Calgary Shepard

Calgary Shepard is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2015.

Calgary Shepard

Alberta electoral district
Interactive map of riding boundaries from the 2025 federal election
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Tom Kmiec Conservative
District created	2013
First contested	2015
Last contested	2021
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)[1]	110,296
Electors (2019)	111,936
Area (km²)[2]	186
Pop. density (per km²)	593
Census division(s)	Division No. 6
Census subdivision(s)	Calgary (part)

Calgary Shepard was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally defined in the 2013 representation order. It came into effect upon the call of the 42nd Canadian federal election, scheduled for October 2015.^[3] It was created out of parts of the electoral districts of Calgary East and Calgary Southeast.^[4] The riding's name refers to Shepard, Alberta.

Demographics

According to the 2016 Canadian census

• Languages: (2016) 77.7% English, 3.6% Tagalog, 2.3% Spanish, 1.6% French, 1.4% Vietnamese, 1.1% Mandarin, 0.9% Cantonese, 0.8% Panjabi, 0.8% Russian, 0.8% Arabic, 0.8% Polish, 0.6% German, 0.6% Urdu, 0.5% Romanian^[5]

Panethnic groups in Calgary Shepard (2011−2021)

Panethnic group	2021[6]		2016[7]		2011[8]
	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%
European[a]	107,835	66.17%	105,145	71.68%	84,770	77.32%
Southeast Asian[b]	16,700	10.25%	12,405	8.46%	8,360	7.63%
South Asian	9,080	5.57%	6,520	4.45%	3,370	3.07%
East Asian[c]	6,415	3.94%	5,415	3.69%	2,880	2.63%
Indigenous	6,270	3.85%	5,210	3.55%	3,635	3.32%
African	6,100	3.74%	4,415	3.01%	2,270	2.07%
Latin American	4,830	2.96%	3,245	2.21%	1,830	1.67%
Middle Eastern[d]	3,160	1.94%	2,250	1.53%	1,220	1.11%
Other/Multiracial[e]	2,560	1.57%	2,070	1.41%	1,295	1.18%
Total responses	162,965	99.71%	146,680	99.43%	109,630	99.33%
Total population	163,447	100%	147,520	100%	110,364	100%
Notes: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses. Demographics based on 2012 Canadian federal electoral redistribution riding boundaries.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Calgary Shepard Riding created from Calgary East and Calgary Southeast
42nd	2015–2019		Tom Kmiec	Conservative
43rd	2019–2021
44th	2021–2025
45th	2025–present

Election results

Graph of election results in Calgary Shepard (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

2023 representation order

v t e 2025 Canadian federal election
** Preliminary results — Not yet official **
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Tom Kmiec	44,363	67.99	+6.79
	Liberal	Gul Khan	18,421	28.23	+14.31
	New Democratic	Tory Tomblin	1,780	2.73	–13.30
	People's	Donald Legere	383	0.59	–5.14
	Green	Robert Frasch	302	0.46	–1.24
Total valid votes/expense limit			65,249	99.55
Total rejected ballots			294	0.45
Turnout			65,543	72.68
Eligible voters			90,182
	Conservative notional hold		Swing		–3.76
Source: Elections Canada[9][10]

2021 federal election redistributed results[11]
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	30,941	61.20
	New Democratic	8,105	16.03
	Liberal	7,039	13.92
	People's	2,897	5.73
	Green	857	1.70
	Others	716	1.40

2013 representation order

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Tom Kmiec	44,411	60.4	-14.6	$47,238.67
	New Democratic	Raj Jessel	12,103	16.5	+7.8	$0.00
	Liberal	Cam Macdonald	10,303	14.0	+2.9	$2,027.58
	People's	Ron Vaillant	4,284	5.8	+3.3	$0.00
	Green	Evelyn Tanaka	1,300	1.8	+1.2	$3,056.27
	Maverick	Andrea Lee	874	1.2	–	$752.21
	Independent	Konstantine Muirhead	228	0.3	–	$0.00
	National Citizens Alliance	Jesse Halmo	56	0.1	–	$276.36
Total valid votes/expense limit			73,559	100.0	–	$139,111.83
Total rejected ballots			416
Turnout			73,975	64.2
Eligible voters			115,176
	Conservative hold		Swing		-11.2
Source: Elections Canada[12]

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Tom Kmiec	58,614	75.0	+9.13	$41,477.43
	Liberal	Del Arnold	8,644	11.1	-13.59	$13,154.34
	New Democratic	David Brian Smith	6,828	8.7	+1.87	none listed
	Green	Evelyn Tanaka	2,345	3.0	+0.39	$3,079.74†
	People's	Kyle Scott	1,709	2.2	-	$15,461.75
Total valid votes/expense limit			78,140	100.0
Total rejected ballots			441
Turnout			78,581	69.8
Eligible voters			112,660
	Conservative hold		Swing		+11.36
†Amount as submitted from C1 of Part 6 of the Candidate Campaign Return. Source: Elections Canada[13][14][15]

v t e 2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Tom Kmiec	43,706	65.87	–9.64	$153,176.93
	Liberal	Jerome James	16,379	24.69	+17.50	$7,037.44
	New Democratic	Dany Allard	4,532	6.83	–4.30	$10,097.24
	Green	Graham MacKenzie	1,734	2.61	–2.95	–
Total valid votes/expense limit			66,351	100.00		$241,369.87
Total rejected ballots			208	0.31	–
Turnout			66,559	67.9	–
Eligible voters			98,085
	Conservative hold		Swing		–13.57
Source: Elections Canada[16][17][18]

2011 federal election redistributed results[19]
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	29,904	75.52
	New Democratic	4,407	11.13
	Liberal	2,846	7.19
	Green	2,202	5.56
	Others	241	0.61

See also

• List of Canadian electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada

Notes

1. Statistic includes all persons that did not make up part of a visible minority or an indigenous identity.
2. Statistic includes total responses of "Filipino" and "Southeast Asian" under visible minority section on census.
3. Statistic includes total responses of "Chinese", "Korean", and "Japanese" under visible minority section on census.
4. Statistic includes total responses of "West Asian" and "Arab" under visible minority section on census.
5. Statistic includes total responses of "Visible minority, n.i.e." and "Multiple visible minorities" under visible minority section on census.