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]
 Alberta electoral district | |
|---|---|
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
| District created | 1963 |
| District abolished | 1971 |
| First contested | 1963 |
| Last contested | 1967 |
History
editThe 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)
edit| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary Queens Park | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
edit1963
edit| 1963 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
edit| 1967 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
editReferences
edit- ^ "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
edit- 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.