary re-distribution all land west of Shaganappi Trail was redistricted into Calgary-Varsity. Following the 2010 re-distribution, the Calgary-Mountain View had a population of 42,092, which was 2.96 per cent above the provincial average of 40,880.^[2]

Boundary history

17 Calgary-Mountain View 2003 boundaries[3]
Bordering districts
North	East	West	South
Calgary-North Hill and Calgary-Varsity	Calgary-East	Calgary-Bow	Calgary-Buffalo and Calgary-Fort
riding map goes here
Legal description from the Statutes of Alberta 2003, Electoral Divisions Act.
Starting at the intersection of Home Road NW and Bowness Road NW; then 1. southeast along Bowness Road NW to 48 Street NW; 2. northeast along 48 Street NW to 23 Avenue NW; 3. southeast along 23 Avenue NW and its extension to Shaganappi Trail NW; 4. southeast along Shaganappi Trail NW to 16 Avenue NW; 5. east along 16 Avenue NW and 16 Avenue NE to Deerfoot Trail NE; 6. generally south and southeast along Deerfoot Trail NE to the Light Rail Transit (LRT) line; 7. west along the LRT line to the Canadian Pacific Railway line; 8. south along the railway line to the right bank of the Bow River; 9. generally west along the right bank of the Bow River to the southerly extension of Home Road NW (by Edworthy Park); 10. north along the extension and Home Road NW to the starting point.
Note:

21 Calgary-Mountain View 2010 boundaries[4]
Bordering districts
North	East	West	South
Calgary-Cross, Calgary-Klein and Calgary-Varsity	Calgary-East	Calgary-Currie	Calgary-Buffalo and Calgary-Fort
Note: Boundary descriptions were not used in the 2010 redistribution

Representation history

Calgary-Mountain View
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Calgary-East and Calgary-North
17th	1971–1975		Albert Ludwig	Social Credit
18th	1975–1979		John Kushner	Progressive Conservative
19th	1979–1982		Stan Kushner
20th	1982–1986		Bohdan Zip
21st	1986–1989		Bob Hawkesworth	New Democratic
22nd	1989–1993
23rd	1993–1997		Mark Hlady	Progressive Conservative
24th	1997–2001
25th	2001–2004
26th	2004–2008		David Swann	Liberal
27th	2008–2012
28th	2012–2015
29th	2015–2019
30th	2019–2023		Kathleen Ganley	New Democratic
31st	2023–Present

The electoral district was created in the 1971 boundary redistribution out of Calgary East and Calgary North. The predecessor riding's that comprised Mountain View had returned Social Credit candidates since they were created. The first election held that year returned former Calgary East Social Credit MLA Albert Ludwig back to the Assembly with over half of the popular vote.

Mountain View would see its first change of hands in the 1975 election as Progressive Conservative candidate John Kushner defeated Ludwig. He retired at dissolution of the Assembly in 1979 as he got the federal Progressive Conservative nomination for Calgary East to run in the 1979 federal election.

The provincial election that year would return another Kushner to represent Mountain View. This time it was Stan Kushner, son of John Kushner. He held the district for the Progressive Conservatives winning a majority of 55% of the vote. In 1981 he was charged with drunk driving. Kushner did not run for a second term. The 1982 election returned Progressive Conservative candidate Bohdan Zip who also only served a single term in office.

In the 1986 general election voters would return NDP candidate Bob Hawkesworth over future Premier of Alberta Jim Prentice in a hotly contested race. He was re-elected in 1989 with a solid majority.

Hawkesworth would be defeated after two terms in the 1993 election by Progressive Conservative candidate Mark Hlady. He would win two more terms with increasing percentage of the vote in 1997 and 2001. In 2004 he was defeated by Liberal candidate David Swann.

Swann was re-elected to his second term in 2008 and became Leader of the Liberals after Kevin Taft resigned. He would resign the post himself in 2011 and be replaced by Raj Sherman.

Legislative election results

Graphical summary

1971

11.88%	36.53%	51.59%
NDP	Progressive Conservative	Social Credit

1975

	9.39%	7.46%	49.23%	33.19%
C	NDP	Liberal	Progressive Conservative	Social Credit

1979

15.5%	8.97%	54.77%	21.16%
NDP	Liberal	Progressive Conservative	Social Credit

1982

27.07%	3%	5.7%	57.69%	6.2%
NDP	Lib	Ind	Progressive Conservative	WCC

1986

45.65%	9.41%		43.52%
NDP	Liberal		Progressive Conservative

1989

51.75%	14.89%	33.36%
NDP	Liberal	Progressive Conservative

1993

26.08%	22.36%	46.21%	3%
NDP	Liberal	Progressive Conservative	SC

1997

18.5%	29%	48.51%	4%
NDP	Liberal	Progressive Conservative	SC

2001

15.29%	24.37%	60.34%
NDP	Liberal	Progressive Conservative

2004

6.6%	5.3%	53.31%	30.43%	4.38%
Green	NDP	Liberal	Progressive Conservative	A

2008

6.3%	4%	51.51%	30.91%	6.5%
Green	NDP	Liberal	Progressive Conservative	W

2012

5%	41.09%		30.38%	22.22%
NDP	Liberal		Progressive Conservative	Wildrose

2015

28.88%	36.67%	23.92%	10.54%
NDP	Liberal	Progressive Conservative	Wildrose

2019

	47.3%	5.6%	8.9%	36.7%
	NDP	Liberal	Alberta	United Conservative

2023

64.7%		33.2%
NDP		United Conservative

1971

v t e 1971 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Albert W. Ludwig	4,990	51.59%	–
	Progressive Conservative	George Swales	3,533	36.53%	–
	New Democratic	E.C. Baldwin	1,149	11.88%	–
Total			9,672	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			91	–	–
Eligible electors / Turnout			14,291	68.32%	–
	Social Credit pickup new district.
Source(s) Source: "Calgary-Mountain View Official Results 1971 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1975

v t e 1975 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	John Kushner	3,800	49.23%	12.70%
	Social Credit	Albert W. Ludwig	2,562	33.19%	-18.40%
	New Democratic	Orrin Kerr	725	9.39%	-2.49%
	Liberal	John Sutherland	576	7.46%	–
	Communist	Joe Hill	56	0.73%	–
Total			7,719	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			74	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			14,225	54.78%	-13.53%
	Progressive Conservative gain from Social Credit		Swing		15.55%
Source(s) Source: "Calgary-Mountain View Official Results 1975 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1979

v t e 1979 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Stan Kushner	5,141	54.77%	5.54%
	Social Credit	Scott Saville	1,986	21.16%	-12.03%
	New Democratic	Martin Serediak	1,455	15.50%	6.11%
	Liberal	John Donnachie	804	8.57%	1.10%
Total			9,386	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			40	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			19,782	47.65%	-7.13%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		8.79%
Source(s) Source: "Calgary-Mountain View Official Results 1979 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1982

v t e 1982 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Bohdan Zip	7,187	57.69%	2.92%
	New Democratic	Phil Elder	3,372	27.07%	11.57%
	Western Canada Concept	Stephen B. Keeling	772	6.20%	–
	Independent	Diane Ablonczy	706	5.67%	–
	Liberal	J. Curtis Joynt	420	3.37%	-5.19%
Total			12,457	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			57	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			20,678	60.52%	12.87%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		7.25%
Source(s) Source: "Calgary-Mountain View Official Results 1982 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1986

v t e 1986 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Bob Hawkesworth	5,524	45.65%	18.58%
	Progressive Conservative	Jim Prentice	5,267	43.52%	-14.17%
	Liberal	Doug Rae	1,139	9.41%	6.04%
	Independent	Tom Erhart	172	1.42%	–
Total			12,102	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			36	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			23,542	51.56%	-8.96%
	New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		16.38%
Source(s) Source: "Calgary-Mountain View Official Results 1986 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1989

v t e 1989 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Bob Hawkesworth	6,469	51.74%	6.10%
	Progressive Conservative	Vicky Adamson	4,171	33.36%	-10.16%
	Liberal	Kevin Murphy	1,862	14.89%	5.48%
Total			12,502	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			52	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			22,831	54.99%	3.43%
	New Democratic hold		Swing		8.13%
Source(s) Source: "Calgary-Mountain View Official Results 1989 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1993

v t e 1993 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Mark Hlady	5,768	46.21%	12.85%
	New Democratic	Bob Hawkesworth	3,255	26.08%	-25.67%
	Liberal	Jonathan Horlick	2,791	22.36%	7.47%
	Social Credit	George Clark	481	3.85%	–
	Confederation of Regions	Bruce Jackman	116	0.93%	–
	Natural Law	Alberta Scraba	71	0.57%	–
Total			12,482	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			38	–	–
Eligible electors / turnout			23,408	53.49%	-1.50%
	Progressive Conservative gain from New Democratic		Swing		20.76%
Source(s) Source: "Calgary-Mountain View Official Results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

1997

v t e 1997 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Mark Hlady	5,468	48.51%	2.30%
	Liberal	Patricia Ennis	3,269	29.00%	6.64%
	New Democratic	Gordon M. Christie	2,085	18.50%	-7.58%
	Social Credit	Jason Nicholas	450	3.99%	0.14%
Total			11,272	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			34	45	2
Eligible electors / turnout			22,464	50.34%	-3.15%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		4.47%
Source(s) Source: Office of the Chief Electoral Officer (1997). The Report of the Chief Electoral Officer November, 1996 General Enumeration and Tuesday, March 11, 1997 General Election, Twenty-fourth Legislative Assembly. Edmonton: Alberta Legislative Assembly. ISSN 1483-1171. OCLC 1052543255. Retrieved November 11, 2020.

2001

v t e 2001 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Mark Hlady	6,462	60.34%	11.83%
	Liberal	Jennifer Spencer	2,610	24.37%	-4.63%
	New Democratic	Keith Purdy	1,637	15.29%	-3.21%
Total			10,709	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			12	25	7
Eligible electors / turnout			23,213	46.22%	-4.12%
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		8.23%
Source(s) Source: Office of the Chief Electoral Officer (2001). The report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the 2000 provincial confirmation process and Monday, March 12, 2001, provincial general election of the twenty-fifth Legislative Assembly. Edmonton: Alberta Legislative Assembly. OCLC 51275133. Retrieved November 11, 2020.

2004

v t e 2004 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	David Swann	7,162	53.31%	28.94%
	Progressive Conservative	Mark Hlady	4,088	30.43%	-29.91%
	Green	Mark MacGillivray	884	6.58%	–
	New Democratic	John Donovan	712	5.30%	-9.99%
	Alberta Alliance	Ryan Cassell	589	4.38%	–
Total			13,435	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			67	13	17
Eligible electors / turnout			27,299	49.52%	3.31%
	Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		29.43%
Source(s) Source: Office of the Chief Electoral Officer (2005). The Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the 2004 Provincial Enumeration and Monday, November 22, 2004 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-sixth Legislative Assembly. Edmonton: Alberta Legislative Assembly. ISSN 1483-1171. OCLC 1052543255. Retrieved November 11, 2020.

2008

v t e 2008 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	David Swann	7,086	51.5%	-1.8%
	Progressive Conservative	Leah Lawrence	4,252	30.9%	0.5%
	Wildrose Alliance	Cory Morgan	892	6.5%	2.1%
	Green	Juliet Burgess	865	6.3%	-0.3%
	New Democratic	John Donovan	661	4.8%	-0.5%
Total			13,756	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			45	33	8
Eligible electors / turnout			33,311	41.5%	-8.1%
	Liberal hold		Swing		-1.1%
Source(s) Source: Office of the Chief Electoral Officer (2008). The Report on the March 3, 2008 Provincial General Election of the Twenty-Seventh Legislative Assembly. Edmonton: Alberta Legislative Assembly. pp. 238–241. ISSN 1483-1171. Retrieved November 11, 2020.

2012

v t e 2012 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	David Swann	6,918	40.23%	-11.28%
	Progressive Conservative	Cecilia Low	5,270	30.65%	-0.26%
	Wildrose	Shane McAllister	3,915	22.77%	16.28%
	New Democratic	Christopher McMillan	863	5.02%	0.21%
	Alberta Party	Inshan S. Mohammed	230	1.34%	–
Total			17,196	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			105	51	6
Eligible electors / turnout			29,988	57.71%	16.26%
	Liberal hold		Swing		-5.51%
Source(s) Source: "21 - Calgary-Mountain View, 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	%	±%
	Liberal	David Swann	7,204	36.67%	-3.56%
	New Democratic	Marc Andrew Chikinda	5,673	28.88%	23.86%
	Progressive Conservative	Mark Hlady	4,699	23.92%	-6.73%
	Wildrose	Terry Wong	2,070	10.54%	-12.23%
Total			19,646	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			45	56	19
Eligible electors / turnout			36,236	54.39%	-3.32%
	Liberal hold		Swing		-0.90%
Source(s) Source: "21 - Calgary-Mountain View, 2015 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2019

v t e 2019 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Kathleen Ganley	12,526	47.32%	18.45%
	United Conservative	Jeremy Wong	9,708	36.68%	2.24%
	Alberta Party	Angela Kokott	2,345	8.86%	–
	Liberal	David Khan	1,474	5.57%	-31.10%
	Green	Thana Boonlert	315	1.19%	–
	Alberta Independence	Monica Friesz	102	0.39%	–
Total			26,470	–	–
Rejected, spoiled and declined			203	86	7
Eligible electors / turnout			38,316	69.63%	15.24%
	New Democratic gain from Liberal		Swing		1.43%
Source(s) Source: "18 - Calgary-Mountain View, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

2023

v t e 2023 Alberta general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Kathleen Ganley	16,516	64.70	+17.38
	United Conservative	Pamela Rath	8,468	33.17	-3.50
	Liberal	Frances Woytkiw	335	1.31	-4.26
	Solidarity Movement	Christopher Wedick	119	0.47	–
	Pro-Life	Lucas Hernandez	90	0.35	–
Total			25,528	99.03	–
Rejected and declined			251	0.97
Turnout			25,779	65.42
Eligible voters			39,403
	New Democratic hold		Swing		+10.44
Source(s) Source: Elections Alberta[5]

Senate nominee election results

2004

2004 Senate nominee election results: Calgary-Mountain View[6]					Turnout 50.71%
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	% votes	% ballots	Rank
	Progressive Conservative	Jim Silye	4,022	15.06%	42.59%	5
	Progressive Conservative	Bert Brown	3,841	14.38%	40.68%	1
	Independent	Link Byfield	3,521	13.18%	37.29%	4
	Progressive Conservative	Betty Unger	3,376	12.64%	35.75%	2
	Independent	Tom Sindlinger	3,117	11.67%	33.09%	9
	Progressive Conservative	David Usherwood	2,188	8.19%	23.17%	6
	Progressive Conservative	Cliff Breitkreuz	1,935	7.24%	20.49%	3
	Alberta Alliance	Vance Gough	1,702	6.37%	18.02%	8
	Alberta Alliance	Michael Roth	1,614	6.04%	17.09%	7
	Alberta Alliance	Gary Horan	1,398	5.23%	14.81%	10
Total votes			26,714	100%
Total ballots			9,443	2.83 votes per ballot
Rejected, spoiled and declined			4,401

Voters had the option of selecting four candidates on the ballot

Student vote results

2004

Participating schools[7]
Foothills Academy
Hillhurst Community School
Langevin Science School
Queen Elizabeth Junior and Senior High School

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[8]
	Affiliation	Candidate	Votes	%
	Green	Mark MacGillivray	237	29.37%
	Progressive Conservative	Mark Hlady	198	24.54%
	Liberal	David Swann	192	23.79%
	NDP	John Donovan	126	15.61%
	Alberta Alliance	Ryan Cassell	54	6.69%
Total			807	100%
Rejected, spoiled and declined			49

See also

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